I will keep this post pretty short because most of the new stuff you should really see by playing yourself. Nonetheless, below are some screen shots of some of the new characters. However, you really have see them in action to really appreciate the awesome animations.
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| Trying to survive a robot attack |
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| How did sea golem's get on my boat!? |
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| Twerps spawning from a portal |
Another new feature that is introduced in this build is the ability to go on an excursion onto an island. In the future we plan to do a lot of different events that will take place on islands, but for now there is just one simple one to test the feature. Most of the work this release went into building a framework that can randomly generate islands on the fly. So, pretty much every island that you go to in the game will be a little bit different. The system is pretty interesting as it uses an alteration on a classic midpoint displacement algorithm in order to generate the terrain. In the future as we fill out the island content much more, so I am sure that I will have more to say about it then!
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| Wandering around a random island (test graphics) |
As always, thanks for following along and beware of the many bugs you are sure to find in the build! Below is a list of the major changes in the build if you are interested. Also, don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comments.
---- v0.9 Ship Notes ----
- New more realistic
water sprites
- Add new human
sprites
- Make humans NPC's
able to equip and use various types of weapons
- Add Twerp enemy
type which is small and fast
- Add framework for
random island generation
- Add new Twerp
Portals event
- Add Steam Robot
enemy type
- Add Gas Skeleton
enemy type
- Add island event
(test graphics only)
- Major perf
improvements to the sprite manager system
- Add Fishman enemy
type
- Add Sea Golem
enemy type
- Make enemies able
to have multiple attack types
- New Portals event
type
- New events for new
types of enemies
Hello peoples. This is my first time posting about our progress. A lot more of my art design is starting to appear in this build. We have been working with my designs for some time getting them ready for this build. The big robot Sam posted a screen shot of is pretty fun.
ReplyDeleteSo, art direction wise, the robot is a great subject for some of what I am looking to do here. Much of what we have put together so far has been just the basics. We need a basic character who is very sound and works pretty well. We need a few different monsters to fight as well as just basic dudes. We needed a ship. So the robot is an example of how I am going to start telling stories with the character design. A monster like this would have taken a group a long to assemble. I am designing a culture to go along with this metal monster. I am designing armors and clothes and ships and places that are associated with these people as well. In future builds, you can expect to see more of the folks who put the robot together. I already have some basic armor put together. I also hope to include some animated elements on basic characters, spinning cogs on guys arms or on their weaponry.