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The Dragonloft: November 2014
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This is the devlog for the Dragonloft. Our current project is Hellenica, a tightly-paced JRPG that explores a steampunk take on ancient Greece. Friday, November 21, 2014. Sorry for the delay folks, I've let the blog slip the past couple weeks. In hopes of winning back the favor of our Internet patrons, I have a couple offerings in the form of consumable digital media! I'm still just using our 3 test textures, but it already looks much, much better. The game's really starting to come alive! As a preternat...
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The Dragonloft: Transitions
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This is the devlog for the Dragonloft. Our current project is Hellenica, a tightly-paced JRPG that explores a steampunk take on ancient Greece. Sunday, May 10, 2015. Sorry our updates have become less regular as of late; it's been a period of change for Dragonloft. There's a couple reasons, but the biggest one is that I've accepted a programming job in California. My motivations for this move are mostly personal, though we certainly appreciate the financial stability that my employment gives us.
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The Dragonloft: March 2015
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This is the devlog for the Dragonloft. Our current project is Hellenica, a tightly-paced JRPG that explores a steampunk take on ancient Greece. Saturday, March 28, 2015. These difficulties made following a conversation's flow in our dialogue tool difficult, and our non-programming writer found the tool overly complicated and confusing. So we decided to experiment with a new tool, Thoth. There's still more work to do, but here's the current version:. 3 These buttons set up different branching behaviors.
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The Dragonloft: Monday Update #3
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This is the devlog for the Dragonloft. Our current project is Hellenica, a tightly-paced JRPG that explores a steampunk take on ancient Greece. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. This is going up a little past the due date, but hopefully you'll forgive me. We got a little distracted by Rocket League tonight. ;). Fixed some long-standing issues with the animation system. Implemented social hub UI for all existing social hubs. Moved party customization so that it occurs after the intro cinematic and objectives reveal.
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The Dragonloft: Monday Update #2
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This is the devlog for the Dragonloft. Our current project is Hellenica, a tightly-paced JRPG that explores a steampunk take on ancient Greece. Monday, July 20, 2015. Another Monday, another status update! Updated visuals for each actor's in-world UI. More social hub background music. AI reasoning about multiple abilities. AI reasoning about abilities that target multiple tiles. Added a new ability for Nephele tentatively called "Sky Shot". Made moving platforms play nice with new 3D game positions.
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The Dragonloft: February 2015
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This is the devlog for the Dragonloft. Our current project is Hellenica, a tightly-paced JRPG that explores a steampunk take on ancient Greece. Friday, February 27, 2015. Clearing up Some Rumors (in Thebes). I’ve had some exciting tasks this week, including tracking down a particularly tricky save file bug as well as providing support for a mystery feature we'll hopefully be revealing soon. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Code Dive: Custom iterators in Hellenica (Part 1). There's a bit of background info I'll...
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The Dragonloft: August 2015
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This is the devlog for the Dragonloft. Our current project is Hellenica, a tightly-paced JRPG that explores a steampunk take on ancient Greece. Tuesday, August 25, 2015. This week I'm down in LA finalizing some story details with Victor and his new puppies! It's good to be back in the same space working on Hellenica again. Between the game updates and dog distractions, I put together this short video that hops around a few of the cities the party will visit along their journeys. Tuesday, August 11, 2015.
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The Dragonloft: April 2015
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This is the devlog for the Dragonloft. Our current project is Hellenica, a tightly-paced JRPG that explores a steampunk take on ancient Greece. Friday, April 24, 2015. Sprite palette swapping with shaders in Unity. As any game developer knows, asset reuse is your friend. Whenever the design calls for a new character, I often turn to our existing assets to see if I can create what we need more quickly and cheaply than contracting out another character sprite sheet. Start of the technical bit! Before divin...
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The Dragonloft: December 2014
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This is the devlog for the Dragonloft. Our current project is Hellenica, a tightly-paced JRPG that explores a steampunk take on ancient Greece. Friday, December 19, 2014. It's been a while since we revealed any new characters here on the devlog, and with Christmas coming up soon, I thought it only appropriate to introduce you to our very own Santa look-alike, Anaxagoras! Our other character strongly related to steam technology. Our basic approach included:. Add lots of tools and tool pockets. We wanted A...
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The Dragonloft: The first Monday Update!
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This is the devlog for the Dragonloft. Our current project is Hellenica, a tightly-paced JRPG that explores a steampunk take on ancient Greece. Monday, July 13, 2015. The first Monday Update! Wow, sorry lovely readers. You have suffered some serious neglect, and for that I apologize! Consider this the first Monday update post! What we've been up to:. New social hub UI (this deserves its own post later). New sound effects to support social hub UI. And be sure to loop it! 3D game positions. This might ...
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