This update has been long delayed, but over a year ago, progress to this project has stopped. No update was posted to inform of this, but today I looked through my old files and notices that the versi...

Ceremonies The Xipilians take great pride in the longevity of their religious ceremonies, guided by the heads of the religious faction, and everyone is expected to partake in them. Solar Eclipses Duri...

Welcome back to another exciting installment of our Tenril devlog series, where we delve deeper into the world of spellcasting and skill progression! In our last update , we introduced the Skill Tree...

Welcome back to forging your destiny! Previously in Part 2.5 , we provided you with a glimpse into the new enhancements being made for the crafting menu and system as a whole. Today, we're thrilled to...

Welcome back to part 2.5 of forging your destiny! In our previous post about the crafting system, we shared the main visual overhaul for the original crafting menu prototype to match it with the rest...

Ceremonies The religious faction guides most ceremonies due to the strong connection to the strong connection to religious beliefs. All cultural events are timed following the Lunar cycle. Full Moon C...

Welcome back to another devlog! With the recent completion of our In-Game UI overhaul , we've embarked on the exciting task of introducing new menus, like the Crafting Menu we showcased earlier. And t...

Welcome back to part 2 of forging your destiny! In our previous post about the crafting system, we introduced the general crafting framework and asked an important question; What does a hero truly nee...

Central City The central city that all the Xipilians call home surrounds the central palace of the royal family. Both the palace and the city are split up into different sections for each faction to l...

Welcome to the latest devlog, continuing the exciting journey from our last update. First off, we've improved the inventory screen even further – now, when you hover over an item, its value and desc...

Welcome to another thrilling edition of our devlog! Today, we're turning up the heat as we unveil our new pyromantic spell: Scorched Air! In a realm where the very air crackles with magical energy, Sc...

Central City The Lunnaegans had always lived in a big central clearing in the woods, and when they kept growing in numbers they soon realized that there would not always be enough space in the area wh...

Welcome to the next phase of our UI Reworks in Tenril. In our previous post, we focused on revamping the in-game UI , and now we're looking into the overhaul of our in-game menu interface. If you've p...

Welcome to this week's devlog, where we're stoking the flames of excitement with the introduction of our latest spell: Pyromancer's Fortitude! In a world filled with spells of immense destructive capa...

The Big Quake mentioned in this post and shown to have given metallurgy to the Xipilians in this post, did the same for the Lunaegans. The Big Quake created a big cliffside in the middle of the forest...

Welcome to our latest dev log! As an extension to the last post on UI, we have continued to rework the existing UI. Thus, today we share our progress for the new and improved in-game UI! For those who...

Welcome to this weeks devlog! Today we will be unveiling two incredible new consumable items; The Invigorating Potion and Healing Petals! 🍃 Invigorating Potion 🍃 Revitalize yourself with the Inv...

After the Big Quake that hit Tenril explained in this previous post, the subsequent exploration of the exposed caverns uncovered multiple veins of ores and cave systems. Upon their discovery, the Xipi...

Welcome to our latest dev log! Today, we're thrilled to unveil our revamped UI. You may recall our previous update, where we introduced some exciting changes: Since then, we've listened attentively to...

Welcome to this week's devlog, where we unveil the enchanting power of our new spell: Moonlit Orb! Harnessing the mystical radiance of the moon, Moonlit Orb conjures a mesmerizing sphere of ethereal m...

Origins When tired scouts drank some water that was caught in one of the beaker plants in the forest, they felt nearly instantly magically reinvigorated, and they brought this news to the highest rank...

Welcome to this weeks devlog! If you have seen our previous devlogs on the NPC interaction overhauls or questing system , you would know we have been continuously improving upon the dialogue system. F...

Welcome to the last phase of our quest system! We're excited to share that the first playable quest has been added. To further develop what was implemented last time, I made it so that when you talk t...

In the deserts that the Xipilians call home, it is rare to find any beasts due to the harshness of the environment. Only the beasts that adapt to the scorching heat and limited resources that grow in...

Welcome to this weeks devlog! As seen in our previous developments, we have been working on dialogue systems as well as a questing system for all your adventuring needs. However, sometimes you might w...

Meteor at the border. There was a big meteor that crashed into Tenril right on the border of the forest and central deserts. The fiery and booming impact of the meteor created a crater and destroyed t...

Hey everyone, we've got some exciting news to share with you today! As you might be aware, our game is receiving major upgrades, one being a brand-new player character! Say goodbye to the old armoured...

A silver-tongued shopkeeper once asked, what does a hero truly need? Perhaps you need to be swift, nimbly evading your foes. Perhaps you need to be strong, quickly crushing through even the hardiest o...

A grand Solar Flare The biggest solar flare that’s been recorded by the Elves and Tieflings since their societies started forming has great cultural and religious meanings to both races. The solar f...

Welcome back to the continuation of the Questing system! To simplify the progress since last time, much work has been put into refactoring the code to allow for quest regression. This means that when...

Welcome to this weeks devlog, where we showcase the newest update to the player UI, the boss health bar! This serves as an easy way of identifying and focusing on your boss in a potentially busy battl...

Big Quake of Tenril There was a big quake that shook nearly the entire world. This event was one of the firsts attempt of the God Tenril to give the races a gift. The races both perceived this event i...

Welcome to this week's devlog, slightly different from the usual, this will be a multi-series post as we work on the Questing System for the game! One of the most important parts of an RPG is the stor...

Welcome to this weeks devlog, where we showcase the newest update to the player UI, degrees of injury! It can sometimes be difficult to focus on your health bar in a fight, and as such this update see...

cover image by dall-e Xipilian Society The Xipilians have built one big and ever-expanding city, Xipilia, in which they all coexist. They have created this big city in which all the Xipilians live. Th...

Greetings everyone! You might remember from a few months ago that we made a post showcasing the starting village in the game. Well, now you get to see it in the game! Our goal for the next update is t...

Welcome to this weeks devlog, a shocking exposure to one of our new spells; Nature's Wrath ! A single lightning bolt does not do much by itself, but by casting this spell you're able to invoke the for...

Cover Image by Dall-e Lunaegan Society The Lunaegans are a people that live very in tune with nature and the main rule in their society is that everyone is inherently equal, each individual born requi...

Welcome to this weeks devlog, a little preview on one new spell; Delayed Fire Spike ! This spell is able to hit hard, causing a fiery spike to erupt from the ground five seconds after being casted. It...

Combat is an integral part of Tenril, so we want it to look and feel as good as possible. There wasn't a lot visually going on with the weapon combat, resulting in magic combat being preferred. Hence...

Cover image by; Dall-e Plant life The sun and moon not only grant the races their magical abilities, but it also affects the plant life that blooms during the day or night respectively. Just about all...

Variety is essential in any game, especially when it comes to sounds. It helps set ambience and greatly helps with a players immersion. As such, instead of hearing the same footsteps wherever you go,...

Greetings all denizens of Tenril! Today I'd like to inform you that we have a subreddit r/Tenril ! You might ask yourself why you would want to join it when all our content gets posted here anyway? As...

Religion Due to the rift that was pushed between the Xipilians and Lunaegans, their once strongly connected religions have changed over time to reflect this rift between races. The solar bodies being...

An important part of designing a game is to always revisit old features. One that needed some improvements in the dialogue system. In the past it was a simple box where you could select some options t...

AI movement for our enemies may seem quite simple, but for a game as dynamic as Tenril it becomes greatly more complicated. This is primarily due to the way built-in Unity features function versus the...

Hello everybody and welcome! Todays devlog is an announcement about our plans moving forward with the project. Due to limited availability from most of our development team, creating new content has b...

Religion Due to the rift that was pushed between the Xipilians and Lunaegans, their once strongly connected religions have changed over time to reflect this divide between races. The solar bodies bein...

The magic of Tenril is unique and divided. The powers come from the gods themselves which leads to there being a divide in those able to cast spells. One group is closely attuned to Lunnadian and the...

Tenril has a new thumbnail! Over the last few days, I came up with some possible options for the thumbnail for the itch page. So for this week's devlog, I have created a time-lapse video of the thumbn...

Did you know that enemies in Tenril actually communicate? Hopefully not as intelligently as me or you, but they can at least warn each other of nearby danger. When you damage an enemy they become incr...

This post is going to go over the backstory of one of the two main villain characters of the story, Liliana. The two of them were the big starting point of this game, and thus the story is bound to be...

Wanna read some of our devlogs? Well, here you can find a categorised list of all the ones we have done and we will also keep it updated with new ones when they come out! Story/Lore: Character Backsto...

Hey everyone! This week I wanted to show some of the props I currently have up close. In the picture, you can see the 3 Lunaegan training weapon models. The weapons are meant to serve as backup weapon...

Another update rolling out! This one is fixing some bugs discovered with our launch to mac and linux. Fixes: Fixed a bug where the character continues walking when entering menus Fixed the mouse not b...

Loot. I love it, you love it, we all love it. So how does it work in Tenril? Well, it can be gotten in a wide variety of ways. Currently, you can get loot from pickups in the environment, chests, or t...

This post is going to go over the backstory of one of the two main villain characters of the story, Aamanon. The two of them were the big starting point of this game, and thus the story is bound to be...

Good news, everyone! We have added support for Linux and Mac, this has been something we should've probably done earlier, but due to lack of available testers on those operating systems, we have not d...

Hello readers, I'm Ryan, one of the programmers and somewhat of a community manager for our game, Tenril. For today's post, I will be sharing the knowledge I gained through my time on Tenril as well a...

Hello all, and welcome to another update post, this one has been delayed for a few days due to an issue with Itch.io images not working properly. I've worked hard to get this out to you this week, and...

Hey everyone! Here is a small showcase video of an upcoming demo level! The scene features an area of one of the Wood Elf villages and will be directly tied to the story of the game. To explain a litt...

Normally the best way to be able to beat an enemy in any game is to understand exactly how they work. One of the more complicated features for the enemies in Tenril is their ability to reposition them...

Unfortunately, this week's update cannot be published as one of the programmers have been unable to work this week and the other is working on a rather large piece of content that is not yet ready to...

Now that the development of the game has officially started progressing with updates and demos on Itch, we thought it was time to talk more frankly and explain just how this all got started. This is a...

As we have promised, we will be sticking to our weekly update schedule. For this week we took on a pretty big task of changing our graphics pipeline to something more realistic. The models currently i...

Hey everyone! As promised in the previous post, we've created a roadmap to show our plans for the game. As we continue to work on the game and discuss more about our plans for the design, we'll keep u...

Hey everyone! To start I just want to say that it's been very fun working on this project so far, and I hope to continue for the foreseeable future. The idea of this post is to discuss what we want to...

NOTE: If you cant see text, open the image in a new tab and you should be able to see it, if not let us know and ill see if I can get a version with a background! Thank you for checking out our tutori...

Bringing another update with more features and fixes! Stay tuned for next update as it will have some big changes. New content: Added an introduction NPC, they give some small hints into the world bui...

This update addresses some of the bugs. Mostly minor tweaks but should greatly improve the experience: Bugfixes/Improvements: Mouse is hidden during gameplay. For a better experience, mouse is now not...

Quite a few changes in this update: New: Enemies will now alert their companions of spotting the player. Loot has been added, when killing an enemy, you can get some items from them. Added stinky chee...

It's been a bit since the last update. Much larger issues were tackled and hopefully will resume to frequent updates after this one. Bugfixes/Improvements: Sensitivity is now based on input device, pr...

This small update includes a new animation set for the quarterstaff and spear. Be careful as this affects enemies as well, and they are a lot more difficult to fight now because of it. Good luck and h...

As of the new update, we have added 2 new weapons: Shortsword (Similar to the longsword, does less damage and costs less stamina) Quarterstaff(Similar to Halberd and Spear, boasts lowest stamina cost...

Bugfixes: AI weapons doing damage without them attacking AI weapons sometimes still doing damage if attacked while they are mid attack...

We've improved our AI quite a bit with this update. They should be a lot more interesting to fight with using different weapon types as well. If you want to see a quick reference for controls, check o...

The current version exists more as a showcase than anything else. A tutorial is currently in development while this is just a showcase of combat. Below is a list of controls: Movement: WASD Sprint: Sh...