Thanks I recognize it!
I am again to TigSource with an enormous replace — it has been a while! We’re working in direction of launching an alpha in August, adopted by a Kickstarter marketing campaign!
We’ve plenty of content material, so I am am splitting the alphas into episodic content material. Chapter 1 is what releases in August.
Battle System & Battle Sprites
We have made an incredible quantity of progress on our battle sprites. To void an enormous put up, I’ve taken the courtesy of mixing all of them right here:
The method of placing them in is already underway:
video: https://streamable.com/qxvf8l
I’m specializing in hooking the sprites into the prevailing system based mostly on Mecanim Animation Occasions. Then, I am going to polish over their timing and the velocity of the battle scene.
I’ve heard suggestions that calls the battle scene too gradual, so we’ll be including a Maintain Z key or gamepad A button to go 1.5x-2x the velocity.
There’s extra battle sprites to return, however I’m pleased with them!
Dialog System
Our Dialog system is almost full.
video: https://streamable.com/56hmws
That is the beginning scene of the sport, the principle characters driving a carriage:
I’ve written all of the dialogue for “Chapter 1” and about 25% of Chapter 2. Chapter 1’s dialogue spanned 48 pages in a screenplay type of format — I anticipate Chapter 2 to be method longer.
Anyway, our Articy integration has gone properly. The final impediment is queuing occasions to happen earlier than or after a sure “Dialogue Fragment” is performed.
Our answer in the intervening time, is “Ghost Dialogues”. Dialogue Fragments that haven’t any objective however to queue customized actions within the recreation engine:
As soon as we have a powerful deal with on that, I will likely be including all of the dialogue and utilizing built-in and writing customized occasions.
UI
We’ve fairly a little bit of UI on the best way:
Our UI code has been refactored properly and we have begun with easy choices menus:
World Map
That is truly STILL in progress. Understandably so, it is mega hi-res and has many distinctive areas. The next is a WIP focusing solely on terrain detailing:
Making ready for Kickstarter
I’ve nailed down what our backer rewards will likely be and plan to shoot a video close to the tip of this month.
First, I wish to create a superb cinematic that can present earlier than the sport begins & initially of the video:
It is based mostly on the longer model I posted under. It is about 8 seconds and 58 frames, so I’ve an artist working to animate ti as pixel artwork:
This will likely be a collection of 8 seconds fade out and in environments that’ll play for about 50sec. I think about we’ll be beginning with simply the one, nonetheless.
Merch and Prints
I’ve discovered a superb offshore supply for getting some customized letterman varsity jackets achieved:
About 4 samples have been ordered for round $120 a jacket after transport.
I realized a bit about textile manufacturing. To make the tip product nearer to my expectations, I took the freedom of getting the embroidery on the jackets premade and the manufacturing facility solely has to plug within the information to their embroidery machine:
All due to Etsy.
We even have 100% hemp tees being made:
I will be sporting the tee and the varsity in my Kickstarter video. I went to Kinkos and have a big print of the sport’s cowl:
These will likely be backer rewards as properly.
I’ve additionally requested the creator of our world map to ship me the bodily copy of the uncolored model.
With the sport’s cowl, uncolored map, and my apparel, we’ll have plenty of nice photographs!
Mailing Listing
After talking with BackerKit, they’ve despatched me this:
About two days again, I took the time so as to add Mailchimp to the web site and begin our mailing checklist.
The web site alone will not do, so I had an concept. Utilizing my previous webdev expertise, I created a mailing checklist blurb that performs initially of the demo:
video: https://streamable.com/yxz208
Will probably be skippable by holding House bar or gamepad X for 3 seconds.
The thought it to show all our alpha gamers into mailing checklist subscribers! It ought to be simpler than the web site’s by far! I pulled it off utilizing Finest HTTP/2 for net requests and utilizing Mailchimp’s API.
That is about it! Thanks for studying!
I might recognize anybody who likes the sport and my updates to join our mailing checklist!
