It has been a very, very long four years since the idea for Odyssey first came to be. What was originally supposed to be a simple, straightforward "JRPG" adventure game with some convincing voice acting, has turned into an epic universe of complex story and combat interactions, crafting, questing, and nearly 5,000 voiced lines of dialogue. Topped off with a uniquely hand drawn animation style and you've got Odyssey of Dremid'ir.

It is with immense pleasure that I am here to announce the FINAL RELEASE DATE FOR THE GAME: APRIL 24.

In all honesty, I'd prefer to just keep cooking OOD -- just keep kicking the can down the road -- and be that guy, "Oh yeah, just making a game," forever. But there comes a time when the bird must fly the nest, and we think that time is now.

While the game releases digitally to Steam on Friday that weekend, it will also be releasing PHYSICALLY on Saturday, the same weekend, at a show called MIDWEST GAMING CLASSIC, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This is close to home, and the convention there has long been a friend to us.

At the show, you'll be able to snag physical copies of the game (Which all come with a Steam key -- disk drives are optional!), as well as the soundtrack, and even a collector's copy big box, which comes with a whole slew of collector's goodies.

During these final days of pre-release, we're hitting the pavement hard to sort out bugs, and get the last of that content ready for launch. We also have a plan for even more free content after release -- we won't be taking any time off afterwards!

We also launched a "mini" trailer, something to help show off everything the game has to offer, check it out:

We hope it'll be a great weekend for us, and we hope everyone goes home with a game they're satisfied with. See you all again this April on Steam, or at MGC in Milwaukee!

Our last update was roughly around the end of March, and it was a quiet update, as part of promoting the game at our usual run of in-person cons. But with V.13, we're very quickly approaching the beta window for our title, and we would like to get the word out. Here's the major points of V.13:


-Overhauled character assets (and other artwork)

-Shop mechanics

-Tighter combat animations/movement

-Expansion of combat/damage mechanics

-More in depth weapons/armour types

-You can now customize colours of the inventory tab (because it's fun)

-Expanded levels and their content thereof

-More Alchemy (potion crafting) options

-New voice acting

• Overhauled character assets/Tighter combat animations/movement
  
  Many party members have seen a lot of their animations completely redrawn from the ground up. This goes from idle/walk animations, but more interestingly, combat animations.

Most characters now have a slew of jump based attacks, where they engage enemies with their attacks more up front and personal, which is also much snappier. Rather than walking back and forth, the jumps are quick and impactful.

Not only that, the character improvements have also come to portraits, as well. Further updating even more looks for characters.

• Expansion of Damage MechanicsUp till now, damage was very straight forward, with three types: Physical, Magical, and Pure. This trifecta still is paramount, but now there's a lot more just under the hood. After the damage type is known, there's now a "damage instrument". These are basically the medium of the damage source, like Hack, Piercing, Blunt Hot, Cold, and so on.
  Certain armour types are more vulnerable, or resistant to damage instruments, and some might even make you outright invulnerable to some sources. Not only does this create some interesting flavours for the combat encounters, but it breaks up the monopoly that armour was having over the meta game. No matter what, if you had high armour -- especially physical armour -- there was simply no means of counterplaying outside of hoping high armour of one type meant low armour of another.
  
  These new mechanics give us a chance to create some really stand out encounters, and armours that simply do not fit all sizes.
  
  

• Shop MechanicsThe demo didn't previously have any available shops for the player to play with, we've now added at least one. Technically speaking, the player doesn't really ever need to engage with le heckin' capitalism to beat the game, but it definitely is encouraged. We also had shops on the back burner for far longer than we care to admit, as well.
  
  Finally, you can open shops to buy and sell accordingly. The assets have been remade for better HD feeling, and to add a personal touch: shops now all have names, and a preview of the shopkeeper in the corner while the shop menu is displayed.
  In a prior blog, we mentioned wanting to use multiple currencies based on your world location, to create a greater sense of immersion and commerce in the world, but for now, only one money type is used.
  
  

  That more or less does it for the big changes this patch. We hope you like the smaller things, too! Maybe next time we'll be announcing beta playtesting!