Hello everyone! Miyazaki here with February's development update for Mythaura. We covered a lot of ground this month—it is probably the single biggest month for us in terms of development. We're excited to tell you about some of the things that we've finished up and look forward to sharing even more features with you in the future.
Note: Last month we'd said that we'd be posting about Wolfwasps...that's postponed until next month. We will be posting Wolfwasp lore as well as hosting a ✨radiant✨ giveaway.
Co-op Demo
Players will be able to explore the world of Mythaura—both overworld locations like Talon's Rest as well as the procedurally generated Wild Areas—in groups of up to three players. If there are only two players, you can add an additional Beast to the party lineup.
Players can no longer be added to a Party if they cannot access the Party Leader’s location (e.g., if the area is not yet unlocked in their game).
When a player joins a Party, they will automatically move to the Party Leader’s location. Any location change must be agreed upon by all Party members.
By default, only friends can invite you to a group. However, we are exploring options for players who may want to allow invites more freely or block them entirely.
If a player disconnects, they can freely reconnect and will be placed back in the same location.
Forums
The Forums are the heartbeat of Mythaura's social scene. Whether you're looking to share your most recent PVP builds, recruit people to join your adventuring party in the Waspwood, or talk about how excited you are for Patch 8 of BG3 to come out (not that anyone's excitedly waiting for that, of course), the Forums will have a place to house your discussion.
Mythaura's Forums feature a Reddit-style posting system, with the ability to create nested replies.
Forums will feature:
Trending threads: What are the most popular recent threads? This feature will showcase threads that are receiving the most engagement at the time.
Tags: Players will have the ability to tag their content, helping other players find and sort through relevant content.
Thread following: Keep updated on threads that caught your interest. We know you're waiting for your favorite artist to release the baby Basilisk Glamour they've been teasing for a while.
Markdown styling to customize your posts exactly how you'd like them
Bug Bounties
During our Closed Beta window, the Bug Reports category will be special in that it will function as an issue tracker. Each thread can be marked as a duplicate of another and have a status & severity tied to it, allowing users to follow a bug, reply to indicate they have also encountered a bug, and see what status a specific bug has.
Bug Statuses
New: The default status
Confirmed: A programmer has been able to replicate the bug and confirm its real
Duplicate: This is a duplicate of an already-existing bug
Fixed: It’s been fixed!
Closed: Closed without fixing, such as if this turned out to be user error.
Severities
Low: Typos, minor visual glitches, asset issues, and browser-specific issues that do not impact gameplay.
Moderate: Functional bugs that cause inconvenience but do not break core mechanics.
High: Major bugs that significantly impact gameplay, progression, or player experience.
Critical: Urgent security vulnerabilities, game-breaking exploits, data loss, or anything that could severely affect the integrity of the game or its economy.
To encourage thorough testing and reporting, players who discover and report new bugs will receive a Shard reward once a programmer has confirmed the issue. Rewards scale based on the severity of the bug. Only the first player to report a bug is eligible for a bounty—duplicate reports will not receive rewards. Players who provide exceptionally detailed reports, including steps to replicate the bug, may receive bonus Shards at the discretion of the development team. If a bug is found to be abused before being reported, the player may not be eligible for a bounty and could face consequences.
User Profiles
Beasts are at the very core of Mythaura gameplay, so we want to ensure that you have several ways that you can show off your cast of characters with the rest of the site.
Featured Beast Groups
The Featured tab allows players to showcase collections of their favorite Beasts in a slider. Players can group beasts into customizable folders with a name and background. Up to 5 groups can be featured on your profile. Show of your favorite beast collections!
Abode
The Abode contains all of a user's Beasts. The two-toned background on each of the Beasts is based on their combination of Elements.
Gallery
Galleries are collections of items users would like to showcase.
Galleries are a separate inventory, so an item in a Gallery cannot be added to the satchel or sold until removed from the Gallery.
Stats
The Stats page will showcase a player's statistics across the Gameplay, PVP, and Forums categories.
Dossiers
A literal blank canvas! Enter your custom HTML and CSS to make pages that are uniquely yours.
Winter 2024 Rewards Reveal
Winter 2024 Glamour: Shire Unicorn
Winter 2024 Companion: Ornaboros
Winter 2024 Solid Gold Glamour: Quetzal (Young)
Year of the Snake Companion
Happy Year of the Wood Snake, everyone! It seems that with the arrival of the New Year, a colorful companion has slithered its way into Mythaura.
For the remainder of the Ko-fi shop being open (through the end of 2025), the Auspicious Ophidia will be available for purchase in both its non-radiant and radiant forms. Sponsors of ALL levels may purchase these companions.
Kirin Expressions
This month, the expressions team—the ever-talented Luci, Sour, and Koa—finished all expressions for the adult and young Kirin. (I'd like to give a personal shoutout to Luci for making the "sad baby"/fourth expression so pitiful...what did they do to deserve feeling like that 😭)
Osstelids
Sponsored by: Lomon
Our final sponsored Companion comes from Lomon, who came to us with a wonderful design for a fairy + ferret creature. Thank you for sharing your vision with us and letting us implement it into the game!
Reminder: NPC Design Contest
As we begin to populate Talon's Rest, we'll need plenty of NPC designs—and that's where you come in!
We've created a Google Form for you to submit up to three Beast designs for consideration. Please be sure to include the Beast Creator code or else your entry will not be considered.
In addition to their design being used for a shopkeeper, winners will receive a bundle of useful items for their adventures through the local Wild Area, the Waspwood Forest.
The winners will receive*:
1x Soulshift Coin (breed-changing item) of your choice
1x Godspeed Potion
3x Lockpicks
3x Crude Torch
3x Travel Rations
3x Small Energy Potion
3x Small Health Potion
1x Beta Key
NOTE: * These rewards will not show up in your rewards lookup tool since that tool only looks up Ko-fi rewards, but they will be applied to your account directly!
Writing Updates
Main story three-act outline completed
Main story greenlit
Intro quest currently being storyboarded; script to follow
Mythaura v0.35
Co-op Gameplay: Players can now form and manage co-op groups. Integrated co-op battles and overworld interactions and adjusted co-op parties to allow global co-op in any location.
Forums Buildout: Built out functionality for forums such as categories, likes, replies, thread collapsing, tags, locking & pinning recent/popular threads, following and forum search.
Social Features: Introduced a friends list, online/offline status, and user search.
User Profiles: Profiles now include additional customization and feature a nice design.
User Settings UI: Initial build-out of the account settings screen.
Beast Grid Redesign: Overhauled the Abode Beast grid design.
Beast Groups: Beasts can be added into groups freely created by users and then features on their profile.
Battle UI Improvments: Cleanup of battle UI and implementation of informative ability tooltips.
Battle Running Mechanic: When running from a battle, the enemies now have a free round of attacks. Only one beast needs to initiate the run sequence.
Battle State Retrieval: When you close your window while in a battle, you will just load right back into your battle when you return. Multiplayer & PvP battles that are completed while away are excluded.
Class & Species-Specific Overworld Abilities: Introduced unique abilities based on class and whether the species flies.
Stealth Mechanics: Sneaking now limits elite enemy aggro range and encounter rates.
Elite Enemy Detection: Added elite enemy detection, idle behavior adjustments, and footstep sounds for improved immersion.
Boss Encounters: Introduced bosses in towns and wild areas.
Fishing Minigame: Added 28 unique fish, catchable in an interactive minigame.
User & Beast Dossiers: Introduced an initial version of the dossier system.
Settable Pronouns: Beasts can now have pronouns set that NPCs will use in dialog. By default, this is linked to your beast's gender, but can be changed. Users can also set pronouns, which will display in their profile and forum header in the future.
In-Game Currency Display: Shards and gold are now visible in the UI when shopping or viewing inventory.
Added Time-Based Passive Effects: Which will allow us to add time-based effects, such as using a torch and having Illumination for 5m.
Cipher Buildout: Began build of Cipher features.
Thank You!
Thanks for sticking through to the end of the post, we always look forward to sharing our month's work with all of you--thank you for taking the time to read. We'll see you around the Discord.
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