Happy new year guys!
We hope you’ve all had a great Christmas as well as a good start to the new year! The three of us took some needed time off and spent some quality time with friends and family, absorbing energy to make this year as productive as we possibly can. Hopefully all the amazing support you’ve given us during last year will carry over to 2014!
Since we pretty much just landed from the holidays we don’t have much too show this week, but we’ve managed to scramble together something!
We’re doing our best to give each area in the Arcade Mode its own unique challenges, and the Flying Fortress is no different! These little trinkets will take the torch from thorns and beehives at making adventurers’ lives miserable.
The yellow crystal will continuously spawn new random enemies until it’s destroyed, while the red flying thingamajig is part of a bullet hell challenge (a recurring theme during the dungeon in Story Mode)!
Meanwhile in code land… Arcade Mode multiplayer takes its first steps!
Yes, I agree with that, I’m sure the quality and effort put into the graphics is probably what convinced most people that they need to look into this game the first time they saw it. And I know I for one, and hopefully many others, saw that the same quality and attention to detail was going into every other aspect too.
I don’t care if the game takes 10 years to come out, because obviously it’s not going to age, hehe. It’s already the best looking sprite game period, and there’s no competition for that title. And it’ll be super awesome and worth playing when it does come out.
Man! Every week I just cant wait for release so I can collect and do everything!
The pixel art is just perfect. And the frames that animate the art just has so much style!
This game is like a dream to rpg players! It is sad that the big de elopers don’t do graphics and gameplay like this anymore… I can’t wait to play it! Hope i can join the beta
How is chat going to work, if it will exist at all?
Arcade mode multiplayer! This is exactly what I wanted! I wanted to ask about it but now it is live!
Looking forward to the Flying Fortress arcade mode part, it seems to be picked with lots of cool new features.
Happy new year!
Sogomn
Wow! A lot of people will have a lot of fun with the multiplayer! The game is looking great! I hope 2014 will be a good year for you guys.
I forgot to ask a question: In which programming language are you making the game?
Theodore (administrator) wrote at 08/01/2014 23:50:@Mienk: The players can press enter to chat with each other, which will display in a chat bubble over their heads as well as in a little chat log to the bottom left!
@Sogomn: The game is made in C# using the XNA 4 framework
Do you have any idea when this game will be released? What about releasing the game on early access?
No one else notice the LotR reference!?
@Chris M: You mean “Fly, you fool”?
I’m not sure releasing in early access is a good idea unless they really need the funds. Games gain a lot of interest when people can play them, but then have a good chance to lose it before their proper release.
I really enjoy how much the game isn’t affraid so show off how pretty it is, especially considering it’s all sprites. A lot of Indie and retro-esque games always go for dark dungeons and shadows everywhere. It’s nice to see a bright game that doesn’t look like some free-to-play flash browser game.