Coridden News

We’re excited to be a part of Friendship Games Week 2023, a celebration of couch co-op, local multiplayer, and split-screen gaming! This week the Coridden demo will once again be available to play on steam, with new updates:

• New Mode: It’s now possible to try out an early version of “Guard Missions”, that you can access in town (complete a simple mission in a procedurally generated environment). For the moment only one mission type.
  
• Playable Creatures: Scaptor and Ramox creatures can now be played in the demo, if found and defeated in “Guard Missions”.
  
• Skills: New and improved (VFX, balancing) skills for humans and beasts to try out!
  
• Item Mods: Several new mods added, items with randomised mods can be found exploring or when defeating enemies (yellow colour, horse shoe symbol)
  
• Item Icons: New item icons for weapons, armors, creature forms (and more on the way!)
  
• UI/UX: Further UI/UX improvements for Main Menu, Dialogues, Map and more
  
• Optimization: Optimization work done, you should experience an overall higher frame rate!
  
• Online sync: Sync when attacking is now more correct in online multiplayer
  

Also make sure to take the chance to browse the Friendship Games Week steam event gallery to discover more local multiplayer games!

As always we’re happy to chat, let us know your thoughts here on the forums or come join us on Discord 🤗

Have an awesome gaming week!

Greeting Shifters ✊🐲

As the last days of the year are approaching, we wanted to update you on the progress on Coridden! Since the latest demo period, we’ve been working a lot to improve the UX, UI and game feel - and we hope you’ll feel the differences in the upcoming demo updates.

New playable creature type: Demonhorn Ramox

We’ve also been working on the different game areas and adding and balancing items, with the aim towards reaching an alpha state of the game - where it's playable from start to finish with a fair amount of items and skills to try out.

New playable creature type: Coral Panteliz

In addition to that, we’ve added a new type of challenge, called “Guard’s Missions”, that will let you go exploring procedurally generated areas with one of three increasingly difficult objectives to complete for various rewards.

New playable creature type: Barkskin Dragolem

We hope to get the game out to your hands as soon as possible, but we want to make sure it’s as good as it can be - and we are super thankful to everyone who wants to contribute and help us to reach this goal by playtesting and giving us feedback! Follow to keep a lookout for when we have new versions to playtest available, or join our discord to get notified there.

Wishing you all happy holidays and great new year, we’re looking forward to showing you much more of Coridden in 2023!

An updated demo is now live for the Steam Bash Bash event!

The biggest change is that we’ve added a new challenge at the end of the story demo - can you beat the new boss? Other things improved since last time:

• Improved terrain and vegetation in Riveredge (wilderness)
  
• Enabled passive skills on beast mastery
  
• Added 3 beast mastery trees (Houndra, panteliz, roker) with 10 skills in each (both passive and active)
  
• Improved UI beast mastery (not final)
  
• Improved UI health bar (not final)
  
• Improved balancing (energy cost, damage, health, attributes)
  
• Improved AI combat behaviour (positioning and targeting)
  
• Added more items and item modifiers
  
• Modified some item drops (creature ranged)
  
• Changed amount of XP gained in story (to increase level progression)
  
• Made certain dialogues optional
  
• Increased the number of enemies in the first zone/wilderness (Riveredge)
  
• Modified some tutorials
  
• Changed jump length for humans (shorter) & certain beasts (longer)
  
• Fixed jump obstacles in cave passage (Riveredge) so only beasts can jump over (Panteliz or Houndra).
  
• and of course fixing a lot of bugs and other small stuff…
  

Hope you have fun, let us know what you think!

It's Dreamhack Beyond this week and with that the Coridden demo is live on Steam once again, with more polished graphics, combat and new features!

Here are some of the things we've been working on since the last update that's included in the demo:

• You can see the new style of the UI in the Character menus (equipments, inventory, skills etc)! We haven't implemented new UI everywhere, but we wanted to include this already so you can get a feel for it and so we can hear how you like it 😉
  
• We've also added some new options (more are coming later on), such as windowed mode.
  
• Now you can try out different difficulty levels for your demo or horde playthrough! ːsteamthumbsupː
  
• It's still very early, so the balancing will no doubt need more work further on.
  
• We also have an early version of the Beast Masteries into the demo now! We'll be working more on this feature during the next coming weeks (atm they are quite limited).
  

We'll be doing a live stream on Sunday 5/6 at 18.00 CEST talking about the new features and more, join us then!

Hey all, here is another update from the devs!

First we wanted to mention that tomorrow we’re doing a live stream where you can ask any questions you may have, discuss future plans with us or simply chat! We’d be thrilled if you’d like to join us on tomorrow (Monday 11th of April) 21.00 CEST at our channel https://www.twitch.tv/aftnareld

Lately we’ve been taking in a lot of feedback and using it to try to improve and polish the gameplay.
We’ve mainly been doing a lot of smaller fixes and upgrades, but one big design change we decided to implement is that you now have two energy bars: one for your human form and one for your beast form. Both melee and ranged attacks now cost energy, with melee attack damage being significantly reduced if you’re out of energy. This will give you a good reason to use, equip and upgrade both your human and melee form, making the combat more interesting and varied!

New feature: two energy bars

Some other things we’ve been working on:

• Making movement look and feel more smooth and responsive
  
• Improving VFX, primarily the different elemental damage type attacks
  
• Make it easier to navigate and polished up some demo levels
  
• Improving UX, mainly for Class selection and Player health/energy bars
  
• Changed up the horde mode in the demo, so you now face more varied enemy waves
  
• Added new item slot: Creature Accessory (only affecting stats)
  
• Improving loot drops modifications so it is possible to receive a greater variety of randomized items with higher rarities (highest chance to see these items is to play the horde mode)
  

New heat/fire damage weapon VFX