Goblin Stone News

Hello everyone!

We are excited to share that Goblin Stone will be featured at two upcoming Steam events. Today, Goblin Stone joins other independent games in the spotlight at the Busan Indie Connect Fest and the Dreamhack 2023 on August 18th. Our demo playable in both English and Chinese language will remain accessible on our Steam page, giving you a glimpse of what Goblin Stone is all about.

[h3]What’s in the Demo[/h3]

• Experience a more roguelike adventure through epic procedurally generated levels
  
• Recruit goblins during your adventures to fight against powerful enemies
  
• Enhance your weapons with the Orc Smithy
  
• Upgrade your goblin abilities with the Battle Guru
  
• Test your luck with the Shrines and receive great blessings
  
• and many more difficult choices and battles await you!
  

Stay tuned for more updates as we prepare to immerse you into the captivating world of Goblin Stone!

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

[h3]Recap[/h3]
Last year, Goblin Stone was proudly chosen to participate in and exhibit at the Busan Indie Connect Festival in South Korea, as well as the virtual Dreamhack event. In case you missed it, here's a sneak peek of our wonderful experiences from last year!


Would you like to experience Goblin Stone and meet the team at the game expo in your country? Let us know in the comments!

Gobbos, brace yourselves!

The Demon Unleashed Steam Sale has arrived, and dark forces of evil, along with ferocious creatures, have banded together to wreak havoc on unsuspecting goblins and monsterfolk. Gather a ragtag group of goblins and embark on an epic quest to fight against these menaces.


We are excited to announce that Goblin Stone is now being featured in Demons Unleashed on Steam. Check out Goblin Stone and download our game demo to experience an adventure full of challenges through the world of goblins.

[h3]WISHLIST AND FOLLOW FOR MORE![/h3]
If you enjoyed the demo and want to play the full game, make sure to add the game to your Wishlist and follow us on Steam.

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

[h3]THE TRIO STRIKES BACK [/h3]

Every second a goblin dies at the hands of experience-point-thirsty adventurers... However, a glimmer hope emerges today as the revered Goblin Stone demo returns to the Steam realm, now translated in Simplified Chinese, allowing valiant souls from all over the world to rally and join the fight to save the goblins!

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In celebration of our participation in the Bilibili Game Fest and China Joy events, we’re excited to announce that we’re bringing back to Steam our Goblin Stone demo, now available in English and with Simplified Chinese translations.

The demo will be available on Steam from today until August 3rd.

[h3]WISHLIST AND FOLLOW FOR MORE! [/h3]

If you enjoyed the demo and want to play the full game, make sure to add the game to your Wishlist and follow us on Steam.

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

[h3]JOIN OUR GOBLIN COMMUNITY! [/h3]

Join our community of Goblins on Discord and Twitter to not miss out on any game updates and new opportunities to play!

We hope you will enjoy playing our demo; we will be keeping a close eye on your feedback as we continue to improve our game.



For the Goblins!

Hello Gobbos!

In our last devblog, we introduced you to one of these special map events called 'Unique Scenarios'. This time, we will be exploring two more adventure features that we are actively working on and discuss how these features work and how it can help improve your adventure party’s firepower through ability and weapon enhancement. So get your gears ready, and let’s dive right into it!

The Smithy

While out on an adventure with your goblin party, you may occasionally encounter traveling Orcs on their camps. Some, like the Orc Merchant, sell their wares, while others lend their expertise to passers-by and even to adventuring goblins. One of these is the Orc Smith who you will find sitting with its blacksmithing tools and offers weapon enhancement in exchange for gold.

Successful weapon upgrade increases attack power

Interacting with the Smithy will prompt you to select any weapon to enhance it. Upgrading a single weapon costs gold and increases by 30 gold with each subsequent attempt. While it is possible to encounter the Smithy early in the run before you can gain gold in the level, we made sure that you can still gain value from every encounter as the first upgrade is always free.

Failed weapon upgrade

Upgrading a weapon through the Smithy is a gamble. You may attempt to upgrade up to five times or until the upgrade fails. The chance of success decreases as you continue to upgrade a weapon. Fortunately, upgrading your Armory in the Lair increases the success rate of upgrading a weapon. The chances to fully upgrade a weapon is still up to your luck but when the process fails, the encounter prematurely ends. You still keep all the upgrades you've paid for, but you lose that last bit of gold you paid for that most recent upgrade attempt that failed.

The status difference of weapons between levels

Initial mockup design of the Ability Deck

In the early iterations of the game, the way to strengthen each goblin class’ abilities is to unlock new abilities and upgrade them in the Class Guild Room within the Lair, using the ‘Ability Deck’. Our design team made significant changes with this feature as we developed the new roguelike system in the game. We wanted to give you more options when strategizing your run, so we designed a new map encounter featuring the Battle Guru that lets you temporarily improve your goblin's abilities.

The Battle Guru

On your adventure run in Goblin Stone, you will meet another traveling Orc known as the Battle Guru. This Orc can help hone your group's combat abilities. Allowing you to customize your combat build for the current adventure.

Battle Guru ability selection UI

Interaction with the Battle Guru is fairly simple. When you interact with the Battle Guru, you will be presented with three random ability cards and asked to choose one to upgrade. The pool of options includes all level 1 abilities of each class in the party.

The visual difference of cards between levels

You will be able to upgrade 3 random abilities each time you interact with the Battle Guru. Similar to the Smithy, all map events can be encountered more than once in every adventure run. If the luck is in your favor, it is possible to fully upgrade multiple abilities up to level 3.

While all of these enhancements and upgrades are temporary, your goblin party's odds of survival and effectiveness in a battle can greatly improve by taking advantage of the Battle Guru and Smithy's encounters!


What do you think about these new map encounters? Follow us on our Official Discord Community for more game development updates. Until then, stay tuned for our upcoming devblog!

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

Greetings Gobbos!

In this devblog, we'll explore a new adventure feature called ‘Unique Scenarios’ and how they can impact the choices you make in the game.


With the inclusion of Map Events in our game, we intend to add variety to the interactions that the players will encounter within the game. The Unique Scenario is one of these map events which adds flair to a run while also entertaining the players with a fun side story. First let’s go into the details and see what it looks like in the game:

During adventure, you may come across a room with a Unique Scenario and once your goblin party passes through the trigger event area, it will activate an event where it will present the player with a random scenario or you could say a short story.



In the current design, the unique scenario is represented by a rotating ‘?’. The minimap icon and interface are both works in progress that may change in the future.

Each scenario prompts the player to select one of several options, allowing them to decide how they want the story to proceed. These side stories do not necessarily connect to the main story, but the choices made by the player may have an impact on their adventure run depending on the outcome of the scenario.



A unique scenario is a risk or reward event in which the choices have either fixed or unpredictable outcomes. The majority of these choices are straightforward, but some are only available if certain conditions are met. Here are the different kind of scenarios and choices that you may find in the game:

[h3]Default Choices[/h3]
These give a selection of simple choices with no requirements for picking an option. Any option you choose will provide you an immediate reward, such as a weapon or resources.


[h3]Chance-based Choices[/h3]
The probability rate is random. Where there is a chance of winning, and it implies that you won't always succeed. The outcome is always based on chance.

 
[h3]Prerequisite Choices[/h3]
Choices that require something from the player. If the prerequisite is not met, the choice will be grayed out, making it unavailable. Keep in mind that some choices have a chance to either fail or succeed.




The visuals and storytelling are important aspects of Goblin Stone. After drawing inspiration from other roguelike games, our game designer developed this feature to give each adventure run a unique twist. By Introducing these unexpected events or obstacles it will add up to the kind of fun and engaging gameplay experience that we wanted for Goblin Stone, making the game feel less predictable and more exciting.

Initial concept sketch of our game designer (left) and early UI design of Unique Scenario (right)

Overall, this feature has all the makings of an exciting and unpredictable journey full of surprises. We're not stopping at event scenarios to bring variation to the gameplay. On our next devblog, we'll talk more about the other map events you'll encounter during your adventure run. So look forward to our next devblog or join us in our Discord server to get a sneak peek at what we have in store for you!

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