Stage 3 - Weekly update 1

Hey everyone! Starting from today we will start to show you the progress of Stage 3 through these weekly updates. This week comes with very few updates but very important ones on stability and performance of the game.

Programming

• Fixed Boss combat behavior.
• Fixed bug that made the spawning algorithm ignore the weights assigned to each room.
• Improved procedural generation performance.
• Barrels can now drop loot.
• You can now use the inventory Menu.
• Implemented framework for Spawning Items, Drop Rate and Inventory.
• Improved UI performance. 

Visual Arts

• Design of the new Wizard type enemies.
• Added new UI Temporal Icons for the Inventory system.
• New Stance selection HUD.
• New Sanity bar HUD.
• Improved fire and perfect block particle systems.
• Added insanity particle system.
• Added Wave Swing special effect.
• Started to create new set of swords of "Common" type.
• Improvement on the Running cycle animation.

Game Design

• Added special rooms where the player will need special gems to be opened.
• Stances can now level up to give new and special attributes to the player.
• You can now encounter statues that can morph into a living enemy.
• Added new chests to get special rewards.

Thanks for taking a look, until next week!