This is a feature reveal for the upcoming Armello update, v1.9 From Below. You can find the update hub here.
Howdy folks!
Here’s the fourth feature reveal for the upcoming update, v1.9 From Below. Today we’ll be talking about Ramping Atmosphere.
In v1.8, The King got a lot of love in regard to his animations and textures, detailing his descent into madness as the game progresses. Now, the world will plunge into darkness with him. To talk more about this, here’s League of Geeks co-founder and director, Trent Kusters.
Something that we’ve always admired here at LoG is how masterful directors balance a contrast between light and dark and in the process craft truly magical worlds that retain a sense of consequence. They know when to take you down into the depths of their work’s conflict and when to let you back up for air. Duality and contrast has been a major theme of Armello since day one. Wyld, Rot. Day, Night. Etc, etc. However, even through our exploration of this, we’ve always felt that as games of Armello moved forward, the board’s atmosphere never truly reflected the King’s decline and the stakes our Heroes, and the denizens of Armello, faced. We’ve addressed this in our latest update, From Below. In From Below we’ve introduced a number of effects that will layer upon and around the Palace to reflect the King’s decline into madness and the growing presence of the Rot. Similar to Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and furthering our attentive balancing of dark and light, these changes will be localised to the centre of the board only. Thus ensuring that your adventures through Armello remain magical, whilst reflecting the reality of the situation. As the King’s Rot grows, you’ll see Rot Vines grow from the centre of the Palace, ravens will encircle the Palace in greater numbers, and the Palace itself will decay. As the King reaches the final throes of his madness dark storm clouds will appear. An omen of Armello’s end.
Throughout the duration of the game, the following effects will be introduced.
- Palace texture will progressively degrade
- Rot vines will progressively creep outward from the palace
- Ravens will amass above the palace over time
- A dark storm will brew above the palace over time
As always, please hit us up if you have any questions and please feel free to discuss below!