Hi Wanderers,

We hope you've been enjoying the new Water Domain room! I've been struggling to find a Winter's Bite these past few days but I'm sure I'll get lucky (with my divine infused Treasure Hunter's Flask). We have been working on the water biome recently, especially the new minigame we announced The Frost Trials!

I want to try something new today and share a bit more of what goes on behind-the-scenes - specifically some of our work designing the Water Domain - let me know what you think! Also, please find the current Gauntlet standings at the bottom:

Recolors

One of the challenges we faced early on while developing Mythic was creating a color palette for each of the unique biomes in order to create a distinct aesthetic for each. Specifically, finding a color that matches both the feel that we are going for in the biome as well as the designs of the unique mob/boss - and the need to achieve this without clashing with the existing mobs' color palette.

After a lot of trial-and-error in GIMP, we finally found a color palette for the tiles that we liked, though this did result in us changing the colors for the slime mob (slightly). We're really happy with how the tiles ended up - here's a comparison of how the Water Domain looked like pre-recolor (you can also see a lot of the pre-recolor mobs, too) vs how it looks now:

Tiles then:

Tiles now:

Slime mob then (back when it was called "bouncer" internally):

Slime mob now:

Water boss

The water boss is the Avatar of the Water Domain and will be part of our full release. We can't wait for all of you to experience fighting (and dying to) this boss - we had a lot of fun designing it. For all the domains, we modeled the boss to be a bigger, scarier, and more powerful version of a mob present in that domain. (Find any similarities between the fire wisp and the fire boss? Take a second look!)

Our initial designs of the water boss had legs - we quickly removed these to be more consistent with the slime mob. There's also another small (but important) tweak we did in the face design between the old and the new one, see if you can find it below!

Water boss before:

Water boss now:

Gauntlet - Global Leaderboards

Once again, players pushed the boundaries with brand new all-time highs in both NA and EU.

Here are the current standings for the NA server:

Ozymandias continues their reign with 65 waves survived. Yours truly (PoroTime) rises from 7th to 3rd place All-Time, now tied with Raokar.

Here are the current standings for the EU server:

Wain leads globally with 66 waves survived, a new high. Pantherus rises from 5th to 3rd place All-Time.

Thanks again for stopping by today's update, hope you found the details on our work in the Water Domain interesting! If you'd like to share feedback about the game or just hang out, come join our Discord.

Cheers,

Poro
Abyssal Studios