New week, new area! We decided to venture underground for this one, but we still wanted to keep the lushes nature of an outdoors area. So we simply decided the combine the two, to create Mount Bloom.
Filled with enormous mushrooms and strange vegetation, the cave system of Mount Bloom is one of the oldest and largest in all of Grindea. Home to both hostile creatures and friendly crystal miners in need of help, Mount Bloom is a true test for even the more experienced collectors. Poisonous spores act as a natural defense for anyone who ventures to deep and some even say the caves used to be nesting grounds for dragons.
In other news, Teddy and Fred have finally got a proper work station set up! While working on the kitchen table definitely had its perks, it’s nice to have the “office” up and running.
Since Vilya lives all the way down in the Netherworld, we have set up Teddy’s good old Netbook to act as a permanent satellite uplink!
Moin
The underground area looks really great, but could use some more shadows in my opinion. I’m curious about the enemies to come :).
Only one question remains: When does the beta continue :>?
Grüße,
regards,
the Toast
Mount Bloom looks awesome! I like shrooms (even to eat).
When is the next update? The last one was month ago”
No, don’t get stressed, it’s okay – great work, as always!
Sogomn
Wild Arms :D
The artwork you guys keep coming out with for this game are so detailed and unique and Mount Bloom looks like it will be an exciting place to explore. Keep it up :)
“In other news, Teddy and Fred has finally got a proper work station set up! While working on the kitchen table definently had its perks, it’s nice to have the “office” up and running”
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“In other news, Teddy and Fred have finally got a proper work station set up! While working on the kitchen table definitely had its perks, it’s nice to have the “office” up and running.”
(sorry)
Those cave tiles turned out great
Vilya (administrator) wrote at 04/05/2013 20:12:Hey guys! Thanks for your comments :)
The reason we haven’t updated the beta in a while now is because we’ve been working full speed trying to finish the dungeon. Fred and Teddy are still working hard on putting the last things together, such as the main bossfight, and after that we need to make sure the co-op functions properly with the new stuff as well.
Ideally we would have wanted to update much more during this time, but because we’ve been struggling with living in opposite ends of Sweden/Europe until recently we haven’t been as coordinated as we would have liked. Creating a dungeon is much harder than making a regular area as we have a variety of puzzles and bigger fights to take into consideration, and so not being able to communicate on a regular basis has been (excuse me) a pain in the ass.
However, now that those problems are out of the way, we hope to finish the dungeon ASAP and will launch the update as soon as we think everything works properly (sorry I can’t be more specific yet). After that we expect the updates to be a bit more frequent for a while until we run into the next dungeon.
We do expect that the next dungeon will be completed a lot quicker than this one, but again, a dungeon will always take more time than a regular area so I feel like it’s important that you know that updates won’t always come at the same frequency, and there might be a longer break like this again in the future (hopefully not as long – but you get the idea).
Thanks again for showing your support, it means the world!
Man, I cannot wait for this game. I check the dev blog at least every two days. The cave is beautiful, but the comment about needing more shadow is, in my opinion, accurate. You guys could do some pretty lighting effects with the crystals to play into that maybe? Either way, looking lovely and very professional. Really excited to see if I’m able to beta test, signed up on Desura :D Regardless, I will be getting this game day of release. Keep up the phenomenal work!
Moin
Take your time guys. I’d rather have a complete game than a rushed game that needs 5 DLCs to become playable.
Grüße,
regards,
the Toast
You know, this is the first time I’ve heard some actual ACTUAL news worth reading. Keep it up, hope to see that update here in the coming months (That’s a joke, I hope its not that long. xD)
Mount Bloom seems like a very interesting and mysterious place. I have no doubt the enemies we may encounter there will be just as eerie as the setting seems to be.
Looks like a proper place to find some epic loot haha!
Good to see you guys are settling into the work place as well. As always, keep up the great work and good luck.