After almost 3 month of absent on the devlog, here’s our newest post, hopefully this will be the last devlog before our release, this is a log from wltr3565, the programmer, since he doesn’t have access to the admin page to post on his own, I will be posting his log on my behalf. ~num

That’s all for now. Catch you all later!

Hello everyone! We meet again for another devlog! Today let’s talk about menu redesign. Well, if you followed our devlog since we are starting at blogger site, you might noticed that we have already doing a redesign for the menu several times. Why though? In the previous redesign we feel that the menu is too bland it deserved a redesign but this time… Well, the main reason this time is to correct our fatal mistake… When we first starting the menu design, the game is made in 4:3 screen ratio, meaning that any attempt to play the game in widescreen ratio (16:9 / 16:10 ) will make the screen either stretched (which is very ugly) or limited by black bars around the center of the screen. This is unacceptable, and we realize it too late in development. Nothing can be done, but redesign and building the menu screen again from scratch.

Having to redesign the menu again actually gave us several idea to improve and adding those small little things that make navigating the menu easier. It’s really a pain at first, but there is a joy in the end. Here is how it looks now:

The main menu screen, now with quest menu button, and game configuration menu button. The quest menu will contain logs of randomly generated quest that you can take (which I will talk about in the next devlog) and config menu that let you tweaks some in-game setting like volume, etc.

This is the item/item use menu. Adapting it to wide screen and give a sort command, for fast browsing and item usage.

The newly revamped party formation menu, now featuring the characters battle role and their passive skill explanation/effect.

The status menu, re-arranging the menu to give more clear information of the stats

The equip menu, nothing really changed except the layout of the player stats window

The island map menu only display island map/player location nothing changed but its size to accomodate widescreen, while the encyclopedia menu is still work in progress. That’s about it for today’s devlog.

Release when? (or when will the game is going to be finished!!!)

This is probably a question that a lot of you probably want to ask or want to know. Well as much as we want to say “when it’s done” we actually have a planned release date, that is this month aka in May. But because of certain circumstances we need to delay it. Now our estimated release date is pushed to July, or as late as August. We really want to push the quality in Nusakana, so it’s better to wait for a while than to release it in its current, buggy, need-to-be-tested-thoroughly state. And no, we don’t want Nusakana to end up in Early Access™, because we don’t want people to pay to beta test our game!

Hi it’s me again, Num, for weekly Nusakana’s character bio. Today we will discuss about another less known character, with equally less artwork drawn by me.

So Rain, yeah rain… Why Rain? Actually it’s not a random name, but a name inspired by “fish”. Most of Nusakana’s characters name is inspired by “fish name”, like last week character name, “Sal”. Guess what fish it is inspired from? Yep, it’s a Sal-mon. And how about Rain? It’s really easy to guess, since her hair color is a given, a rainbow color. So Rain’s name is taken from Rain-bow trout, and so does her design in a way, I colored her hair with various color to make it looks like a rainbow. Aside from name, there is no relation whatsoever between the fish and character unless for a few exception, since the game theme is fishing and island, I just like the idea of having a subtle, fish inspired name for the various characters.

In the game, Rain is one of recruitable characters you can add to your party. She is a playful but really materialistic character that will always find a chance to manipulate you and take your shiny, most prized belongings such as treasure and *ehm* money. While she actually mean no harm to you and doing it just for the thrill and fun, her bad habit can be detrimental sometimes. She has a knack for treasure and rare items and can always be found lurking in the jungle searching for them, or “manipulating” adventurers and explorers to search it for her. Her manipulation skills is further assisted by her magical ability to make people forget about her and what she did to them. Will she changed her way with a chance meeting with the main character in the game? That’s for you to decide.

While she looks a bit weak and not suited for physical conflict, she can actually fight and help you in battle. Though with a sloppy fighting style and less damage than any other stronger, fit for fighting characters. To compensate for this she has a potent magical ability and may inflict moderate damage using magic attack. Her passive skills also help any other female character in the game immune to being targeted by the enemy. A bit useless at a glance but you can exploit her ability by buffing the MC’s defense as a tank while using the other female character as a damage dealer against hard hitting enemy.

That is all for this week characters bio, see you in the next week and thank you for reading our devlog!