{"id":716,"date":"2026-06-26T16:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/?p=716"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:02:38","slug":"devs-journal-26-jun-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Dev&#8217;s Journal &#8211; 26 Jun 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Eldritch 2<\/em>&nbsp;is coming to Steam! Please wishlist it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2279280\/Eldritch_2\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re so back! The first half of June was not my most productive, but I&#8217;ve made up for it in the last week. I did a bunch of work over the weekend polishing the tripwires I mentioned in my last devlog, and added a new player power to place tripwires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I implemented a couple of new pieces of gear (Swift Boots and Spring Boots) along with some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/?p=557\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/?p=557\">stat mod<\/a> support to let them let the player bypass spike traps and tripwires respectively. That led me to also add a Double Jump aspect, and the combo of Spring Boots and Double Jump is ridiculously fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eldritch 2: Fun with High Jump and Double Jump\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UV2dq6jRRUA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also brought back the body dragging stuff from <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/310740\/NEON_STRUCT\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/310740\/NEON_STRUCT\/\"><em>NEON STRUCT<\/em><\/a> (and my <em>Thief<\/em> homage game jam <a href=\"https:\/\/dphrygian.itch.io\/lil-taffer\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dphrygian.itch.io\/lil-taffer\"><em>Li&#8217;l Taffer<\/em><\/a>) because even though <em>Eldritch 2<\/em> isn&#8217;t a hardcore stealth game, it seems like the sort of thing players might expect to be able to do. And then I realized it would be cooler if you could still use your left-hand powers while dragging bodies, so I did that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eldritch 2: Fun with Dragging and Powers\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ewsjMixNx4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also did a bunch of less exciting things regarding tutorials and the in-game map and just generally cleaning up a bunch of messy scripts and technical debt. It was a productive week, and I&#8217;m having a lot of fun working on this game again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eldritch 2&nbsp;is coming to Steam! Please wishlist it&nbsp;here. We&#8217;re so back! The first half of June was not my most productive, but I&#8217;ve made up for it in the last week. 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