For the King - Development Update

Moving towards their beta, this development update for For The King is about balance, tuning, and audio integration.

Speaking of quests, we've spent some time tuning the side-quest system (or jobs as we call them). Jobs now account for a lot of a party's motivation in the early game as they serve as an invaluable source of money and XP. And sure, if you split your party up you can complete 3 times as many jobs but it can be ill advised to travel through the wilderness on one's own...

We've finally upgraded the character select screen from it's basic debug form and even through the options are somewhat limited, we all spend far more time creating our party than we'd like to admit. Part of the reason is the new character special abilities that were recently added. Each character now has a special ability they can perform. For instance, Buskers can earn gold by ending their turn in a town, Herbalists have a chance of finding herbs in the wilderness, and Blacksmiths do not break their weapon on a critical fail.