It goes without saying that we at White Giant RPG Studios love playing RPGs almost as much as we love making them. As a group, WGRPG places a strong emphasis on competition and tradition – two values that are best exemplified by a series of RPG speedrunning tournaments that we’ve held on and off for over a decade.
This blog post is part of a series on the WGRPG Tournaments.
The Formative Years
The tournaments had a humble origin: while in college, the ...
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Our team (specifically Co-Developer Seth) recently created a new tool that will significantly speed up the process of cutting up the variations of a particular enemy after one variety has already been performed.
In this case, we’ve already performed the ‘cut-up’ process for the Spotted Toad and are now needed to apply the same process to Undead Toad which has the same form and shape but the details are quite different.
If we manually performed the ‘cut-up’ process again, it would require ...
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With the addition of some coastal areas in the White Mage’s prologue (the initial town of Galice and the initial dungeon – the Coastal Cave), we’ve been designing new animals to help make the areas feel alive. Some of the animals that we’ve created are a seagull (shown above).
We’ve also created crabs and fish as shown below:
We’ve also added butterflies to the Southern Dryades Forest to further enhance the immersion into these areas:
We have plans to return ...
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We’re excited to announce that the Hunter’s Prologue is complete. Although you may seem some posts in the future regarding some minor fixes or balancing changes to the Hunter’s prologue, the prologue itself is fully playable and has been tested on Story Mode as well as Easy, Standard, and Hard difficulty levels. The screenshot shows a teaser of the introduction of the major cutscene that changes the course of the Hunter’s Prologue.
We’re now turning our sights toward the White Mage’s ...
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We’ve made some minor updates to the Save Menu based on game testing that we hope will improve the player experience. The two changes are i) adding the party member HP and MP bars to the save menu and ii) adding the actual time of the save file to the display.
The first change was prompted when, after creating multiple save files at the near the same location in the game, we couldn’t easily determine the state of the party (e.g. ...
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As we continue to play test, we also continue to revise the flow of our menus. One notable change is the movement of sub menus from lower level menus (e.g. Skills) into the main menu.
For example, clicking on “Skills” used to open a new menu which had the “Skills Sub Menu” in the upper left hand corner with the three primary options (“Use”, “Learn”, and “Equip”) but we found that it took up too much valuable menu space in those ...
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It’s taken us a while to get around to it, but we’ve now implemented “rows” into the battle system for Last Dream II. As part of that, we needed to create a menu to allow the player to change the row of each party member. The screenshot shows the current draft of the menu with the Hunter (Atalanta) and the Princess (Ismene).
A bit of background on the row-based targeting system that we’re carrying forward without much modification from Last Dream ...
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The character prologues feature a variety of instrumental music to complement each setting. Our hope is that players will find the music immersive and enjoyable, while not being distracting.
While game testing, we noticed that the fire crackle sound effect we overlaid on the scene below was distracting, as if a character was drumming with sticks. To correct this, we repeatedly played the scene’s music while simultaneously testing various fire crackle sounds.
The original sound effect we selected before mapping the scene ...
Continue Reading → ShareAnother major character who you’ll meet during your Last Dream II journey is Starkad. Hailing from the Viking-inspired continent of Thule / nation of Vanheim, Starkad is a bloodthirsty mercenary who will do anything for another gold coin. He proudly bears numerous scars along with a lost eye. If asked about them, he will gladly recount with relish the deaths of every unlucky warrior who dealt those injuries.
Starkad first appears in one of the character prologues; however, we don’t want ...
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One of the things we would have liked to have done in our previous games is to have soldier sprites that were unique to each nation. Luckily, with the help of our graphic artist (www.twitter.com/UncleBladey), we’re able to achieve that goal for Last Dream II and have so far crafted unique soldiers for the two mighty nations of Delos and Vanheim. In this post, we’re showing the walking sprite for the Vanheim Soldier who will appear ...
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