Devlog

This is the release where I started closing the gap between “the game has combat” and “the game has a combat system.”

The game already had quality, affixes, and durability, but some of that information still lived closer to the item type than to the exact copy the player was holding.

As more people become able to join, access control stops being a spreadsheet and security stops being just authentication.

Two very different problems met in this release: houses still felt too passive, and access to the game needed to become more than “whoever found the link can get in.

A sandbox economy makes no sense if every NPC pays the same price forever no matter what people are doing in that region.

I tried to fix bad enemy-health readability by scaling health and damage together. It looked better at first, but it was basically makeup - and playing made that obvious.

Once the game started running outside my machine, a lot of “development bugs” turned into actual operations problems.

Death was one of the weakest mechanics in the game: HP hit zero and the character basically just appeared somewhere else.

Skills were already improving through use, but that progression still did not really show up in the character’s body or in the way builds developed.

This is where the project started moving away from “one server running my world” and toward the shape of a small, real MMO.

This release was less about adding a checklist of systems and more about fixing the things that felt wrong when I actually played the game.

By this point you could share the map with other people, but the part that turns presence into an actual community was still missing.

Once the world could persist, the next problem was that it still felt too flat, too generic, and a little too permissive.

This is where Naxtia stopped being just a proof of concept and started behaving like a persistent game.