KOTCL Developer Diaries: onwards, to the Book of Knowledge!

Redboon
4 min readMay 19, 2023

Knock, knock, travelers!

It’s time for another one of our diaries. We’ve stopped paying attention to how quickly the days fly by, and we advise you to do the same. Just know that today is Friday, and as is tradition, we’ll embark on a journey through KOTCL development together. Polish your buckles, put on some new gear, and let’s go!

Now, before we’re out on the road again, we’d love you to check out the latest video diary, which has just hit our YT page: https://youtu.be/KyAFPLV7jKE

Don’t forget to say hi to our team in the comments!

What is life without movement?

The enemies of our heroes’ are busy in the animators’ room — they need to handle a multitude of eyes and not lose a single one along the way. Fortunately, this demon has long learned to keep an eye (or rather all his eyes) on himself and catch the particularly nimble ones with his bare hands. We can’t blame him for having wandering eyes when stunning main characters like ours keep coming at him!

The one-year target for eye jokes has been hit; let’s move on!

The book of knowledge and event tracking

We often see your questions about how to remember and fit all the event subplots into your mind as you make your way to the castle.

We’re happy to inform you that we’re still actively working on Mortis’s book of knowledge, where all your steps will be recorded. You’ll be able to read it at any moment during your journey and plan your further actions.

We’ve also nearly finished the glossary. The only thing left is its design, which our artists are currently working on.

We’ve already shown you once that we use still images to display events in the book of knowledge. That work has not stopped since then. Here are a few of the finished images that we can show you. You’ll be able to see the rest in the game very soon!

Minor adjustments to some details

Amidst all the hustle and bustle of drawing event endings, we completely forgot about the existing biome endings! But recently we returned to them, and started tidying them up to ensure everything aligns with a single unified style.

And here are some fresh endings for different events that are still being worked on. We hope you’ll get them all!

This lonely zombie has wandered into our weekly report and he’s standing there, waiting for something. Do you think he’s ready to become a full-fledged hero in some event, or does he need to work on himself a little and grow a couple more mushrooms?

The bug fix update

Oh, you probably can’t wait to get another one of our updates! It seems that our programmers along with countless liters of coffee have finally conquered some particularly tricky bugs. That means the latest update is ready and waiting for you in the game! You can read about what’s new here:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1232580/view/3684552363765862080

That’s all for today. Don’t forget to check our social media; we’re always happy to chat with you and answer your questions!

See you in the next diary!

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