KOTCL Developer Diaries: What We Do in the Shadows

Redboon
4 min readApr 21, 2023

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Knock-knock, adventurers!

We’re happy to see you again! We hope your week was as eventful as ours. Grab your backpacks, put on your armor, and let’s go!

Pull the lever!

The desert hides so much in its vast sands that we barely had time to look around before finding ourselves in some kind of a dungeon. Of course, as true adventurers, we decided to pull the lever. And while we were pulling it, our artists had already started working on the second lever! Let’s not distract them; let’s leave them to sketch this dark dungeon while we move on.

Putting on clothes for the cause

We’re not going to hide it — we still have a lot of work to do besides the cosmetics. For example, the next update is being assembled right now, which will include animated events and fixes for some of the most serious bugs. You always help us a lot in finding and fixing them, and we’re incredibly grateful to you for that.

For now, our programmers are dealing with issues within the game. Meanwhile, the artists and animators that are not involved in the creation of the final cut scenes are polishing our main characters up — adding missing armor, finishing off animations, and sprucing everything up.

This is what character sheets look like when they are sent for animation:

Here Persival is getting ready for another campaign:

And this is what fashion craziness looks like:

Do you see your favorite items among them? Give your answer in the comments!

Special cards — who are they for?

Every item in our game is a puzzle piece. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to tell you the whole story. Cards play the biggest role in our game — there are really a lot of them, and we’ll let you in on a secret — several very important ones are still in the works! Some of them already have art ready, and we can’t wait to add them to the game.

Finally, some important news. You often ask us: “when can we expect the game release?” Unfortunately, production isn’t going as fast as we would like. But we’re doing our best to meet the new deadline.

We will finish work in the 4th quarter of 2023 and definitely release KOTCL. This also means that we’ll update the DLC, so stay tuned for news and updates on our social media!

Don’t forget to visit us on Discord and other platforms — there’s a lot of additional fun content there.

See you in the next diary!

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