Tale of the White Wyvern Development Blog

Update To Tale of the White Wyvern Fight Run Mechanics

We have been wanting to change the fight run mechanics for quite some time, and recently had time to simplify how it works. Before these changes, the fight run mechanic was needlessly complicated and allowed you to run away essentially every time. Iif the run attempt was unsuccessful, you could just try again without consequence, so with enough patience in spamming run, at some point you'd run away and suffer no ill consequence of hitting it a bunch of times.

We just pushed up a change to the fight run mechanic in that you have a random 1 in 4 chance to successfully run. If your run attempt fails, you take half the incoming damage or at least one damage from the enemy.... Read All

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 04/19/2020 at 07:45pm

https://youtu.be/7FPELc1wEvk

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/19/2020 at 08:55pm

HA, thanks Greg!

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/19/2020 at 09:03pm

I think this is a great mechanic! I've recently been playing FF3, and I love the run away animation. That's how I'm going to imagine running away in Wyvern now!

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 04/20/2020 at 05:54am

Wow! I just realized you attached this video!

Also at you guys looking like gang members with your faces covered.

jaelte wrote on 04/21/2020 at 05:54am

Looks like Run had been working more-or-less how I thought it did *and* what I encountered was not a bug, but a change. Thanks for pointing me to this!
Also, folks weren't playing Mage? It's always felt like the strongest to me due the sheer number of battles I win due to being able to use a single Magic Missile. I almost always start Mage and switch to Rogue late so I can blast the Wyvern from the shadows. I never use Teleport or Healing, though, so it's nice that those may get to be decent options now.

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 04/21/2020 at 06:56am

Yeah, sorry we kind of buried this update. Maybe it would help if we had something in the news section to let us know of changes like this.

Wow people play as a Mage? I always felt like the Rogue was the best, because a wyvern can't hit what it cannot see. As soon as I learned about Invisibility, I never went back to another class.

jaelte wrote on 04/21/2020 at 07:38pm

I like the Disappear ability specifically for Wyvern and now Fish fights, but I died so... many... times in the forest as a Rogue and that was when running away was essentially free. There aren't nearly enough uses of Disappear to use for every Angry Rich Boss or Xenomorph in a given day.

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 04/21/2020 at 10:14pm

I haven't had much trouble in the forest, very rarely I have. https://youtu.be/nYSDC3cHoZs

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/22/2020 at 03:20am

One feature Travis and I are working on now is how to let people know in Wyvern about updates and changes to the game... in the game. Folks don't read Cheerful Ghost daily, but for folks that do play the game daily why not just alert you in game? So yeah, we're sorting that out now as something we'd like before we release 1.0 among a few other things.

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 04/22/2020 at 04:29am

Yeah, I thought about that most recently. Perhaps if we had a town crier or some way a CG post about the game could find it's way into the daily news of the game. Perhaps it could stay there for a period of time to give players enough time to be aware of it.

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Tale of the White Wyvern Season 2 Starts Today, Plus Some Neat New Member Benefits

Tale of the White Wyvern Season 2: The Plot Quickens starts today! This one is going to be intense, and loads of fun. It's all about bonuses to increase the pace of the game. Here's what we have in store for this season:

50 Forest Fights per day, before other bonuses like partnership, bard songs, and washing your hands

5 PvP fights per day

10 fishing turns per day

You can eat up to 3 fish per day

+70% gold find and experience gain!

500 starting gold

This season will be over on June 1, so get in there and enjoy all those bonuses!

In addition, members can now head over to their user preferences for a new feature: user flair. This let you style up your name with some... Read All

Tale of the White Wyvern: Upcoming Holiday and Season Info

Hello citizens of Wyrmdoor!

If you're like me, it's felt weird this month to only have one game of Tale of the White Wyvern to play instead of two since Season 1 ended. Well, we have some great news: Season 2 starts up in just a few days, April 1!

Titled The Plot Quickens, this season will be fast. Very fast. The focus is on getting through Wyvern kills much faster than normal with increased experience gain and gold find. But with great power comes great responsibility: the rapid pace of the game means that if you die in the forest, you could get passed over in the standings much more quickly. I'm going to be on the edge of my seat watching the leaderboards for this... Read All

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 03/20/2020 at 07:29am

Holy carp, I'm selling fish for about 2 million gold! 💰

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/20/2020 at 02:30pm

🎉

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 03/21/2020 at 07:03pm

If you lose a fight to a fish, do you lose your gold on hand, too? I think so, but I don't want to test it to find out.

adahn Super Member wrote on 03/21/2020 at 07:39pm

> If you lose a fight to a fish, do you lose your gold on hand, too? I think so, but I don't want to test it to find out.

I did not. I did lose the fish I had caught though.

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 03/21/2020 at 08:50pm

>I did not. I did lose the fish I had caught though.

It's been a while since I lost to a fish. I remembered that you lose all fish on hand and all remaining attempts to catch a fish. I just couldn't remember if you lost gold, too. Thanks for the reply! I've realized not to keep more than one fish on hand, so that I don't potentially lose any. I've also just been immediately depositing the gold I get from selling fish, just in case.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/21/2020 at 10:39pm

> If you lose a fight to a fish, do you lose your gold on hand, too?

Nope.

We added some instructions for what should happen, if you see something otherwise let us know.

https://thewhitewyvern.com/game/1/instructions

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 03/21/2020 at 11:10pm

>We added some instructions for what should happen, if you see something otherwise let us know.

https://thewhitewyvern.com/game/1/instructions

Awesome! I should have thought to look there. Thanks! You guys have done a wonderful and thorough job! You should be very proud of yourselves!

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/22/2020 at 07:13pm

I told Travis that I think Wyvern is the coolest thing we've ever done. He agrees. 🤣

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 03/25/2020 at 07:52am

>I told Travis that I think Wyvern is the coolest thing we've ever done. He agrees. 🤣

And here I thought the coolest thing you've ever done was introducing me to Terraria and Cheerful Ghost.

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 03/28/2020 at 07:09pm

So, total kudos for the fishing addition! I don't normally use my skill points, unless I'm fighting the wyvern. But, sometimes I run into a fish that makes me use them, which is a good thing. Fishing also gives me a lot more gems, which is great, because I want as many as possible so I can buy skill points, those are a high priority when fighting the wyvern. Fishing helps you get other bonuses, which is cool, too, though I don't usually use them. I do like being able to sell fish, which helps me buy better gear, including a fishing rod. So yeah, thanks for adding this into the game! I think you've done a fantastic job!

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/02/2020 at 03:56am

Thanks Greg! The bonuses were meant as a way to make PVP a bit more enticing and certain scenarios and from my recent spate of murdering others in game, seems to have worked!

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Tale of the White Wyvern Fishing Update Coming March 9, Season Two Coming Soon!

First off, Season One was a blast! Thanks to everyone who played! Without further ado, here are your winners...

Overall Winners

Saturday has won the season and brought peace to Wyrmdoor!

Declan

Quite Dapper

Azure Azul

Beo Rubirnen

Most Adventurers Killed

Nawt Wynnor: 10 kills

Quite Dapper: 9 kills

Bre Orgligrat: 4 kills

Azure Azul: 3 kills

Mystical Lord: 3 kills

Most Deaths

Nawt Wynnor: 27 deaths

Declan: 27 deaths

Saturday: 19 deaths

Bre Orgligrat: 17 deaths

Quite Dapper: 16 deaths

Looks like the developers die a lot! :D

Thanks to everyone who played our first season! Let us know what you thought about the season and things you'd like to see in future... Read All

The State of the Wyvern: Day of Devotion Update & More!

Hello Adventurers, we hope you all had a great holiday season and we wish you a belated Happy New Year! As you may have noticed Jon and I decided to take a much earned holiday break from active Wyvern development, and the good news is, we had a very relaxing time and the even better news is we’re back in active development toward the final 1.0 game launch.

The Day of Devotion Holiday Event

To kick things off, Tale of the White Wyvern is getting a new holiday event called “Day of Devotion.” Rather than explain it ourselves, we’re going to turn to the expert on Wyrmdoor traditions, Helga!

”The Day of Devotion is an annual celebration of love. Couples traditionally... Read All Hello Adventurers, we hope you all had a great holiday season and we wish you a belated Happy New Year! As you may have noticed Jon and I decided to take a much earned holiday break from active Wyvern development, and the good news is, we had a very relaxing time and the even better news is we’re back in active development toward the final 1.0 game launch.

The Day of Devotion Holiday Event

To kick things off, Tale of the White Wyvern is getting a new holiday event called “Day of Devotion.” Rather than explain it ourselves, we’re going to turn to the expert on Wyrmdoor traditions, Helga!

”The Day of Devotion is an annual celebration of love. Couples traditionally celebrate with gifts and delicious meals. The Inn of the Old Hen throws a party every year for anyone who doesn't have a partner to celebrate with. The Day of Devotion is celebrated from February 13 to February 15.”

https://thewhitewyvern.com/game/1/potions/seasons

Alongside the holiday event we created two new fun themes called “Day of Devotion” and “Night of Devotion.” We recommend turning your screen brightness all the way up and putting on some fuzzy slippers when you give those a try.

The Fishing Update

We are very focused on the Fishing update which has turned out to be the BIGGEST single content update Wyvern has ever recieved. When we described what’s coming to some of our friends and that it was taking much longer than we anticipated, one mentioned that it was because it sounded like we are building an all new game and that’s actually fairly accurate. One of our development goals with the Fishing update is to add a boatload(har har) of new content to keep longtime players busy exploring for quite some time. All that in mind we’re still in active development on it and it should take a bit longer to finalize things. Whereas this is a huge update that adds a lot of new mechanics to the game, we do plan on updating the game with fishing for everyone at the same time.

If you haven't played Tale of the White Wyvern yet, head over to https://thewhitewyvern.com/ now to play for free!

Tale of the White Wyvern Season 1 Starts Tonight!

Tonight at Midnight PT the first season of Tale of the White Wyvern begins. This game will run alongside our main Wyvern game and see some changes to the base rules that make it a bit different. The biggest change is that our first season game will end on March 1st when the winners will be forever immortalized in-game.

There are a few other posts about the new season game as well as a podcast we recording talking about it. Check those out below and we'll see you January 1st 2020 for our first competitive season game!

https://cheerfulghost.com/Travis/posts/4294/the-state-of-the-wyvern-december-2019-fishing-for-seasons

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The State of the Wyvern, December 2019: Fishing for Seasons

Hello everyone, welcome to The State of the Wyvern for December 2019! Before we get into the changes, we want to shout out those brave adventurers making their names on the leaderboards. These numbers may be a little different from the audio above, as we recorded this a few days ago.

The Leaderboard of the Dead Top 10

MyDude: 108 Deaths

Gemini: 100 Deaths

Golok: 91 Deaths

Conan: 85 Deaths

Maverick: 80 Deaths

Declan: 61 Deaths

Marixu Cas: 59 Deaths

Zehronious: 51 Deaths

Digg.com: 47 Deaths

Ktara: 47 Deaths

PvP Leaderboard Top 10

Mydude: 115 kills

Maverick: 89 kills

Caz: 80 kills

Gemini: 60 kills

Zehronious: 48 kills

Tiberius: 43 kills

Button Smasher: 40 kills

Rodnalf:... Read All

Competitive Season Races Are Coming to Tale of the White Wyvern in January!

Recently Travis and I worked on a large update for Tale of the White Wyvern to bring Paragon levels to the game and add more late game progression beyond the 5th Wyvern fight. We never thought people would be able to make it to the 5th Wyvern kill so quickly even after massively increasing the difficulty of that fight. Personally, I’m also impressed with how people play the game, finding strategies I never had in mind when I created it. Some of those are still in the game, and we’ve had to nerf some and buff some to make the game more fun. Tale of the White Wyvern is one of the best things I've ever worked on in my life and I want to thank everyone for playing it. It’... Read All

Paragon Points Coming to Tale of the White Wyvern Wednesday!

If you've been keeping up with Tale of the White Wyvern development and the happenings in-game, you know that the fifth wyvern kill is the "last" one, as in the one where you unlock all the game story, and the one where you need some intense grinding to win. And you may also know that a few have already hit that threshold and are working on their sixth time through. Well, if you're wondering what comes next on this journey, look no further: Paragon. Here's how it works:

After your fifth wyvern kill, the five repeat themselves. The 1st and 6th fight are the same, the 2nd and 7th, and so on. But every fifth wyvern kill will get you a paragon coin that you can spend... Read All If you've been keeping up with Tale of the White Wyvern development and the happenings in-game, you know that the fifth wyvern kill is the "last" one, as in the one where you unlock all the game story, and the one where you need some intense grinding to win. And you may also know that a few have already hit that threshold and are working on their sixth time through. Well, if you're wondering what comes next on this journey, look no further: Paragon. Here's how it works:

After your fifth wyvern kill, the five repeat themselves. The 1st and 6th fight are the same, the 2nd and 7th, and so on. But every fifth wyvern kill will get you a paragon coin that you can spend whenever you like. (And not to worry-- if you've beaten the 5th already, you'll retroactively receive one).

Each time you spend one of these paragon coins, you will lose all of your charm and your dead card and be reset back to the starting point of 1 charm and 0 dead card punches. These are things that never reset by default when you start back at level 1, but in order to use these coins, you're cashing them in.

But it's worth it because you get some pretty great perks:

+1 to your player paragon points.

A permanent +5% boost to forest exp gain.

A permanent +5% boost to forest gold find.

A permanent +5% boost to your bank interest.

New titles, up to your third redemption:
- First redemption: Prestigious & Prestidigitonium
- Second redemption: Demigod & Demigoddess
- Third redemption: God & Goddess

These are additive, so on your second redemption you'll have +10% experience gain and gold find, for example.

To redeem these new coins, just pay a visit to Wrymdoor's favorite healer, Helga. She'll perform some secret magic and you'll be gaining experience and gold much faster! Just don't be surprised when Crugg acts like he doesn't know you anymore.

As I said above, you can redeem these whenever you like-- if you want to wait until you get into the later levels before losing your charm, you can do that. If you want to hoard your paragon coins you can do that too. The choice is yours.

We should have Paragon Coins in the game for you to redeem by Wednesday. Prepare yourself for speedy leveling!

If you haven't played Tale of the White Wyvern yet, head over to https://thewhitewyvern.com/ now to play for free!

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 10/29/2019 at 05:30am

Cool! I was wondering what would happen after that final kill, since I'm extremely close to accomplishing that now. I think losing all your charm is a bit of a small price to pay, yet it also kind of sucks. I think there shouldn't be any negative outcome for getting that final kill. Although perhaps it's kind of a balancing act so that players don't get too OP. Losing all your charm isn't too bad since we all seem to accumulate so much of it that at a certain point it no longer matters if you end up losing some of it in the forest. So this change kind of puts some polish on the charm stat, I think. When some of us stated how much charm we had, we were around 100-200+. I don't remember how much charm you need for that ultimate NPC interaction, but I'm guessing it's no where near that much. It doesn't take very long to accumulate enough charm to get to that point, but it's very easy to get so much charm that if you lose some in the forest, it's no big deal at all, other than a wasted forest fight.

Anyway, thanks again to you and Jon for making the game and continuing to develop it.

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 10/29/2019 at 01:55pm

Thank you and everyone for continuing to play it!

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 10/29/2019 at 03:56pm

And yeah, you’re right about the reasoning a bit.

Once you’ve gone through maybe 18 levels total or so, those lower-charm responses from
NPCs just become worthless, and your charm stat effectively doesn’t matter. This gives it meaning again, but definitely pays you for taking away your charm.

And you can always choose not to use this if you want to keep that charm, but you’ll lose out in the long run. It’s really a better deal for you than it is Helga. 😂

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 10/30/2019 at 03:40am

We are live! The 5+ crew should have a shiny coin in their inventories now.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 10/30/2019 at 09:52pm

Crugg acts like he doesn't know me!

But, I am swimming in gold, so I will just find someone I can pay to be my friend.

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State of the Wyvern III

Hey everybody! Thanks for playing Tale of the White Wyvern and reading this game update, we’ve been working on a bunch of quality of life updates to the game as well as getting ready for Portland Retro Game Expo. As such there is a lot to share and we’d love to get your input on it all so let’s dive in!

https://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/4214/come-hang-out-at-portland-retro-game-expo-2019-with-cheerful-ghost

Wyvern Balancing: Significantly changed the 5th Wyvern fight balancing and how the fight operates. The fight is much more fair to players that don't dual class.

PvP Update: You can now attack players one level below you in the fields. We’ve also Increased the... Read All

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 10/08/2019 at 03:05am

You can dual class?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/08/2019 at 03:07am

> You can dual class?

YES! In the Tavern you can speak to the Bartender and one of the things you can do is choose a new class! One recommendation is that if you are a Rogue or Warrior you have got your new skill point so you are not mid skill gain and dual class losing out on it.

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 10/08/2019 at 03:10am

I have no idea what you are saying in the recommendation, but I didn’t know you could dual class.

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 10/08/2019 at 04:07am

Wait, more changes? What do you mean this wasn't a perfect game from the start? I'm so disappointed! LOL j/k

I really don't know about doing dual class, I haven't tried it. I don't really want to either. I feel like spending all of my gems on my skill is definitely worth it. I probably wouldn't have killed the wyvern last time if I hadn't done so, I had just enough (D)isappear skill points to win that fight. Although I'm sure some kind of balance between classes and skills would also be efficient.

Personally, I want LESS PVP, not more. I'd love to see some kind of bonus for those of us (or at least me) who don't participate in the PVP aspect of the game. Although, I think it's kind of fair that this isn't the case. I just have no interest in PVP.

It's already difficult to afford a room at the Inn in lower levels, but I guess saving your money for that instead of buying a weapon, armor, and a hat would resolve that issue.

Good job with the Wyvern kill updating. I have one more kill to discover the last lore. I was worrying about what I'd do when I finished, like there wouldn't be much point in playing after that. So, you've resolved that. :)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/08/2019 at 04:57am

> Personally, I want LESS PVP, not more. I'd love to see some kind of bonus for those of us (or at least me) who don't participate in the PVP aspect of the game. Although, I think it's kind of fair that this isn't the case. I just have no interest in PVP.

Sounds good. We plan on running more games that don't allow people to play PvP. The main game will and we want to get it right and not be too annoying if you don't want to PvP.

> It's already difficult to afford a room at the Inn in lower levels, but I guess saving your money for that instead of buying a weapon, armor, and a hat would resolve that issue.

Yeah, at level one staying at the Inn is still the same price which was fairly high. After that it wasn't a big deal and at very high levels it was so cheap as to be not really a cost at all. Now the cost is effectively the gold you'd get during three forest fights which is graduated to each level. So not a ton of gold, but graduated more at higher levels.

That said, let me know how it feels as to know how it plays works out in practice can take a few days to feel out.

> Good job with the Wyvern kill updating. I have one more kill to discover the last lore. I was worrying about what I'd do when I finished, like there wouldn't be much point in playing after that. So, you've resolved that. :)

Travis and I have talked a bit about extending the game and we have some fun stuff cooked up I think you'll like. I know I will.

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 10/08/2019 at 05:27am

Turn Helga's into a brothel. LOL

Anyway, thanks for the game, guys, and the work you've been putting into it.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 10/08/2019 at 05:28am

Oh man, the 5th Wyvern is HARD. And I like that a lot!

Duel classing has been great for me. This time around, i have 4 Rogue Disappears and 4 Warrior Screams. I'm currently a rogue, so more gems mean more disappears. Even with that, I need to significantly upgrade my gear! I bet I'll be playing the 5th Wyvern most of the rest of the week as I save up gold lol.

I'm really enjoying the changes that are being made, and can't wait to see how you expand it out!

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 10/08/2019 at 05:30am

And it's not so much "duel classing," but rather changing your class and not losing what you've learned with the previous class (you do lose 1 skill point though)

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 10/08/2019 at 06:07am

Thanks for the info Adam!

jaelte wrote on 10/09/2019 at 07:09am

Wait, changing classes doesn't just make it like you'd started at level 1 with that class? I never had interest in changing my class mid-run as I'm no quitter, but this new information complicates/excites things. Hrm.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/14/2019 at 01:28am

Since i'm dead and can't tell everyone in the Inn, i'll drop the note here.

I just pushed a patch so hats effect the interest level in the bank. For instance wearing the Golden Yellow Hat would set your Bank interest rate to 7%.

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 10/14/2019 at 09:31pm

I don't see interest rate raises on any hats. Am I missing something?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/14/2019 at 09:56pm

The hat has to have an effect that would impact it. So all the hats that increase gold gain will impact the bank interest level.

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 10/14/2019 at 10:12pm

Oh, ok, so not all hats. Even still, the ones that gain gold don't tell you this new fact. That might be helpful to know in-game at the shop. Although I only use hats that increase my strength and defense.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/14/2019 at 10:16pm

They now say "+5% gold gain" instead of "gold find" I know it's not a full explanation and i'll think about how to work that into the instructions. Good suggestion, thanks GregoPeck!

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Tale of the White Wyvern Development Blog

Update To Tale of the White Wyvern Fight Run Mechanics

Tale of the White Wyvern Season 2 Starts Today, Plus Some Neat New Member Benefits

Tale of the White Wyvern: Upcoming Holiday and Season Info

Tale of the White Wyvern Fishing Update Coming March 9, Season Two Coming Soon!

The State of the Wyvern: Day of Devotion Update & More!

Tale of the White Wyvern Season 1 Starts Tonight!

The State of the Wyvern, December 2019: Fishing for Seasons

Competitive Season Races Are Coming to Tale of the White Wyvern in January!

Paragon Points Coming to Tale of the White Wyvern Wednesday!

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