Developer posts and news about this game.
The power of the Scrolls-like platform is that there can be many levels of gameplay in a single game, and they fit together because of the world simulation, character customization, and narrative aspects work together to create a lot of possible experiences. Because I’m building
In thinking about the different systems and the ways I want players to interact with them, I have decided that health should only be curable by potions, or in specific locations. Typing this now, it basically sounds like Dark Souls flasks and bonfires, although that is not how I
There are many types of AIs used in games. My two favorites are G.O.A.P. and Utility AI. In All Hail Temos, I use Utility AI as the primary decision maker. In this post I’ll explain why, as well as give some technical details on how I am implementing this. I will also include an
There have been games with branching narratives for a long time, such as Mass Effect which gave different endings, but also different details such as which of your companions survived, and would come back in sequels. So, it can be said that while branching narratives are not comm
One important aspect of having a first-person open world RPG, like All Hail Temos, is to have a good coverage of cases for how your NPCs will react to the player, and to other NPCs (allies and enemies). In this post I am going to go over how I’m breaking down the work to cover a
Due to how frequently games are hyped up, and fail to deliver, or even fail to release, I think it’s important not oversell my game. My goal is to keep the messaging very small, because as a solo developer I am limited in what I can create in a given time frame. I’ve been program
In a previous blog, I wrote about how All Hail Temos would have “Many Adventures vs a Main Quest”. Now I want to show what some of these adventure structures look like. All Hail Temos is a Scrolls-like first-person open world RPG that focuses on character and world-driven stories
In a previous blog entry, I wrote about how to balance stats with skill groups, or how your stats map to groups of skills you can learn. In this entry I will describe an overview of the initial set of skills in All Hail Temos. Skill Groups Skill Groups are groups of skills that u
I previously wrote about how saving is actually rewinding time in All Hail Temos. When you play, the game is always keeping track of what you do, so that you can rewind it to any previous time, replay from there, and do not have to specifically make save points. You can even rewi
In the last post I wrote about how adventures are entered into from different potential paths, and then you get different results, based on how you got into it, but I only touched on the different thing I want to do with All Hail Temos from the standard RPG’s main quest & sid
The standard model for RPGs is to have a main quest and side quests. The main quest is usually a big epic world-ending problem, that the player is taking the part as a Chosen One to solve for a unique reason. There is a big bad guy, and they need to be stopped, and you need to st
In many RPGs, and specifically Scrolls-like games, carry weight is something that is there to add realism to the game. The items you pick up have a weight, and you have a limited amount of strength and endurance, so the more you carry, the slower you should go. Or, there should b
8 Directions & Combos Melee combat in All Hail Temos is based on two systems: An 8 Directional Swing system, based on the direction you are moving. A customizable combo system, the sequence of 8 directional swings you perform, while keeping a chain of hits. The purpose of the
In my Scrolls-like first person open world RPG All Hail Temos, one of the most important systems is the Narrative System, which handles conversations between the player and NPCs, or NPCs and NPCs, or NPCs speaking out loud in exclamations, and is also in charge of managing the qu
Continuing on the discussion from my last post I am now going to describe how I am balancing what skills you can use based on the stats you selected. Skills are things you can do, and I put them into skill groups named: Combat : Related to fighting Influence : Related changing pe
How to balance an RPG? There is no perfect answer, and instead I think it can be described as “What you do is what you get.” You are building a system, and from the functioning of that system, you will get the results that system produced. It seems redundant to type it out, but i
Kicking off the Devlog series for All Hail Temos, this is how I implement saving the game, but instead of normal save game files, I want full timeline Rewinding, so the player can travel back to any point in the past, at a certain granularity, and then play forward from there. It
I did this interview a few weeks ago, and talk a bit about the development and goals of All Hail Temos: Just to update the current basic roadmap: - A Prologue Demo in late August or early September - Steam NextFest in October - Launch in EA in late October or November - About 3 m