SpellRogue Development Blog #2
Greetings Spellslingers, Tim here!
This is going to be a smaller post, but I’m excited to show off some of the things that I have been noodling on for the past few weeks. As mentioned in the previous dev blog, the Fire and Earth characters are getting a new coat of paint, and I personally think they are turning out really great. Some of the main things I wanted to improve were the animations, poses and making their proportions a bit more "heroic" and unique.
One of the details I’m particularly happy with is the dynamic physics for cloth and other things that move depending on what the character is doing. Check out the dice-necklace in the Earth Wizard gif for example. Small details like these really makes the characters much more believable and feel less static.
I am also continuing to improve things across the board and the fire wizard got a few improvements last week along with some upgrades to the Wizard Select screen. There is still animation timings to tighten up and adding proper graphics for spells, so it's safe to say that there are still much work to be done on the character side of things, but tasks are getting worked on at a steady pace.
With the upgrades for Fire and Earth, the Water wizard and his spells are feeling painfully out of date and not at the quality level that we want. The Water wizard design itself is still interesting, but we definitely now want to tweak and improve it even further. The next playtest/beta update won't have graphical changes for him yet, but rest assured that he will get the same treatment over the coming months. I am definitely also looking forward to updating all the water spell graphics to be at the same quality as the new fire spells!
Water Wizard concept art by our friends at Ghost Ship Games.
In other news, our current short term goal is to get the next playtest/beta build out in about a week's time, but we still have some UI improvements, balance and bug fixing to do first.
That’s it for now, we’re very excited to see what you think of the coming changes!
Tim
This is going to be a smaller post, but I’m excited to show off some of the things that I have been noodling on for the past few weeks. As mentioned in the previous dev blog, the Fire and Earth characters are getting a new coat of paint, and I personally think they are turning out really great. Some of the main things I wanted to improve were the animations, poses and making their proportions a bit more "heroic" and unique.
One of the details I’m particularly happy with is the dynamic physics for cloth and other things that move depending on what the character is doing. Check out the dice-necklace in the Earth Wizard gif for example. Small details like these really makes the characters much more believable and feel less static.
I am also continuing to improve things across the board and the fire wizard got a few improvements last week along with some upgrades to the Wizard Select screen. There is still animation timings to tighten up and adding proper graphics for spells, so it's safe to say that there are still much work to be done on the character side of things, but tasks are getting worked on at a steady pace.
With the upgrades for Fire and Earth, the Water wizard and his spells are feeling painfully out of date and not at the quality level that we want. The Water wizard design itself is still interesting, but we definitely now want to tweak and improve it even further. The next playtest/beta update won't have graphical changes for him yet, but rest assured that he will get the same treatment over the coming months. I am definitely also looking forward to updating all the water spell graphics to be at the same quality as the new fire spells!
Water Wizard concept art by our friends at Ghost Ship Games.In other news, our current short term goal is to get the next playtest/beta build out in about a week's time, but we still have some UI improvements, balance and bug fixing to do first.
That’s it for now, we’re very excited to see what you think of the coming changes!
Tim