There is quite a lot to do already: the basic form of the character creator works, there's battles and quests, Npcs and their blobs, special festivals and events that you can visit and much more. On that topic, the team has been hard at work polishing the game and testing for bugs ahead of the closed backer preview! It's been a great joy to see all elements of the game come together and the world of Ova Magica come alive. With a name like "early access", and the most prevalent use of the word being on Steam where games can release early before being finished, we thought it wasn't a good idea to keep the same name as it might cause some people to mistake it for being an actual early access release. While this might seem like a pedantic change, it's important because the name communicates to people what the relative availability of the game is. Regarding the closed early access/closed beta, we've decided to rename this to be the "closed backer preview". – Wed, at 02:22:58 AM Closed Backer Preview You see that not only the control method changed but now the affected objects are also highlighted with an outline. First you see the old "blob pushing" method, then the new "Blob controlling" method for direct comparison. In the video the ability "Fertiliser" of poop blob is used. It feels so much better now! Below are the first videos (footage was recorded some days ago, so it's still very WIP. I am actually very proud of my decision to redo it and investing a lot of time for it. This way you can go with your blob to the exact position and use its ability also several times. It was time consuming and hard, but it's done: I decided to REDO the WHOLE THING (yes I'm crazy). Until now, to use a blob ability (like sprinkler for watering plants), you had to push the blob to the desired position. This has been one of my biggest worries so far and I haven't had the courage and willpower to tackle it. Given the rate of funding, it will probably hit €40-50K quite easily I would think.Ĭheck it out on Kickstarter and follow on Steam.And please drop me all your additional toy and mini game ideas in the comments♥ (i noted already some you mentioned before, but feel free to suggest again or new ones!) Improved Blob Ability Usage They do have some stretch-goals listed too, so when the funding hits different levels the will commit to more features including a marriage system, character customization and more to be revealed. Their initial goal was €20,000 which has already been met easily. It sounds like it’s going to be quite a big game. You can expect quite a few features from Ova Magica including farming, cooking, crafting, creature collection with you hatching blobs from eggs, romancing other characters, a an “active time” creature battle system, creature breeding, exploration and going on special expeditions and much more. The Kickstarter campaign also lists it nice and clear as “The game will be released on PC DRM-Free, on Steam (Windows, Mac OS and Linux), Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S.”. Thankfully it’s another that will support Linux too and the developer has been very clear about this. The early tech demo was promising and it has such a great idea. It managed to get fully funded within the first 2-3 hours, which I’m really not surprised about. Ova Magica, a blending of casual farming in the spirit of Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon blended with monster taming and battling like something out of Pokemon is now live on Kickstarter.
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