The Slormancer News

[h2]The Steam Game Festival[/h2]
A demo of The Slormancer will be available during the Steam Game Festival, from June 9th to June 14th June 16th to June 22nd!
So if you're curious about the game, it will be a perfect time to try it!


Livestream event: 2pm EDT (8pm CEST) on June 19

We are going to do livestream event where we will be playing the game and answering questions live! You can read the announcement here.


Q&A Session: 2pm EDT (8pm CEST) on June 20

We are also going to host a Q&A Session on Reddit during the Festival, you can read more about it here.


See you on June 16th!



[h2]About The Slormancer[/h2]
The Slormancer is an epic 2D Action-RPG Dungeon Crawling game following a band of outcasts on their fight against hordes of enemies lead by The Slormancer! Play as a "Mighty" Knight, a "Fierce" Huntress or a "Mischievous" Mage, master hundreds of abilities and ancestral powers, gear up, fight for the reputation of your kind and prove your value to the realm.

Featuring loads of shiny Loot, tons of collectibles, countless hours of content, a frenetic gameplay and carefully crafted pixel art.


[h2]Key Features[/h2]

• An irrational story!
  You were born with absolutely no skill whatsoever, and yet you find a way to be the last hope of the realm as the enigmatic Slormancer and his incompetent underling try to conquer the world once again. How great. But like your grandfather once told you: "You might not have the talent but you have the will."
  
• Three unique Classes
  Unlock and master more than 200 unique Abilities, Upgrades and Passives for every class. Each active Ability has its own skill tree, allowing you to create unique combinations.
  
• Harness the power of your Ancestral Legacy
  Choose your Legacy and inherit ancient powers among more than 150 Element-related Skills and Passives in the Ancestral Skill Tree.
  Master Fire and summon powerful elementals, use Ice to freeze your foes, convoke Thunder and create massive storms, embrace the power of Light or make one with Shadow, it's up to you!
  
• Unique Weapons
  120 unique and game-changing weapons available for every class. Each Slorm Reaper is a unique and priceless weapon that you can loot during your adventure. Once found, wield it to benefit from its powerful effect, level it up, and eventually evolve it to a greater form.
  
• Endless quest for Epic Loot!
  Find and collect normal, magic, rare and epic items with completely random properties but also shiny legendary items with more than 80 unique affixes.
  Then enhance them with an infinite upgrade system!
  
• Collect and Progress
  Unlock Skills, Upgrades and Ancestral Abilities, find epic items, and collect Slorm Reapers to create deadly combinations that suits your own play style!
  The Slormancer is all about Collection and Progression so you can switch at any point between any skills you’ve previously unlocked, Slorm Reapers and items you’ve previously found, even between the 3 classes of the game! This unique Flexibility allows you to swap between different combinations and play styles in the blink of an eye, whenever you feel like it.
  
• Procedural Adventures!
  Defeat lots of unique monsters, elites and bosses with more than 40 different affixes through procedurally generated adventures and hunt down The Slormancer’s Warlords through 7 different upgradable environments. There are always things to do and monsters to kill! And it's always different!
  

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1104280

[h2]Live Q&A Session on Reddit[/h2]
Join us during the Steam Game Festival at 2pm EDT (8pm CEST) on June 13 for a 2 hour-long Q&A session on Reddit!

See you on Saturday, June 13th!


[h2]About The Slormancer[/h2]
The Slormancer is an epic 2D Action-RPG Dungeon Crawling game following a band of outcasts on their fight against hordes of enemies lead by The Slormancer! Play as a "Mighty" Knight, a "Fierce" Huntress or a "Mischievous" Mage, master hundreds of abilities and ancestral powers, gear up, fight for the reputation of your kind and prove your value to the realm.

Featuring loads of shiny Loot, tons of collectibles, countless hours of content, a frenetic gameplay and carefully crafted pixel art.


[h2]Key Features[/h2]

• An irrational story!
  You were born with absolutely no skill whatsoever, and yet you find a way to be the last hope of the realm as the enigmatic Slormancer and his incompetent underling try to conquer the world once again. How great. But like your grandfather once told you: "You might not have the talent but you have the will."
  
• Three unique Classes
  Unlock and master more than 200 unique Abilities, Upgrades and Passives for every class. Each active Ability has its own skill tree, allowing you to create unique combinations.
  
• Harness the power of your Ancestral Legacy
  Choose your Legacy and inherit ancient powers among more than 150 Element-related Skills and Passives in the Ancestral Skill Tree.
  Master Fire and summon powerful elementals, use Ice to freeze your foes, convoke Thunder and create massive storms, embrace the power of Light or make one with Shadow, it's up to you!
  
• Unique Weapons
  120 unique and game-changing weapons available for every class. Each Slorm Reaper is a unique and priceless weapon that you can loot during your adventure. Once found, wield it to benefit from its powerful effect, level it up, and eventually evolve it to a greater form.
  
• Endless quest for Epic Loot!
  Find and collect normal, magic, rare and epic items with completely random properties but also shiny legendary items with more than 80 unique affixes.
  Then enhance them with an infinite upgrade system!
  
• Collect and Progress
  Unlock Skills, Upgrades and Ancestral Abilities, find epic items, and collect Slorm Reapers to create deadly combinations that suits your own play style!
  The Slormancer is all about Collection and Progression so you can switch at any point between any skills you’ve previously unlocked, Slorm Reapers and items you’ve previously found, even between the 3 classes of the game! This unique Flexibility allows you to swap between different combinations and play styles in the blink of an eye, whenever you feel like it.
  
• Procedural Adventures!
  Defeat lots of unique monsters, elites and bosses with more than 40 different affixes through procedurally generated adventures and hunt down The Slormancer’s Warlords through 7 different upgradable environments. There are always things to do and monsters to kill! And it's always different!
  

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1104280

[h2]Watch The Slormancer Live Stream[/h2]
Join us during the Steam Game Festival at 2pm EDT (8pm CEST) on June 12 for an hour-long stream as we are playing The Slormancer and answering questions live on our chat!

See you on Friday, June 12th!


[h2]About The Slormancer[/h2]
The Slormancer is an epic 2D Action-RPG Dungeon Crawling game following a band of outcasts on their fight against hordes of enemies lead by The Slormancer! Play as a "Mighty" Knight, a "Fierce" Huntress or a "Mischievous" Mage, master hundreds of abilities and ancestral powers, gear up, fight for the reputation of your kind and prove your value to the realm.

Featuring loads of shiny Loot, tons of collectibles, countless hours of content, a frenetic gameplay and carefully crafted pixel art.


[h2]Key Features[/h2]

• An irrational story!
  You were born with absolutely no skill whatsoever, and yet you find a way to be the last hope of the realm as the enigmatic Slormancer and his incompetent underling try to conquer the world once again. How great. But like your grandfather once told you: "You might not have the talent but you have the will."
  
• Three unique Classes
  Unlock and master more than 200 unique Abilities, Upgrades and Passives for every class. Each active Ability has its own skill tree, allowing you to create unique combinations.
  
• Harness the power of your Ancestral Legacy
  Choose your Legacy and inherit ancient powers among more than 150 Element-related Skills and Passives in the Ancestral Skill Tree.
  Master Fire and summon powerful elementals, use Ice to freeze your foes, convoke Thunder and create massive storms, embrace the power of Light or make one with Shadow, it's up to you!
  
• Unique Weapons
  120 unique and game-changing weapons available for every class. Each Slorm Reaper is a unique and priceless weapon that you can loot during your adventure. Once found, wield it to benefit from its powerful effect, level it up, and eventually evolve it to a greater form.
  
• Endless quest for Epic Loot!
  Find and collect normal, magic, rare and epic items with completely random properties but also shiny legendary items with more than 80 unique affixes.
  Then enhance them with an infinite upgrade system!
  
• Collect and Progress
  Unlock Skills, Upgrades and Ancestral Abilities, find epic items, and collect Slorm Reapers to create deadly combinations that suits your own play style!
  The Slormancer is all about Collection and Progression so you can switch at any point between any skills you’ve previously unlocked, Slorm Reapers and items you’ve previously found, even between the 3 classes of the game! This unique Flexibility allows you to swap between different combinations and play styles in the blink of an eye, whenever you feel like it.
  
• Procedural Adventures!
  Defeat lots of unique monsters, elites and bosses with more than 40 different affixes through procedurally generated adventures and hunt down The Slormancer’s Warlords through 7 different upgradable environments. There are always things to do and monsters to kill! And it's always different!
  

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1104280

Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay between devlogs, we're getting close to the Early Access stage of the game so we are (a bit too much) focused on getting things done and we sometimes forget about people that actually care about the development of the game.

Lately we've been focusing on improving the overall experience of the game, we've added a bunch of Quality of Life features, things that were not needed but that were fun to do for us and that felt like a nice addition. Here are a couple of examples:

Featured Quality of Life #1: Pixel Font
You now have the option to switch between a standard and a Pixel font in-game.

We know some people really prefer pixel fonts in Pixel Art games (it's also my personal preference in our game) but we also have a text-heavy game with lots of skills descriptions and tooltips so we had to have a smooth and readable font (in which Pixel fonts do not shine).

Here is the Profile Menu (a brand new menu by the way) with and without a Pixel Font.






Featured Quality of Life / #2: Highlighting stats
So we wanted to slightly improve the overall experience of a player that is looking for a specific stat / set of stats on items. So we've added a small option: in your inventory, you can now click on the stat(s) you wish to highlight and they will appear in a different color on your items, making it easier to find items that might be of interest for your current build.


On this Screen, the "Evasion" stat is highlited.
This is a small addition but it is super useful actually.



Some elements in the game needed a bit of an upgrade and felt slightly below the rest.
For example, we updated the Level Up screen/message. The old message was really basic and clearly underwhelming compared to what Leveling up is supposed to feel.

The new Level Up screen:



The Old Level Up:




We've had to make/update a bunch of menus to go with some of are features. Here are a couple of examples:

Score Screen: This is the screen you get when you complete an Expedition (it's just a screenshot (duh!), the result ingame is full of fancy animations).




Area Overview: In The Slormancer, you gain "Influence" in every Environment you visit. And Influence lets you unlock Perks in these Areas: this is the Area Overview of The Graveyard.




Main Menu: And here is the Main Menu of The Slormancer. Everything is animated ingame but this gives an idea of the actual look. :D





One very important note (for us at least), a demo of The Slormancer will be playable during between June 9 and June 14 during the Steam Games Festival. We are incredibly excited to get feedback on the game. So please make sure to give it a try and share your comments on our Discord channel.

That's it for now! We'll be back sooner next time!

Hello Everyone!
We're finally done with environments (at least for the Early Access release). The last area: "The Wizards Academy" is ready.

We're pretty happy with how this one turned out! Check it out:

The Wizards Academy








Environments are ready
So we have a total of 5 playable, unique and procedurally generated environments. The Wizards Academy, The Prison, The Graveyard, The Gardens and The Royal Wing.

The Graveyard

The Gardens

The Prison

The Royal Wing

The Wizards Academy

What's next?
Now, the next step is to finalize player's progression throughout the story and these environments and create a nice transition to The Slormancer's late game.

We're super excited!
That's it for now!