Update - 22/07/2024

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend! Mine was spent working as usual. I must say I could use a vacation (I haven't exited my town since 2019), but my personal circumstances make it impossible right now, so... What else am I to do home, but work?

As you probably already know, I finally wrapped up Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate! It felt great to finally add that last illustration and finish this project. I've dedicated a lot of time and effort to this game, and I'm extremely happy with the result. As I said before, I think this is the first time that I finish a book and don't feel like I could have added more things, since usually I leave stuff out because, well, I have to stop at some point. The book is over 300 pages long, making it the second largest Blackoath game, after Across a Thousand Dead Worlds. And to be honest, ATDW is that large due to the layout, it could probably be half that. I know I've put more effort into RHBF than into anything before it, and I was thinking yesterday that it makes sense, since this is actually the first RPG I write as a full-time RPG developer. All my previous work was done with a portion of my attention dedicated to my day job. Now that I'm working on Carnage & Aether, my second game written since I'm a full-time RPG developer, I can feel the same intensity, and the same amount of detail is going into this one. It's great! now that I think about it, I don't feel like I've left anything out either in C&A. It has everything I wanted it to have since the beginning!

Speaking of C&A, playtesting is going great. I had a small moment of desperation when we started cause the game was super difficult (everyone just kept dying) and I wasn't sure how to balance it. But it looks like I'm starting to get the balancing right, since people are actually beating their opponents. There's still work to do, and I'm still writing encounters, but we're definitely on the right track! The art is already coming in, and I hope I'll be able to release it in September. You guys will get it before that, of course.

So that's it for now, this week I'll focus completely on C&A and see if I can wrap up the encounters.

Have a great week!