Possible MMO

[Xhukari]

Oh I like that. Should work well!

 

[Ellie]

So I splurged out and I'm now Patreoning PVGames $20 a month. Gets me a lot of goodies.

New sprites - more wildlife now although they're mostly domesticated. Though we do get wild horses around Birmingham.

Updated graphics (you can just about see the difference)-

Also lots of tilesets.

Never used this style of cliffs before. First attempt -

Hundreds of decals for grass and ground types so even a massive field won't be boring.



Considering purchasing a premade MMO skin, but there's the risk of just becoming an asset flipper.

Something like this:

(But that's graphics ripped from the screenshots for the actual materials as I haven't bought them yet)

 

[Xhukari]

The new stuff looks good. The tilesets have like a 'painterly' feel to it.
I don't know how I missed that a lot of the old animals have no shadows...

You could grab a skin, it does look quite nice. I don't think you'll have much issue with being an asset flip; you're putting in effort unlike asset flippers!

 

[Ellie]

So I think this water is better than the last one.



Hills need some work; very blocky.

 

[Xhukari]

Oh yeah that water looks much nicer! Not sure what those 3 shadowy things are in the water, by the broken bridge? At first I thought they might've be tortoises...

Making hills not look blocking in an isometric view definitely isn't an easy one!

 

[Ellie]

Yeah they're turtles :p I was experimenting with wildlife.

 

[ZenVirZan]

So the new question that that then leads to (look, there's a lot going on in my head): could the game handle every one of those trees being an event?
If every tree evokes a parallel process event for it's respawn time that becomes problematic so I may have to think of a better way of handling the respawns. However if cutting down a tree was more substantial than simply clicking it - I'm thinking some kind of minitask (not quite a minigame, but think Skyrim lockpicking) - then there shouldn't be many trees respawning at once.

respawn shouldn't be client side so the tree events should be just dumb placeholders, a script should manage whether they're visible/cut or not

 

[Ellie]

I need to start taking this seriously. That includes finding/creating a better place to post updates, maybe some kind of discussion forum, pre-website, idk.

Anyway, I splashed out on some graphics so now I have high-res ones of the mockup above.

I think I'm pretty settled on that.

 

[Xhukari]

Hot damn, has it been this long since an update?! :shock: Time flies, eh?
Looks great though! You must be excited. ^^

 

[Xilef]

I need to start taking this seriously. That includes finding/creating a better place to post updates, maybe some kind of discussion forum, pre-website, idk.

First step before any of this is to make a working prototype and get some people testing that out

 

[Ellie]

Oh aye.

So first thing's first, I'm gonna strip back my web server, reinstall everything and start afresh. Brand new everything.

So pre-first thing's pre-first, I'm gonna make sure my backups are actually complete and functional.

 

[Ellie]

Rebuilt the chat system using PHPBB3.

Also, demonstrating scaling.

 

[Ellie]

Possible main menu? Not sure if they really match the UI.

Edit: no, they don't

 

[Nathaniel3W]

They're fine. Function over form. After you've finished everything else, you can come back and worry about menu icons.

 

[Ellie]

This is true.

Though I've swapped them for gold to match the trim, added a Guilds icon, and a HP bar.

HP bar slides down out of the menu's way.

 

[Ellie]

Quick mockup of the in-game forums.

Working in-game:

How they could look once skinned:

 

[Ellie]

I have to start character creation all over agan -.-';

Because I let you login using Facebook and other apps, there is no registration screen as such. Which is what I had piggybacked for my character creation screen.

Sucks badly.

 

[Ellie]

Potential character creation scene but I want to declutter it somewhat now. Seems too text-heavy.

 

[Xhukari]

I like the idea! And I agree about it being text-heavy; the descriptors seem superfluous to me.
What's the deal with the "I don't know that!" buttons? I guess the one near the colour question opens like a swatch window for changing the outfit colour or something? If that's the case, I would personally be tempted to put the button under the hair colour option, and drop the question text altogether.

Is the one near the name like a randomiser? If so, you could save some space by having it be one of those circular buttons, but with the image of some dice! It could tie in well with 'More information' buttons to pop up the text descriptors, if you want to keep that information available.

Keep it up! I love following the progress.

 

[Ellie]

It was sortof a pun on Monty Python. (The guy on the bridge asks those questions and the bloke says "I don't know that!")

Clicking them would randomise.

But I can forego a lame pop reference for the sake of cleanliness.

New attempt - split forename and surname so as to have less players finding their name is already take. Also enforces a style of name, like Guild Wars, which lends to roleplayability.

Randomly generated names will have certain in-game easter eggs, such as you may find an NPC you are actually related to if you pick a certain surname!