Devlog

I want to move on to the next area, but then I remembered the commitment to quality.

I linked a few NPCs to others.

• If you meet the second Mosslight associated NPC already, why not ask both of them about the other?
• If this guy tells you the direction to Matilda, why not tell him you killed her?
• If you helped Agnes overcome her past or decided to destroy the core of her power to make her your willingless slave, why not tell the priestess who guided you in this quest?

And so on and so on. Oh and some hidden achievements

Working Quest-Markers

Ibis Island Objective Pack! :OOO

Not quests, just cool-suddenlyhappening-funtodo-keepingyourattention-rewardingeveryone things to do!

A new place: The Owls Crown

The main-quest will lead you here. It is some of the places where you will feel the influence of Ibis´s sin. Even the gods are not perfect. She is knows as the goddess of knowledge, but also oblivion.

She went to far…

I am really close to completing Ibis Island.

It takes multiple days sometimes to rework 1 single quest, but I am satisfied in the end. To be honest I am changing so much (to the better) that I cant even write it all here.

I try it:

Ashen Petals have a new design and “evolve” when you hit them now. You dont have to do a jumpquest anymore to help Farmer Grace. There is a new “quest” (dialogue-driven). The small Ellum does not feel so good, maybe you can help it. The book lecterns telling the sentences of Phia are now gone and the text is written on the stone.

To Graces Quest:

You have to something completely different now. She has an Ellum which is much stronger and bigger than the others, but it is nervous and scared really fast. Your task is it to guide it to a much calmer space so Grace can shear it. The Ellum will follow you a few steps when you are interacting with it, so you have to be patient. The problem is, it hates the scarecrow.

After finishing this task, she will not pay you. But she will give you some knowledge where you can find wild Ellums and even tame one.

My longest quest to date is finally finished: “Dreamnest.”

Without giving too much away, it’s about an ambitious bird who wants to build the perfect nest, and the choices the player makes that influence the story’s outcome and the rewards.

A few fun facts: (Code only)

Over 400 lines of dialogue

More than 80 events

About 14 conditions

Vivalora, Fiore & Pei

Almost everybody who played Void Tales once crossed one of them. And they are always connected to other two of them. They are my biggest attempt to show a RPG side of the good old days and some of you even mentioned the feeling and remembrance to zelda and other games like this.

there is even an artwork from @Soph from Fiore!

I made a much better reattempt to this 3 OGs.

Fiore:

He is a little bit bigger then before and is always giving the player a nice way to think about this world. While doing so he is always challenging the gods and Phia with his words indirectly, but never directly. Even when this is what brought this three in their misery he will never stop to challenge the world, the gods, the people and of course every single height he can climb. So he remains the jump quest guy. Hate him or love him, there is no between.

Pei:

Pei stayed the same from the looks but he is more unique then ever. While he knows the world like his left wing and saw everything from above twice already you can notice that he struggles with his memories. He is remembering everything, just in the wrong order. He is traumatized by what has be done to them but tries to keep up his good mood. He will keep giving you advice and hints.

Vivalora:

She got the biggest change. From a harsh chicken treating you distant she became a warm hearted… chicken. No but she is obsessed with all the shiny and golden things people forgot or lost in the world. Before it was just materialism, but she has a severe trauma of loosing everything, thats why she is obsessed with finding things and even more: keeping them. And her humor is not that bad anymore.

They all have MUUUCH better dialogues now with different options you cna choose. Pei & Vivalora will not talk with you and tread you like a stranger until you met Fiore at Owls Nest and climbed the tree. Fiore can not be seen at their house until you met him at Owls Nest and climbed the tree. Fiore will vanish at Owls Nest and appear at their house after you met him at Owls Nest and climbed the tree. Vivaloras treasure quest has now a less confusing hint for the treasure and a completely other reward. A golden mask. I am implementing mask items which are just cosmetics basicaly but here and there some people are interested in them. After you obtained the mask from the treaure quest you can talk to Vivalora again and see a completely other side of her. This will lead to a difficult decision: Keep the mask or sell it to a really good prize.

I could talk all day about the changes I am doing in the last weeks. IT. IS. INCREDIBLE. And this is only the first meeting with them. They have great secrets and a long past.

Hello dear Void Walkers ❤️

I changed the Boss Loot system, and I think it is not that bad for now. You can hit it in a certain rhytm, if you hit the wrong moment you have to wait 1 second. If you hit the right moment it will upgrade to the next tier and grow.

For all 5 tiers there is another item pool, so never the same drops again as before.

Remember her? One of my most beloved NPCs.

I have to admit that her quest stayed the same, but it feels 20 x better. With the new dialogue options and things you can answer she seems to have a much deeper character. It was something like: yo, get 3 mushrooms please. Not you can experience how a skilled thief starts to believe in misfortune and slowly getting paranoid. When you helped her you will have access to even deeper conversation about the Mosslights and the Tempest Quiver.

Oh and when we are here already: Another gemstone which you can get when you were really nice to her has its own unique lore now as all of them will have soon.

And another step into awesomeness. I have to say it: this is cool

She has now her own menu… think of the possibilities!

New Melodys Are Hearable Lately!

Alright guys, here comes something else. As told yesterday the Blossomwind Flute is now the Flufftail Flute.

The Racoons and their origin homeland Tanuki are seen sometimes here & there and will play a major role some day in the future. So it comes that the flute that brings you back home has to be more important, too!

1. I added a much better custom designed sound from myself of a Shakuhachi flute into Void Tales. It replaced the boring noteblock sound of the minecraft flute.

2. You can now play the flute freely as you wish with 2 basic notes (left & right-click) and pitch them dependent of if you look up or down.

3. A completely new melody is added to unravel secrets, I show you an example here in the video. But it will be able to do much much more!

Bonus: @BlissedYui had the idea once that every gemstone should have its own lore, and he is completely right. Absoloutely even! ❤️

So I started with the 2 gemstones you can get in the Gemadillo Questline, and now the first gemstone that was there already. I linked it to the Tanuki & Racoon lore and it is the reward for playing the melody at Soul Station here. Oh and as I mentioned you can even unlock new dialogues with NPCs who are related to this place as soon as you have the flute : D

I hope I forgot nothing for now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvXoXhCrTOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ9OmVI6Olg