Goblin Stone News

[h2]Goblin Stone voice-over artist nominated for Best Character Performance[/h2]
In recent news, Goblin Stone voice-over narrator, James Smillie received 9 nominations from the One Voice Awards 2021. His nomination on Best Character Performance for Goblin Stone is among others. You may recognize James Smillie's deep baritone and resonant voice all throughout the game.



[h3]About James Smillie[/h3]
Dynamic and versatile, James Smillie has had a distinguished career on stage, screen and behind the microphone. James hails from Scotland and honed his consummate skills as a voice artist while working as a fully contracted radio actor, perfecting his wide range of vocal talent in age and accents and characterisation; all of which has led to a stand out career as one of the most sought after voiceovers in the industry.

Listen to James Smiliie's sample voice-over narrations for Goblin Stone:
https://youtu.be/jzCHbywWRfQ

[h2]Goblin Stone Weekly Challenge is up! [/h2]
Gear up and show us the best lineup you've got against the nastiest boss in Furrow's rest. Head over to our Discord to participate in our newest challenge.



[h2]Community Highlight [/h2]
Goblin Stone community is getting creative week after week. On our previous challenge: Ability unlock, community member TheSkavenKing entry is one of the Orc Chop Team's top picks.



The team had a hard time picking the best entry so we decided to unlock not just 1, but 2 custom emojis for the server. Well done community Gobbos!

Look into these eyes and tell me how you can't get over to these Gobbo heads!

We're dropping game development sneak peeks every week so join us and get your fresh Goblin news here before anyone else!

We are slowly revamping our Discord community in the past few weeks. Today we are happy to introduce to you a fun new activity for the server: Weekly Challenges

• Name a special ability that will help these young goblins on their long journey.
  
• Join our Discord to participate and learn more about the challenge.
  
• Deadline for submission is until August 3, 2021, 23:59 (UTC+8)
  
• Winning entry will be highlighted on our Social Media pages.
  

Over the past few weeks, we received incredible works of art from our community. Today's highlight is a fanmade Goblin by Pinkietherat.

The concept: They are small goblinoids with a goblin and an orc as parents, but despite the odd pairing, it didn’t stop them from pursuing their goals. The 'Gorc' picks up everything that isn’t nailed down when it comes to food and throws it into a pot to cook his friend's meals.



Do you want us to highlight your Goblin Stone fan-creations? Tag us on our social media pages or share it on our Discord community!

Our team is currently working on a lot of features for Goblin Stone. This week, we are focused on the ability deck feature. This feature is still in development but let me share with you a bit of our progress.
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Ability Deck enables players to configure their goblin's build. Each class has its own pool of abilities from which the players can choose from. Players must choose only four abilities to equip the class with. The choices made affect each class's playstyle and allow the player to customize according to their battle strategy.

Here's a throwback look at the old design way back when the game only allowed equipping only two abilities per class. The old UI felt very constricting, so we went for a layout that enables players to view all available abilities.



For the re-design, our designer used this primitive mockup as a basis for the Ability deck's design and layout.



Eventually, players will be able to unlock new abilities and even level them up to strengthen the class.

What do you think about this new feature? Discuss with the development team by joining our Discord community!



If you haven’t already, please add the game to your Steam Wishlist so you can be notified of new development blogs like this as we journey into Early Access.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521970/Goblin_Stone/

• Fixed wrong time bar position after ending a turn
  
• Fixed hovering over abilities not always being detected
  
• Fixed "Dung Trap" ability not triggering on a fatal hit
  
• Fixed the "Tugging Arrow" ability not working properly
  
• Adjusted camera movement in battle
  
• Added a turn count indicator in the battle UI
  
• Adjusted "Crippling Arrow", removing knockback but adding damage
  

• Fixed bug where food resource is visible on the map
  
• Fixed bug where Merchant sells only Crude quality items
  
• Fixed bug with the recruit button not working properly
  
• Adjusted starting attributes of initial Goblin peons
  

• Fixed issues with party order not updating correctly
  
• Fixed bad camera transition when moving between rooms and exiting battles
  
• Fixed bugs related to the AI of patrolling enemies
  

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521970/Goblin_Stone/

• Fixed wrong time bar position after ending a turn
  
• Fixed hovering over abilities not always being detected
  
• Fixed "Dung Trap" ability not triggering on a fatal hit
  
• Fixed the "Tugging Arrow" ability not working properly
  
• Adjusted camera movement in battle
  
• Added a turn count indicator in the battle UI
  
• Adjusted "Crippling Arrow", removing knockback but adding damage
  

• Fixed bug where food resource is visible on the map
  
• Fixed bug where Merchant sells only Crude quality items
  
• Fixed bug with the recruit button not working properly
  
• Adjusted starting attributes of initial Goblin peons
  

• Fixed issues with party order not updating correctly
  
• Fixed bad camera transition when moving between rooms and exiting battles
  
• Fixed bugs related to the AI of patrolling enemies
  

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521970/Goblin_Stone/