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In this post, we’ll present how we develop town maps. In this case, we’re using the initial town of the White Mage prologue, Galice, as an example. It should be noted that outside of the mapping, creating a new town, especially on a new continent which different flora and fauna requires the creation of a substantial amount of new art which somewhat slows the development process compared to if we could simply perform the map development.
As with all maps, we ...
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We’re excited to show that all the pieces are in place for the White Mage’s prologue in terms of starting to test the battles. In the image above, you can see the White Mage’s party (Elizabeth, Baaduri, Gaimi, and Gatsi) fighting two Undead Kobolds.
This is the first time in our testing that we’ve had a full party to play with since the Gray Mage’s prologue is a solo endeavor, the Knight’s prologue is a trio, and the Hunter’s prologue is ...
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In an effort to make each continent feel unique, we are creating new environmental art for the continent of Nysa (where the White Mage and Engineer prologues take place). In our previous games, we had a limited amount of environmental art which made it more difficult to make each area feel different. Although it requires significantly more effort, we think it will be worth it in the end.
So far, we’ve created a few tree variations for the White Mage prologue. ...
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Other than the Knights Templar, the other key organization in the White Mage prologue is the Red Crystal. The Red Crystal is a charitable organization whose mission is to heal the sick. With their immense talent for healing, White Mages are dearly sought by the Red Crystal; however, the Red Crystal is also composed of those without magical talents who are trained as nurses or as herbal healers.
The White Mages of the Red Crystal often joins forces with the Knights ...
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One component of our work on the White Mage’s prologue has been a focus on her magical skills. She has a very large variety of curative magic that allows for restoring HP, reviving dead party members, curing status effects, buffing defensive attributes, resisting elemental attacks, and attacking the undead.
We’ve implemented the mechanics for nearly all of her skills but haven’t yet finished the battle animations. We’re also roughly 25% complete with implementing the skill upgrades for the White Mage.
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Continue Reading → ShareThis is the final post in our series on the enemies encountered in the first dungeon of the White Mage’s prologue – the Coastal Cave. This post focuses on the Undead Kobold.
Kobolds are a race of so-called “underdwellers” that live in caves and other dank places. Kobolds, Gnomes, and other underdwellers are well-known as cleptomaniacs (thieves) and will steal anything they can get their claws on. Luckily, this Undead variety of Kobold is brain-dead and has lost the urge to ...
Continue Reading → ShareWe’re continuing our series on the enemies of the White Mage’s prologue, and more specifically, those encountered in the Coastal Cave (the first dungeon of the prologue).
This post shows the idle animation for the Undead Snail. Like the Black Slug encountered in the Knight’s prologue, the Undead Snail doesn’t have any clear joints to perform an animation, so instead we use a Shader to translate and deform the snail to give it a “slithery” feel. The Snail is separated from ...
Continue Reading → ShareWe’re working our way through the animations for the enemies encountered in the White Mage’s prologue. Our focus is currently on the enemies encountered in the Coastal Cave (the first dungeon of the White Mage’s prologue).
This post shows the Undead Toad which (you may remember from our earlier post on the new ‘cut-up’ tool) is a variation on the Spotted Toad encountered in the Knight’s prologue.
Our next post will show the 2nd enemy in the Coastal Cave, the Undead Snail.
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We were starting to begin the process of creating the White Mage battle sprite poses when we realized a problem. The original sprite (shown below) had a key problem. Can you see it?
The problem is that you can’t see the White Mage’s hand, which is fine when roaming around maps, but becomes a problem in battle when she must hold her staff or orb.
Luckily, there was a simple solution thought of by Co-Developer Seth. The White Mage is asymmetric ...
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During her prologue, the White Mage – Elizabeth – is accompanied by three companions: Baaduri, Gaimi, and Gatsi.
Baaduri grew up in the now mostly forgotten village of Rudia. He was raised not as a warrior, but as a blacksmith. At the age of 18 (37 years ago), he married another villager named Dalila and they raised two children, Gaimi and Gatsi. They lived happily, but uneventfully, for 10 years ago until the shadow of the undead arose in their small ...
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