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Collecting Details: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for September 2020

September's progress report includes changes to item design, status effect display, defender placement, and lots of other details.

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Defender's Quest 2 Progress for August 2020: Electric Four Square

Once again emphasizing visual communication: - Energy shields - Show buff zones more clearly - Ultimate is now a 2x2 sized unit

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Fun vs. Balance: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for July 2020

In previous months we've talked about how we ensure that DQ2 is balanced.Today we're going to talk about how we ensure that DQ2 is fun.

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Independent once more: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for June 2020

Notes on ending my contract with Valve, and a progress update for June

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Extra Quarantine: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for April 2020

Progress report for May 2020 -- quarantine is hard, but we still did some stuff.

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Balancing Quarantine: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for March 2020

Quarantine sucks, but DQ2 is still making progress. Learn all about balancing careful intro stages for our hero units.

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Laser Lightning Bugs in the Spotlight: Defender's Quest 2 Progress for February 2020

This month, we're working on visual design language and gamefeel.

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Defender's Quest 2 Progress: January 2020

Defender's Quest 2's progress report for the month of January.

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Defender's Quest 2 Progress: December 2019

December progress report for Defender's Quest 2

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Collecting Power -- Defender's Quest 2 Progress: November 2019

It's mid-November, so here's the latest progress report for DQ2. Details on the "Collector" and "Eliminator" classes.

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Defender's Quest 2 Progress: October 2019

Mid-October's Defender's Quest 2 progress report.

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Steamy Bees -- Defender's Quest 2 Progress: September 2019

Let's talk about angry intelligent bees in Defender's Quest 2 in this month's progress report!

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Defender's Quest 2 Progress: August 2019

It's the ides of August, which means it's time for another infodump progress report for Defender's Quest 2. Skill trees and character classes and a bunch of other stuff.

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Defender's Quest 2 Progress: February-July 2019

We're starting something new -- Defender's Quest 2 monthly infodump progress reports.

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Wash your game's windows

Ever played one of those games where you have no clue what any of the mechanics actually do and you just kind of muddle through? Playing this kind of game is like peering through a dirty, smudged window. What a game like this needs is some Windex.

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DQ1 Physical Edition, Discord, DQ2 News

A quick newsy little post for everybody. First, we've got a fancy new discord server: Join Defender's Quest discord [https://discord.gg/S9VAyBh] I'll still be keeping the forum around (especially as it's effectively the comments section for this blog), but that

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DQII: platforms announced, DQI: Vita, Limited Run, Switch, OpenFL Console Targets

Hey everybody, A quick info-dump update on everything I've been working on lately. 1. Physical release with Limited Run Games 2. Nintendo Switch 3. Final list of platforms for DQII 4. PSVita version of DQDX 5. Patch for PS4, XB1, PC 6. Haxe Summit Talk 7. OpenFL console

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Defender's Quest is coming to PlayStation and Xbox in February 2018

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten DX will be releasing on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Xbox One imminently. UPDATE: It's out now! Also -- there are some non-fatal known bugs [https://www.fortressofdoors.com/known-bug-in-defenders-quest-dx-console-version-patch-incoming-soon/] that are being fixed as we speak. Media assets

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Defender's Quest Deluxe Launches Today

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDVFcP1a6qc&feature=youtu.be] Defender's Quest Deluxe launches right now. Our new presskit is here: http://www.defendersquest.com/presskit Our site: http://www.defendersquest.com On Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/218410 On GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/

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Supporting a single-player Indie RPG for Four Years

It's hard to believe, but on January 19th 2016, four whole years will have passed since we first released [https://www.fortressofdoors.com/defenders-quest-is-released/] our game Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten [http://www.defendersquest.com/1] . What's even harder to believe is that

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Doing an HD Remake the Right Way : FFVI Edition

So Final Fantasy VI -- a beloved classic that contends with Final Fantasy VII for the title of best Final Fantasy game of all time -- is releasing on Steam [http://store.steampowered.com/app/382900] this Wednesday. This game is the crown jewel of the SNES era of JRPG&

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Defender's Quest II: Uematsu Music, Battle Art, Story!

LARS: We've got a treat for you all today, a new Defender's Quest II story post courtesy of our writer James Cavin, a preview of the latest art, and -- the first of several tracks composed by legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu! Yes you read

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Defender's Quest II: The City of Ennekar

LARS: As the Defender's Quest II engine and Defender's Quest HD get further along towards completion, we've been building up a huge internal backlog of story and art materials as our writer, James, keeps churning on. He's currently up to his fifth

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DQ1HD and DQ2 Milestone Plan

Some people wanted some clarification of how we're doing with Defender's Quest 2, and when they would get Alpha/Beta access. Here's a high-level overview of the release plan for the Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten HD re-release and its sequel,

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DQ2 Update and DQ1-HD Announcement

So, it's been a while since we last talked about Defender's Quest 2 [http://www.defendersquest.com/2]. I have three big things to talk about today: 1. General updates 2. Announcing Defender's Quest 1 HD re-release 3. Progress on Defender's Quest