hi all,
another few additions & changes:

1. added the flitter storm random event to the dalgrim area.
2. added the getting robbed random event to the dalgrim area.
3. added the 8th quest, see below wich one.
4. The highway men will still show up, but when you first have encountered the travelling cleric and accepted it's quest, you can deal with the highway men, and remove them from the grain fields area.

I said it's, cause our intent is that this cleric remains open to interpretation, it can be a woman, but also a male.

Greetz mike

Hi,

@bookrage,

I am glad you like the additions/changes we make
We are currently at beta version 2.2, but when the new stuff gets released, i think we will be at beta 3, but i don't think we ever will get out of beta versions as long as development and tweaking happens

@others
Stay tuned for more random events wich will be added later

Btw, bugs can still exist. It Always can, but we will hammer them out as soon as we can when discovered.

Greetz mike

Hi,

@niklas

thanks for your suggestion. There is no weather system in the game, but i certainly can do something with weather in certain area's, for example, a thunderstorm while being in the forest, where a random event can be you seeking shelter under a tree. From there a random result can occur, you losing hp when it is a bad one, or getting an energy point while being a positive one. With the hurricane i also can create a random event, but then on the beach, also a random result here, when a negative one, you can be blown to one of several rooms in the near direction, and while a positive one, it will get you some combat xp.

Just to name a few examples Don't know how these examples sound to you?

Greetz mike

Hi,

oh yeah, i completely agree. Right now i am coding a lot in the random events system. to name another example, two quests can be triggered by just triggering random events. Wich can be done after combat, at two spots in dalgrim, or just by harvesting. I am very proud on what the project became the past years. As said in the 1st post, it all started as a joke from koma. We both never imagined it to become on what it is today. Of course, there are a few restrictions by the methods we use. For example, coding a hotkey to close the game, such as Alt + f4, can't be easely done, unless an inmence aount of work gets done. But exitting the game as it is right now, will suit the need for the function. So i think we will keep it with how it is now.

On another note, what would you guys think when i dig through my online harddrives to see if i can find all previous versions of your_adventure? It can be that some archives are missing, but beta 1, alpha 3, alpha 2 and alpha 1? as i said, it is possible i miss one of these, but would be cool, wouldn't it?

Greetz mike

just wondering, I have a couple ideas.

1. if not mentioned above, a blizzard which can happen in any outdoor area. it can either hurt you, give you some sort of experience, or hurt your energy. You can also get lost and it can reandomly move you to somewhere else in the game.
fog: no damage but can get you lost and move your character somewhere else.
2.  elite monsters/champions: these monsters are major heroes or villains that appear at random in any dungeon setting and can show up anywhere. They are especially hard and encountering them should be a big deal. defeating them gives either a ton of experience, a lot of gold, unique items you can't get any other way that do things like make you a super-woodsman or angler or opens special quests or areas.
flood: can happen in the sewers at any time and can happen in outdoor areas like the grain fields or the forest in the spring. The flood drains energy but gives experience. Or if things go well it gives you more max energy or xp and maybe you get a fish in the process.
insect swarm: makes it so you can't harvest in a particular place for a bit. It is basically a swarm of locusts or something swoop down on crops or plants and  makes it so you have to wait a bit for them to regrow.
forest fire/brushfire: a raging fire goes through the forest. Harvesting in the wider zone becomes easier for some things like mushrooms and such, but you can also take damage from it. brushfire is for open areas, while brushfire is for the grain fields or other grassland/field areas later.
red tide: keeps you from fishing on the beach or with the fisherman, also can deal damage.
house fire: You rush in and save someone or something from a burning building in Dolgrim or another city, you might take some damage or lose energy in the process but you can get gold or maybe even start to get access to a  quest or special area in the town. A suggestion for the quest is you have to get wood and also food to help a family get started again after losing stuff.
cold snap: Most common in winter but can happen anytime in an outdoor place.: you take damage to either energy or  health, if you have warm clothes something good happens in the cold instead.

quest ideas

Get Well basket: the player must gather several kinds of fruit and make a fruit basket which requires bread, berries, and depending on how you do other areas or fruit in the future, other kinds of fruit.
The tailor: if you introduce tailoring into the game, you could have us make dye from berries or fruit. A tailor could also give us a quest to make clothes. Clothes of certain kinds could protect us from certain hazards. For example, we could make a coat to protect ourselves from winter cold or random events that involve cold, wearing the coat means we are given an alternate event where things go well.

that's all I have for now.

I am liking the sound of where things are going, especially with random events etc, after all the more that you can be surprised  whilst harvesting etc, the better the game will be.

I'd love the seasons to play a real part in gameplay as they would in reality. For example, while weather itself need not be implemented, you could use weather based flags to make certain events show up more often, for example a thunderstorm would be more likely in summer or autumn, rain would be more likely in winter or spring, and  forest fires would be more a risk in summer.

likewise, it would be cool if harvesting could at least vaguely reflect seasons, for example in some seasons some crops are harder to find, for example maybe wheat is more common in summer and autumn, while mushrooms and berries are more common in winter, and flowers or flax are more common in spring.

I also love the idea of randomising monsters a bit and having a few stronger monsters kicking around.
Uncharted peak used to have a really interesting three tier system. You'd get normal monsters, like seagles, alligators etc, then you'd get stronger monsters with a suffix such as rabid seagle, monstrous aligator, viscious goblin etc, then you'd get even stronger ones with both a suffix and a sirname, like rabbid seagle flock leader, evil alligator, maneater, dire goblin champion etc.

There were I think two  five or six suffixes for each monster  along with two or three names, which meant lots of monsters.

Obviously this is a rather complicated generation system, but I'm personally always one of adding extra information to anything and different types, since it always makes the game feel fresh. Look at the wastes as a great example.

You don't even have to stop at different types of monsters either, you could occasionally  create other objects that earn an  extra description, for example, your bog standard cooked salmon could just earn you five energy, but delicious, or succulent or tender  cooked salmon could earn you 7 or 8 energy, likewise, when item crafting gets into the game, why stop at just making a bronze scythe when you could make a balanced bronze scythe, a well crafted bronze scythe etc, since after all, just because two cooks, or smiths, or tailors or whatever have the same basic recipe, that doesn't mean the product they create will be of the same quality?

obviously this is getting complex, but hay for my view the more complexity the better.

As far as the castlevania area goes, its a little difficult for me to suggest anything for it when I'm not %100 sure what exactly it involves, I know it involves Dalgrim's lord's castle, but is he a good or a bad lord? heck at the moment for all we know it's much like that other castlevania and full of vampires and such .

So, it'll be easier to suggest when we know the location a bit more, but I'm personally really looking forward to seeing it.

okay then, here's an idea for the castle.

1. I was expecting something different as castlevania is a popular game series about Dracula and other gothic and Victorian horror monsters from Konami so I was expecting more of a haunted castle zone.
2. that said, you could have a dangerous area with undead monsters like ghosts, maybe a vampire or two, or gargoyles in some ruined part of the castle or crypts.
3. you could also have crooked guards or an evil member of the Lord's family plotting against him.
4. If we're going for the classics, you could also have a rags and riches story quest with either an lord's family member man or woman or a general or something high up in the lord's retenue wanting to get the love of some lower-class character like a gardener or a yeoman farmer. Perhaps to help this lower-class person help the Lord, you have to get some rare item, either by making it or finding it on a tough monster or simply finding it lying around in some out-of-the-way place.
5. a new skill trainer in the area could give you skills that are archery or knight related.
6. bandit raids could happen in a far corner of the new zone.
7. One of the NPCs is a spy, you somehow have to find out which one.
8. Someone in the castle has been poisoned. You have to go out and make the antidote to save them.
9. some of the animals have gotten loose into the fields and you have to drive them back. This could be temporary monsters that wander the zone before you finish the quest. Or you might need something else to keep the animals away from the crops. An animal running loose could also be an issue for the grain fields as an unfortunate random event.
10. You have to help a disinherited member of the Lord's family regain face with them.
11. either in Castlevania or the forest, a group of virtuous thieves sort of like robin hood that you could work with if you don't want the evil bandits thing.

Hi, a general suggestion for the game: Maybe in quests or in some areas, stealth elements would be cool. For example for ambushes or special enemies where you have to do some tasks stealthy and quiete.

high pelantas how i can get this new updaits? please help me

Hi all,

I am slowly progressing through the 9th quest wich i am implementing. It isn't a very huge one, but i am short on time, so am coding it in bit by bit. But the fundamental parts of the quest are present, even a new small area wich isn't finished yet. This area will consist of around 5 rooms and will be a small graveyard. In wich the most spooky ghosts will be roaming around wich you ever will meet muhahahaha … Oh … Sorry, i am just the humble dev, not the death overlord of the graveyard. Sometimes i keep on forgetting on that small detail. But don't be fooled on this graveyard. You won't trigger any quest there as of yet, but it will play a very important role in completing it.

Anyhow the death over programmer lord will … uhm, i will go to bed, and hopefully finish the small area tomorrow

Greetz mike

Hi,

@bookrage

Would you prefer i remain silend about small additions and tweaks till there is something to get? If so, and others want this as well then i will

Greetz mike