We are wanting the next update bring our a lot more qulaity to the game that is very much needed. At the moment it is very obvious that the game is in alpha due to three main things.
Lack of monsters which we got done art wise. Mainly trying to balance out their stats and item drops. At the moment we got a couple more enemies to add in while removing the old enemies. The old enemies were placeholders.
The questionable combat flow which is improved a great deal in the next up date. Do note we are having animations done for the player for mid air attacks like bow, sword swinging, dagger stabs, and so forth to make mid air combat look better. At the moment we don't have animations for mid air.
And my personal annoyance lack of good UI art and UI experience for the players. Menu art could look better, information form UI could be improved a lot, and just a lot of small details that would give an overall boost.
The main good thing about this wait is it is giving us time to work on story, quests, and NPC ideas. We are also working on crafting recipes and item ideas. So the wait is giving us more time to think of the big overall picture. By the end of the month we should have the alpha out with some goodies.
Our goal is one major alpha a month. The first major alpha release aka the one we doing right now is slow, because we had to do artist searching. It took a long time to find hard working artist that can do the job good and proper. Now we found them it should go a bit quicker after the next update. We will have mini updates during the month too.
Mostly new rooms, new quests, more detail art, and a few other things. So here is to everything coming together this month.
Wanted to start off by saying sorry for the lack of updates this previous week. Art is taking a little bit longer for a couple things. Mainly UI art. Read the full article in the post for more.
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Started on the interior for the tavern. The tavern will be where you get quests and can gather information from NPC you made friends of. The tavern NPCs are just stock placeholder art for now and will be replaced later with more custom art.
For today's new art we got ourselves the low level boss door. It will end up animated with green fire in the eyes.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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