Njorun's Will News

Hi all, today I’d like to show you the concepts of the maps available to the players in Njorun’s Will - carefully updated and kept inside the journal by the Kaera scouts.

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The World map gives an overview of the geographical regions where the actions of the story take place: large islands belonging to the neighboring kingdoms - Ranrike and Vestmar.



As the players progress on their journey, new locations are added to the map and become available for traveling.

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Each major location has its own Local map, initially covered with the fog of war.



As the players explore the location, the map is gradually updated highlighting the area where the Kaera scouts are currently present. Some of the key elements of the location, such as important doors and Munen shrines, will be highlighted on the map as well.

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Hi all, today I’d like to tell you about a minor yet significant change to the way the saving/checkpoint system works in Njorun’s Will.

When the previous article “Saving isn’t Free” was written, I made a GIF post on Reddit (CoOp Gaming subreddit) focusing on the fact that the players need to use the limited resource to save the game. Interestingly, the saving mechanic presented in such a manner caused a serious backlash from the community stating that it will bring a lot of unnecessary stress and thwart lots of players from playing the game. There were a lot of concerns, great ideas, and suggestions expressed in the thread and ultimately they forced us to rethink the necessity of the “limited” saving mechanic.

The solution we came up with is pretty simple: the players still need a Munen stone to activate the Munen shrine and once it’s enabled, they can use it as many times as they want to save the game. In such a way, we keep the exploration part of the gameplay (locating the resource and getting it to the checkpoints to use them) while removing the stressful factor of not being fully aware of how many Munen stones (and saves) are still left available in the level.

Note: There is at least 1 Munen Stone per every Munen shrine in the level.



I am really glad the community reacted to the design idea and proposed meaningful feedback and prompted us to do the necessary changes and, hopefully, improve the gaming experience.

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gul3n

Hi everyone!

Today, I’d like to tell you how the saving feature works in Njorun’s Will.



The players first need to locate a Munen Shrine - a pillar, carved from the tip of the rocky formation. They are numerous across the Vestmar Kingdom, but only several of them can be found around the location.



For the Munen shrine to be activated, a Munen stone, the saving resource, has to be placed on the shrine pillar. There are as many stones around the location as there are shrines.
Players can find such stones in various places: stored in barrels, hidden in houses, or lying out in the open. Once found and picked up by the player, the stone goes into the inventory.



Once the Munen shrine has a stone inserted into it, the players can save the game via a co-op interaction with it. From this moment, players can re-use the shrine as many times as they want so essentially it works as a checkpoint for them.

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gul3n

Hey everyone!

We would like to initiate a community collaboration to localize our Steam Page. At the moment, we would like to focus on the following languages:

• Portuguese (Brazilian)
  
• French
  
• Italian
  
• German
  
• Spanish (Spain)
  
• Japanese
  
• Korean
  
• Chinese (Simplified)
  
• Chinese (Traditional)
  
• Turkish
  
• Polish
  

If you are a native speaker of one of the aforementioned languages and you’d like to collaborate with us on localizing the texts of Njorun’s Will Steam Page, be free to join the initiative on the Localizor. Currently, there are 14 strings in total that need localization.

If you have any game or localization-related questions, join our Discord Community to discuss them in the corresponding channels.

[h3]Credits[/h3]

All translators will be added to the game credits. Contact us on Discord and tell us your name (or nickname) you want to be displayed in the credits. You will also get a special "Localizer" role that’s going to be reflected in our Discord Community.

Later on, we will start the localization project for the Concept Demo itself.

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gul3n

Hello, my alias is gul3n, I am one of the developers working on Njorun’s Will. Our small team consists of 3 people and is called quadruped.

We are glad to announce that on the 10th of May 2022, just around a week ago, we launched our Steam Page!

Despite the fact that a lot of important pieces of content are still in progress and can’t be displayed just yet, we thought now would be the right time to finally start talking about Njorun’s Will.

The game has been in development for quite some time, although we consider that it is still in the early stages of its production cycle. The iterative process Njorun’s Will has been through is quite interesting to show and talk about, so it is something I will definitely write about in a separate post later on.

[h3]Concept Demo[/h3]

We are currently working toward finishing the Concept Demo of the game, a build meant to display the variety of Njorun’s Will gameplay. We will conduct several playtest sessions along the way prior to releasing the Concept Demo on Steam. I believe we are several months away from reaching this major milestone.

[h3]Communication[/h3]

In the coming months, we will share a lot of interesting information with you here, in Community Hub:

• insights about the game and its features
  
• fresh content
  
• various news and announcements
  

In case you have any questions about the game, you can always ask them here or on our Discord Server.

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gul3n