After a long period of dormancy, the new year is welcomed in with a new alpha build of Battle Tower Royale! There have been a LOT of changes made under the hood of the game. Literally thousands of lines of redundant code have been eliminated by refactoring the game's internal systems, making everything much cleaner and better-written. These changes are not apparent to the player, but they will make life so much easier for me when I add more content in the future.

For the player, I've added in a number of additional dialogues that open up partway through finishing the game. As you progress through the level, so do the other characters. You'll find that they have a lot of useful information to share. I've also included a number of sprite/animation fixes and retooled some of the dialogue as well, as well as added a little animation before each fight starts. 

For the future, I'm working on the game's title theme song. I'm also making new sprite animations for different races, which will form part of the character creation process that will appear in a future update. Once these things are done, the remaining steps will be to balance combat, update the boss fight, make the character creation screen, and include armor visuals that show up on your character when equipped. After this is all done, then I can move on to making the game's next level, which will substantially add to the game's depth!