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Official Release Announcement
February 16, 2022
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Apartment 18 Productions
After over 2 years of patient coding, debugging and balancing, Dragon Battle is ready for release! Play for free online here on the itch page. The GM Rom file is available for download and purchase vi...
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Graphic and audio overhaul
November 03, 2021
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Apartment 18 Productions
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Got some publisher feedback recently asking to remove the community music in the demo and replace it with all original music, as well as to generally move away from the generic menu UI. So I composed...
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The Janayana (Classic) [DEMO]
October 28, 2021
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Apartment 18 Productions
Calling all Dragon Battle Champions! We've just released a demo version of the still-in-development-game that inspired Dragon Battle. It's a retro-GameBoy-style RPG called The Janayana ( link ). Drago...
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Initial release coming soon ...
October 23, 2021
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Apartment 18 Productions
After tons and tons of debugging & polishing work, the initial release version of Dragon Battle is NEARLY ready for release! I started with the final Dragon King encounter with a moderately leveled-up...
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Two Bit Circus BETA Night update
September 17, 2021
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Apartment 18 Productions
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Greetings Champions, For your gaming delight we've just updated Dragon Battle BETA version 0.9.9 to coincide with our upcoming Two Bit Circus BETA night feature. Specific updates in this version: - ad...
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Upcoming BETA night feature
August 04, 2021
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Apartment 18 Productions
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We just got news this week that Dragon Battle has been selected for an upcoming beta night feature and play test event for a local gaming company at the end of September, so we're extending our beta a...
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v0.9.8 release!
June 13, 2021
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Apartment 18 Productions
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Final pre-release playtest version. Keeping with the ethos of making the game as simple and fun as possible in honor of the retro 8-bit format, the game has been whittled down to just the core dragon...
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version 0.9.7 release!
May 29, 2021
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Apartment 18 Productions
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#new release
Announcing a major new update & final testing release! As we approach Dragon Battle version 1.0, we're testing final bugs and gathering playback feedback on this release, version 0.9.7. For the past m...
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Endless debugging / polishing
May 21, 2021
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Apartment 18 Productions
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Have been in endless debugging & polishing of the game to prepare for release. - 10 total dragon encounters - Built-out kingdom to explore in story mode - Skills and spells to unlock - New music and g...
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Sneak-peek pre-release of new build (feedback wanted)!
May 03, 2021
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Apartment 18 Productions
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Hi Dragon Battle fans, We're about to release a new update with 10 dragons and a built-out mini-RPG where you can explore the Western Kingdom to unlock different weapons and spells. There's a bit more...
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Preparing new batch of dragons
November 19, 2020
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Apartment 18 Productions
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Can't believe it's been over a month since initial version of Dragon Battle, glad it's had such a great reception despite bugs and other flaws. We've been hard at work behind the scenes to perfect & l...
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Taming dragon heals.
October 26, 2020
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Apartment 18 Productions
As a final touch, making 1/2 of the dragon's heal spells fail so it's not totally out of control...
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Yet more UI polishing / updates
October 26, 2020
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Apartment 18 Productions
Another round of polishing updates. Specifically: - found some bugs in the sword / spear scripts that was destroying weapons. fixed, all weapons working smoothly now. - rebuilt dragon damage reporting...
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Yet more updates
October 22, 2020
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Apartment 18 Productions
Continued to playtest and find more UI updates needed, as well as add final touches for future game use before replicating this combat template for the rest of The Janayana. - added 2 new spells: heal...
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Hits bar updated
October 21, 2020
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Apartment 18 Productions
Repaired some minor bugs, also dug into the hits bar for the opponent and did a thorough re-vamp. Hoping this works better for players...
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More UI polishing
October 21, 2020
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Apartment 18 Productions
Finally getting through all UI bug notes from early play testers. Post-arena shops are now all menus instead of loops. More polishing of existing loops and game text to remove extra text messages whil...
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UI update
October 20, 2020
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Apartment 18 Productions
Another new build update for the game, this time focussing on UI feedback from early play testers. Specifics: - Fixed bug that wasn't showing default high score belonging to Saffron-Basil :) - Updated...
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More debugs / updates
October 20, 2020
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Apartment 18 Productions
Spent several hours play testing and taking notes, then reviewing latest play test comments from reviewers and early play testers. Many fixes and updates in this build, including: - Dragon heal spell...
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Major playtest update
October 18, 2020
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Apartment 18 Productions
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Did a major update based on playtest feedback over the weekend. Specific updates: - a lot of work on balancing player classes. Fighter should be less OP, Knight/Wizard/Ninja should be more powerful -...
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New build live & updated
October 16, 2020
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Apartment 18 Productions
New build is live for Dragon Battle! Did a quick update to fix some minor gameplay bugs and make the post-battle arena store more fluid, as well as adding selling older armor...
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