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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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
Finally got the UI started in the game. Always felt it was the main thing missing in my project, but now it is finally starting to get done. With the UI started the game will feel like a real game now. https://gamejolt.com/games/immortalchronicles/445565
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.
For today's new art we got ourselves the low level boss door. It will end up animated with green fire in the eyes.
WIP for some decor art in the upcoming castle area for the project I am working on. We are adding some white marble backgrounds for the area for a better contrast. We will have the clock, globe, and chandelier animated. 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.
Some zombie art from the team's artist made from our early stage project Immortal Chronicles. https://gamejolt.com/games/immortalchronicles/445565
WIP for some decor art in the upcoming castle area for the project I am working on. We are adding some white marble backgrounds for the area for a better contrast. We will have the clock, globe, and chandelier animated. https://gamejolt.com/games/immortalchronicles/445565
Alright guys time for some art updates. Here is a couple animations for our first couple NPC. https://gamejolt.com/games/immortalchronicles/445565
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.
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