Jessika's Curse

Today I want to lend some of your time for a fairly unusual project I've come across. 

Jessika's Curse by Venus Noire is a game in early stages of development. It’s focused on turn-based combat with bouncing sprites with story revolving around said Jessika (and her party) fighting naughty monsters. I also find it quite promising in its premise and execution.

Notably:

Art design and animation

The most outstanding point. I favor the overall character design and spine animations look like something, I'd love to utilize on my own eventually (maybe in different context). Of course, everyone has different tastes, but the quality is there as well. 

Gameplay

While the exact direction of the gameplay isn't entirely clear yet, the designers are influenced by JRPG's and modern roguelike games such as Darkest Dungeon. With the animation and art, it can be safely assumed, that these parts are going to be biggest attraction points and should play out nicely in the end.

Development process

Despite only having quite brief demo, Venus Noire has a well-laid plan for next half year, which is a great sign of professionalism to me (wish I could make plans of such for more than a month, lol). That also means you know what to expect and when. 

On one hand, this seems to be more like a kickstarter project, than patreon, but given the project leader is also responsible for Seeds of Chaos, and they promise to deliver it in fairly short amount of time, while constantly working on it, which is non less than respectable. 

So, feel free to check out Jessika's Curse's patreon and if you want to support it. You can also see some currently implemented gameplay on youtube, which I find quite intriguing.