Update v0.3416 | 1 year anniversary | Work on ACT III has started |
Hey guys.
I wanted to let you know that the game is now one year old since October 26th :D
Lemme rehash how all came together.
One night I had the idea of making a time travel game. The idea was that you would be actually able to travel to any date in time :D
So I spent the night with a donut and some coffee to work out the basic structure of driving a car / time system / a tracker, which would record the cars actions and so on.
From there I started on a basic story. I was thinking of you selling things to an antiquities shop. The original inventor (who was your co worker) was kidnapped in this version of the story and was forced to work on inventions for the time agents.
This is the original plan for the map. I am sure some of it may actually look better than it does right now. Some might have looked worse. What I am saying is if you liked some of the original plans let me know and I can see if I can implement it :)
This antiquities shop later became E.R. Athors lab. And the inventor himself was now the shop owner, instead of being kidnapped. Originally his shop would have been a shack next to the Burger Lord (As a nod to BTTF with docs shack next to the burger king)
I dropped that idea at some point but you can still see the shack. It is just somewhere different. It is now the blacksmith's shop.
Incidentally the Weathermachine quest (and the character E.R. Athor) is a story I pulled entirely from a semi abandoned RPG I never released. So there is this whole back story. The game is called Dark Sea. It may get a real release at some point, thought it may be an entirely different game by then.
Of course this is not the end yet but see how far we have come in one year. Let us see how far we can get in another one :D
I recently started work on ACT III.
This last act may take a bit longer, because not only am I going to revamp features or add new ones to the list.
I will revamp ACT I with an intro section showing how it all came to be (The escape from the facility and so on).
Act II may also get some changes to make a better pacing though I have no really clear goals on that.
To bridge this time gap I will continue with posting smaller side stories and things for you to do :)
Thank you all for bearing with me on this project and let us see where it all will go.
Here is a changelog for the past additions and fixes:
October 30th v0.33.9
-Hopefully fixed the item tracking
(Basically an explosion of spawning the same item in the same place)
-Added pumpkins for October 31st to decorate streets
-Added a cemetary
-Added many more candles to decorate the cemetary on November 1st and 2nd
-A few changes to the Time Machine visuals
-Added all Hallows eve, All Saints & All Souls Day as events in the Menu
-The Narrator has now more lines.
-The Smuggler in the alternate future sells now the MR. Crafty
November 2nd v0.34
-Made a japanese takeover of the economy in the future
-The burger lord now sells Chips&Sticks in the futures
November 8th v0.341
-Fixed the leviboard
-Items carried do not obstruct the player while walking anymore
-Fixed the inability to drop ingredients for jobs quests
November 9th v0.3415
-fixed an error in the tutorial
November 13th v0.3416
-Added a small locomotive to travel across the tracks
p3
-Fixed the issue with the Dialogue Box not fading away for certain Npc's
Cheers and God bless.
- Erathor
I wanted to let you know that the game is now one year old since October 26th :D
Lemme rehash how all came together.
One night I had the idea of making a time travel game. The idea was that you would be actually able to travel to any date in time :D
So I spent the night with a donut and some coffee to work out the basic structure of driving a car / time system / a tracker, which would record the cars actions and so on.
From there I started on a basic story. I was thinking of you selling things to an antiquities shop. The original inventor (who was your co worker) was kidnapped in this version of the story and was forced to work on inventions for the time agents.
This is the original plan for the map. I am sure some of it may actually look better than it does right now. Some might have looked worse. What I am saying is if you liked some of the original plans let me know and I can see if I can implement it :)This antiquities shop later became E.R. Athors lab. And the inventor himself was now the shop owner, instead of being kidnapped. Originally his shop would have been a shack next to the Burger Lord (As a nod to BTTF with docs shack next to the burger king)
I dropped that idea at some point but you can still see the shack. It is just somewhere different. It is now the blacksmith's shop.
Incidentally the Weathermachine quest (and the character E.R. Athor) is a story I pulled entirely from a semi abandoned RPG I never released. So there is this whole back story. The game is called Dark Sea. It may get a real release at some point, thought it may be an entirely different game by then.
Of course this is not the end yet but see how far we have come in one year. Let us see how far we can get in another one :D
I recently started work on ACT III.
This last act may take a bit longer, because not only am I going to revamp features or add new ones to the list.
I will revamp ACT I with an intro section showing how it all came to be (The escape from the facility and so on).
Act II may also get some changes to make a better pacing though I have no really clear goals on that.
To bridge this time gap I will continue with posting smaller side stories and things for you to do :)
Thank you all for bearing with me on this project and let us see where it all will go.
Here is a changelog for the past additions and fixes:
October 30th v0.33.9
-Hopefully fixed the item tracking
(Basically an explosion of spawning the same item in the same place)
-Added pumpkins for October 31st to decorate streets
-Added a cemetary
-Added many more candles to decorate the cemetary on November 1st and 2nd
-A few changes to the Time Machine visuals
-Added all Hallows eve, All Saints & All Souls Day as events in the Menu
-The Narrator has now more lines.
-The Smuggler in the alternate future sells now the MR. Crafty
November 2nd v0.34
-Made a japanese takeover of the economy in the future
-The burger lord now sells Chips&Sticks in the futures
November 8th v0.341
-Fixed the leviboard
-Items carried do not obstruct the player while walking anymore
-Fixed the inability to drop ingredients for jobs quests
November 9th v0.3415
-fixed an error in the tutorial
November 13th v0.3416
-Added a small locomotive to travel across the tracks
p3
-Fixed the issue with the Dialogue Box not fading away for certain Npc's
Cheers and God bless.
- Erathor