Lsm's Dev Blog

Chuunin has been released on Shinobi Chronicles, and the release went fairly smoothly, with only a few bugs that had to be fixed. The big thing the game needs now is a complete balance review now that things are out and have been tried by the userbase, so pretty soon I'll be making a simulator to run damage curves, looking into damage, jutsu strengths, AI strengths, bloodline boosts, even money gains vs health costs at different strengths, trying to get everything sorted out to being fair. Up to this point I haven't been personally looking at too much of the content, I've been mostly leaving that up to my content admins, but now that Chuunin is in and it'll be a while before anyone is hitting the stat caps, I have time to look over everything myself. It's interesting being a game owner and having to oversee everything. To some extent my content admins I hired for a reason and they're good at their jobs, but it's my job to make sure their work meets my standa...

So it's now been about three weeks since the May 4th release of Shinobi Chronicles, and I want to give everyone an idea of the current state of the game and where we're going with it. The design of the game The game is designed to put the player into the world of Naruto. It's a unique aspect that console games like the Naruto Ultimate Ninja series can't really replicate: They let you control characters from the series, but the character is never really you, you're never really a ninja in the world, you're more like a puppet master seeing things from the third person. To that extent in Shinobi Chronicles you get to choose your own village and train starting from a lowly Academy Student into a legendary Sennin. (I opted to use Akademi-sei for the first rank because all the other ranks are listed in Japanese, and the series never really described Academy Students as having a rank title, so that seemed the closest to what should be used). One difference howeve...

Hey there, my name is Levi, but most of you probably know me as Lsmjudoka or Lsm for short. Since I just released my second game and I'm about to start active development on my third, I decided to make a blog so that there's a central place I can talk about stuff that happens on all my games and keep everyone informed outside of the limited-scope news posts on the individual games. First things first my next post will be about the state of SC, once Chuunin rank is released on that I'll talk about what's next for WoB, SC, and LoE. Thanks for checking out my blog!