The past few months has been a flurry of building out the pipeline for creating scripted events. Mundane things suddenly become complicated when trying to generalize solutions - such as displaying a portrait during conversations!

One of the first levels the player will explore is their hometown, a seaside village. This is the first draft at that tileset!

Having a flashy combat sequence is one of the best parts of Shining Force. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, I wanted to try to pull the camera in and make combat more personal. This video was a test of the Unreal sequencer to see what it might look like.

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First 5 minutes of gameplay! Everything is pretty much prototype, but much of the work here is just getting all the systems connected together to a sequence that actually starts to resemble a game.

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Brand new icon, courtesy of @AnthropeArts! Let's go!

An early test on swapping sprites to simulate the movement of a wave. Unreal is pretty bare-bones when it comes to swapping out tiles, so we had to get pretty creative to even achieve this result. Unsure if we will use it, but was a fun test!

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The final video shows the end result of a few months of work, chaining together a series of scripted events that ultimately results in a battle sequence being started.