Hello travelers! Are you enjoying your journey today?
Today, we'd like to talk about the evolution and behind-the-scenes of Lacerta, the protagonist and flagship character of Shape of Dreams, while also introducing a new NPC you'll meet in the future!
Why a Lizard, of all things?
"Why is the main character a lizard?" is one of the questions we get asked most frequently. First of all, lizards are cute, and unlike dogs or cats, they don't shed fur! They don't bark loudly, and they smell less!! Naturally, we ended up decorating our office with many lizard figurines.
Unfortunately, our development team can't keep real lizards yet, but turning our office into a lizard habitat someday is one of our important milestones.
In addition to our obvious love for lizards, we wanted to create a character that was more unique than the ordinary human characters you see in many games.
Lacerta's Early Appearance
It was quite a long process before Lacerta became what he is today.
In early 2023, we started developing Shape of Dreams with just two engineering students, and although we didn't have an artist on the team, we wanted to create a distinctive and unique character. That's when we thought of taking an ordinary hunter character and adding a lizard head and tail to create a lizardman. Surprisingly, this approach aligned well with our direction of maintaining uniqueness despite our limited artistic sense and skills.
He looks thinner, simpler, and slightly more goofy than the current Lacerta.
Lacerta Today
Later, in mid-2024, two artists joined our team, and we've continued developing Shape of Dreams as a team of four. With proper art experts on board, we redesigned all the characters in the game, and Lacerta underwent a complete transformation. After going through some intermediate stages, he now looks like this:
He's become much more handsome!
But it's still not enough. We need to add more lizard friends to the game.
More Lizards
To meet your daily recommended lizard intake, we're adding as many scaly friends to The Rapids as possible. As part of this effort, we'd like to introduce "Smoothie," one of the NPCs that will be added in the future!
Smoothie is a souvenir merchant traveling through The Rapids, whom you might encounter at a low probability during your adventures. He sells many souvenirs for those traveling through the dream world. Equip these souvenirs on your traveler to create your own unique fashion!
In addition to souvenirs, Smoothie will also sell mysterious treasures for travelers. You can get various levels of help for your adventure in special ways using Smoothie's treasures. Smoothie will provide various services, such as paying gold to slow down the Hunter, or offering special quests to collect more Stardust.
That's all we have to share today. In the next Travel Log, we'll give you a sneak peek at new Memories and Essences, along with our future development plans. We'll continue to work hard to create an even better game.
Thank you for your patience. Happy travels!
Lizard Smoothie Team 💫
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