Development News: Ancient Library
Hi everyone,
Work on the new update continues. As usual, unplanned features creeped so update became bigger than anticipated. No surprise there :) As I told in the previous dev-blogs, this update was about reading books to accumulate lore and purchasing treasure maps with this lore. Treasure maps will lead the hero to a treasure island which he can find a chest with a unique item in it. All is done and I played for a while. Then it occurred to me that there needs to be some kind of a hub for lore collectors.
We find books and statues randomly in dungeons and in battlemaps but what if we want to search for them specifically and make a lore collector career? We are in the mercy of the random gods. We have to find a town folk that wants us to bring back an artifact from the cultist dungeon. And inside the cultist dungeon we have to find a room full of bookcases. Or we may find an altar at the shrine of the forgotten god. But finding that shrine is also random. So hero should play the game normally and along the way he may find books and statues to collect lore. That is fine but what if I want to search for lore? There should be something besides playing the game normaly. So I decided to add “Ancient Library” to the game.
Ancient Library is a new type of building that will spawn on the overworld map at the beginning of the game. It is ruled by a new faction called “Lore Wardens”. Their power animal and trademark is an owl, representing wisdom and knowledge.
These people are actually very dedicated historians. They travel all around the world to collect lore and they always need help. So they give missions about lore collecting. Our hero can take quests from them to find newly unearthed tombs, lost libraries and ancient statues. So he can make a lore collector career if he chooses to.
There will be a treasure vault in this building so hero can earn rewards as he gains reputation. Rewards will be mostly valuable books. Elixir of Forbidden Knowledge may be a nice reward too.
That’s all for now. Thanks for reading. May the tides bring you triumph!
Work on the new update continues. As usual, unplanned features creeped so update became bigger than anticipated. No surprise there :) As I told in the previous dev-blogs, this update was about reading books to accumulate lore and purchasing treasure maps with this lore. Treasure maps will lead the hero to a treasure island which he can find a chest with a unique item in it. All is done and I played for a while. Then it occurred to me that there needs to be some kind of a hub for lore collectors.
We find books and statues randomly in dungeons and in battlemaps but what if we want to search for them specifically and make a lore collector career? We are in the mercy of the random gods. We have to find a town folk that wants us to bring back an artifact from the cultist dungeon. And inside the cultist dungeon we have to find a room full of bookcases. Or we may find an altar at the shrine of the forgotten god. But finding that shrine is also random. So hero should play the game normally and along the way he may find books and statues to collect lore. That is fine but what if I want to search for lore? There should be something besides playing the game normaly. So I decided to add “Ancient Library” to the game.
Ancient Library is a new type of building that will spawn on the overworld map at the beginning of the game. It is ruled by a new faction called “Lore Wardens”. Their power animal and trademark is an owl, representing wisdom and knowledge.
These people are actually very dedicated historians. They travel all around the world to collect lore and they always need help. So they give missions about lore collecting. Our hero can take quests from them to find newly unearthed tombs, lost libraries and ancient statues. So he can make a lore collector career if he chooses to.
There will be a treasure vault in this building so hero can earn rewards as he gains reputation. Rewards will be mostly valuable books. Elixir of Forbidden Knowledge may be a nice reward too.
That’s all for now. Thanks for reading. May the tides bring you triumph!