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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 ...

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.

The mage-like ...

This 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 ...

We’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 ...

We’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.

Although we’ve started mapping a few locations in the White Mage prologue, we’ve returned to the basics and completed the roaming sprite for the White Mage. The full sheet contains 8 frame animations for idle (e.g. standing still), walking, and running poses, each with front, left, right, and back views.

With the roaming sprite complete, we’ll now move onto the White Mage’s battle sprite which is the sprite used during battles and includes a separate idle, injured, unconscious poses as well ...