I’m still working on spell animations. I’m not sure yet if I want to reveal them all or keep them secret until the battle system is ready. I’m really happy with how most of them turned out – a lot of the old spells feel fresh again after a few changes. I’ve got around 200 animations finished in total.

For now I’ll just share some gifs of a few of the new spells.

Hey guys. I’ve finished the animations for weather conditions, and I’ll take a moment to explain weather in EBF5.

What weather does is have a constant effect in battle – at the start of every turn you’ll get a quick weather animation and some effects. Stuff like status effects, buffs, debuffs, or damage. It’ll affect both players and foes, so it can make the battle either harder or easier, depending on your equips and what foes you are fighting. For example: Cherry Blossom weather could buff everyone’s magic attack every turn. Rainy weather would get everyone wet.

Weather will change randomly over a long time – maybe every 20 minutes or so, or after 2 or 3 battles. Each area will have a few weather conditions, and you’ll either have to change your strategy a little bit, or go do something else while you wait for more favourable weather. What it essentially means is that if you replay the game (or even just redo a battle after a game over), the battles will have a different flavour to them and things should be less repetitive.

That’s probably as much as I can say now, the details will be figured out during beta testing, a long time from now.

Hey guys. I’m working on updating the skills from EBF4.
A lot of the animations are being redone, and a lot of skills are getting alternate forms – for example Anna’s spark arrow can target either a single foe, or multiple foes. Gaps in the skill tree are being filled in – Nettle will have a stronger form, Antimatter will have a regular spread form, etc. I probably won’t post much until these are all done.

New skills I’ll have to save for later – the foes and NoLegs need to be done first.

EBF4 had too many skills, so things will work a bit differently this time. Similar skills like Fire, Fireball and Firestorm will become a single skill. I’m not sure what I’ll do with special skills, but there will probably be less of them – and a lot of them will be moved to equips and summons instead.

Also, thanks to NASA for letting me be lazy with space backgrounds.

Here’s some new Flybots!
I think the robot enemies will be a bit more colorful this time. They were all very gray in EBF4.

EBF5 Current Foe Count: 80

Here’s a bonus Flybot that was lost in a crash. I didn’t like him anyway.

Epic Battle Fantasy 4 is 75% off in the Steam Anime Weekend Sale!
It’s not exactly anime, but I guess it’s close enough.
Also I’m gonna upgrade that boss I posted yesterday, since some people said it wasn’t bossy enough.