Just for the sake of bragging, I will show off a beautiful sunset picture that I took while on vacation in Hawaii this week. The early mornings were still free for me to get some indie dev work done.
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| This was the backdrop for my past 2 weeks of game dev'ing |
I am really excited about being able to take tactical command of your crew during a battle. This adds a much more cerebral element to the game in which you can plan out what each crew member should do next in order to survive an encounter. As a result, the interface is now something pretty similar to the game "Dragon Age" where you can give commands to your party as well as take direct control of one of them. While playing the game, press SPACE to pause it. While paused, you can click where you want your crew members to move or attack. Then, press SPACE again to un-pause and they will follow those orders.You can use TAB to switch between which crew member you are controlling at any given time.
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| Giving tactical orders to your crew |
The other main change that is in this build is the addition of classes for each of your crew. Every class has bonuses which change how the class is used best. The bonuses include things such as increased health or faster attack speed with bows. Also, each class has a special ability such as a healing spell or the ability to stun enemies. Ultimately, creating a good complimentary class composition for your crew will be critical to success in the game. Also, finding the right items to compliment each class member will be critical to reaching the full potential of that class.
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| Browsing through your crew |
Along with the class abilities, some items now have actions which are used in a similar way. For instance, there is a spell scroll which can be used to heal crew members just like how the monk can for his ability. Right now there are only a couple items that take advantage of this, but I intend to have unique actions tied to most of the items in the long run.
On a separate note, we have a team update which is that we have found a music composer to join the team. Our composer Riley is going to whipping up some awesome pirate tunes so people can look forward to hearing those in the future! He may also by involved in helping with sound effects and doing some of the coding for the game (depending on how much time he has).
Lastly, I hope everyone enjoys trying out the new build and remember to leave me your feedback on what you think about the tactical game play. The next build is going to include an art drop from Kurt to liven things up and we will be announcing the name of the game very soon. The list of significant changes in the build is below.
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- Add tactical crew
control (press space to pause)
- Fixed several bugs
around how the crew work
- Player can now
control any crew member equally
- Crew now have
special abilities which can be used
- Actions can be
queued up while in tactical mode
- Items can now have
an action attached to them
- Improve item
tooltips to be easier to read
- Added a window for
browsing your crew
- Lots of UI
improvements
- Added game balance
framework to help with tweaking the balance in the future
- Add a handful of
new items but most of them aren't fully complete yet
- Did an initial
balance pass. Much more to come though
- Added Heal area
action
- Added Stealth
action
- Added Stun area
action
- Added Mutli-shot
action
- Added Rogue class
- Added Barbarian
class
- Added Monk class
- Added Archer class
