Titans of the Past News

Hi, Alex 13 here, with a regular update.

In a party-based RPG where fun comes from the mechanical depth, Classes have to stand out and differ. ToP's Classes already provide their rosters of skills and stat bonuses. In the future, we'll be adding 4 spell-like Abilities per Class. But for now, we've focused on adding meaningful Class Skills to further their differentiation.

Besides 33 existing Skills, we've added 35 new ones - one per Class. Many of them are pure stat bonuses, but we also have more intricate stuff.

A few examples:

• Bard's Aura that gives a bonus to Attack to all party members.
  
• Sage's Aura that gives a bonus to all Resistances to all party members.
  
• Shaman's Triggered Cast of Lightning Bolt on Melee Attack.
  
• A Heretic is a high-risk / high-reward Class - they can Curse both allies and enemies with any action.
  
• Druid gives stat bonuses to Summons.
  
• Twilight Cleric gets alternating bonuses to Spell Damage and Spell Healing after casting a Healing and Damage spell, correspondingly.
  
• Goblin Magus (yes, only Goblins can get this Class) have free cast options but can miscast a spell - and hit their own party with, for example, a Fireball.
  

Other stuff from this Sprint:

• A few new spells.
  
• New map finalized - Monastery.
  
• All Item bases have been created.
  
• Firearms weapon type added.
  
• Mage Weapons weapon type is now Ranged and makes pew-pew with magical energy.
  
• Added Resource pickable objects to speed your Town development.
  

Thanks for reading.

13, out

Alex 13, the game's Producer, plays Titans of the Past.

Hi,

Alex 13 here, with a regular update. Changelog for Sprint 28 below:

• Finished Crafting: mechanics, recipes, prices
  
• Added 5 Shrine Boons
  
• Implemented the death screen
  
• All chests can now spawn as Mimics (the actual monster will be Rat for now)
  
• Mage weapons like wands and orbs are now ranged and can pew-pew
  
• Town Hall upgrades give bonuses to Gold you loot
  
• Removed Max HP from mobs' HP bars for more clarity
  
• A video tutorial added
  
• Two new maps WIP - Swamp and Monastery. Monastery is 1 sprint close to the finish line
  
• Loot rebalanced
  
• All 35 classes added
  
• New logo
  

Hi, Alex 13 here, with a regular update describing the past sprint results.

Without further ado, here's the changelog:

• Steam Cloud Saves implemented and set up
  
• 4 new Shrine (store) Boons
  
• New internal stat for mobs' spell effectiveness calculation
  
• Fire Magic school fully implemented!
  
• Chain tooltips, like in Age of Wonders 4
  
• Crafting - WIP, to be finalized during the next sprint
  
• Renamed the game from Project MML (working title) to Titans of the Past
  
• 9 Personalities for characters added
  
• Town buildings costs set up
  
• Town buildings flavor texts and descriptions
  
• Tavern quests: implemented, added resources and XP rewards. Item rewards to go in the next sprint
  
• A few new spells VFX added
  
• Significant progress on two new maps: Monastery and Swamp
  

We decided to go the Last Epoch / Dwarven Realms route (both games are great, I recommend you play them!). You can add, replace, and upgrade Affixes on items, using limited and finite Crafting potential.

Fake screens below:




Current in-game prototype:




Thanks and see you in 2 weeks, as usual.
13, out.

Hi,

Alex '13' here. Project MMl always has been a working title. It stands for Might and Magic-like, but we obviously can't keep this name. So, after thorough consideration and intense discussions within the team, the game is now called Titans of the Past.


In our team, product and design decisions are made by me and Eugene - our GD/LD, and co-founder. However, the basis for major decisions is almost always coming from the team. We always ask, then evaluate, then decide. This time was no different. I created a spreadsheet where the team could put proposals, and we gathered a nice batch of possible names this way.



Then I created a poll in our Discord to vote. The idea wasn't to decide the name democratically - I don't believe in democracy in game development: from my XP, it's always better to have a final authority and responsibility within one person per area (design, code, marketing, etc.). But the voting results gave Eugene and me a perspective.

Here are the voting results:

Two names stood out, and were actually good:
Echoes of Adventures and Eat. Sleep. Adventure. Repeat!
The former was going to be our new name but is already used. The latter is great, but for a different type of game - it fits a silly and slipstick-humor one, like Goat Simulator, for example. So it was obvious we shouldn't use it for Project MML, which is a tough and complex, serious fantasy RPG.

This left us with Titans of the Past. We removed the suffix (Revival) to not overcomplicate the readability.

This name has two important meanings:
1. The pillars, core design, and feel of this game stand on the shoulders of the Titans of the Past themselves: games like Might and Magic, Wizardry, The Bard's Tale, and Eye of the Beholder. We pay our homage to the Grand Masters of the genre this way.
2. It supports our lore and fantasy - a thing which you, the players, will be able to uncover an experience once we release the game.

Please let me know what do you think about the game's new name.

13, out.