Howdy, everyone! Play the demo if you haven't already! Now that the demo is out, I'm excited to be back making videos and livestreaming! This is one of the most shining moments as a developer. Support the Kickstarter and Play the Demo! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gameendeavor/zoe-and-the-cursed-dreamer-cozy-open-world-rpg game-endeavor.itch.io/zatcd-demo

Ten years later: "So how many enemy types are in your game?" "Zero. I keep accidentaly making them too cute and having to turn them into pets."

Me, after making my first ever fighting system "I too created the most fun combat system I've ever made!"

“Recently” you uploaded How I made combat fun-

Enemies: fight each other Me: Ah a advantage to speedrun this game

The enemies fighting each other was the single best thing about the demo when I played it. I absolutely love it!

I hope when this gets a full release that it blows up like Valheim because you put so much work into this and it shows. Great work

I love the royal familiar conceptually and I love the void kitty fantasy-ly if that makes sense. Like with the royal familiar the concept of a familiar that views you as their servant has a lot of space for humor and rp, while having a big cuddly cat to hug is a childhood fantasy I've had.

This could be the base of a game on its own!

Tame all of the things!

Hell yes! Those knockback effects looks so impactful and satisfying 👍

I've said it before, but you have such a great mindset and knack for fun ideas. You really are making a fun game that YOU think is cool/cute so it will be! I don't think everyone else trying to make devlogs does that

The progress is amazing :D Your fight system emerged organically and such systems are the best ones. Started as a fun idea, then becoming a core feature.

KZfaq algorithm... I saw this video a month too late to support the kickstarter. Hope this project continues in some form or another, absolutely loved the demo.

I love monster infight. Who doesnt like waking up every demon in Doom, hide in a corner and watch all hell break loose... literally.

Still so early in development but this goes such a long way to make the world feel alive!

I think that the enemy attacking itself looks hilarious and awesome. I think it would be really cool if you made that bug a feature by allowing the player to use a spell or something to throw the enemy into a frenzy, causing it to attack itself and others. The game is looking good, man!

You should make the bug where enemies hit themselves into a feature. Like a wand that would make enemies attack themselves for a short period of time. I can see that being a really fun in-game mechanic.

Just watched your entire series in one sit, so entertaining and informative.

Man, every one of these videos I watch I’m newly struck by how great this game looks and feels! You have a real gift for making games!!

I just watched all of these dev logs. I love it

Well time to binge watch these devlogs too. Good too see that you will fill the spot of RPG devlogs that will be a little missing.

I’m so happy how this game is coming out!!! I’m also glad you liked my idea for the Mushroom enemy. So excited to see how the game develops further.

Man i’m loving the way all these mechanics are coming together!

Heyo! Return of devlogs :D

I really enjoyed playing through the demo yesterday! It was a pretty fun time and I hope this project can meet its goal, as I'm already immensely enjoying the world you're building up! Definitely gonna support the Kickstarter, and even join your discord!

I really love how the game looks and it is fantastic to be able to see the process of game development. I wish i could support you with money but my parents won't let me. Love it, keep up the good work.

Your videos are everything I've been looking for

absolutely amazing. Not just all the work itself, but the video that you took so much time to make and edit. Thank you. I appreciate it, and i love your STORY of all this that you are creating.

In the Tales of Symponia you give allies (the ones you are not being used by other players) tactics such as attack magic users, or attack ranged, or when low Mp don't use spells etc which make you feel like you are commanding your party and they don't take your thunder, if they do something well it's because you planned it well as a tactician

I absolutely LOVED the demo and now you tell me there's MORE to discover in just the demo!? Keep up the amazing work, Zoe and the cursed dreamer is gonna take the game industry by storm

At last, a YT update on the project :) Making unique behaviors like you describe in this devlog, is what really makes your game different. Keep up the good work

consider this: - flyweight model: flyweight list of base hatred between factions or maybe from specific monster to faction. you want to allow monsters to have any number of flags so you can have undead beasts or nature pets. you dont have to store this per monster, you dont even hate to store it per monster class if you dont want to. - enmity system: keep a list of hate toward specific monsters inside each monster instance, but only after it changes from the baseline. when a monster attacks another monster, add some hate based on how threatening the attack was and how much that monster hates that faction. when say a healer heals someone injured, monsters who hate the injured actor hate the healer relative to the hate and the healing amounts. - alternatively, maybe just have neutral sprouts and angry sprouts that attack stuff? be a lot simpler. yes sometimes a skel would anger a sprout and it would attack the player, but i kinda like that. - bite the bullet and make the game entirely about pets. don't be married to an idea while ignoring your game designing itself. let it do its thing.

finally, a demo! excited to play it

a simple touch that would do a lot to make the player feel more in control is to make the camera move with their aim! it's a mechanic that is really simple, and can add a lot of dynamic gameplay if you consider it can be changed depending on your weapon or class. Keep up the good devlogs!

I missed those videos

Looking fantastic GE, I am sharing this asap. We need to finish this campaign!

I think since the Skeletons are an invading army, their "home" point should move around so they sort of patrol around the map.

Dude!!! A video to watch! Yay. Only to continue to support this game and you in general. You'll get my money for this game come the 30th!

Glad to see your back to making vids again!

You are talented , your game looks great !

Looks really promising! One thing I think would be cool and could give rise to more emergent behaviour is synergy effects between different attacks. For example if one of your companions' attack has a stun effect, it could lower the defence for a split second, or if elemental spells like water and electricity could work together. Not to mention taking the environment into account and spells/attacks that can affect that, like burning the grass. Just throwing some ideas out there, I'm sure whatever you decide to do will be great! :)

Can’t wait to play this when it comes out The art is so good

Saying that Cheese is very valuable in your game was music for my ears! Subscribed & followed on Twitter.

dude you are truely an inspiration

An interesting way to do the necromancer thing would be to put some sort of "soul-binding" spell on an enemy, then if they die, they come back on your side after a small animation. So while you still get the fun of watching them bonk into each other, you still get to do combatting yourself. You could balance it by not allowing multiple soulbinds, or having upgraded versions that allow multiple, or chaining binds. Stream of consciousness, it would be a lot of fun to soul-bind one, kill it, then soul-bind the one it's attacking so when it dies, the first one disintegrates and the new one is your new best friend. So you can still be part of the combat flow, but your focus is on helping your skelefriend.

this looks really fun

I love the concept of the mad catter, reminds me of the Wabbajack in skyrim, It could insta-kill whatever you were fighting, turn them into a shower of sweet-rolls, or transform them into a deadric warlord of sorts

Yoooooo amazing! :D I had no idea this was happening! I love it!

0:08 that skellie just couldn't handle it anymore, and I already love it. makes me think of a moral system, but I'm already a year late for suggestions and stuff XD! 2:47 he's hitting himself because he remembered a super embarrassing memory that he wants out of his skull huehuehue.

Loving these Devs and videos!

If the Mad Catter ever does get to join the party, it would be funny to have him refuse if you ask him to join the party but actively join the party if you try to turn him down.

It's looking great!

Looking forward to your game release

I have a feeling that this game's gonna be a banger!

It's been a while so it's great to see the game world looking more fleshed out!

For the Mad Catter I think it would be cool if he was a post game/Newgame + follower that when he follows you randomizes every enemy you encounter into a different one. I think it would make for a very bizarre second playthrough

The game looks really fun and promising. Hope you can keep putting effort into the game and dev logs. You probably already know about/fixed this but there is a bug where when you drag furniture next to your character it pushes them. This can be used to clip into rivers and make the character move a lot faster than intended. Hope I could help!

just tried the demo. This is turning out amazing

I really love how the game is coming along so far, and it keeps looking cooler and cooler! I played the demo and the only thing that I've had an issue with so far is the roll/dodge mechanic, or more so the roll and the stamina bar. The fact that a roll uses a 3rd of your stamina really discourages the player from using it in the first place, since you can only do it 3 times with a full bar, it doesn't seem worth it to get into the action and use it to dodge when you can keep your distance and use a fireball + bow instead. This might just be a demo issue, maybe specializing your class in the full release will balance it out, but it doesn't feel smart to get up close and personal with enemies at the moment. That's just one gripe though, I still think this game has some of the most fun combat I've seen, and I really look forward to seeing it grow from here. Cheers, man!

Then near the end of the game, you find a graveyard where 2 rat wizard enemies have been continually fighting each other to the death, leveling up, and resurrecting each other after the battle. Maybe some area guardian miniboss that doesnt truly die when defeated but will only come back to life at the start of a new week etc. I just think it would be funny to run into massively overleveled enemies of generic type who have been secretly exploiting the game the entire playthrough without the player (or dev) realizing it until it's too late. The final sprouts are invincible.....

this combat is SICK!!!

"They were trying to run away from themselves" LMAO 💀

I think it could be nice if all creature types have individual marks. Skellies for example could have 1 out of 6 cracks on the head. Sprouts could have 1 out of 4 colors or freckles. This would make them more recognizable when summoned or befriended. Also it would make more boundaries if summoned skullies with a mark you allready had summoned before would say something like "Oh. You again?" or "Well brother. Here we are. Once more...".

yay Voidkitty xP glad to see another Devlog ;3

If you were to introduce Catter as a 'companion', you should have it be that they are an optional add-in for new game plus that *specifically* exists to make the game harder, adding in extra problems for you to deal with (like your mentioned enemy upgrades, but also things like summoning extra enemies from a mix of factions so they all fight each other, putting buffs on some enemies, etc. - it'd be a case of 'you asked for this!' and him delivering the chaos you wanted)

Demo is solid. I'm broke af, but am going to back you anyway. This project needs to be completed!

you know you're a genius ! keep it up!

I've always liked summoner/Necromancer Class. I really wanted a pokemon-ish game but you fight along with few of your tamed monsters and they can fusion with each other to make better monsters.

When you described the mad cat my brain heard "He is useless and we appreciate that"

This so smooth!

This game looks so good

Wow, another amazing video! I’m so happy to be part of this!

I think you should add wandering Merchants. But the difference of this Merchant compared to others in games is that, He has his personal guards protecting him. Like 2 Swordsman and 1 Archer.

SOme monster infighting isn't bad. Nice work!

This game is tight. I put an extra 10 bucks into the demo and I'll be a backer. After seeing a few of your dev logs I see how passionate you are about making this and the game has so much damn charm that I absolutely can't wait to play and explore your world! :D Edit: Or... at least I would be a backer but it says the funding has been cancelled. Hmmm...

man the game looks fantastic

You, my guy, are awesome

Just earlier today I was thinking that there hasn't been a new devlog from you in a while. Nice to see more progress on the game. I like the idea of enemy infighting. It was a cool feature in the original Doom, so it's strange that more games don't have something like it implemented. Speaking of Doom - in an early version it was possible for a monster to start attacking itself, so you're not the only one who had to deal with such a bug.

Edit: You need to consider Colorblind mode and how it will effect the game :D 1) Make a "Home" that spawns killed enemies which player can destroy to prevent the respawn of enemies. Explains where they come from. Like Field and Graveyard. 2) Set 2 factions and designated a "Home" for each. They now will consider other Factions hostile and attack if in range or aggroed by them. 3) Set their pathing are on same spot. Now both "Homes" send the respawned enemies to same spot and they will naturally start to fight. 4) Make the spot where they walk be some kind of ruins and it looks like both "Factions" want to control the "Ruins" ;) and you now have dynamic war made between two factions by using your game's tech

Ayyy! It's here!

I think it would be cool if pets could get your coins if they are far away. Nice video as allways!

Awesome! Gz

The best part of waking up is Game Endeavor in your cup!

You should make it so when enemies from other races or tribes see you fighting with other enemies they have a set value where they will try to get further away or join in the fight

Something that seems to be missing is 'battle music'. When enemies engage you I think it would add a bit more intensity to add an alert sound and then fade into some battle music.

playing an rpg as a manipulative puppet master: the game

I could imagine Mad Catter being a random chaos kind of thing. Whenever it activates, it does something from a random pool of decisions, and each decision will have a positive and a negative. So a positive could be healing one heart, and the negative could be making your move speed cut in half for a few seconds

3:35 When you realize you can't hate all sprouts unless you also hate yourself. :[

Just finished the video! Nailed it Ge!

You can catch butterflies in this game :O 5:48 Gimme gimme!

the summons are rad

Awesome!

Suggestion:make it so that 5% of enemies start with a magical item or a special ability and a change to the sprite to show it like a 3 mouthed sprout who can shoot 3 projectiles at a time or a giant skeleton with a sword who can jump and slash at you a little bit

I love your devlog videos and you and others have helped inspire me to make my own game! I was wondering if I could make a small reference to your game and have something that looks like one of your little plant creatures as a sort of secret pet?

I really like the way the character moves and the monster's attacks will be great if you make a video tutorial :3

When you discussed (if) he mad catter joins your party; he would add some chaos. It reminds me of mechanic's from rougelike/rougelite games such as the crowns from nuclear throne or the artifacts from risk of rain (and the sequel). They basically buff something and then change something else which makes the game more difficult (ie risk of rain's artifact of glass: double damage but only 10% of normal heath). I'm not sure how well this conpect would work in an RPG but it would add an interesting layer of strategy/risk to the game, and, would certainly be a unique way of difficulty increase.

Now im imagining a speed runner doing the MatCatter% for extra randomness and difficulty, lol

What a great job ! Your game is a source of motivation for me. Can I use color and Character design (especially the way you handle hand movement) of your game as inspiration for mine ? Hope your game will have a big success !

you should keep some suicidal skeleton as an homage, and also because it is freaking funny, they could do it once in a while when they are the last one standing.