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 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.
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
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.
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 for the in alpha project immortal chronicles. 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.
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
Some zombie art from the team's artist made from our early stage project Immortal Chronicles. 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
So working on the first set of monsters for the castle area. #screenshotsaturday. Hope you guys like the zombie. Still got a long ways to go before alpha 4 build for the game. Aiming to have new monsters and rooms by Friday. https://gamejolt.com/games/immortalchronicles/445565
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