Corruption of Arcana Devlog 2 - ALPHA

Alpha Update 0.5.4 was made live with some small changes to make players feel more interactive with the character of Taro. These changes were as followed:

General Updates

• Added more worded responses to questions asked during dialogue exchanges
  • Replaced 'Yes' and 'No' answers with more humanoid responses
• Adjusted the font size of the card names on spell deck 2 (right deck) in combat to make the names read better
  • 'Chain-Lightnin-g' will now read correctly as 'Chain-Lightning'
• Removed the card info section from the inventory screen
• Removed the names of the potions from the inventory screen
  • These were previously overlapping the potion icons
• Updated the Objectives side of the inventory screen
  • Now shows the objectives available inside this version of the game
• Added enemy sprites into the monster pages in the guide book 
• Added a temporary volume slider to the settings screen

Thoth Updates

• Added more detail to the market in Thoth
• Adjusted Lt Heirophanté's location to fit better with the house he was stood next to
• Added some trees to the east side of town to hide the base of the mountain walls 

East Forest Clearing Updates

• Removed Arcana Knight compass icon from the East Forest Clearing
• Adjusted the position and rotations to the tents in the knights camp
• Added colliders to stop players from walking through the walls of the tents in the knights camp  
• Lightened the fog to make it a littler easier to see through
• Added a border above the cave entrance to prevent players from escaping the map after defeating the Corrupted Golem
  

Community Challenges

Community challenges are now live, we are currently hosting 2 challenges for players to accept and try to beat, if they dare. We thought these challenges would be a fun and interesting way for you to interact with us and be apart of developing the game with us, these are your challenges:

1. Speedrun - When reviewing speedrun times we will be accepting times from the second you are able to move around when you load into the game until you kill the Corrupted Golem.
2. Secret Bosses - There are currently 2 bosses hidden around the accessible maps, find and defeat BOTH bosses in a single run (You are aloud to die, just as long as you don't close the game) to win.

Players who beat these challenges will be rewarded with 2 separate rewards. We keep track of these in our playtest discord server, join to be in for the chance of winning these challenges. Only evidence of completion posted in the discord server will be accepted.

• The player who holds the record of challenge 1 at the end of playtest 1 (Jan 17th - 10am GMT) will have an intractable NPC named after them in Arcana's capital city of Tiertarock
• The first player to beat challenges 2 will speak to the devs and be able to inspire the creation of their own secret boss in a region of their picking (we have a list of regions), this means you can influence its name, design and strength

Good news for those using MacOS, we are currently in the progress of testing builds to see if we can make versions for you, keep an eye out, we will keep you updated as and when we make some progress.

Fortune favors the bold! - JD