Long story short the map is massive.
There are over 10 areas to explore each with different environments. The castle is less than 8% of the map.
The castle map we drew has almost 100 rooms.
The first idea we had for fast travel is that there would be portal rooms. You enter a portal room than choose another portal room to go to. Yeah, that won't work unless we make dozens of the portal rooms.
So here is our idea. You get an item early on that acts as a fast travel pendant. There will be fast travel spots you can instantly go to like portal rooms. The only difference, which is a big one, is you can use the pendant from anywhere except certain boss rooms, cut-scene areas, and so forth. You have defined travel points to go to, but you can fast travel form almost any room of the map. So think Skyrim/Oblivion fast travel. You discover an area and you can fast travel back to it.
How does this sound everyone?
Alright after working on the map and so forth for the next update we have quickly come to a decision that we need a fast travel system. More in the article for this post.
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For today's new art we got ourselves the low level boss door. It will end up animated with green fire in the eyes.
Got volumetric lighting working with my custom shaders. Will need to tweak some settings and working on the castle environment lighting now. Pictures are with and without the lighting enabled for the player and throne.
Work in progress knight attack. We are aiming to get out first three monsters made so you got a variety of monster to fight in the demo.
Just a little teaser of wip art for the upcoming library area. Going to have a new background made so the contrast looks better, but for now I am enjoying it. Do note will be uploading a gif within next couple days so you can see the animated objects.
Second update to the early WIP Menu UI. We might change the bottom right info box because the right side is starting to get a little cluttered. Hope you guys enjoy it so far. https://gamejolt.com/games/immortalchronicles/445565
Alright after a crap ton of time we found a UI artist that can do pretty good. This is early Work in progress. We will release the next update when we get two menus screens done instead of waiting for all the UI to be completed. Look forward to it.
Mini Dev Blog 6 - Ambience VFX/SFX and Settings Menu Update. I started to add some VFX and some ambience SFX for parts of the game. The main thing left before finishing alpha one is the settings menu for controls, graphics, and audio.
Got some of our favorite grim reaper's animations in with the first set of conversations with him. Will be in the next game build. Video showing off his little idle animation.
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Added a small box with the speakers name in it, so players can see who is speaking. Going to start showing off some smaller work in progress stuff starting now up to the first alpha. Each post will be focusing on one change for the first alpha.
Working on some level design prototyping for some of the underground areas. Wanted to just share some things I am testing. Mainly having waterfalls as a background element for the caverns.
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