Greetings adventurers,
We will be live-streaming the full version of the game today, January 20 at 19:00 CET (13:00 EST, 10:00 PST) on our twitch channel[www.twitch.tv]. You will not only be among the first to see the full game, but you will also meet the lead developer - producer, director and illustrator of Reverie Knights Tactics, EdH Müller, who will talk in-depth about the game's development journey.

The stream will be hosted and commented by Jared[www.twitch.tv], so you know it's gonna be fun. Don't miss the chance to hang out with the lead developer and be among the first to see the full game, don't forget to set a reminder!

The game will be available from January 25, so don't forget to wishlist it now:
https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1399690/Reverie_Knights_Tactics/

Greetings everyone,
We are continuing our series of introductory articles about main characters of Reverie Knights Tactics today (read about Aurora here and about Brigandine here), and this time we are going to tell you more about Fren, the smug and cynical guide, recruited to help Aurora (and Brigandine) on their quest.

A ranger in Lenórienn's hayday, Fren now lives isolated in the woods surrounding Rarnaak, the remains of what once was his city. He was contacted by the Order of Tanna-Toh to lead Aurora's expedition into Myrvallar Forest, a task he was only completely convinced to perform after he was assured Aurora and Brigandine had what it takes to survive in such a dangerous place.

As with most elves, Fren can display an entitled sense of superiority to those around him, and the isolation of the forest has left more than a few marks on his personality.

Most noticeably, his tenure in the wilderness taught Fren to hit fast, and hit hard. He has a variety of ways to hurt multiple enemies around him, and his Focus attack, well... See for yourself:

As a ranger, he is in general attuned to his surroundings, and to an extent can also use the forces of the forest to hinder and restrain his enemies.

This is of course nowhere near the full list of abilities Fren will be able to unlock in Reverie Knights Tactics, coming January 25! But we would not want to spoil all of the game for you, so we hope you've enjoyed this little sneak peek. Next, we will look at Hellaron, Aurora's master and mentor - stay tuned!

Don't forget to wishlist Reverie Knights Tactics:

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Greetings everyone,
We are continuing the series of introductory articles about main characters of Reverie Knights Tactics today (read about Aurora here), and this time we are going to tell you more about Brigandine, Aurora's best and oldest friend.

Brigandine is earnest, cheerful, and, although something of an airhead, very attentive to those around her. Brigandine is known for her voracious appetite and, while she eats much more than her size would indicate and has a palate that welcomes most kinds of food and spices, she has a weak spot for sweets and pastries.

A strong soldier in her own right, Brigandine is nonetheless terrified of anything with a ghostly nature: spirits, wraiths and apparitions are the bane of her existence, and her friendship to Aurora is one of the few things that would motivate her to take a perilous journey to a place full of spectral menaces.

On the battlefield, Brigandine is not easy to take down with her heavy armor and enormous shield. She can on the other hand push enemies around and control the battlefield with her... Unique way of taunting enemies.

This is of course nowhere near the full list of abilities Brigandine will be able to unlock in Reverie Knights Tactics, coming January 25! But we would not want to spoil all of the game for you, so we hope you've enjoyed this little sneak peek. Next, we will look at Fren, the rough and jaded ranger and local guide - stay tuned!

Don't forget to wishlist Reverie Knights Tactics:

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1399690/Reverie_Knights_Tactics/

And if you have not yet, try the free Prologue:

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1638140/Reverie_Knights_Tactics_Prologue/

Greetings everyone,
With the release date of Reverie Knights Tactics quickly approaching, we decided it's high time to introduce you to our cast of main characters. First, let's take a looks at Aurora, the main protagonist of the game:

A cleric of Tanna-Toh, Goddess of Knowledge, Aurora is no stranger to adversity, having lived off the streets of Malpetrim since an early age. She scraped up food and money in any way she could, until a fateful meeting with Marius, an emissary of Tanna-Toh who took her under his wing and eventually filled the role of mentor and father. With her existence going from a perilous to a sheltered one, Aurora was raised inside the Order of Tanna-Toh, becoming a faithful servant of the goddess with a deep appreciation for knowledge of all sources.

When her adoptive father Marius decided to take on the mission to extract whatever wisdom could be gathered from the fallen city of Lenórienn, the decision did not sit well with Aurora, and once her father failed to return, she knew bringing him -- or at least his memories -- back was her responsibility. She would save him as he once had saved her.

Aurora's adoptive father, Marius

Aurora is by no means helpless, being a powerful ice-based spellcaster, she can dish out significant amount of damage, her magic is truly formidable.

But far from being just an agent of destruction on the battlefield, her long studies have given her the ability to heal herself and her friends with her spells as well.

This is of course nowhere near the full list of abilities Aurora will be able to unlock in Reverie Knights Tactics, coming January 25! But we would not want to spoil all of the game for you, so we hope you've enjoyed this little sneak peek. Next, we will look at Aurora's closest friend, Brigandine - stay tuned!

Don't forget to wishlist Reverie Knights Tactics:

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1399690/Reverie_Knights_Tactics/

And if you have not yet, try the free Prologue:

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1638140/Reverie_Knights_Tactics_Prologue/

Hi guys! My name is Leonardo Pietrowski and I’m a Brazilian music producer, composer and sound director. I worked on Reverie Knights Tactics by directing and producing all audio, including songs, sound effects and managing talents for audio production. This is just a little bit of my story with this awesome game!

For starters, let me say this: working on Reverie Knights Tactics was a blast! We started way back when (maybe 5 years ago?) with some drafts of how we were going to approach the game sonically. We were throwing a lot of different ideas around to see what we wanted the music to sound like and how we were going to create and implement the sound effects.

The first thing that we decided were the overall instruments and elements that we wanted to use. We tried to focus more on the anime(ish) aesthetics while still keeping the ‘fantasy sound’ that people associate with this kind of game. We went with string sections and also added distorted guitars to keep a fast pace. Well, maybe it was TOO fast at first. The drums were too much and we were walking into heavy metal territory, so we toned it down by cutting some guitars and adding more percussion instead of just fast drumming. I think that decision really paid off in the end.

To make the tracks more dynamic, each map has two variations of the same core melody: one, while the dialogue is going on, is more ‘peaceful’ and less intrusive.

The second, when the battle kicks in, adds the already mentioned distorted guitars, more percussion and usually amps up the speed. This keeps a cohesive feel to the songs while still making them sonically different and sets up the right mood.

Finally, for sound effects, there was a lot of head and floor banging (quite literally), effect research and foley creation. Probably my favorite part was designing the many, many skills and spells the characters have. The enemies were also pretty fun to do, even if a few here and there were quite challenging. This was mostly due to the game having some enemy variations that needed sonic differences while still keeping some sort of identity to them (such as in different hobgoblin enemies). This was a learning and rewarding experience, however.

I do hope that everyone likes what we have done and also that people enjoy playing Reverie Knights Tactics!

Leonardo Pietrowski - Composer and Audio Director at the Yoho Arsenal Studio

Don't forget to wishlist Reverie Knights Tactics:

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1399690/Reverie_Knights_Tactics/

And if you have not yet, try the free Prologue:

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1638140/Reverie_Knights_Tactics_Prologue/

Hello everyone, my name is Matheus, and I'm the programmer for Reverie Knights Tactics. As the development slowly wraps up and we squash those last few remaining bugs, I thought it'd be interesting to share some of the experiences of building our game.

RKT is the first large production I was a part of, and there was a lot to learn from it.
Originally the game was planned to be a traditional turn based JRPG, similar to the earlier Final Fantasy titles, but as we were planning out the game, we thought that having it be a grid based RPG would allow us a lot more room to experiment and introduce interesting gameplay mechanics. Such a change presented a myriad of programming challenges that had to be sorted given the massive increase of gameplay complexity, but it was also a great opportunity to really expand on our production goals.

Most of these programming challenges derived from design questions that had to be answered during development as it evolved, and sometimes, things did not work out as well as we'd hoped, and we'd have to pull back and re-evaluate the implementations, which is no big surprise given the iterative process of game development.

But perhaps the biggest challenges with making a game was implementing those invisible backend systems that we take for granted, or are very simple on the surface, such as save systems, gamepad support, cinematics, and dialogues. Turns out, things get complicated and edge cases are a thing when dealing with a multitude of systems.

For cinematics and dialogues especially, the biggest struggles were to allow them the flexibility to interact and update many different facets of the game, accommodate the different requirements for the scenes we had, as well as having the different systems communicate with each other to create the sequences you will play through the game. However, as our requirements changed or expanded, and more complexity was required due to our desire to present the world, characters and story as best we could, we've reached a point where we can comfortably handle pretty much any scene we could come up with.

There is also a lot that could be said about the design of the combat itself, but perhaps that is something for another time. I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this write up, and I hope you enjoy our game. It's been an amazing journey, and it feels strange to be reaching its end, at least for the time being.

Have a nice day,
Matheus – The one and only programmer on RKT

Don't forget to wishlist Reverie Knights Tactics:

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1399690/Reverie_Knights_Tactics/

And if you have not yet, try the free Prologue:

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1638140/Reverie_Knights_Tactics_Prologue/

Greetings Adventurers,

Mark your calendars, for the day we embark on our epic quest to save the lost expedition to Lennórien is finally known! Our perilous journey will begin on January 25th, 2022 - so rest well this holiday season, and gather your strength - you will surely need it to face the goblinoid hordes wreaking havoc across the continent!

To mark this momentous occasion, we have prepared a new trailer:

We hope to see you in-game very soon. For now, feel free to leave us a message on our discussion boards, join our discord server[discord.com] or, of course, get the first taste of the game by playing the free Prologue that is already available!

Don't forget to wishlist Reverie Knights Tactics:

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1399690/Reverie_Knights_Tactics/

Greetings adventurers!

We have several amazing animators from Hype Animation working with us on the game and since character animation is such a big part of its unique esthetic, in this installment of our Dev Diary series, we wanted to share a few words and insights from them.

Animating the characters for the Reverie Knights Tatics game was both challenging and fun. Challenge, because here at Hype Animation we hadn't worked with animation for games yet and we needed to understand the process and practically relearn some animation concepts. The fun was in the opportunity to work with a franchise based on the fictional universe of comics, books and RPGS known as Tormenta. Despite this, all this fun has had an air of challenge, as the franchise has a considerable fan base here in Brazil, and our work has to respect the lore of the universe of Tormenta; at the same time, it needed to bring innovation and of course, some surprises.

In the beginning, we had the idea of making the game's animations in 2D, this meant, using the traditional technique, with each frame drawn by hand on a two-dimensional support. But due to the lack of 2D animators on the market, we realized that this more traditional approach would be impractical. We then opted for the 3D animation process, modeling and animating the characters with the help of three-dimensional animation software. After the animation stage, each frame of the character would go through a post-production process that would leave it with a visual aspect similar to a traditional 2D animation, with a strong influence on the oriental features of anime animations.

We had total freedom to create the movements mixing exciting actions with humorous ones, trying to surprise and amuse the player, but without overshadowing the epic tone of the narrative. Because this is a tactical game, with character’s movements separated by turns, we were able to extend the duration of the animations, (since the gameplay does not demand an immediate response to the actions, as in a beat'em up game, for example). Thanks to this, the actions could be more elaborate, and it was possible to add small narratives to the actions, contributing to the cohesion of the game's universe. We use humor mainly in the Brigandine character, but many of the enemies also have humorous moves occasionally, like the Doglin's flaming attack, or the Bugbear who, when successfully blocking an attack, laughs at the heroes' ineptitude.

Other moves such as team attacks are intended to show the strength of heroes in an epic and exciting way and were challenging because they demanded an integrated and coordinated movement between two or more characters.

The team of Brazilian animators made a great effort to bring this dynamic to the actions of the game, working on the fluidity of actions and acting, showing that they are at a high level of technical quality and professionalism, compatible with the demands and quality expected by the international audience. I really hope you enjoy and have fun playing Reverie Knights Tactics as much as we had fun animating it!

Fabiano Pandolfi – Animation Director – Hype Animation

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And if you have not yet, try the free Prologue:

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1638140/Reverie_Knights_Tactics_Prologue/

Greetings adventurers!

It's been a while since we've been in touch, so to make up for that, we'd like to introduce some of the artistic process standing behind the hand-crafted characters that you will be encountering in Reverie Knights Tactics. ✏️

Character design is one of the key elements in game development. Whether it's a playable character or a random NPC, the perception thereof starts with their looks. And that's what we'll be exploring today.

But enough talk. Come have a look at the fascinating process of the birth of a character from a simple sketch to a fully molded design.

Can't wait for the game? Play the prologue for free now!

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/1638140/Reverie_Knights_Tactics_Prologue/?curator_clanid=1949621

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