Super Fantasy Kingdom News

Yes, that's right. The demo will be removed from Steam next week.



And that is not easy for me. The demo has been incredibly important for Super Fantasy Kingdom. It is so easy to forget where we came from.

I only had one month to prepare a demo from my prototype. That was so tight that I could not test it, and I was not even sure the concept worked. But then so many people liked it. It was a bit overwhelming but also a big opportunity. How many other games get so much feedback in such an unrefined state?

So, I tried to make the best of it. With your help, I took a year to flesh it out, and I'm so happy I did that.

[h2]Then why take it down?[/h2]

The game is already officially in pre-alpha! The first players are exploring more of the game. It seems to be going very well, so the real alpha will start soon.

But for that, we need hardcore players and new ones who have never played before.

The more I work on the game, the bigger the difference between the demo and the final game, not only in content but also in quality. Slowly, the demo is becoming less representative.

We will likely have another demo before release though!

[h2]And then there is alpha![/h2]
So, let's celebrate the last days of the demo!

Play one of the challenge maps Emily made.

And then, once the demo is gone, the alpha may start…

Alpha applications will start on Discord soon!

Oh and if you haven’t already, please take a moment to add Super Fantasy Kingdom to your wishlist! It will help me and the game a lot.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2289750/Super_Fantasy_Kingdom/

- Feryaz

Greetings, rulers; we have some fantastic news to share with you! Super Fantasy Kingdom is taking part in Digital Tabletop Fest 4: Roll of the Dice, hosted by Auroch Digital.



This festival celebrates tabletop-inspired games and the creative studios behind them. From March 7th to March 11th, you can expect to see demos, upcoming titles, and exclusive panels from developers.

Harkening back to the days of kingdom-building in old-school tabletop games, Super Fantasy Kingdom fits right in!

Super Fantasy Kingdom is a roguelike city-builder that lets you build and defend your kingdom against monsters.

Explore an open world with legendary riches to obtain and challenging quests to complete. As the ruler, you must endure the elements that shape the battlefield and fend off powerful bosses, too!

Prepare your defenses for the hordes and wishlist Super Fantasy Kingdom today!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2289750

For the whole last month I worked on refactoring code and performance optimization.



While not as interesting as new content, the results are crazy:

• Monster performance is 300% better! A screen full of monsters ran at unstable 20FPS before. Now it runs stable at over 60FPS.
  
• Projectiles were also improved. Before each behavior of a projectile was a component with a lot of overhead, now they are all just part of one component that handles them.
  
• Creating and destroying things takes a lot of time. So now all monsters, projectiles and effects are kept in memory and get reused instead. That makes the game more stable.
  

That all is not only very cool for the future, but its also important now. When I plan the balance and design the endgame I don't have to hold back.

- Feryaz

[h2]Changelog[/h2]

Steam Demo Build 104

- Greatly improved monster performance (~300%)
- Reworked how projectiles are build to increase performance
- Projectiles, objects and monsters are kept in memory and get reused
- Optimized multiple animations to reduce filesize and memory usage
- Status effect pools are created dynamically on need
- Removed a lot of garbage creation
- Switched to a tweening library without garbage allocation
- Improved pathing performance
- Paths and free deposit spots get cached

- Roads can be built while paused
- Zoom level affects how far sounds can be heard
- Mio runs faster after being pet
- Reduced how fast animals run after getting hit

- Reworked Lizard

- Fixed status immunities
- Fixed heroes being transparent at wrong times
- Fixed Dryad's secondary applying every 0.5s

It’s now been six months since the demo was released on Steam. What was just meant as a test really changed my life. Since then we've grown a real community, the game's got a wiki, I opened a company and found a publisher, the game got exhibited at Gamescom, and most importantly, it got so much better thanks to you.

The amount of feedback was overwhelming at first, but it has proven itself so incredibly valuable.
We had 96 updates. Almost one every second day!

[h3]So what changed?[/h3]


There were countless gameplay, quality of life, UI, performance, accessibility, graphical, and balance changes. But here are the big headliners:

• Taxes get collected by the king
  
• Added church and the faith skill tree
  
• Reworked how animals and meat works
  
• Got a chef that can level up
  
• New stats with Mana and Rage!
  
• Over 25 new relics
  
• New characters and guests
  
• Even a few new units
  
• Upgradable walls and towers
  
• Daytime ambiance, new weathers and music improvements
  
• Experience catch-up mechanics
  
• Many new status effects
  
• Monster capturing
  

[h3]And now?[/h3]
We are reaching the end of the prototyping phase. I am getting more and more happy with where the game is and want to focus more on new content, which means updates to the demo will get less.

[h3]Closed alpha[/h3]
That also means a closed alpha will start soon. We have already started to form a group of testers. For now only active community members will get selected, as we need people really sharing their feedback.

So please join the community and help!

Once we need a bigger pool of testers I will make an announcement here on how to apply.

- Feryaz

Hi everyone! Super Fantasy Kingdom and other games published by Hooded Horse are all featured at the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale. Come check it out!

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