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Shopping in progress…

admin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:38:19 +0000

I have managed to arrange some more time to spend with the game development and things are looking bright. I made a big refactoring round and I now have all item and NPC statistics in one place, so tweaking the game balance will be easy and … well easy. Perhaps fun even. I also started working on [...]

Dynamic NPC face generator test

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:46:48 +0000

Well, yes, I should be bugfixing and polishing the game, and writing storyline, but no. Instead, I have been playing around with Flash, trying to set up NPC face generator. Im not sure if this is something that will be in the game, but maybe I’ll use it in some other project in future. But anyway, [...]

Castle in the pine woods

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:43:48 +0000

I did some fast work on the castle tile set I found lying around some time ago, and they look quite good. I also created simplified version of the tree system – earlier one created trees dynamically using recursive code. Now I just have 10 different tree types, and the type used is based on [...]

Progress progress everywhere

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:18:04 +0000

Well suddenly I have been doing lots of progress, and the game is feeling quite complete now, featurewise. I have added several sound effects, some new monsters, And I’m in middle of finalizing the User Interface. There will be weapon stats and armor stats shown in the UI, so one doesen’t need to guess too much [...]

Swing the sword, climb the mountain

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:32:46 +0000

While playtesting the game lately, I had noticed that the combat was bit boring, so I decided to try different approach. Instead of relying to automatic melee based on weapon speed, I set up an action based melee system. So now you need to “swing” the weapon yourself, by pressing the quickbar slot ( I [...]

Map teleporting and gifts from strangers

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:40:01 +0000

I have made nice progress again. I implemented an item transfer to the quest system, and I also have a world map teleport functionality up. Now in the quest system, you can evoke three kind of dialogues: notification dialogue, where the NPC just says something to you dialogue that leads to accepting/denying getting an item from NPC dialogue that [...]

Concept art, as in “real games”

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:28:33 +0000

I have been suprisingly productive lately. First I created those funny monsters (check previous post), then I whipped up a Bog Imp, flying insect-like thing in mere seconds (well, it did actually take bit longer, to tell the truth) and now I have created a beautiful ghost mage lady. And this is just the graphics [...]

Ooze Monsters

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:14:30 +0000

I did some fast tests for a green slime / oozemonster and it appeared good, so I did some other “crazy” monster designs also. Funny looking stuff. I’ll make them move relatively slowly and deal A lot of damage… so they are easy avoid – unless you get caught on [...]

Map of the World

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:36:38 +0000

I made a world map test. Not sure how to incorporate this to the game, but now that I have a map, Im sure I’ll figure out how to use it =) I find that having maps like this trigger imagination and you sort of “find” the story with no heavy effort. [edit] Well hmm, yes, maybe [...]

No more heroes (with missing weapons)

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:23:57 +0000

Yes! I got the saving and retrieving inventory items to work finally! Hooray! There are some tidying up still to be done, but in practice I now can trust the system to work well.As a “side project” I have been working on a character image stuff (see w.i.p. image above), which I will corporate to the [...]