Eric

As stressful as making it has been so far, I'm really glad that I need make an actual playable demo of Virtue's Heaven for EGX. I've been mentioning before how I already simplified the main upgrade system for Virtue's Heaven into something where each upgrade has a passive and active mode, but as I was building the game's tutorial area, it still felt a bit weird. The System kind of worked, but it left a lot of other things kind of dangling in the air, that were sort of attached to the old one. Those bits were the game's "Hyper Mode" (a state where you spend your meter to do cool shit) and "Overzeal" state (which you get when you manage to exceed your meters current limit). Both were still kind of there and had their uses, but it felt weird to have three systems that interact with the same resource, but not with one another.

I'm trying to do monthly update videos where I talk about where the development of Virtue's Heaven is currently at.

Anyway here's September's Edition, in case you want to watch me ramble on for 30 minutes about the various conceptual problems I'm currently in the process of (maybe) solving.

So Virtue's Heaven will be at EGX later this Month as part of the Leftfield collection and I figured, it might be a good idea to try to make something like an introductory area.

I like the layout I came up with and how I'll tie this character into the larger thing I'm trying to communicate here.

Started some work on the visual style for the Demo stage and though I've been using this palette for over two years now, I'm still figuring out ways to squeeze more detail and depths out of it.

Also I (once again) added a run button to the game, though I'm not sure if I'll keep it.