Legend of Etad (for Playdate)

Devlog

• Chapter 3 Release
  May 08, 2023 by Gareth Williams

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  Hey all! Quick devlog to announce that Legend of Etad has now been updated with Chapter Three - the third and final content update for the game. The update brings the game to a close with: A new hub a... Continue reading
• Legend of Etad: Chapter 3 and Catalog, 9th May
  April 28, 2023 by Gareth Williams

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  It's been just over a year since I first started working on what would eventually become Legend of Etad. It's been an amazing year, with almost 1500 copies of Etad sold and so many Playdaters telling... Continue reading

  
• Legend of Etad Chapter Two - Update out now!
  December 16, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  Legend of Etad Chapter Two: The Tomb of K'Narc Chapter Two is available now as an update to the main game. It picks up right at the end of Chapter One, so whether you're a new player, halfway through... Continue reading

  
• Legend of Etad Chapter Two Release Date
  December 08, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  Chapter Two launches Friday December 16 That's right, I'm content complete on Chapter Two: The Tomb of K'Narc! The second chapter will be launched as an update next Friday and I'm super stoked for you... Continue reading

  
• Chapter Two Progress and Sales Data
  November 23, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  Chapter Two Progress Update Ahoy there! It's been a minute since my last post, huh. Life gets busy. This is just going to be a super quick post to update on progress of Chapter Two, and to spill the s... Continue reading

  
• An Amazing First Week + 1.1 Hotfix
  September 30, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  Legend of Etad Chapter One has had a truly spectacular reception from the Playdate community! We're a week out from launch and I thought I'd write a few words about how the launch has gone, and what c... Continue reading

  
• Legend of Etad Chapter One - Available now!
  September 23, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  Legend of Etad Chapter One: The Garden of Etad Y'Alp - available for Playdate now on itch.io Yay! Release day is here! I'm nervous and excited to finally get Etad out there after five months of workin... Continue reading
• Content Complete and Release Date
  September 12, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  And just like that, I'm content complete on Chapter One! My original tentative release date was set for Saturday, September 17th . When I set that date, I didn't realise I'm booked to be away for that... Continue reading

  
• Hitting the Limits
  August 08, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  Optimising Etad on the Playdate hardware is going great - I've clawed back 10fps in some spots so that I'm now hitting my target of staying above 25fps in most combat situations. Hooray! Now I'm build... Continue reading

  
• Playdate Get!
  July 25, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  Now the fun can really get started 😀... Continue reading

  
• New GIF trailers and target release date!
  July 06, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  Just a quick update before I head off to get married and honeymoon for a couple of weeks! I've set a tentative release date for Legend of Etad - Chapter One: The Garden of Etad Y'alp, now that all the... Continue reading

  
• Keeping the content rollin'
  June 25, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  It's difficult to post too much at this stage in development without giving much of the game away. I'm deep in churning out content for the areas after the first dungeon that I've already shown a lot... Continue reading

  
• 🔥
  June 17, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  That's all :)... Continue reading

  
• Feedback and optimization
  June 04, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  This week has been all about feedback from other Playdate devs that have been testing Etad on their devices. It was, to put it mildly, a complete shitshow to begin with. After all, it had been several... Continue reading

  
• Art overhaul, first dungeon finished
  May 25, 2022 by Gareth Williams

  It's been over a week, and it doesn't feel like I've made too much progress, so I'm going to bullet-point everything I've done and I bet it'll be loads ! First of all, I overhauled the game's art base... Continue reading

  
• Content, content, content... and constructive feedback
  May 15, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  I'm going to try to knock one of these out each week that I'm working on the game. This week has been all about knuckling down and getting more content in the game. I started out by grabbing a few ass... Continue reading

  
• Combat, mostly
  May 08, 2022 by Gareth Williams

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  This week was mostly about combat. I implemented attacking and being attacked by mobs, HP (with a very minimal healthbar for the player), death for mobs and the player, and offhand wielding. I added a... Continue reading

  
• Map transitions and state saving
  May 03, 2022 by Gareth Williams

  You'll be able to freely traverse back and forth between areas of the game, which will allow for some non-linear - perhaps hub - locations. To support this, I needed to make sure the state of the play... Continue reading

  
• Legend of Etad
  May 01, 2022 by Gareth Williams

  Hey there! I'm making this super-ambitious first-person dungeon crawler for Playdate . I've blogged progress so far in this Twitter thread , which shows how I'm using Unity as a content pipeline for t... Continue reading