Elven Academy

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Patch Notes 5/11/2026

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General Updates:

The main update is the release of B4: Sea of Desire. I’ll add a separate post (mortem) for this.

Implemented party banter. This has a huge immersion factor, adds character, drama, and information. It’s fun and easy to use. Party banter may not work until you clear your cache for (Hard Reload) the game. It requires an update to the CSS file.

Updated the save code scripting to more modern standards.

Implemented better tracking for sleeping with people. Added tracking for certain addictions. This means the save code got extended. This means old save codes will no longer work. If you have an existing save code, you can simply append some characters onto the end in the format of the new default code, which is:

NAA100-FFFHFG-FFFFFH-AAAAAA-0-0-00190A0000000-AAAAAA-AAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAA-AAAAAA-AAAAAA-5222222222222222-00000000000000000000000000000-000000000000000000000000000

Fixed a bug with UI display of the total bonus value of Dandelion’s second charm item.

OGG audio files are now supported by all major browsers and platforms, so will only be making OGG from now on.

Implemented locks on dungeons and some outdoor adventures, so you can’t play them before they are discovered and accessed via the the main quest line.

Most dungeon sound files were missing from the server for some reason, they are now uploaded.

Website:

Updated the game rules for simplification changes to wands and spell bonuses.

Modules:

A0: Fixed errors in bedroom diary. Removed MP3 preloads to make the modules load faster, due to OGG is now supported by all browsers. Being in a romance with Jeanie or Connor will now change your bedroom theme to their romantic theme.

A1: Minor edits, changed translations of “Sure.” to Mexican “Claro.” from “Seguro.” I thought I’d already done this correction is most modules.

A2: Various edits of A2. Cut more and more wordy fluff. Always more paragraph breaks. Added a tense scene to show faction conflict resolved by the player character acting as a minor hero. Added several new dialogues, tried to improve characterization of Jeanie and her goals.

A3: Various edits of A3. Added two new scenes on an alternate path. Lack of paragraph breaks make me think I lost an iteration of this module. More dialog options. Glumskayah now gives you 2 or 3 gear items that belonged to your mother, as well as the gold coins. New option to use acting skills to earn some extra gold. Owl sounds added to the Sun Tower. Fixed missing map locations. Fixed too loud cricket sound file. Added some dialog options.

A4: Various edits, many paragraph breaks, I thought I already did this? Added dungeon unlocks. The curse will affect a dark game Dandelion more.

A5: More and more paragraph breaks. Surely these are disappearing on me somehow, but I don’t know how. I keep doing this and adding them every time I do a new playthough. I hope something isn’t psynching my updated files back to old versions. Added better banter between Leonie and Alex.

A6, A7: paragraph breaks

B1: Edits, proofreading. Paragraph breaks. Added banter. Added endearment if in a relationship with Connor. Fixed a module breaking bug. Fixed a bug in amount needed to bribe Livia to enter the Serpent Party, which also broke the save code.

B2: Added banter. Added some animations. Minor edits, reduced HP losses on some cases. Changed all instances of the Spanish word “Vale” back to Mex. “Claro”, even though Vale is used more in Lat. Am. these days due to TV shows and Spanish media.

B3: edits, proofreading. Fixed a few module breaking bugs. Fixed broken affection gains. Changed ending to Leonie goes on the boat, and added the beginnings of alignment and morality conflicts between party members, with her as a pure good. Added an epilogue conversation with Maurette.

B4: Added module B4, the Sea of Desire.

D1: Added music to school dungeon, some edits and corrections. Fixed multiple bugs that allowed player to replay first room or entire dungeon infinitely for XP. Added health bars and options to fights, reduced stat gains. New improved graphics. Added completion flags for later use.

Help: Makeover of the Help module with Roxanne. Updated graphics, updated rules, translated into Spanish. (Needs graphics uploads.)

Books:

Minor edits to the Pirates and Seelie Court lore books.

Sounds:

Added Chopin’s Funeral March to sound library.
Created a treasure opening sound effect, began to add it to modules when treasure is received.

Gift Shop:

Completed Spanish translations, fixed incorrect Ranger bonus on Agate Wildcat, etc.

The main project this month was illustrating the game’s first dungeon. Another fight was added for a total of 4. The areas are fully illustrated. The fights should be better illustrated. The ‘beta’ is uploaded, direct link here.

The character sheet has also been completely revamped to be more readable and make more sense. Another gear slot was added, with support for potentially 50 more magic items. I have been sick the entire month, so this has limited production somewhat. Here is the monthly list of updates.

Feb. Updates:

Illustrated the first Owl River dungeon, approx. 70 pieces of art in 1 month despite having a virus and working full time.

Added a fourth fight and two more rooms.

Some playtesting, still needs Spanish translation.

Redesigned character panels to be more like a familiar classic character sheet.

Added another gear slot “Jewelry” slot, to go with the previous “Accessory” slot. Jewelry is now a separate and equal category to Accessory, which includes misc. trinkets, tomes, magical belt buckles, whatever.

Recruited a new dungeon developer, who is working on a second dungeon.

Planning and plotting second chapter of main storyline.

The main project this month was writing the game’s first dungeon. Currently there are 79 locations, 37 dialogs, and 3 fights. Possibly one fight is a giant rat of sorts. This actually isn’t big enough.

I’m working on the maps now, and the maps are too sparse. They are not nearly impressive enough. So I thought I was being clever writing the dungeon without constraints of map or art, and now I’m adding locations to the map. And more locations. That means more coding. I’d like this to be the largest module so far, and right now it’s not.

I revisited the Tunnels and Trolls app this week. They’ve revamped it since launch, and it’s much better now without throwing you into Naked Doom to get going, iirc. (Or maybe that’s just the one I originally chose. I don’t remember.)

Reflections on the gameplay so far:

The combat is still a boring experience of dice rolling. I continue to be very motivated to do it differently – an experience of puzzle solving and decision-making with educated guesses combined with some luck and the familiar HP attrition.

I was disappointed by the result of only 2 attribute points as a reward for gaining level 2. At that rate, I’m going nowhere in terms of surviving higher level dungeons and encounters.

I was reminded, however, of how a level represents a major goal of achievement in a small-scale RPG like this. I’ve played so many MMORPG’s in recent years that another level is like another raindrop falling.

Recently I added a “bonus XP” feature to Elven Academy adventures. I am currently planning to try giving these to the player to allocate at the end of an adventure, instead of the way they are now randomly awarded during the adventure. This is consistent with my use-skill-to-improve design as opposed to the level design used by T&T and D&D, etc.

Another issue in T&T is that the app is warrior-only, and a few races are much better warriors. This is the same problem in WoW classic. Forced to play a specific race (to wit, not an elf) or be significantly gimped.

Unfortunately, since I’ve purchased a fair number of T&T adventures and products in softcover and PDF formats, I’m just not going to invest any money into the T&T app, thereby buying the product twice.

So here are this month’s patch notes for Elven Academy.

January 2020: Updates/Fixes

A3: More bug fixes, added Seelie Court rep. Archmistress Glumskayah now has wings? Not sure about the wing thing. I wanted to make her more devilish and less human, basically. I have a big problem with all of my non-human NPC’s managing to look lamely human. More dialog and options. Fixed removal of Learaiche’s wand.

A4: A few minor bug fixes, dialog cuts and improvements, added a skip option for theatre talking.

A5: Several bug fixes, broken conversation lines. Preloads.

A6: more bugs fixed, extended ending, new longest, most complicated module by far. Preloads.

D1: First dungeon is in development.

Tarot Training– added preloads for tarot cards

French Club – fixed more bugs, broken dialogue, Spanish language

Connor library – edited, translated.

Help – another edit through the dialogs to update for diplomacy changes

Library – fixed map, reduced high rate of special encounters prior in place for testing

General

Playtested server version of the game to find bugs related to delivering content by server, and files not uploaded properly with lower case file names. Fixed many loading issues with preloads.

Fixed broken save code regex-checking after recent diplomacy/affection changes

Improved text field backgrounds.

Improved timeskip splash panel with new graphics and function.

Tarot Training:

Completed translations.
Remastered background sound.
Added sound controls.
Playtested psychic gain, added attribute gain source column to game dev spreadsheet.

French Club:

Coded and tested attribute and reputation gains.

Visit With Ora:

Implemented rep or level requirements on choosing a minor course of study (“Scholar Studies”).
Fixed and added to Ora’s romance counseling.
Added wind and owl sounds to the Sun Tower audience room.

A6: Night of the Necromancer (Formerly Vampire Vocabulary)

Rewrote to include a story introduction, and to include companions, and quests.
Rewrote to include different possible endings.
Debugged old broken code.
Updated vocab test words to witchy, setting appropriate words instead of anachronisms.
Fixed broken animations.
Began implementation of terms of endearment for active romances
New portraits for Maurette
Maurette’s moon tower bedroom and associated art.

Misc:

Corrected domain html on home page.
Apparently corrected bonus calc issue with Scholar Studies occurring on web server but not local.