December 2022 Update
Happy Holidays backers!
We normally drop updates at the end of the month but wanted to push this one up a week to sync up with the holiday season.
Many of us in Japan work straight up until the 28th of December but hopefully you are able to unplug and enjoy time with your friends, family, and GAMES!
Campaign Updates
The data for the survey has been locked and we are in the checking phase of the Backerkit store but rather than trying to rush the store out during a busy holiday time period, we have decided to wait until January for its launch.
As always, thank you for your patience!
Speaking of the survey, one of the questions will be “What is your Discord ID?” As you recall, one of the rewards will be receiving a special Discord backer role.
It’s much easier to coordinate supplying this if we can receive this information when you fill in your survey rather than doing it after the fact.
Of course, some of you don’t use Discord or don’t want to and that’s totally fine but there will be some trivia, contests, and of course the developers jump in for Q&A sessions on a regular basis so you would miss out on some cool things and also wouldn’t get the chance to talk with other Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood fans.
We have some great content updates planned for the future but one of the challenges during early production is that there isn’t a lot to show besides character art.
Judging by the ongoing fan art that you amazing people keep submitting to Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood Discord servers, you do love the art for the game but we want to show more to our backers!
So we have decided to cast a big spotlight on the music for the games.
Starting next year we plan to have one mini studio sessions, DJ events, and additional concerts that will be viewable by backers.
We want to make sure you are a part of this journey and get to reap the benefits of being a backer!
Development Updates
This month, we’ve got another project progress update from Kaneko-san.
Armed Fantasia Monthly Report
Overall
We’re still negotiating with publishers, both in Japan and overseas.
Of course, we want to partner with a publisher that has the best conditions, but we think it’s very important for our potential publisher to feel passion towards the project.
The other day, we met with a member from a company visiting us in Japan.
We sang the opening theme to Steel Jeeg together, so I think we hit it off with them.
Battle
Specs for various aspects of battle like skills and Force Breaks are still being worked on.
The Anomaly list is still being worked on as well.
These two categories are being worked on at the same time, as we see how an anomaly would act in battle, and how that might affect the specs of the battle system.
Anomaly design is still going strong.
Field
The total amount of Gadgets has been decided.
However, we are still working on what each Gadget will do.
We’re hoping to get a good balance of old ideas and new ideas finished shortly after the new year begins.
In order to get an idea of scope and progress for dungeons, we’ve created a white box version of a dungeon that will appear in a prologue.
World Feel
As before, the scenario/plot are still being created.
We have been working hard all year to get a very high quality plot created so we can carefully see how much production will be needed.
Rough designs for Setsuna, Kimiquis, and Arcain have been delivered to us, and we’re looking over them.
Knight Gungnir isn’t finished yet.
We’ve also ordered images for important characters that have yet to be revealed.
We’ve gotten 10 rough takes of some BGM.
We’re looking over them.
In Closing
This is the last report for this year.
We’re still at the basics, but development on Armed Fantasia is continuing very steadily.
Once again, I wish to thank you for all the support this summer.
We’ll keep working hard to deliver an amazing game to all of you, and we hope you will continue supporting us going further.
Also, Merry Christmas!
Thanks again for all your support and we will see you in 2023!
