Art by @squp.bsky.social

Art by @squp.bsky.social

Art by @squp.bsky.social

By making the game's attacks and spells tie into an overarching pseudo-alchemical philosophical system we hope to make it feel like a coherent world, and in making it a coherent world we hope to more effortlessly communicate information about both gameplay and story to the player.

As such the 'Myiasis' element is a corpus element symbolizing the often predatory way in which life turns other life into more of itself. Myiasis-type attacks infest enemies with bugs under their skin. Myiasis spells heal you by drawing on another's health- be it enemy or ally.

A big part of the themes of Malvanean is the spirit yearning to go in one direction and the flesh yearning for another, so we've split the game's eight elements in two groups- four 'cosmic' elements relating to the soul, and four 'corpus' elements relating to the body.

Artwork, as usual, by the talented @squp.bsky.social

Ultimately we don't want to show off unfinished content and we don't want to create hype when we can't be sure when the game will be properly done yet. Malvanean needs more time in the oven to be a properly good game, and when we do reveal the game we'd like it to be mind-blowing

A big part of it is that we don't want to show off unfinished work and don't want to create hype when the game just isn't done yet. We've gotten done reworking combat and are reworking the systems for dungeon exploration and random encounters now. The game just needs more time to be a good game

We've been going through some hard times, with publisher drama and some of the team members having been sick for extended periods of time. We're back in development proper now, though. We'll start making more posts about dev progress, discord server will have to wait for now though

Artwork by the talented @squp.bsky.social

Not yet, we want to have more game to show off first!

One of my all time favourite games!!

Artwork as usual by the talented @squp.bsky.social