Showcase of the Skyclimbers engine

KICKSTARTER PAGE

• Discounted game keys
  
• Console release keys
  
• In-game exclusives
  
• Character plushies
  
• Original soundtrack
  
• Exclusive wallpapers
  
• Alpha testing keys

Kickstarter will empower us to make the game of our dreams faster, while also engaging the community to build a product they love.


NEW STEAM PAGE

- Paratope

We are excited to showcase our new procedurally generated world full of new locations and characters!

Miho in the plains biome:



Mage class and Miho Vs Okamito:



Procedurally generated forest and road:



Yagi camp in the magma biome:



The gloomy Drakonian coast:



Drakonian Isles "Ocean Biome"



2020 has been a tough year for the dev team, with COVID 19 making a big impact on our ability to keep up with development and other expenses.

Despite this we have pushed through, and are now closer than ever to bringing you an incredible gaming experience!



Above is our primary roadmap, which outlines a kickstarter to expedite development and bring attention to the game, followed by closed alpha and beta testing.

In addition to kickstarter, we will be launching a new Steam page, this way we can appear in the "upcoming releases" tab of steam.


To stay up to date during the transition make sure to join the steam community group or the discord!

Thanks for your patience:

- The Devs

Introducing, the Draconian dynasty. A noble society of graceful warriors, and high intellectuals. They Inhabit the northern regions of Lithan, and take a sabertooth companion as their sigil.



Within the great walls of their main City, Hi no Machi, the Raion is praised by statue and the banners hang from its highest peaks.




A large courtyard sits within the center of the kingdom walls. Here fountains run fresh water to its citizens for drinking, and fields are open for common grounds.





Shown here are male and female civilians. They wander around the city and sometimes congregate in groups. In the future there will other types of NPCs, such as shopkeepers, tavern keeps, guards and more. They will be able to have conversations, with dialogue selections. NPCs will also interact with hostile and neutral AI.




As with every race, you will be able to pick between three unique classes all with their own legendary weapon and skill tree. The Draconian ranger, paladin, and mage all take on the element of fire, which you will be able to leverage against weaker elements, however, enemies in the region such as the Okamito will be resistant to your attacks.



The Draconian woods feature deep pine and spruce biomes, mixed with lush meadows of grasses and flowers. They span across vast distances, and make up the majority of the kingdom territories. The next stage of development will allow us to dynamically interact with the woods, acting as a source of renewable resources for building and expanding your kingdom!



The Okamito are a werewolf, Lycan-like creatures, that have rudimentary control over fire. They can be found near the Draconian kingdom, most often wandering alone. The Okamito are territorial. Unprovoked, they appear to be unordinary (aside from their stature), but they engulf themselves in flames when they are agitated.







Tame horses will help you traverse the undiscovered landscape better than you can on foot. You'll be able to bond and grow with your mount. Stables will allow you to manage and customize your trusty steed to better assist you in your adventures. The player will also be able to engage in horseback combat.







Explore the massive open-world map with zero boundaries. Run, climb, swim, and even paraglide to every location possible! Rolls and jumping are also thrown into the mix as agile options for traversal or combat.




Until next time,

- The Devs

This past year has been one of many ups and downs, but it taught us so much. We realized we weren't doing justice to our vision of Sky Climbers, not in the state it existed in previously. Outdated assets, design modalities and code were holding us back, along with an increasingly-obsolete game engine.

Rebuilding wasn't easy, and it is already allowing us do things more impressive than ever before. The playable map is now 20x the previous size and performant enough to run even on mobile devices!! The game is 100% open world, with every surface explorable. A dynamic lighting system, active day and night cycles, weather events and a world that is alive beyond the player.




One of the many requested features, time and time again, has been multiplayer support. The new version of Sky Climbers is being designed for cooperative gameplay from the get-go.

Together, you and two friends will manage your own kingdoms, and choose from three primary classes/races. Each race (Mozukai, Furyoku or Draconian) will feature a unique companion and kingdom homestead to be actively maintained. Each class will have its own unique skill tree and legendary weapon.

Your kingdoms will be under attack by the void, a mysterious other-dimensional entity that can strike at any time...



All combat will be strictly PvE, for the moment being. However, we will be adding many more game modes in the future.

You can still play alone! The game will be balance itself whether it is one player or three.


Sky Climbers will no longer be restricted to VR and will be available in traditional 3rd Person. When you create your character, we want you to experience the full cinematic glory of a third person perspective.



Stay tuned for more!

Best

- The Devs

The long-awaited 2.2.0 update is here, and is taking the game into a new direction...


The focus of this update is the new opening area, but the entire map will follow suit over the course of several updates. Existing gameplay will be partially maintained, and emphasis will instead be placed upon emergent systems and replayable content.

The new emergent gameplay loop consists of resource gathering, cooking and exploration. The next set of significant additions to this loop will be hunting and combat encounters. The map will be littered with interactable relics and temples to provide new abilities, or challenges.

This isn't an easy shift in design, but it is something many of you have expressed a strong desire for. It is about time we listened!

Now for the goods:

• Ability saving
  
• Quest saving
  
• All locomotion modes active
  
• Jump button selection
  
• Dismount shoots you into the air

• Ocean
  
• Beaches
  
• Palm trees
  
• New cliffs
  
• Basalt rocks
  
• Apple trees
  
• Apples
  
• Meat
  
• Mushrooms
  
• Relic
  
• New opening area
  
• Relic music theme
  
• Opening sequence
  
• Ikirus Hut
  
• Cooking pots
  
• New inventory
  
• Eating sounds
  
• Jump sounds
  
• New horizon
  
• Updated rendering
  
• New hand texture
  
• New hand mesh
  
• Ocean sounds
  
• Planet and moon in distance
  
• Updated clouds
  
• New tutorial graphics
  
• New tutorial UI
  
• Ingredient recipes
  
• Map
  
• Quest book - "preview"
  
• Eating
  
• Grab poses
  
• Hand collision

• Birch biome
  
• Dragon
  
• Bird flocks
  
• Combat encounters
  
• Center temple
  
• Complete map redesign
  
• Climb any rock
  
• Akata recall
  
• Hunting
  
• Fishing pole
  
• Food effects
  
• Quest log
  
• Relic Interactions

Thanks as always for your feedback and patience, as the game is being developed.

- The Devs

Today we are releasing some MAJOR bug fixes with regard to respawn and falling through the map. You will also get a preview of the new temple dungeons with an updated lobby scene! Expect the full playable temples next friday, and if you are in the discord ask us about play testing today!

Now for the goods:

• Respawning in air
  
• Falling through a crate
  
• Respawn breaks save location
  
• Locomotion modes enabled on event triggers
  
• Falling through map at end of chapter 1

• New lobby scene
  
• Joystick manipulation of telekinesis
  
• Shrine event names
  
• New event pad for the Elder sequence
  
• Jump SFX

• Two Temple dungeons
  
• Akata behavior saving
  
• Moving platforms
  
• Food to eat
  
• Updated inventory
  
• Quest journal
  
• Day Night Cycle
  
• Epilogue area
  
• Bow and Arrow combat
  
• Enemy Ai behaviors
  
• Zipline FX
  
• Climbable tree
  
• Cloth physics
  
• Large new open world area
  
• Hunting
  
• Stealth
  
• New NPC

- The Devs

Here is some concept art for the "Mozukai" which are a race of wood elves found in regions of Chapter 2.



You will see these creatures in combat scenarios, and are defined as witches by the other natives.


Now for the goods:

• Monument Blast FX lineup
  
• Finding ways out of map in the owl trial
  
• Finding ways out of the map in boar trial

• Music event when coming down steps from elder
  
• New event symbol for elder event
  
• Guiding wisp for the parkour section after the pond
  
• Vines on the door
  
• New animations when completing the Kommo quest

• Improved door sequence
  
• Two Temple dungeons
  
• Akata behavior saving
  
• Moving platforms
  
• Food to eat
  
• Updated inventory
  
• Quest journal
  
• Day Night Cycle
  
• Epilogue area
  
• Bow and Arrow combat
  
• Enemy Ai behaviors
  
• Zipline FX
  
• Climbable tree
  
• Cloth physics
  
• Large new open world area
  
• Hunting
  
• Stealth
  
• New NPC

- The Devs

We have decided to go with a new schedule: Patch every Friday, with testing taking place on Wednesday.

This way we can have a clear cut off for new features within the development cycle.

Now for the goods:

• GPU instancing on various materials
  
• All rocks updated to new collision system
  
• Overall collision performance cost reduced
  
• Tent collision
  
• Tutorial boundaries
  
• Bee hive physics update
  
• Akata straying from path to the shrine
  
• Akata falling off the nav mesh
  
• Akata getting stuck under the nav mesh
  
• Horned owl is floating in second and third location
  
• Kommo awareness distance

• The owl will now look at you directly
  
• Rock walls around the owl trial
  
• More terrain cleanup around the owl trial
  
• Extended render distance
  
• Platforms for the levitation crate to avoid falling into it
  
• Different trees for the lower elevations that match higher elevations

• Improved door sequence
  
• Temple dungeons
  
• Akata behavior saving
  
• Moving platforms
  
• Food to eat
  
• Updated inventory
  
• Zipline FX
  
• Climbable tree
  
• Cloth physics

We had to remove cloth physics for this patch as it was causing some random crashes to occur. It will be back once we have a new system for it.

- The Devs

Today we have a patch for some big fixes, including a re-designed menu system, an auto save system, re designed gameplay, and lots of new graphics improvements.



Cloth in Action

• Tent geometry artifacts
  
• Global cloth physics system
  
• Joystick/touchpad movement
  
• Telekenisis when moving
  
• Analog rotation with move in place
  
• Kommo navigation around his domain
  
• Kommo getting stuck on feeding area
  
• Feeding area not obvious
  
• Telekinesis line of sight
  
• Save manager
  
• Reduced navigation interference for Akata
  
• Made it easier to trigger purr behavior Akata
  
• Smoother transition between states Akata "sitting"
  
• Akata disappearing for the second trial
  
• 1.8 trial re designed
  
• Improved tent collision
  
• Archway glowing unnaturally
  
• Respawn mechanism
  
• Menu selection not saved in overworld

• Tent cloth simulation which reacts to the player
  
• Camera effects when user steps into fire
  
• Joystick tilt control (for movement and
  
• rotation)
  
• Nano shields blocking the first trial
  
• New waterfall FX
  
• Tent door hand collision
  
• Kommo tooltips for feeding
  
• Guiding wisp FX
  
• Guiding wisp for Kommo feeding
  
• Kommo clothing "Experimental"
  
• Added more FX when activating shrine
  
• Nametag for Kommo
  
• Sun FX
  
• Distance fog
  
• Wider mountain Range
  
• Pebble generation
  
• Improved terrain texture generation "more variety"
  
• New menu system
  
• Menu Icon Descriptions
  
• New lobby effects and graphics

• Walking SFX with touch to move
  
• Food to eat
  
• Snap turning
  
• Kommos Amulet
  
• Elder Cloth physics
  
• Hand IK improvements
  
• Shrine dungeons "Temples"
  
• In-game options menu
  
• Windows Mixed Reality joystick support
  
• Akata save state

You can expect some smaller patches coming up, but we have some huge additions coming within the next few weeks.


Combining over-world parkour game play, with more traditional dungeoneering, we are adding two temples to chapter 1, Each will be built off the mechanics present in their corresponding shrines.

The Temples are just a piece of what we have in store for you...

- The Devs