So, to make a long story short--I need a bit more time. I really am working my arse off day and night, but there always seems like there is more to be done. Joe and I are meeting on a daily basis now and we are trying to cut as direct a path to pre-beta (then beta) as we can.
Here's a YouTube video! You'll notice it's a little rough--I'm holding the sword upside down, some of the monster animations are wacky, you can see off the edge of the map... whatever. The game is working about 1000 times better now at its core. You'll notice a few fun things in the video: leap, attack run, bow-spin, hidden areas, swimming, walls that hide visibility, portals, dimension door (a portal from where you are to where you click), a buff, toggled character names, merchants (including a wacky guy that you can hit to find out how much damage you deal), multi-projectiles, lighting.
There are even more things implemented that aren't shown: my brother has custom-modeled and animated 4 completely unique races and around 50 unique items. There are bunches of other spell effects and spell types. You can fall into pits...well, you get the picture. There's a lot of new stuff in here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tAx_HCq4s8
Where does this leave us as far as release goes? Well, here's what we want to finish first:
- Our guild system involving the Geosids - this is the biggest thing left to do and will probably take a week or so
- Enchantments, area DOTs and a few other miscellaneous spells
- Spell/ability design for the 6 new classes
- Add a "pvp zone" where you can fight people without alignment loss or items dropping
- A day or two of random bug-fixes and touch-ups (key-binding screen, make the launcher give an update message, etc.)
- Import all of the media and design the pre-beta world
- Polish things up and release
As you can see, the list is fairly short. I would be understand if you guys are a bit frustrated at this point, being as I have been saying "soon" and then retreating to my world of code
However, I hope you trust that it's been for a good reason. I can actually see the end of my "pre-beta to-do" list on the horizon, and what we have been crafting is far more than just a Evidyon with nicer graphics and a few new features.
