Long time, no see, Trailblazers!

It's been a while since my last update, as I've been hard at work on the fifth and final chapter of Trailblazer, which finally has it's title:

The Quick and the Undead

I figured this would be a good time to make the announcement and provide an update, as Trailblazer was recently entered into Feedback Quest 4 Game Jam!  As a result, I've updated the Demo to now include all the mechanical changes that were implemented as part of the Chapters 1-4 Open Beta, including both updates to Turn Order and the Enforcer Tree.

For anyone who is streaming or playing as part of the Game Jam, if you want to play more, I have the first 4 Chapters available for play (and yes you can stream it!). If you've completed the Demo and want to play more, please contact me on Twitter @mf_Trailblazer, and let me know so I can pass you the conversion files that will let you access the later chapters.

Chapter 5 Previews

For anyone who doesn't know, my development process is to divide the game up into Chapters, and then each Chapter gets divided up into 8 chunks, then gets completed one-at-a-time. My chunking process for each Chapter consists of:

1. Patch bugs and implement feedback from most recent round of testing
2. Design all maps and set all transfer events
3. Design all enemies
4. Build enemy skill and AI
5. Enemy placement in maps
6. Dialog
7. Eventing
8. Polish

 I am currently in step 4 of this process for Chapter 5. Here's some progress from each of the previous chunks:   

Implementing Feedback

In addition to fixing all the bugs you guys found and streamlining combat even more, One piece of feedback that comes up repeatedly is people getting stuck trying to get this box being blocked by a cow. Well, I've given you yet another hay pun that tells you how to solve the puzzle:

New Maps

I've also completed all the maps. Behold, a preview of the Chapter 5 dungeon: 

New Enemies

And lastly, here's a couple of the new enemies you'll encoutner in the fifth and final chapter:

• Murder Cucumber
  
  
• Undeadwood 
  
• Wee Rex