Hello and happy valentines day to everyone (one day early, but hey)!
Sadly(?), today’s update does not have a lot to do with romance. Instead, we focus on character creation, since it has been our main focus this week!
The week started off with Vilya creating and later adjusting haircuts together with Fred. A few mishaps later they ended up spending almost three entire days (not even kidding) adjusting clothing colors. Imagine how tired they are of that by now!
In the end everything turned our quite well though! We currently have 30 different clothing colors (per item) to pick from and 8 different haircuts per gender. There will be more as we move on though, so fear not! Hopefully you will all have a favorite style before we’re done with the game ;3
Anyway, there really isn’t much more to say. Instead, have a look at this video with commentary by Fred, which shows everything you need to know about the character creation:
Other than that, a lot of you guys asked us about the beta last week and how to get into it. Because we wanna start off small, we’ll begin with inviting people we know and have worked with previously. After that, we’ll expand more and include people from outside our circles. When the time is near we’ll let you know of a way to sign up, don’t worry!
Next week: We remake the GUI for keyboard users and add more skills!
Needs a bald haristyle broseph
This is what I have to say to beta testing :P
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/playtesting
Menus are turning out great. Very tranquil-like (thats a word, right?:). Love the feel!
Character creation looks pretty good.
I have a couple of suggestions:
I’d suggest having some arrows for the user to click to rotate the character rather than (or as well as) just pressing tab.
I’d probably also add in some sort of tree (can’t think of the proper term) to illustrate how far into (and in what section of) the menus the player is. That would make navigating the menu much less confusing.
I agree with chicken man, I bald hairstyle would be cool and probably relatively easy to implement.
Just out of curiosity, what were the “mishaps” that happened with Vilya and Fred?
Secrets of Grindea (administrator) wrote at 20/02/2012 23:57:Thanks guys!
@Adam: We had an arrow at first, but because of how we designed the menu, we felt that it was not needed anymore. We’ll let people know how to turn their character around somewhere once we’re done with everything :3
Hopefully the layout of the menu will be clear enough at that point as well, but we’ll definitely think about adding a tree if people have any problems finding their way around!
The mishaps were simply a few mistakes that were made that forced us to redo things a few times. But if there are no mistakes we learn nothing, so it’s alright!
Epic win! I wanna test this game so badly xD
Just loving the pixel graphic.. old school is amazing!
Make it one of the greatest games ;D i belive that you ppl can!