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We’ve been hard at work updating art throughout the game and we’ve been able to utilize that new art in one of Magos’ prologue dungeons – the Temple at Karnac. We’re excited to show off the sandstone temple floors and walls as well as large dragon skeleton that Magos will encounter on his journey through the ruined temple.

In parallel, we’ve also been developing the cutscenes that tell the story of how Magos joins the party in Last Dream II. It ...

Our update of the Moros Ruins dungeon art has been completed! The map of the first floor with the original art is shown below:

The updated map with completely updated art is shown below:

 The good news is that much of this art will carry over to other areas, so updating other areas should be a quicker process. For additional detail on the statue, skeleton, door, and other art comparisons, see our recent posts. We are now turning our attention ...

We all remember the classic game Final Fantasy V, right?

 Wait, that’s not right at all! What’s going on here?!

 This blog post is part of a series on the WGRPG Tournaments.

The Motivation

We’re about one year away from the next WGRPG Tournament, which will feature Final Fantasy V (Pixel Remaster). In order to make things more fun, we modded the game to add in custom character names and sprites. Also, because it’s awesome!

We’re also releasing the app we wrote to the ...

Over the last week, we have been rapidly developing the towns and dungeons for the Black Mage’s prologue. Magos (the Black Mage) hails from the desert continent of Nibiru and during his prologue you’ll explore the divided city of Akkad, the Temple at Karnac, and the Desert of Burning Sands.

The Temple at Karnac and the Desert of Burning Sands are roughly complete. The cutscenes that tell Magos’ story prior to when the party coalesces are about halfway done. ...

We have been busy over the last few weeks on several fronts including rapid dungeon design, Last Dream Fishing Arcade mobile development, and updating environmental art for Last Dream II. The latest improvements to the environmental art can be see in the image below showing a comparison of the new (left) and old (right) skeleton art:

The old art was a suitable placeholder so that we could continue development and complete mapping; however, the level of detail and shading realism ...

Our main focus at this point is rapidly developing the game up through the first major milestone in Last Dream II. This involves mapping 5 new towns and 8 new dungeons. We’ve recently added all the roaming and battle music for all of these areas and we’re now working on adding the enemies and enemy groups that you’ll encounter.

In parallel with those efforts, we are going back through completed areas such as the Gray Mage’s Moros Ruins and improving the ...

Our map menu development continues. We’re now mostly into the polishing phase and have added several important elements to have map menu including:

• A map title showing the location and continent (top center)

• A legend showing the meaning of the various symbols

• A controls section to show how to pan/zoom/toggle the map

The save point, entrance (where you entered the map), and any exits to the map are also now shown on the map.

We’ve also implemented min and max zoom limits and ...

This post, the third in a series on the Last Dream II World Map, focuses on the remaining continents that haven’t yet been discussed. The image above shows the continent of Agartha home to the Olmec Empire and a few other smaller, independent cities. Players who select Shuar (the Lore Master) will get to explore Agartha during the character prologue.

The continent of Mu (north of Agartha) is home to the nation of the same name. For centuries, the people ...