MicroRaptor Games

As we've stepped into prototyping potion combat with Cauldron Chronicles, I've done a quick rework of our inventory, added a hotbar, and made it so that you actually throw the potions from your inventory (no more infinite yellow balls, I'm afraid). The result is what you see below -- previously you had to go through some ugly interface to 'give' the dead tree a potion, now you can simply throw it. I've also gone through and overhauled ALL ingredient effects and flavours, changing our flavour system in the process from 3 basic flavours to 7 total, giving us a greater canvas to work with. Both the newer work with combat, and the changes to ingredients, greatly enrich our game's sandbox potential! Perhaps we have ingredients that can only be harvested by throwing a potion with the Concussive Blast effect, knocking the ingredient loose. Or maybe you'll want to make some potions with the Cure Poison effect for harvesting a deadly ingredient in a toxic swamp. And with flavours, the storytelling possibilities are as vast as our creativity can conjure up! Perhaps a farmer's daughter is sick with some disease, and can't keep down anything too bitter or sour. Make her a potion with Cure Disease, and do your best to minimize usage of bitter or sour ingredients. Maybe there's an assassin who's looking to put a bit of 'something' in some noble's spiced wine -- a strong poison that's sweet would be easily overlooked while, say, a strong salty taste might get the assassin caught. However, our game is an RPG at its heart! Want to sabotage the assassin and give him a potion with Restore Health on it instead? Go for it, and see how his story, and perhaps the story of others, changes in the process! Not a big fan of farmers' daughters? Weird, but we'll accommodate! Slip her a potion with the Immolate effect on it, tell the farmer it'll cure the disease, and watch as chaos unfolds...you monster. 🔥 👨🌾 🔥 💀 🔥

Been a while since I updated everyone on our progress with MicroRaptor Games and our game, Cauldron Chronicles. I'll keep it short and succinct! I recently overhauled our water (was a static mesh plane that you could walk on before), and we now have ACTUAL water, complete with swimming! This was so much more headache than I could have imagined, but I'm glad I stuck around to get it seen to completion! A fun detail I added with it is in the sound design. Ambient sounds sourcing from the world, notably weather, will be slightly audible near the surface, but as you go deeper it'll interpolate down to 0. Immersive mechanics like that make me happy! I also added greater responsiveness from the NPCs to potion effects that weren't asked for. It was a challenge to get this sounding natural, but we managed to pull it off! Our system allows for us to take characters' stories in new directions based on these outcomes, should we desire, making it so that player creativity, or carelessness, is rewarded/punished from a narrative standpoint. We love systems-driven stories! What's next? Potion combat! Our next big update is going to be a BIG one, with our first iteration of potion-based combat, monsters, and (ideally) dungeons! I'm working with the exceptional Cillian Lambe to develop a very casual-friendly, but still deep, system for potion-based combat that will enable us to use potions not just on monsters, but in the environment for puzzles and uncovering secrets as well! This build, like all of the future ones during our pre-alpha, are available for free on our Discord -- no NDAs and no restrictions for content creation, because those are dumb. We know we have a long way to go, but the support of our community is immensely appreciated, and has been motivating us to reach incredible heights! ❤️

I'm very proud to share a VERY early look at Cauldron Chronicles, our first title over at MicroRaptor Games. We may only be in pre-production (for now), but after only 84 days of development I'm very excited to share how much we've been able to accomplish. There's no doubt that our journey will not be a short one, but I know this game is worth making; the stories worth telling! https://lnkd.in/dYDe8NHg

A happy team is the most creative team. Games should be fun to make, even if it's sometimes a bit frustrating. Humans are smart, and they can sense when a game has been made with passion. They'll never be able to doubt us in that regard!

The publicly playable build of our open world and gameplay loop is finally live, and I've only been working on it for 57 days of development! Well, time flies when you're doing what you love I suppose! We have: • A prototype open world level • Tutorial to help you learn the game and craft your first potions • Fully featured day/night cycle and weather system with rain and snow • A fully functional, open-ended Alchemy system • 36 unique ingredients you can find in the open world • Over 150 ingredient subtypes you can craft and use in potions • One NPC with a potion commission and some dialogue • 5 different endings for the NPC based on potions you make for him You can download and play the prototype NOW over on our Discord server; check the announcements channel for information and a link! https://lnkd.in/d-pE9G73 And we're just getting started, I'm not even close to done with this project yet! #publishers and #investors, don't hesitate to drop me a line!