Welcome one and all to our weekly Dev Blog!
This week we’ve got behind the scenes on James animation progress, our 10K Gold Giveaway and details on our Spotlight revamp.
The update forecast: There’s a storm brewing in the dev cave, and it’s not just the coffee! Expect V0.17 this Friday!
NOTE: Apologies for the lateness of the blog – today has been very busy preparing for the patch!
V0.17 – Relics
Relics is a huge update coming on Friday, we originally planned to have some juicy info in this blog about what to expect… But we’ve been super busy making sure the update is ready to go out. Sorry about that!
On the positive side on Friday (almost tomorrow at this point!) you’ll be finding out in full glorious detail what the update contains AND actually be able to play it!
I can say this, there will be blood!
Animation Progress
James has been very busy working with the animations in The Black Death. James has started to recreate all of the animations in The Black Death from the movement, interactions and combat! There are over 120 new animations that have been created.
Here are some behind the scenes videos showing off a selection of the new animations making their way in game. Please note that many of these are a work in progress and are still being tweaked and changed.
Here’s the full view of all the animations. The movement and interaction animations are at the front and the Combat animations are at the back.
Here’s a full view of all of the Combat animations:
Here is a close up of some of the Movement and interaction animations:
Here is a close up of some of the Combat animations:
To view these in their original high quality format, check out the Dev Blog over on our website:
Dev Blog #34: Animation Previews, 10K Gold Giveaways & Spotlight Revamp
Server Stats
We have made changes that will now allow us to collect more stats from our main official servers, this should help us to keep an even closer eye on how things are running. This change should be included in our upcoming update this Friday.
10K Gold Giveaway
A big congrats to @UndeadVikings and @jgage_22 for winning Monday and Tuesdays 10K Gold!
In the build up to our next update V0.17 – Relics, we have been giving away 10k Gold everyday over on our Twitter! To have a spot at winning this generous amount of gold simply re-tweet and like the four tweets at 8am, 4pm, 6pm and 11pm (BST time). The winner for today’s draw will be announced tomorrow at 2:22pm on our Twitter and Thursdays winner will be announced at 2:22pm this Friday.
Community Spotlight Rework
Our long time readers will remember a segment called Community Spotlight where we featured community made content such as video series & streams, fan art, Player written blogs, screenshots and more. This feature will be making a return starting next Friday the 4th August and will be newly named “Community Showcase”.
This spotlight will be sandwiched between our updates, so every Friday there will be a brand new update and every other Friday there will be a showcase feature. We hope mixing these two together along with our Wednesday Dev Blog segment will be enough written content to tide you all over!
That’s all for this week!
// The SIG Team