🌿 Daily Update — Free

Over the last 2 days, I’ve been fully focused on the Thalindra section and the village.

It was honestly two straight days of work with barely any sleep, trying to connect several important mechanics… and I’ve finally reached a stable version.

I added 3 new systems to the game:

Inventory

Deck Builder

Combat

I’ll explain everything step by step, because it’s a lot and it might sound a bit confusing at first — but I’ll do my best to make it clear.

🎒 Inventory

This is the simplest system.

The player will receive items throughout the game, and they’ll be stored in the inventory — and they will matter a lot later on.

When you click an item, you’ll get a zoom view with:

a larger image of the item

a short description

How do you obtain items?

Mainly through missions and also through dialogue with NPCs.

🃏 Deck Builder

This is where you’ll build your card set before going into missions.

At the moment, there will be 3 initial missions, and some of them require combat while others don’t.

I’ll share more details about these missions in the Paid Daily Update.

Inside the village, there will also be a blacksmith, where the player will be able to buy important things.

⚔️ Combat

This was easily the most… painful part to develop.

Whenever something wasn’t broken here, it was broken somewhere else.

And every time I fixed one issue, another one appeared.

But… it finally works.

Combat will work like this:

The player explores by choosing directions: forward, back, left, or right

Each movement has a chance to trigger an enemy encounter

When that happens, combat begins

Combat is turn-based, using cards.

You start with only 3 basic cards:

Attack

Defend

Flee

I don’t even need to explain what they do, right? 😂 It’s very intuitive.

The player has 2 energy per turn, so you’ll need to make decisions carefully:

Attack costs 1

Defend costs 1

Flee costs 1

And one important detail:

🩸 HP does not regenerate after combat.

The player starts with 50 HP, and it decreases as you take damage.

How do you recover?

Potions

Sleeping at the camp

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