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FrozenShade

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  1. Our game Skullstone (which was presented here in WIP topic) is now on Greenlight. If you like it you can vote for it here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=870575498 You may also be interested in our official trailer:
  2. There is no decision about early access atm. For sure we'll release a free demo. We will try to distribute it via Steam and GOG.
  3. A lot of time has passed since my last visit here and there is a great progress in my project so I decided to abandon my old topic and start with new one. And the project is longer called 'untitled...', we named it Skullstone. Okay, progress and changes one by one: - Improved rendering The engine, JME 3.0 have only forward rendering pipeline, which is ok, if there are only 1 or 2 lights in the scene. Because Skullstone is placed in dungeons, we must have a lot of shadows, torches and other point lights. With 10 lights on a complex scene my old graphics card was dying. We reworked all engine's rendering pipeline and replaced forward rendering with deferred shading. FPS increased significantly. Later we added effects like 'blue night' and moved all color's calculation into linear space.: We also added SSAO: - GUI Look again at above screens, there were few steps with GUI. The placeholders you saw in the video in previous topic were replaced with something decent. After some time we changed it again to those round ones. - Monsters Dungeons aren't empty! There are monsters to fight. We started with something simple, just to test the animations and AI: Our first 'true' mob, Spider: Few days ago we made new ones: Soon we will have more of them! - Skills, Abilities and Magic The first thing I must say is that our characters does not have any 'class'. Everyone is unique - have it's own combination of skills and abilities. Abilities: They basically reflect how well the character is trained in a given domain. These domains are: using different kinds of weapons and armor, schools of magic, blocking, dodging etc. When gaining a level, characters get points that can be spent to develop their abilities. Some abilities are always active, some other requires an item to become active. A shield for example. Skills: From the very beginning, each character will have 3 special combat-related skills. When activated, skills will give to the caster (or to entire party) considerable bonuses. E.g. greater attack power, faster attacks, mana regeneration, but can also give penalties, e.g. lower defense, inability to move, hit point loss. Skills can be divided into three groups, according to the way they work: timed: The effect lasts for a fixed amount of time. When it’s gone, you have to wait to be able to reuse the skill. toggle: You can turn the effect on/off anytime. When it’s on, the skill will use up your character’s mana/hit points, so use it wisely!idle: If you use the skill, its effect will last until the nearest successful attack. After the attack is executed, the skills’s cooldown period will begin. Magic: We decided to make it simple. There are no runes, gestures or anything else that could make spellcasing characters hard to use in dynamic combat. To cast spell character needs an special item placed in hand, a proper ability and some mana. Click on item to cast a spell, that's all. - Monster's skills Yes, monsters have skills too, they are not limited to melee/range attack. To improve their fighting abilities they can buff themselves, increasing attack, speed, armor and so on. They can also heal their wounds. Here is a screen with buffed mob: Mobs can also cast debuff on player, and they have lots of them to cast: poison, disease, negative bonuses and the worst ones: slow, web, root or petrification. The main disadvantage of combat in grid based games is possibility to dance around enemy. Hit, move, hit, move and so on... Immobilizing debuffs should solve the problem, bub mobs have one more thing to use: an area-of-effect attack. So be careful... Ok, thats all for now, of course I'll write a post every time we make something new to keep you informed. Visit our FB profile, there are some comics about dungeon crawling. And watch our videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGEHc3p4Fjw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUhi5vpfB1A
  4. Hi everyone. I live in Poland and I'm programmer. Here is a game, that I'm developing together with friends. The game is inspired by such titles like: Dungeon master, Eye of the Beholder, Stonekeep etc. We are NOT taking pattern from Legend of Grimrock, which is actually nothing more than a copy of Dungeon Master. Things that will be different from classical, old dungeon crawlers: - side quests, - town with shops, - unique AI for every kind of monster - boss monsters. and few more... Here is a video of an very early version: And some screens: There are still many things to do, but I'm curious of your actual opinion.
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