Winter Sale & Yearly Recap
As the end of 2024 is approaching, it's been a tradition to write a short wrap-up of what has happened in Overhead Games. ePic Character Generator Sale But first thing first, I want to say thank you to all of you who have been part of ePic Character Generator's journey in 2024, m
As the end of 2024 is approaching, it's been a tradition to write a short wrap-up of what has happened in Overhead Games.
Original post ePic Character Generator Sale
But first thing first, I want to say thank you to all of you who have been part of ePic Character Generator's journey in 2024, marking 10 years of generating awesome character images together. We wouldn't be anywhere without you. To celebrate this year's holiday season, we are offering all packs and bundles at 50% off between 19 December and 2 January, so make sure to take advantage of this deal while it lasts! https://store.steampowered.com/app/408930Temporal Shore progress
This year started strongly with lots of work put into Temporal Shore. While we had most design decisions figured out by the end of last year, we still had a good amount of discussion going on. By spring, we managed to implement a new layout and reshoot the trailer & screenshots so we could update the store page of the game, to better reflect the directions we were heading. To do this, we chose to create a story trailer with a voiceover, that helps to better understand the context of what's visible on the screen. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2335800/Temporal_Shore Some prominent improvements in design were:- While characters have already been personalities with names and specific abilities, we took this one step further, and introduced a "performing system". This means that each character has a set number of action points each turn, and whenever an action card is played, some or all of the characters who have available action points will perform this action. This brings the mechanics of playing cards even closer to survival games, where you have to perform various actions with your characters. The character you choose to act has a major effect on how some actions play out. In some cases, there can be a bonus on production, in other times, you can discover cards only available when playing certain cards with certain characters, etc. If the cards have some negative consequences, like characters losing morale, it's also important to use the ones you are happy taking a hit.
- Characters also have different gear slots where they can equip various items, and receive permanent changes to their stats and abilities.
- We wanted to make buildings more than just plain resource productions, so we introduced chain reactions. This mechanic allows us to build long sequences that can be triggered by playing a single action, and have different buildings, characters, or monsters react to it, transforming the gained resources into new ones, or triggering new effects on the playfield.
- While the game is, at its core, focused on managing resources, we wanted to make this resource gathering and production as exciting as possible, while also keeping the simplicity of card games. To achieve this, we came up with the idea of using resource subtypes, meaning you can produce either lumber or stone, for example, but they will be stored and can be used under the collective name of materials. This simplifies the amount of resource types you need to keep track of, while at the same type, also allowing us to create unique characteristics to each different resource type, making them different to play, and profit from different play styles and synergies. At this time, I won't go into too much depth, but as we progress, I'll be explaining more of this system in a later post, because I believe this will be very exciting to interact with.