South of the March

Devlog

• Devlog #15: Demo Plans & Additional Platforms
  November 18, 2024 by Small Gray Games

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  Progress Updates Most of the work over the last few weeks has been dedicated to: More fleshing out of skills Filling out early content Most of this has had to do with cleaning up and fleshing out the... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #14: Sidequest Design
  October 25, 2024 by Small Gray Games

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  Progress Updates Most of the work over the last couple weeks has been dedicated to: Art for the status effects (and art in general) More fleshing out of skills Sidequest writing and feature developmen... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #13: Tutorials & Status Effects
  October 07, 2024 by Small Gray Games

  Progress Updates Most of the work over the last couple weeks has been dedicated to: Writing in-game tutorials Fleshing out equipment and skills Implementing the last of the combat status effects In ot... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #12: New Animations & Accessibility Updates
  September 17, 2024 by Small Gray Games

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  Progress Updates Progress over the last couple of weeks has been split between the ongoing accessibility project (which seems to be about finished, at least for the first pass) and some visual upgrade... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #11: Accessibility Design
  August 27, 2024 by Small Gray Games

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  Progress Updates There’s been a lot of momentum over the past couple of weeks! A lot has had to do with building out the remainder of the control scheme, specifically in the way it differs between p... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #10: Redesigning Combat UI
  August 14, 2024 by Small Gray Games

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  Progress Updates As discussed in the last devlog , we're getting back up to speed a bit, but still making some solid progress. For example: Start Menu functionality and splash screen in place More set... Continue reading

  
• Medical Delays Ending & Progressing Anew
  August 02, 2024 by Small Gray Games

  Progress Updates It’s been a long time! I’m sorry to have been so quiet for a while, but it’s been a taxing few months, and while everything is now roughly okay, I’ll explain more below. As fa... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #9: Sound of the March
  April 04, 2024 by Small Gray Games

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  Progress Updates Sorry everybody, it's been a little bit since the last update! Fortunately, it's not for lack of progress, but because there's been a lot of progress. Sound effects and the soundtrack... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #8: Combat UI, Icons, and Accessibility
  March 06, 2024 by Small Gray Games

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  Progress Updates We've been dipping into different things all over the place the last couple of weeks, making a lot of progress in various directions. Big moves recently include: Second narrative draf... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #7: First Draft Complete
  February 19, 2024 by Small Gray Games

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  Progress Updates A whole lot's been done since last update! Most of the recent additions have been content, so we're looking at: More items More skills More enemies More art And a bunch of UI polish B... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #6: Dialogue Options
  January 30, 2024 by Small Gray Games

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  Progress Updates Despite my apparent failure to maintain my "weekly devlog" plan so far, the last few weeks have seen some serious progress! Big steps include: Basic shop functionality all completed Q... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #5: Character Portrait Styles
  January 02, 2024 by Small Gray Games

  The last couple of weeks have been busy, but we've still made progress! A lot of it has been behind-the-scenes work on the player menus where the bulk of your character customization, inventory manage... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #4: First Look at Shops
  December 18, 2023 by Small Gray Games

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  These past couple weeks I've spent some time working on a very early version of the quest system, which I expect will be fairly simple (think more JRPG than CRPG, focused on short narrative slices rat... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #3: Shop 'Til You Drop
  December 05, 2023 by Small Gray Games

  Another week down! This week we're still working on more art, both in new scenes and character portraits, and I personally am working on healing the bones and ligaments in my ankle, which I damaged th... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #2: A Few New Character Portraits
  November 28, 2023 by Small Gray Games

  The big thing we've been working on this past week is character portraits. The art style and scale of the game should allow us to give every character a unique portrait, even when they have minimal di... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #1: The Progress So Far
  November 20, 2023 by Small Gray Games

  Welcome to the first devlog for South of the March ! I'm thinking about doing something a little different than I did with the devlogs on The Salt Keep . With those, I generally tried to focus on a pa... Continue reading