Hey, just another update. The biggest change is the addition of Steam achievements. Along with this comes changes to gameplay balance:

• Crossbow cripples enemies more easily
  
• Crossbow does more damage to armored enemies
  
• Beekeeper health has been greatly reduced
  
• Bees can be burnt easier with the pyre spell
  
• More ammo has been added, specifically special ammo (poison bolts, nailbombs etc.)
  
• Added more secrets to the castle level

Also made a bunch of bug fixes, too many to list. As always if you find anything posting on the bug thread on the steam forums is a great help 🙏

Merry christmas! Enjoy!

Just another small patch addressing some bugs.

Patch notes
- changed "beer devoured" to "beer quaffed"
- brightness is now saved properly
- added option to disable view tilt when strafing
- fixed e1m5 to use correct music
- added tutorial in e1m5b
- fixed an issue where enemies would stop reacting to the player
- fixed start of level checkpoints not working properly

Just a wee quick fix for a few bugs.
Mainly:
- A mesh in the church in e1m1 which the player could get stuck on has been fixed

- A soft-lock which was possible due to an item not saving in the town level.

- Fixed up the journals menu on the pause menu, as it wasn't saving journals correctly.

That is all. Thank you all for playing <3

COVEN is out now in early access! This initial release consists of the first episode, which contains 10 blood-soaked levels for you to eviscerate and eat your enemies in.

I'll be releasing regular updates with fixes, more content etc.

So aye, enjoy! And as always drop any feedback/bugs into the steam discussions and I'll reply ASAP.

Just some bug fixing, quality of life stuff etc etc.

In the update:
- minor bug fixes
- removed checkpoints, added save shrines
- replaced the shite old weapon/spell wheel
- added key rebinding
- UI improvements

Enjoy!

So a new build is up with some fixes


- Journals are now displayed properly on the pause menu
- Money is carried over into the next level
- Weapon mods are carried over as well
- Some minor level fixes


Enjoy!

Hello again, so the new demo is now up on Steam.

It's still called "Summer 2023 Demo" as I'm waiting to get the name changed but you have to go through Steam support to do so. But aye, you can now play the new demo.

Enjoy! And thank you all for the continued support.

Hello everyone.

So I have a new demo right here but I have to wait for steam support to get back to me before it goes live.

For now the demo is available on itch here: https://gatorshins.itch.io/coven

It should be up on steam in the next day or so if Steam support get back to me.

Hello everybody, just an update here regarding Coven and the future of the game. So I lost my job! The games industry is a bit of a shit show (putting it lightly) currently and I've ended up being fired due to this. Which sounds like bad news but it's actually good :D

From the end of May I'll be jobless so I'll be moving to working on Coven full time for a good few months. I'll be living on savings and the goodwill of my partner so I can put in as much time into Coven as possible. For the last few years Coven has just been worked on in the evenings after work, well into the late hours and on most weekends/vacations. I'm very excited to be able to work on it full time and see how much progress can be made.

Here's some tasters of where the game is heading:

I recently upgraded engine as well as the render pipeline so I've been able to add more visual effects and generally just improve the overall visual quality. I've also been upgrading a lot of assets which were pretty old and outdated compared to the newer ones I've made.

Upgrading the render pipeline means I have better access to shaders, so expect better water, volumetric fog/lighting/clouds, better post processing etc.

I've also been improving the particle effects for weather, explosions, blood, water, weapon impacts etc.

As well as all of this I've been improving enemy AI, allowing enemies to block your attacks as well as giving them the ability to dodge/jump out of the way when you're aiming at them or attacking.

If you'd like more regular updates I post often on the following pages:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GatorShins

Patreon (a mix of free and paid posts): https://www.patreon.com/imaenith

As always any support via patreon is massively appreciated, it helps me to fund development whether it's buying plugins for unity, sound effects or at this point just feeding myself 😅