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[McMutton]

A day may come when KoE is in a playable state, and a majority of the game is complete and beta-worthy, but it is not this day.

One of these days, though.

Thanks for that link, Gimym! I'd seen the thread before, but haven't considered how to apply the knowledge contained therein.


Weapons shop guy, Jaerem:

[Beaulamb1992]

Good to see this here! i saw this first on the Polycount forums, its awesome to see how much this has come on

[McMutton]

Thanks, man!

Check me out, I got walls o' clouds:

[gimymblert]

news! news!

[eigenbom]

Awesome!

[McMutton]

You guys are my favorite.

I got a decent idea concerning how the world is set up a while ago. As you can see by my badly rendered image here, the entirety of the world is suspended in air amongst the branches of an incredulously large world tree, a la Yggdrasil:



So there are giant branches twisting through everything:



The more you knooooooow



Also, moon:

[McMutton]

Hey look, a front gate:



And a mockup of a loading screen icon:

[McMutton]

Windows, yo

[McMutton]

So I've just noticed the strangest issue crop up:




Seems like parts of the model that are parented to the armature are vibrating around. Currently being looked into, but man that's so weird  


~Thanks to Reddit, though, I've discovered that it was because I somehow managed to start building the level at -20,000 below the scene's origin point. Whoops. 

[McMutton]

Just blocking out the level exterior:

[McMutton]

Made a few gifs to show off what I've got for combat thus far. Each of the characters has their own style.

Ellie deals moderate damage over a wide area with combo attacks:




Gil does immense damage to single targets, and his attacks can be charged:


And Van does the least amount of damage, but he throws punches as fast as you press the button. His hasn't been implemented yet, unfortunately. Poor Van; always getting left out.


Bonus moon gif:

[gimymblert]

Why I have strong skies of arcadia vibes suddenly?

[SolarLune]

The clouds look kinda weird in the first gif - I'm guessing it's because they're all pretty close in size and shape. Maybe adding some variance would be nice. However, in the last gif, everything looks pretty awesome. Really nice texture work!

[McMutton]

Skies of Arcadia? Awesome!

Aye, seems that they look better when they're larger, so I'll fix that up.

Meanwhile, I finished the basic exterior for Garolle's manor:

[McMutton]

Sketched up a design for mounts that the characters use for mid-distance travel; basically the equivalent of horses.



These things sit somewhat like cats, so the things on the back of the saddle act as stair steps that allow for easy mounting. Steering is mainly done by leaning in whatever direction you want to go and allowing the creature to correct itself.

[McMutton]

[gimymblert]

I said skies of arcadia? forget that I wanted to say secret of mana; hello flammy

[eigenbom]

Wow, you do a great job of going from sketch->model, call me impressed! You have a lot of detail in your models, which is great; but the duration of  development this game is going to need will make mine look like a weekend jam. Just curious, what's your next milestone and when is the beta going to be ready?

[McMutton]

Thanks, Eigen! You're right about the development time. it's mostly because I have a terrible work ethic, I think; need to batten down the hatches and work more consistently.

The next milestone will be completion of that fancy castle's interior. As for the beta, I wanna say somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas, perhaps.

Speaking of the interior, here's a room that's almost done:

[ShrackAttack]

This game is still one of my favorite on the Devlogs.  The art and music have a lot of character and work really well together.  I especially love all of the character designs.

My offer still stands for helping with SFX design.  If you need any, just let me know.