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Development Update - May 2026
We're rolling into the last month of the first half of the year with great momentum behind us. We've got the final artwork for our Spring Ko-fi Rewards, two new pieces of gear that drop from combat encounters in the Waspwood Forest and Hypogean Expanse, a sunny array of yellows to add to the color wheel, and more!
Development Update - April 2026
We hope you enjoy dressing up your beasts, because this month brings another large batch of apparel and gear pieces for your beasts! We've also got some beautiful painted backgrounds for Wind's End and the Hivepack Caves, the winners of the Ko-fi Winter Quarter rewards, shop signage for the businesses of Talon's Rest, and two fun yellow colors for you!
Development Update - March 2026
Hello folks! We've got LOTS of apparel to share this month, along with two new colors for the color wheel, two new companions, our Ko-fi Spring 2026 concepts, and perhaps even a little sneak peek as to the next beasts that we're kicking around ideas for... all things we're very excited to share with you all!
ALSO: I want to apologize to our Tumblr community for not posting the update from last month here. This will not be overlooked in the future!
Development Update - December 2025
Happy New Year, everyone! Every year has been fruitful for the team, but 2025 was a huge year for the Mythaura team. We've got a recap of all the updates to the game itself below.
We also have the Ko-fi Winter Quarter concepts, a brand new Bubblegum color, a new mutation, some awesome Pyrohoof apparel pieces. We also wanted to share our stance on generative AI in the video game development process.
Development Update - September 2025
Lots of writing underway for Talon's Rest and the other areas in Chapter 1, and a TON of art that's in progress--and a TON that has been completed, as well! Likewise we've had a productive month on the programming side of things as well, with Koa and Sark finishing up tasks like what happens when you faint while in a wild area, support for battle and overworld items, and functionality for Treasure Imps, which are the main subject for today's update!
Mythaura Musings Challenge
While we wait for Mythaura’s beta, Maggotjuicebox and I have decided to do a creativity challenge for fun, and to help us brainstorm lore and art for our future beasts! We thought it could be a neat community event too, hence this post.
The Mythaura Musings Challenge will take place from September 1st to January 31st. Each month will have one central theme, and there will be 4-5 prompts per month (so one prompt/submission per week). Please see the following calendar (made by Mags!) for the theme prompts, with further details below.
If you would like to join, you can share your creations on Tumblr with the tag #Mythaura Musings Challenge, or on Mythaura's official discord in the Mythaura Musings Challenge #community-events thread. Mags will also be awarding art badges for those who participate (see below). Using the prompts, we hope to encourage us as a community to explore and share our personal lore plans with each other!
Rules for Participation: 1. Please follow Mythaura’s official content rules for all submissions. An overview of their rules can be found in their discord's rules channel. 2. All submissions must be your own work (excluding beast creator images). 3. No AI generated content allowed. 4. For written submissions, there is no minimum or maximum word limit, this is mainly for fun! It is a “challenge” in the sense that we hope the prompts help you to develop future lore and art for your beasts and abode once the site launches. 5. Art submissions can be in any form: traditional, digital, photography, crocheting, mixed media, baking/food, etc, whatever you’d like!
Mags and I look forward to reading and seeing what y’all share!
September: Creatures of Mythaura Week 1 (9/1-9/7): Breeding Projects – starters, planned pairs Week 2 (9/8-9/14): Companions Week 3 (9/15-9/21): Beast Species – Basilisk, Dragon, Griffin, Hippogriff, Kirin, Peryton, Quetzal, Ryu, Unicorn Week 4 (9/22-9/28): Genetics – colors, specials, supers, mutations Week 5 (9/29-10/5): Beast Creator Challenge – Try to make a beast (or a few) with a specific silly theme in the beast creator, and share your creations! Examples: fruits, food, flowers, flags, cat or dog breeds, etc
October: Significance of Time Week 1 (10/6-10/12): Months & Seasons – Hearth’s Embrace, Aurora’s Canvas, Chasm’s Roar, Barrow’s Thaw, Monolith’s Rise, Darksun’s Dominion, Frostcrown’s Flame, Ghostlight’s Pall, Windrider’s Bane, Greenbright’s Close, Deepfrosts Current, Witherlight’s Whisper Week 2 (10/13-10/19): Constellations – Glassblower, Stargazer, Tempest, Gaoler, Jeweler, Prodigy, Magistrate, Widow, Chariot, Physician, Reaver, Flautist Week 3 (10/20-10/26): Birthstones – Carnelian, Hematite, Labradorite, Black Tourmaline, Boulder Opal, Fluorite, Pyrite, Lepidolite, Tiger’s Eye, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Rainbow Moonstone Week 4 (10/27-11/2): Elements – Fire, Arcane, Lightning, Rot, Stone, Dark, Ice, Specter, Air, Nature, Water, Light November: Tales of Adventure Week 1 (11/3-11/9): Classes & Gear – fighter, rogue, sorcerer, healer Week 2 (11/10-11/16): Talon’s Rest – Mythaura’s starting city, further info can be found in their January 2025 Dev Update Week 3 (11/17-11/23): Wild Area Explore – dungeon and wilderness exploration, fishing, discovering treasure Week 4 (11/24-11/30): Faction & Battles – The Vanguard and The Call
December: Culture and Customs Week 1 (12/1-12/7): Holidays, Festivals Week 2 (12/8-12/14): Culinary Traditions – ingredients, recipes, etiquette, symbolism, medicinal use Week 3 (12/15-12/21): Rites of Passage – birthdays, weddings, funerals, graduations, job and role transitions, etc Week 4 (12/22-12/28): Myths & Fables – stories, values passed down through generations Week 5 (12/29-1/4): Beast Creator Challenge (round 2) - Try to make a beast (or a few) with a specific silly theme in the beast creator, and share your creations!
January: Genesis, Synthesis Week 1 (1/5-1/11): Abode – overall theme and lore, geography, biome, etc of your planned abode Week 2 (1/12-1/18): Mythsonas – personal characters’ lore and backstories Week 3 (1/19-1/25): NPC Fanfic/art Week 4 (1/26-1/31): Guilds & Goals – Guild or adventure party lore; short- or long-term game goals Badges! (by Mags) Each month you will have the opportunity to earn two different badges, a normal one (blue ink bottle) and a shiny one (gold ink bottle). The normal badge is earned by completing one prompt, and the shiny by completing all prompts of the month.
Below is a preview of the badges, in order:
Development Update - August 2025
Hello folks! Another super busy month over here for Team Mythaura. This month much of our time and energy was spent developing content for Talon's Rest, the town that players will spend a majority of their time in during Chapter 1, which is the content that will be available at launch. We have the templates for all building sizes complete, which means moving on to the interior items as well as the exteriors for important locations, like the Shattered Shield Tavern and Beau's ancient underground Cipher Pedestal room.
Story things were simplified in a really major way this month as well. We're trying to build the story in such a way that it will be conducive both to players whle the content is being released as well as for full playthroughs after all the content for the continent is fully released. From the writing end, I've spent a good amount of time establishing the Followers that the player can optionally travel with. We're excited for you to be able to take them along on your journeys throughout Mythaura.
We're hiring an artist!
Hey everyone! We’re on the lookout for a Freelance Illustrator.
This is a freelance position to help create illustrated assets. Mythaura assets include creatures, markings & patterns on our bases, characters, and objects like items and apparel. This position is primarily focused around finding an artist to help us create props and overworld assets to use in our game as well as wearable apparel, but may transition to other projects in the future.
We are currently looking for a part-time artist who can fulfill a workload of aproximately 80 hours per month.
Applicants must be 18 years or older.
Responsibilities
Create and deliver PSD files that meet the creative brief.
Work with our senior artists and writers to ensure visual consistency.
Regularly demonstrate and update your work in progress.
Follow creative & technical briefs with regard to schedule.
Accurately quote and then produce work within the quoted timeframe.
Actively participate in an online team environment (currently Discord & Jira).
Required Skills and Experience
Must be able to match Mythaura’s 2D cel-shaded style.
Must be familiar with masks, layers, and templates.
Real-world understanding of proportion, depth, scale, and physical space. A strong understanding of coloring and shading, and an accurate understanding of animal anatomy.
Organizational and time-management skills.
Ability to maturely handle critiques and change requests.
Application
To apply, please email [email protected] with “Freelance Illustrator” in the subject line. Include a link to an updated portfolio of your creative works. Please be sure to include your availability and rate. Previous applicants who have submitted an application in the past may either resubmit their portfolio or simply indicate that they are still interested in a position.
Development Update - July 2025
We also hit a big writing milestone: our intro quest script is complete! This allows us to move onto populating our (new and improved) Talon's Rest with NPCs and quests. This was a big one for us and a huge learning curve, and we've got a lot of learnings taken from this to apply to all our work going forward.
August is going to be another busy and productive month. Read on if you'd like an update on what we got up to during the month of July!
Elevation Rework
Originally Mythaura’s world was designed to be completely flat. A year or so ago we decided to add basic voxel elevation (cube based - similar to Minecraft) - this brought about a number of issues we had to sort out, but also a whole new dimension to our level design and world building. We could now place the player in a high up position to overlook an area they are about to embark into. We could place the player deep in a cave with descending pathways taking them deeper into the abyss. Today, we are showing off a completely reworked elevation system that takes things to the next level.
Specifically instead of using a voxel/cube based system, each tile has its own elevation, and a terrain map is generated using tessellation and normalization of vertexes to smoothly blend the landscape. This allows for full control over the terrain and enables smooth transitions between elevation without the need to manually place down ramps or rely on blocky cubes (which was or previous solution!). This upgrade is still underway and we are working on rebuilding our existing maps to utilize this tech. Check out the above screenshot for a before and after!
Game Dialog Technical Overview
It all starts with the Mythaura query engine - a core tenant of Mythaura’s Dialogs, Quests, Events, Bosses, and Cutscenes. It’s basically a generic if-this-then-that engine that can determine everything from: should a player see a hidden dialog option? Or can a player turn in a given quest? This allows us to adjust gameplay and the narrative based on decisions you’ve made in the past, or the time of day, or if your playing as a certain species, or if your carrying a certain item, etc. this list of possibilities is seemingly limitless with such an open-ended conditional tool!
Breeding UI
Breeding takes place in nurseries, you’ll have the option to unlock up to 16 separate nurseries to simultaneously breed many beasts. Each pairing can be between your own beasts or any other player’s beasts - as long as you are willing to pay the other player their going rate.
Breeding pairs can also utilize up to 4 breeding items (everything from items that adjust color outcomes, to items that adjust elements). You can preview predictions to get an idea of what the offspring might look like. When your new offspring are ready to be delivered you can watch them hatch! Maybe you’ll get twins!
Custom Glamours UI
You can create and sell extra copies of your skins to re-coup costs or even make bank off your cool designs! A player driven glamour market shows off the top community contributions - maybe one of your designs will go viral! Checkout the UI mockup!
Step 1: Instructions
Step 2: Glamour Details
Step 3: Upload
Step 4: Preview & Submit
This is a mockup for visual testing purposes only. Glamours shown here are placeholders and not representative of final store offerings. Background colors are for layout experimentation and are for visual testing only at this time.
Ko-fi Summer Quarter 2025 Winners
Thank you to all the Ko-fi sponsors who voted for the Summer Quarter 2025 rewards. Next month we will show the finalized artwork for the Eyelash Hermit Companion and the Starlit Shores Glamour. Stay tuned!
Writing & Design Updates
7/8 bespoke levels created for intro quest
Intro quest: all dialogue completed
Companion descriptions rewritten: 23/95
Item descriptions rewritten: 2/69
Wind's End landmarks named: 8/9
Talon's Rest primary businesses & landmarks named: 3/13
Map regions named: 2/12
Territories named: 2/32
Mythaura v.40
Support added for user item listings, allowing users to sell items to one another.
Added Floor Number condition to query builder.
Added "speaker" to dialogs, allowing any dialog to show as narrator, party member, npc, etc.
Refactored dialog to be more sustainable to manage in the back end.
Start of Stripe integration built out.
Breeding is nearly complete, including the ability to request breedings from other players.
Experience is now rewarded for defeating enemies and turning in quests.
Various bug fixes.
Breeding listing & requests UI.
Added hatching animation to breeding.
Elevation overhaul: New terrain tessellation elevation.
Map editor pixel generation support for mixing elevation and paths/dirt/edges (over 80 colors).
New option to hide HUD.
Dialog within cutscene fixes.
New full controls for object position and rotation in map editor.
Query build support for complex values (item with specific qty for example).
Added camera collision detection to prevent clipping through walls.
Mini map overhaul: front end can render any minimap, previously backend could only render some minimaps.
Redesigned beast status and experience bars.
New scribble sound effect for narrator dialog.
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.
Development Update - June 2025
Hi folks! It's fully summertime here in the northern hemisphere; hopefully everyone is staying safe and cool!
Level design is a hugely important part of our game development process, and Sark custom-built us a tool that allows us to make layered and complex levels in a relatively short amount of time. Level design dictates pretty much everything else that follows--objects being placed in the world, NPCs in the overworld (and, consequently, dialogue for them), boss fights, loot placement... all of this, and so much more.
This video offers a brief glimpse into some of the thought process behind why we're designing levels the way were are, and a demonstration of the design tool itself.
We hope you enjoy the video, and if you're interested in hearing about other elements of game design, please let us know and we'll see what we can do!
Development Update - May 2025
Hello everyone! This month we've got the Spring Quarter 2025 Ko-fi rewards as well as the winners of our first ever Radiant Companion giveaway from Instagram!
Next month we'll have a video demonstrating our level design tool, along with our level design thought process. We're really excited to share this amazing tool—the one that powers the entire game of Mythaura—that Sark built, and to give some insight into our design process.
Development Update - April 2025
Hello hello, folks!
Content development for what we'll have available at launch is well underway, utilizing all the tools that Koa and Sark have built for us—like a dialogue creator that powers all of our questlines and a map builder that's allowing us to build 2.5D levels for your characters to explore. It's full steam ahead for our team as we continue to prepare for Closed Beta next year.
Sark has built a fishing minigame for Mythaura, which we will explore in this update. We also have the results for the Spring Quarter Ko-fi Rewards, and would like to remind everyone interested in winning some Radiant Wolfwasps for their journey through Mythaura to enter our Wolfwasp Giveaway on Instagram by 11:59 AM on May 31!
Mythaura Giveaway: Radiant Wolfwasps
Radiant Wolfwasps have appeared! ✨ 🐺
Would you like a chance to adopt some of these fearsome creatures? Then join our giveaway! ENTRY INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Follow @mythauragame 2. Like this Instagram post 3. Tag a friend Entries are due by May 31 at 11:59AM PST. PRIZES: - 1st Place: Radiant Wolfwasp Queen & Wolfwasp King - 2nd Place: Radiant Wolfwasp Warrior Drone & Worker Drone - 3rd Place: Radiant Corgbee We’ll be announcing the winner on our Discord on May 31, 12PM PST on our Discord. Please feel free to drop by to watch us pull the winning names!
Development Update - March 2025
Hello folks! Is this year seriously 1/4 of the way over with already? It feels like it was just yesterday that we were getting ready to make our New Year's post summarizing everything we took care of in 2024...
But nope, it's April 1 and we promise you our update is no joke: we've got some lore about the Wolfwasp family of creatures, contest winners, and new Ko-fi reward concepts, so read on for more information!
Development Update - February 2025
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.
Happy Valentine's Day from Mythaura!
We've loved having you along for the journey 💖
An auspicious New Year's 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.
Non-radiant: https://buff.ly/416AvTG Radiant: https://buff.ly/412Oee5
