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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Here are some more NPC art. Next week we will have the character art for the town people started. One of these animations is just for small detail when entering the library randomly. Would be boring if every character only had one type of idle animation.
While working on the first full Alpha build, I decided to start adding a little bit of NPC dialogue and other stuff to start making the game feel somewhat alive during the early alpha stages.
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.
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.
We wanted some of the walls in our game to be broken and crumbled. Not all of them being the same look so we also made tiles for broken walls where we can mix and match the tiles to make an unlimited amount of designs.
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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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.
Immortal Chronicles - Shatter Fantasy project
Character Animation Showoff 1: Loki - Your castle friendly trickster.
Animations: Teleport leaving Idle 2 Freelance Artist in charge of Loki's concept art/animation - Max Creed.
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.
For today's new art we got ourselves the low level boss door. It will end up animated with green fire in the eyes.
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