Picking up from last week, the three different types of Wizards are now in the game and working properly. The Wizard is a ranged support type of enemy, with each variation having its own unique special ability. Just like their melee counter-parts, the Wizard can only use their special abilities if the current season matches its color.
Click to see the animated GIF!
We have tried our best to make each Knight/Wizard pair have a set of abilities that work in symbiosis with each other. As seen above the Summer Wizard can imprison players, making it harder to avoid the Knights heavy hitting special attack.
The winter Wizard can summon a Ice Shield around a target monster that will slow and damage players within close range. The shield can be destroyed by shielding, attacking or taking damage from it. Paired together with the agility of the winter Knight, it could turn into a deadly threat!
Last but not least the fall Wizard can summon a bunch of tornados that move around at a seemingly random pattern. Players getting too close will be sent flying into any nearby enemy. The tornados can also fuse with fall Knights performing their Spinning Attack, making them super charged in terms of speed and damage.
Vilya has kept on making portraits! Here’s some of her WIP’s from this week:
And here are the finished sprites:
Can the next update be a timeline road map to release?
Theodore (administrator) wrote at 29/10/2014 16:49:@Sogomn: Maybe we should get Riley composing a parody track for an Arcade Mode whirlwind challenge or something :D
@Rodney: I think such a post would be much less interesting, or at least informative, than one might believe. The reason being we can’t give that “timeline” aspect, which is what people would be truly interested in. If we could, we’d have a release date!
At best we could make one of those “this is what we have done and this is what we want to do”-things that Starbound did (and seemingly removed because now I can’t find it).
The abridged version of our internal road map:
* Two more “regular” dungeons
* The final dungeon
* Keeping Arcade Mode parallel
* Adding fluffy things to areas (quests and secrets)
* Housing
* Some PvP minigames
* An arbitrary amount of polish (combat balance, tweaking enemy behaviors, etc)
One can extrapolate and try to figure out the development time based off existing content, but all our own attempts as doing this has proven futile, so we’ve reconciled with our shortcomings and just soldier on to make the best game we can.
Sorry we can’t provide you with a better answer! :C
What you have is good enough for me. It’s always nice to see the “what’s been done” and the “what’s still to do.” It keeps things in perspective and gives folks a vague idea of how much longer the wait is going to be.
Thanks!
Secrets of Grindea is Darude Sandstorm confirmed?
Dang I cant wait to whack those new enemies! How dare they summon bushes around me!