Unseen Studios

After a very nauseating flight home (ever ride a 30-seat propeller plane through an ice storm?) I have been coding like crazy, which is why I haven't been posting here

I believe I am on track for an early-January pre-beta release. And not just in the hackity hack super hackjob way that I did before! Old system: 4 enchantments, no support for dispelling enchantments, 16 bytes PER CHARACTER to display enchantments. New system: 2 bytes per character, 8 simultaneous enchantments of about 27 unique types, plus support for invisible enchantments like Almus, poisoning and Nocte Visus.

As of this morning, the enchantment system is implemented and I have tested a Velocitas-like spell (including a nifty special effect!)

I'm going to add some more cool special effects, then I'll show some new screenies.


A side-note of something cool I found: a "curing" spell is just an enchantment of the "poison" type that deals 0 damage and lasts for 0 seconds. Nifty!

sounds promising! Keep up the good work

damn that ride sounded like it sucked..

but at least you got to code without any distractions

Can't wait till pre-beta, getin jittery

haha, me too!

gj keep up the work man

Sounds good keep up the good work. I'll be waiting to see them screenies...

Enchantress wrote:Sounds good keep up the good work. I'll be waiting to see them screenies...

Great idea! I'm sure we'd all like to see some of the stuff in the open-beta before it comes out

If you remember, a little while back I mentioned that the next update would include multiple maps.

Today, I'm implementing that feature. It's not quite as difficult as I had imagined, and it actually led very nicely to a few new features:

• Transporting between maps requires some sort of "special" map tile, so I implemented that
• These special map tiles don't just have to teleport you: they can also do cooler stuff! They can be triggers for special enchantment effects, shrines, traps and more--even some stuff Xen never had. For example, shrines that give you a really powerful enchantment but only work once every few hours...or only work when you've triggered other things in the game
• Different maps need different atmospheres. I'll be working on implementing a day/night/weather system. I've done this before, so when I start it shouldn't take too long.
• Also, music. I have done this before, too.

I haven't released any screenies yet because I haven't quite had enough time between coding new features to add stuff that's shiny and fun-looking. Plus, the monsters aren't back in the game yet My priority is to (1) finish this mapping stuff this afternoon then (2) get those monsters back. I'll do a demo video + screenshots at that point, and make a couple of small maps showing off the new features. After that, I think its REALLY time for me to get the kickass physical combat engine integrated. Finally, I'll add in items again. At that point, it'll be pre-beta!

It's on the horizon, you guys!!! Almost there!!!!!!

Can't wait to check it out! HURRY! No not really take your time and get it right.

Enchantress wrote:Can't wait to check it out! HURRY! No not really take your time and get it right.

Haha well I'm hurrying to get it right...how about that

Maps are finally finished and debugged! You can now move between any number of different maps To test things out, I made a simple cave.

Next up: baddies! I've got a couple of new friends for you guys that might be fun, too



oh, also! a new melee skill I thought up that might be cool: deflecting arrows with a spin attack. would need some balancing but I'd love to implement it.