Magellania News & Patch Notes

Hi all, here's the update this month. It's a full update that covers the OST work that I've been doing for game 3, Nightlanders. I'll now be shifting back from working on music to working on the other parts of the game. https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/soundtrack-preview-finishing-up-story?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hi all, here's the update for this month. It's a lot simpler, and I predict future updates will be simpler for a while, because I'm mostly working on the soundtrack these days. I expect it to take a while, but I should be able to finish it in the end.

https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/soundtrack-work?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hello all, Every month I try to write a dev log to keep everyone posted, so here's February's update. It covers what's been done on multiple projects this month, and also some behind-the-scenes stuff. You can access it using the link below: https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/progress-continuing-on-game-3?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Hello all. Once again, thank you to everyone for playing Magellania. This is not a very big patch, but I've seen too much gameplay of units running around named "XXXXXX" (that's the default name on the character creator). It's a fault of the UI design, but I've fixed it, so please go and name / rename your units now at the recruit shop that all the names can be changed.

Allowed units to be renamed at the recruit shop
Ask for confirmation for names given
Changed the store thumbnails
Fixed a music track that did not play

There are a lot of other glaring issues to me, since it is a very old game and I'm not a great programmer (even worse at the time I made it) but for now, this is all I can address. At some point I'd like to go back and make more fixes, but for now my focus has to be on progressing game 3. I may be away for a bit. Progress is continuing and I expect to write the monthly update to that, so look forward to it! Best, - Illun

Hi all, Thank you to everyone who participated in the giveaway! I didn't expect this many people to take notice, or the reception to be this positive. And for everyone who joined, welcome. Here's a few things: 1) Magellania was the first game I made. Actually, it's pretty old by my standards. There was a second tactics game, and now I'm currently working on a third game (an RTS), and you can read the monthly devlog on my substack. https://substack.com/@illun? 2) A few people have asked about it, so I've set up a small Patreon. It's just a tip jar for now, I have some artwork files and archived stuff I'll post on there later, but it won't be on a schedule or anything. https://www.patreon.com/cw/Illunsoft 3) We also have a small Discord server! It's mostly another way to receive updates. https://discord.gg/zMWXZDRRZr As always, thanks for playing! I'll see everyone next time.

Hello all. It's been some time since the last non-devlog post, so here's one to fix some small things that have been bugging me. But first things first.

Giveaway Event

I've decided to run a short event for Magellania. The game will be free-to-keep during the following days: Feb 6 - Feb 9, starting and ending at 10:00 AM PST, so please spread the word! If this event goes well, I may run another event for its sequel, Juno 06, sometime in the future.

As always, thanks for tuning in. Update Changes

This is a minor update that makes some changes, mostly for consistency:

Improvements to performance
The new Illunsoft is used in the startup
The UI and typography have been updated, including the main fonts used
The trailer was remade on the store page
Other minor changes, some backend tweaks

Hello all, happy holidays. I've written another devlog update for game 3, this time covering some new artwork. You can find the link here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/revisiting-factions?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hi all, I've posted Game 3's devlog for October. You can find it on substack via the link below: https://illun.substack.com/p/new-buildings-gameplay-rework?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Hi all, I've posted Game 3's devlog for September, which covers sprites for gameplay and also for cutscenes. You can find it on substack via the link below:

https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/wrapping-up-unit-sprites?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I've posted the devlog for August, which covers new spritework and environments. You can find it on substack:

https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/wrapping-up-cutscenes?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hello all, here's another update. It covers the new logo, the game's name announcement, the new website, new promos, and other things. You can find the link below:

https://illun.substack.com/p/update-7-some-housekeeping?r=46mtlh

Hello all, here's another update. You can find the link below: https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/update-6r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hello all, here's another update. You can find the link below: https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/update-5?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hi all, another devlog post is up on substack. https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/update-4?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hi all, work continued on the third game last month. You can find the link below. https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/update-3?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Patched out a bug that happened with Invokers at the end of player phase

This patch brings some of the UI changes I made to Juno 06 over to Magellania, which should allow for a less scuffed game overall.

Changed various UI components to be more readable and consistent
Fixed some bugs that happened with empty party sizes
Fixed some error messages that people were getting when loading in
Fixed a bug that prevented random battles from spawning after a certain point in the game
Changed Lofty's character art

Changes:

Adjusted Lofty's character art.
Changed the cover art.
Lowered the volume of one particular music track.

Hello all, this month Juno 06 received a patch that changed a lot of things about the game. It added achievements and grid-based movement. You can read about it here. This naturally raises the question: will Magellania receive an overhaul? I think some of the changes I made to Juno 06 will eventually make their way over to Magellania, but they will not be as extensive. While Magellania is special for being the first thing I released, it's been a long time since I worked on it, and I wanted to differentiate Juno 06 from Magellania since it is supposed to be the sequel. In a way, it makes sense for Magellania to be the way it is, since it can represent the mindset I had about a lot of things when I started out. I hope that when people play my much later games, they can see a difference between those games and this game. However, I will see what can be done, and what my time permits. Anyway, stay tuned for more progress on Game 3 in the future. Thank you for supporting my game development. And finally, Merry Christmas to you all.

Here's another monthly update. You can find the link below. It covers some cutscenes, environment art, and alternate art directions. https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/november-2024-update?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hello, everyone. It's been a long time since I released Game 2, and if you aren't on the Discord, you might be wondering where I've been. In the past, I've been uploading all my monthly updates to Discord, but I don't feel this is the right way to go about things, since not everyone uses it, Going forward, I'll upload all of my updates to an exterior site and I'll notify everyone across sites whenever a new post is made. Anyway, last month I revealed Game 3 after being radio silent for about a year or so. If you want to get caught-up, you can read about it here. And this month, I wrote a new devlog. and you can read it here. In other news, I do have some plans to revisit and address some issues I have with Magellania and Juno 06, but with how busy I am with Game 3, this might not happen immediately, Anyway, thanks for sticking around, I'll see all of you next month.

Some of these issues had been bothering me for some time now, but now they're addressed. -Made some changes to the way the UI scaled on bigger screens. -The game should no longer crash when alt-tabbed. -Re-allowed recruiting multiple bards from the Recruit Shop.

-Fixed an issue with recruitment after bards are unlocked

The amount of units you can recruit from a certain (very broken) class has been limited to 1 only, for balancing reasons. This is a bit experimental at the moment. In the future, I might add it back in, especially if I have to differentiate between standard mode and hard mode, but this is how it will be for now. If you have a save file with multiple units of this class, you will be able to keep them, but you won't be able to recruit more.

-Changed the layering so that the character art does not cover the skill description in some instances -Updated screenshots used in tutorial demonstrations to be consistent with current artwork

Fixed a graphic glitch that had been affecting all units' sprites.

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