Journal

We’ve now completed the mapping and mechanics of the White Mage’s prologue first dungeon – the Coastal Cave! This is one of our more ambitious dungeons thus far and features tidal mechanics where you must avoid the high tide to avoid getting  washed back to the beginning of the cave. We also populated the area with numerous small animals such as crabs, fish, and seagulls. We’re slowly figuring out the most efficient way to create maps like this which will ...

We are continuing our effort to convert our draft menus into finalized designs. Our recent focus has been the Victory Aftermath menu which plays whenever the party is victorious in battle. It shows information such as EXP gained, SP gained, overdrive gained, and any enemy drops/gold.

The old design was purely functional and lacked style. It was also a bit cramped because it attempted to fit everything on a single screen which can be preferable when possible; however, in this case, ...

As our development team continues to play other classic RPGs for inspiration, we realized that a key missing element in the Last Dream II battle system was showing the probability of inflicting status effects. It can be frustrating not knowing what the probability to inflict a particular status effect is and whether you are wasting your time trying to paralyze, blind, or confuse a powerful enemy.

We have recently added a new heads-up display element to battle that will show the ...

While game testing, we found that changes in status effects during battle could be difficult for players to track. This is especially true of status effects that naturally have a chance to wear off at the beginning of each character’s turn.

This post shows a small video clip of the new status effect popup that we’ve added to battle to help track the addition and removal of status effects. The video shows the Knight inflicted with weakest variety of Blind (called ...

Our graphic artist (www.twitter.com/unclebladey) has created a beautiful original piece of art for our title screen. This piece is a so-called “Yggdrasil Celtic Knot” where the roots of the World Tree Yggdrasil interleave to form a variety of celtic knot patterns. The tree does have an important place in the Last Dream II storyline, but we’ll save that for a later time.

For now, please enjoy the Last Dream II title screen video. Have feedback? We’d love ...

We’ve compiled the results of our recent poll on whether you would prefer to see our team play-through a prologue and release it as a post or whether you’d prefer to wait until you can play-through yourself.

75% voted for waiting until you can play-through yourself, so that is what we shall do. This means that we will prioritize updating our menus (which are purely functional at this point) so that they are closer to their final versions before releasing you.

In ...

We don’t usually show map interiors, but we thought we’d make an exception this time for the Galice Inn. When playing, you get a somewhat smaller perspective and can’t (usually) see the entire area. That smaller perspective is important for dungeons so that some mystery remains as to the proper path. We thought it might be interesting to show the entire map of the Galice Inn.

Although Inns aren’t utilized much in the character prologues because of the opportunity to rest ...