Elin News

Greetings!

Elin's Alpha starts today, Alpha players are allowed to share screenshots and videos. Please note when viewing these that many ideas and quality of life features are not implemented or complete.

To be respectful of those who wish to avoid spoilers while we see Elin mature, we have decided to only show concept art for now on Steam. Today we are going to share concept art for the Nefu race.



The Nefu race is one of two fox-kin races wished in through the collaboration of two backers. We know your first thought when you see one is you would want to squeeze their tail but please understand it's rude to squeeze their tails without permission.

There have been a number of new races, classes, towns and even gods approved via Kickstarter backer wishes and we thank all of you for being a part of Elin's development!

In regards to the Alpha itself, please note the following.

• Many policies for player owned settlements do not yet have an effect.
  
• Npc combat skills and abilities are not yet balanced.
  

Features that will be introduced soon.

• Random Quests.
  
• God Rewards, Custom Gods.
  
• New art.
  
• NPC combat balance.
  
• Quality of life features.
  
• Additional recipes and ingredients.
  

Thank you.
-Rusty

Hello everyone! Thank you again for your support!

With the success of the Kickstarter, we've been busy with preparing for Elin's Alpha for Kickstarter backers.

There's a summary of the Kickstarter stretch goals achieved and some very general information on some of the content we have worked on in this post. For those of you who want more detailed information, there are links near the bottom of this page.

[h3]Kickstarter Stretch Goals achieved:[/h3]

* Multiplay Support
We would like to add support for online content like Moongates.
* Fortune Bell Casino
A flying Casino airship modeled after a classic Elona enemy that you can enjoy minigames and other surprises.
* Steam Workshop
Mod support!
* Power to Ylva!
Electricity mechanics.
* Festivals of Season
Delve into Elin’s culture through festivals.
* In Nomine
Additional lore and content related to gods.
* Farewell to tofu buildings
Building (and procedurally generated dungeon) blueprints.
* Great debt
Unique alternate start where you start the game in debt.
* Dungeon Master
Own and run your own dungeon.
* Merchant's Guild
A new guild dedicated to profit and rare goods.
* Own your guild
Yes, you will be able to own your own guild.
* Special Jure mega quest
Jure gets chased by tentacles.

[h3]News on some of the content added:[/h3]

We are updating the development progress monthly on Kickstarter.

August's development update July's development update June's development update Kickstarter page

Some of the updates worked on include:

• Building blueprints
  
• New guild
  
• Japanese style buildings
  
• Improved instruments
  
• Several new areas
  
• Several backer rewards/stretch goals added into the game
  

Thank you.
-Rusty

Early this morning Elin's Kickstarter released, we have hit several milestones already unlocking new stretch goals and Elin is already successfully funded.

We are thankful for everyone's support in helping us release Elin in the best state possible.

[h3]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/noacat/elin[/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2135150/Elin/

Thank you.
-Rusty

And now it's time for the surprise, the final thing we have been working hard on these last four months is a Kickstarter for Elin.

Throughout Elin's development the community has been incredibly supportive, have helped immensely with testing and been nothing but positive. There have been numerous offers of support suggesting we set up a Patreon or other crowd funding sources. Some of you have even gone so far as to offer to purchase us equipment such as Steam decks for development.

Naturally we don't want to accept this sort of help with nothing in return, we have designed this Kickstarter to give something back to early adopters, share our vision for Elin and make Elin the best game it can be.

For those of you who wish to follow, the pre launch page can be found at this link:
[h3]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/noacat/elin[/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2135150/Elin/

Thank you.
-Rusty (aka Lomias)

Hello!

So much has happened behind the scenes since the last Steam announcement. Working on improving development methods, squashing bugs and getting feedback from testers is only a fraction of it. We've also looked into including Elin on Steam Deck and requested a testing kit, found great tools to track development goals and worked on some things that we want to surprise the community with.

For those who are interested, we want to give one last reminder of the other platforms we interact with.

Discord Official site Reddit Noa's Twitter

Thank you.
-Rusty (aka Lomias)