We've got a new friend to introduce to you today. You may have seen a sketch of him in the previous update, but now he's ALIVE!

Meet the Boulderlith: a hulking, rock-musclebound lump of punch. He greets you with an excited skip and genuine delight that you exist! And then immediately tries to solve that with a fist to your heroic face.

He's got a brutal three-part combo! It starts off simple enough, but ends with a spinning lariat that bulldozes forward. Those punches have scary range and the lariat even more so. He’s the hardest enemy you’ll meet in the Shard Kingdom, and he knows it. Or well maybe not. We don't reeeally know how much he actually knows...

He's also equipped with a big SLAM! Our boy is 100% built to cover ground and if you’re not ready, you’ll be doing a lot of life re-evaluation in town.

Uh-oh. He’s not just punchy. He can also stab his hands into the earth to spawn three puddles of gooey tar that slow you. The Boulderlith can also perform a little bit a rock magic to summon and punch a basalt projectile at you. Whether you're close, mid-range, or far, this guy is the full package.

If you manage to damage him enough, he even has a second phase. Yep, he's got a sword in his head that he pulls out ladies and gentlemen. In sword mode his hitboxes become larger, more damaging, and his basalt summoning punch splits the projectile into three stones.

We're also polishing up parts of town and wanted to show you the Divine Obelisk which now rises with proper grandeur. Your gigantic sword friend will now curiously gaze upon you as you tinker with your skill tree.

We’ve got more town improvements and Shard Kingdom enemies to show you soon. Upcoming is the Pebblemancer to display the magical might of the Shardlings!

Thanks for reading and as always, we appreciate your support!

Rockin' and rollin',

-Don and Mike

We've been back in action for the new year and are now here to bring you some re-done revamped Swordcery abilities AND a look at some new enemy designs we'll be bringing to life.

We've been clearing out some of our backlog of swords that need powers. Here's Coral Griefer's slow moving, but extremely threatening water orb. It hits multiple times and has a nice big splashy explosion at the end. This swordcery is great for wreaking havoc upon groups, especially when it's upgraded to have maximum hit frequency!

Maelstrom used to have a whirlwind Swordcery ability, but since that got repurposed to be the entire Greatsword class' heavy attack we blessed it a power worthy of it's name. You can now use its swordcery to bellow barbarian warcries which send out waves of wind and electricity. The blasts also travel further and deal greater damage as you upgrade the sword!

It's no secret that we love our little rock enemies the most. Which is exactly why we're excited to finally start finalizing the enemies of the Shard Kingdom. 

Here are some designs of the enemies who will try to actively make your life harder:

Meet the Bouderlith, a hulking bruiser who looks like a mountain that spent one too many hours at the gym. He wears a permanently dumb smile while he telegraphs every hit so you can feel both insulted and terrified. Slow but devastating, he slams the ground for huge AoE damage, lays down sticky tar that ruins your footwork, and will spinning lariat you so far you will question your life choices.

Pebblemancer is the dark cousin of our wizardling, a tiny gem-horned rock goblin who radiates smugness. He looks almost cute until he starts stitching together spell combos that twist the battlefield into a total disaster. He fires various spells from a range and isn't nearly as cowardly as the wizardlings, so learn his tells or his advanced dark arts will turn you into a heroic stain.

The Stalagknight is exactly what it sounds like, a stalagtite who represents the finest of the Shard Kingdom's warriors. Faster than your average rock, their whole deal is precision dives that try to crush you under their pointy ambition. They potentially will also try to trap you inside jagged stalagmite enclosures and let you know that "their not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with THEM!"

Hope you enjoyed the update and thank you for reading! We're hard at work finalizing these enemies and the next biome itself, so please look forward to seeing how these rocks stack up!

Living the sedimentary lifestyle,

-Don and Mike