Hello, fellow Elterians!
Long time no see. We are working on making Elteria Adventures a full playable game before we can bring you closed and then open Alphas. Which means bringing some things to levels at which it can be played as a game and not just a demo. And of course fixing bugs. A lot of bugs. This is our goal for the next few months and today we want to share with you latest progress.
Graphics overhaul
We are continuing working on graphics update that we started in the last major version. Full rework of rendering pipeline is a challenging task and we've been fixing bugs and bringing full features live since then. Some of the new features that are now possible include:
Night mode and day cycle
Dynamic lighting, lighting effects and glow
Water shading
Dark places and light sources
You could see in last DevLog that caves were bright, and water was boring. Now the game fully supports dynamic and static light sources, including moving lights from spells and creatures and fixed lights from things like torches.
GUI
Character creation and progress are two very important things for the game like Elteria Adventures. Last time we shown to you early design of character page, now it's making its way into the game.
We also added simple character creation page, but there is not much to look at :)
Other things
Mostly we have been working on fixing bugs, but they are not fun to talk about if you can't experience them yourself. We can show your reworked Gems! They were only concept arts in the last post and now they're in game and they look cool!
Current work
For the next few weeks we are planning on making first three Callings solid to play, implement character progression and add abilities for a few artifatcs. This along with level design and small impovements will make game playable in adventure mode. Stay tuned to see what we have in mind, it's going to be fun! ;)
If you want us to talk about other things or have questions, please tell us in comments or message us in social networks!
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