Secrets of Grindea » Weekly Recap #25: More Characters, Interior and Effect

This week we spent writing the major cutscenes that will be found in the beginning of the game. These things might change slightly as the game evolves, but should still tell the story properly.

Vilya also created the inside of the headquarters from last week:

Clickety click!

For now there are only three doors, but after the beta we plan on adding special rooms that will unlock as you progress on your adventure and gain rank within The Collectors Guild.

Fred spent the time making some more NPCs, ready to move into the soon bustling city.

We plan on making all our NPCs (save for the guards) special in some way, and in the end most of them should have at least one quest related to them. We’re doing our best to make sure it’s not just a bunch of the traditional “go kill 10 slimes” and try to come up with different types of activities for your character to participate in, but for the beta we might keep it simple to give people a chance to get familiar with the basic systems.

Other than that, we decided to spice up the spell casting graphics a little, adding this effect when releasing a charged spell:

The color will vary slightly depending on what type of spell it is.

Posted by Secrets of Grindea at 2012/05/15. Tags: animation, indoors, npc.

Kinhoshi wrote at 15/05/2012 02:57:

If you don’t already have one planned, you could make an escort type of quest. *shrug* Like, say, a guy on a horse with a wagon going to a neighbor city to deliver some supplies, and needing you and/or your friends to help protect him along the route. That’s a tiny bit different from the “kill x amount of enemies” “gather x amount of items” type of quests. Or you could even do something like having to protect the city’s borders for a few minutes from waves of enemies. Just a couple suggestions.

Achti wrote at 15/05/2012 18:10:

a few more ideas for quests: never give the player a number of mobs he has to kill or a number of items he has to gather, that just feels like grinding. Make the person WANT to grind by giving him a task where grinding is the way to accomplish it, but not the goal.
for example: not “gather 10 wolf skins” but “craft a wolf fur armor”. How the player gets the wolf skins for that armor is his to choose, farming, trading or buying it from other players. Or make the player kill a boss that only spawns if you anger him by killing enough of his minions.
Just killing a number of respawning mobs to complete a quest isnt really satisfying, but fighting through a army of monsters to reach a boss or a treasure, that feels awesome.
just some suggestions ;-)

Adam wrote at 16/05/2012 20:09:

Looking good :)

I think both the ideas suggested by Kinhoshi and Achti are brilliant ideas.

Making all the NPCs have some sort of important role is a good idea. A friend of mine once suggested that in RPG type games, it would be good to actually see the NPCs out and about on their daily business (e.g. A blacksmith could be out mining for materials, a baker could be out looking for ingredients etc.). Maybe you could implement something like that into Secrets of Grindea.

Whatever you decide, I look forward to seeing what you come up with. :D

Robert wrote at 17/05/2012 11:26:

Crappah

Unknown wrote at 18/05/2012 10:27:

Dis game needs more SEX!! [insert Troll Face here]