This week we’ve continued to push ahead! Right now we’re working on an odd factory in the midst of the snowy fields we’ve been talking about recently. Here’s what the exterior looks like right now:
The Christmas Present, an enemy we’ve shown a while back, will be one of the many challenges lurking around within the Factory. Instead of normal projectiles, we’ve gone with a more explosive approach!
Aside from building the factory exterior, Vilya has also kept on remaking portraits. Here’s the latest batch of those, all inhabitants of the winter area:
With the latest Frontline update, the story is slowly but steadily starting to take a more central role. With that, some of the more important characters have been in need of some touch ups. Just like Marino, your friendly neighbor Luke has received a graphical update:
(Now, we know there are many more sprites that could use some touch-ups as well, but for now we’re only going to focus on characters that play some part in the main story. We want to keep pushing ahead, after all, and remaking too much would quickly turn into a time sink of black hole-ish proportions where we get better at drawing and remake graphics in a never-ending circle. Therefore we’ll try to save most touch-ups for the post-production, so bear with us until then!)
Not just his hair looks good, the scarf looks bigger the belt suits him and his hands are more detailed, too. Nice work o.ob
Oh just noticed shadow improved, too XD
It’s awesome everytime you look at it you see another nice detail ^^
It’s like when i started the game the first time, the first thing i noticed was the dustcloud that pops up when you stop running and stand still, i was so amazed from that little detail that i was just running and stopping for like 2min straight xD
I am hyped for the snow area.
Mr and Ms Santa look pretty young
Oh hey, I got a present.. WOHA!
I do not prefer that kind of gift. It looks cool tho, I like it. Want to see what’s in the factory.
By the way: Youve convinced me, the weekly beta updates are cool. I see it as a series now. Every week or month new content! ;)
That explosion looks really small, especially compared to the size of the bomb. You should probably beef it up a little bit.
Can we hear what your total sales to date are next update? Super curious.
Fred (administrator) wrote at 25/06/2014 21:13:@Drugs:
Yeah, we’re already on it. The explosion in the animation was just a place holder, we hadn’t had the time to playtest the area were you will face the Present-enemies when we posted the animation.
We’ve done some proper playtesting in the last couple of days, and I personally like the initial encounter we have planned so far, it’s has a pretty cool dynamic compared to other fights in the game.
Hopefully you guys will be able to playtest it in the near-ish (whatever that means) future! I’m stocked for your feedback!
I know you guys have a lot of influence from Ragnarok, but that’s too much for me… Copying the idea of the Toy Factory?And Myst Case?
Mrs Clause looks a bit off. I think it’s ’cause it looks like she’s wearing two opaque disks instead of glasses (not clear).
Luke’s new sprite looks awesome.
Bob: really? Ragnarok made up the idea of Santa and a toy factory? I never knew that all this history was invented recently..
The factory sounds interesting! When I first walked into the snowy area (the only little area that’s accessible) I was amazed, it looked so beautiful! The hair is a huge improvement, it shows how much you guys have improved.