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.
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.
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.
Started making a mini diagram to show each region and the connections between them. This way people will have a semi direction hint before the map system update comes out. There are more regions not shown. Note this doesn't include the fast travel system.
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
We got our new throne for the save rooms in the works. Hope you guys enjoy sitting on your new demonic throne every time you need to save. We are making animations for the character sitting on the throne soon. Hope you guys enjoy the upcoming update.
We talked about other areas in patch notes, but haven't shown some of the art. This is just a little thrown together demo of some of the clock tower art. We don't want to share the actually rooms or we might spoil somethings. 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.
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.
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.
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