Hi, Otto here and this is our second monthly update! June was not as fruitful as we’d hoped it would be, but we keep on the hard work on the prototype and want to share with you how things are shaping up.

What is this all about

Signmaiden — is a pixel NSFW metroidvania set in a fantasy world. Our main character is a novice priestess of the Temple of Sign named Alyssa. On her quest, she will need to fight the ancient evil that’s been awakened.

We are a team of two people at the moment, and our game is at the early prototype stage of development.

What happened in a month Technical stuff:

1. A flexible interaction system: press buttons, pull levers and listen to what the signs have to say; The text size and placement in the test build. We’ll make adjustments later!
2. Added the dialog system that made working with text easier and faster. Up next is polishing the visuals
3. Partially rewritten character controller, reduced the code size in half and fixed some stuff we’ve overlooked. Kudos to our testers!

In addition, the project’s structure has undergone significant refactoring. In particular, the hierarchy of files and folders was changed, as well as the location and assignment of technical nodes of the game world in runtime. Testing water Visuals

1. Reimagined the structure of the levels and abandoned unnecessary tiles in the tilesets (there were a lot of different angles that turned out to be almost completely unnecessary)
2. Refactored the first non-technical tileset to match the overall style and look more appealing to the players;
3. In addition to the tileset, some old backgrounds has been redrawn, and the new ones has been created, for one small interactive level that I can’t tell you about yet, but you can guess for yourself 🙂

What’s next I think it’d be a good idea to release a small public alpha build once we hit, say, a 1,000 subscribers, so you could run around, interact with objects (potentially characters as well), and more! This would require some distractions and a lot of mundane work. You can share your thoughts in the comments if you would like to see such a public build.

This would be the wrap up for our second monthly update, and we once again would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who is supporting the future release of Signmaiden!