Hello everyone, hope you guys having a good day.
So wanted to tell everyone what the project been up to. It wasn't abandoned just reevaluated in what I want and how to do it properly.
tldr for those who don't want to read it all.
Started from scratch, upgraded to new engine for a lot of newer features for players to have fun with, and will be making a new GameJolt page over the next week for the new features. I will make a new post with the new GameJolt link when it is ready.
Over the last couples years I focused on learning new systems and improving on what I already had in the project.
I decided to start coding the project from scratch a bit ago.
After thinking about how to update it form the original code I realized it be better to make a new Unity project and re do everything.
This allowed me to implement newer features from Unity for a lot better stuff.
URP for better lights/shadows, post process for effects. shader graph for shader effects like snow that accumulates on objects, better performance, and a lot better VFX system for weather.
Figured out how to design dynamic weather effects that the player can physically interact with not just have the weather effects be visuals.
This came with new systems for making better interactable environments. Imagine being able to freeze water with ice magic to get to different areas. Burn trees, flowers, and grass and whatch it spread. This is possible with the new Render Pipeline updates.
The starting from scratch upgrade came with better UI systems for making the game. Using Unity UI Toolkit I can make tools that make creating the game a lot faster and much more easier for level designers.
There is a lot of benefits that came from restarting from scratch and updating to a newer version of Unity. Original Immortal Chronicles was made with Unity version 2019.3
Current version is Unity version 2023.1.
Yeah four years worth of engine updates to make my life a lot easier and giving me a lot more tools to work with.
So yeah, it was worth starting over for. Got to learn a lot working on the original version letting me learn how to make cleaner and better code systems making game development cycles faster which means faster updates.
I will be making a new GameJolt page for the remake version.
I will share it in a new post when ready.
Next up
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
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.
Ocean Generator - Unity 6 Render Graph API, Compute Shaders, and Job System.
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.
Alright guys time for some art updates. Here is a couple animations for our first couple NPC. https://gamejolt.com/games/immortalchronicles/445565
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 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.
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.
In progress throne for our save rooms being made. Thank you to the projects artist for working so hard on Immortal Chronicles with me. https://gamejolt.com/games/immortalchronicles/445565
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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