Aug 30, 2019

Talisman: Origins - Amirah

We were so busy yesterday celebrating the launch of Talisman Day, we forgot to post our announcement 🤦

(As of yesterday) You'll be able to pick up the 3 brand-new pieces of content across Talisman: Digital Edition and Talisman: Origins and explore the land of Talisman to your hearts content:

Talisman: Digital Edition – The Clockwork Kingdom Expansion

Innovation strikes the land of Talisman! Discover the new era where Inventions lead the way. Craft new weapons and gear to help you claim victory and reach the Crown of Command. The Clockwork Kingdom brings new Adventure Cards, Spells, Characters and Alternative Endings alongside the new deck of Material Cards.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059291/Talisman__The_Clockwork_Kingdom_Expansion/

Talisman: Origins – The Legend of Pandora’s Box

The Legend of Pandora’s Box introduces a brand-new book to Talisman: Origins containing 5 new chapters. This book isn’t for the faint-hearted, as Pandora’s Box has unleashed some of the toughest creatures you can face in Talisman. If you think you’re ready to take on the challenge and face enemies from the Nether Realm, we wish you luck!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1093431/Talisman_Origins__The_Legend_of_Pandoras_Box/

Talisman: Origins – The Assassin’s Tale

The Assassin’s Tale’ is the fourth free DLC that we’re bringing to Talisman Origins. In this story, you’ll be playing as the Assassin, looking for new contracts as you take on dangerous jobs and work within the Assassins’ Guild.

This newest book will be sitting in your Origins Library after a small update.

Aug 30, 2019

Happy belated Talisman Day! 🎉

Talisman: Digital Classic Edition - Amirah

Talisman: Digital Edition – The Clockwork Kingdom Expansion

Talisman: Origins – The Legend of Pandora’s Box

Talisman: Origins – The Assassin’s Tale

Not tried Talisman: Origins yet?

If you’ve not delved into the Talisman: Origins game yet, you can expect to find an exciting single player look at the land of Talisman. Discover Talisman as you play through unique adventures created just for Talisman: Origins. Experience the stories of some of your favourite characters, and new untold stories from the land of Talisman!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1033170/Talisman_Origins/

Aug 30, 2019

Weekly report #8

Reign of Guilds - kirill.kovalenko

Notice: We respect the desire of the Steam community to get familiar with the new projects within Steam, so we decided to publish regularly (every 2 days) previously released reports on our Steam page, until we catch up with the current ones. By the way, you can read all the reports on our website.
Reign of Guilds roadmap - combines all development reports at one place.
And here's our Weekly report #8 (originally released 11/02/18)

It’s reporting Friday and it’s time to talk about ROG.

Hello, everyone, let’s start!

I Animations

Third person animations with the book of mantra

The creation of animations is a process as imaginative as the creation of other parts of the game. But different strokes for different folks. And we have a funny story.

Our animator, Vlad, previously made this animation of a run with the book:

Our producer, Mikhail, blamed the creator for the strange behavior of the model’s right wrist.

Thereafter Vlad sent a corrected version of the animation and answered: “Is it better?”). Here’s this variant:

Then we found the golden mean. That’s how it looks like:

And that’s how running in the other direction looks like:

Here is a character standing in a combat stance with the mantra book:

P.S. The mantra book will have VFX in a hand similar to the using of a powder.

II Camera

Now let’s talk about mechanics that has influence on the visual components. We’ve already told that a character’s height will influence not only on a hitbox but also an altitude of the camera and the range of a melee weapon.

The height of the M character ranges between 160 and 196 cm. Now we are using the project with 196 cm.

The most interesting is that the camera will change its position with the combat stance. In the combat stances a character puts the feet apart and bends his legs. Eventually, 196 cm become 176-178 cm.

We decided to show this detail through the camera. In the end, that’s how it looks like.

Standing up straight (usual stance) character looks at the other character that stands up straight (both 196 cm):

The same character got a weapon, took a combat stance and the camera declined:

That’s how an unarmed character looks at an armed one:

The both characters are standing in the combat stances:

The lifting and lowering of the camera will be used only with taking a combat stance. Also the camera will swing if a player equips a weapon.

The camera doesn’t move when changing weapons.

P.S. Re-equipping will have technical cooldowns. It won’t be shown on the CD bar. But the camera movement will report about the temporary restriction of the functional. It allows us to solve the problems that we faced during the prototype with the instant re-equipping of weapons.

III Level design

Without further ado, let’s look at the pictures all together.

Cutting site

Village

Forest

IV 3D models - trousers

We worked on the trousers this week. Pictures below show the light and heavy samples of the different tiers:

V VFX

Let’s talk a little about walls. As we told in the last Report, there will be a few variants of the walls. That’s how an interim wall looks like (between magic and stone walls).

Magic replicates the form of the masonry mortar:

This walls can be different – from 2*2 to 12*6 (meters).

VI Conclusion

We will handle the organizational issues, tell about things close to game development, and also update information on the site in the near future. Then we will invite the new testers of those people who applied the appropriate topic.

We would like to conclude with humor.

Here’s the sketches of appearance customization of M. We test its variability and efficiency:

Let’s play! Find the real-life and game roles for these 3 characters. You have only one week.

The funniest variants will get the rewards from ROG Club!

Take care and see you later on open spaces of our social media, forum and website!

Yours sincerely,
Reign of Guilds Team

Aug 30, 2019

Golden fall!

Prime World - Prime World Official

Lords and Ladies!

In Praya, there is a country saying, “As you meet fall, so the whole season will go.” This is precisely why Lords from all over Praya are going to arrange rich festivities this weekend to celebrate the incoming of a new season. The festivities will last for three days but benefits from them will last for the whole three months! Isn’t that great?

According to the councilors, you can arrange the celebrations for just 199 gold coins! Hasten to finish preparations for the festivities and provide your Lordship with three months of Golden Age for the price of one!

Only from 12 p.m. August 30 until 12 p.m. UTC+3 September 2 — 90 days of Golden Age for 199 Gold!

Please note! You’ll need to log back into the Castle for the changes to take effect.

Others might rest but not the blacksmiths. Following the same old belief, they are planning to do nothing but forge for the whole weekend — to provide themselves with work for the entire fall!

For the occasion, from 12 p.m. August 30 until 12 p.m. UTC+3 September 2, they offer nice discounts on talent reforging. So don’t forget to drop in on the blacksmiths in between the celebrations ;-)

Bring prosperity to your Lordship and work to the blacksmiths!

Always yours,
Prime World Team

Aug 30, 2019

Closed Alpha Test Begins

Crown Trick - nysgyf

Good news, everyone!

We know it's been a long wait since our last demo release. But now we are finally ready for a Closed Alpha Test here on steam with much more content for you to explore!

Join our Discord server to sign up for the alpha and get the key: https://discord.gg/FbaXFNm

Don’t forget to wishlist and follow the game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1000010/Crown_Trick/

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrownTrickGame

We are very grateful to everyone for participating in our previous demo test and providing valuable feedback. With your help and support, we were able to readjust the gameplay, add more exciting content and fix some major bugs. Probably there are still some bugs left in this alpha build that need to be fixed, but we will take care of it later :D
Hope you guys enjoy the game!

The Alpha Update & Patch Notes

Weapon system optimization:
1. Now every weapon has regular and random elemental attributes to it.
2. The damage of each type of weapon has been modified and adjusted to a different degree.
3. Polished the special effects of all weapons, including regular and elemental attacks. (Where firearms' special effects are not implemented in the game yet)

Magic skills and Familiars adjustments:
1. Now Familiars only can provide active magic skills to the player. All of their passive skills have been transferred into Relics.
2. Added some balancing adjustments into magic skills in general.

Relics system adjustment:
1. The Relics are now divided into three different quality types, which significantly increases different combinations for using the Relics.
2. Now you can preview the Relics in the main sceen interface.

Added experience and character level system: By leveling up you will be able to unlock more weapons, relics and items.

Optimize the main hall and NPCs:
1. Updated the upgradeable content provided by four NPCs in the main hall.
2. Optimized the upgradeable content of the magic crystal, including some permanent abilities, weapons, items, and Relics.

Dungeon update:
1. Now each dungeon is divided into a prologue and a main part. The main part has more floors and higher difficulty than a prologue.
2. Overall significantly increased the number of quests, hidden rooms and mechanisms.
3. Now the spring water can restore the HP, mana and the elixir flask at the same time.
4. Now there are only two types of Crusibles: Magic and Status Crucibles that are available at the start of every floor.

Added Dream Fragments as a collectible item and new Hidden BOSS. Every piece of Dream Fragment tells a small part of a bigger story. By collecting the Dream Fragments, a player will be able to unlock a secret BOSS to fight.

Controls optimization:
1. Players can now choose their preferred controls mode in the options settings.
2. Added an option for creating customizable key shortcuts

Other:
1. Fixed some major bugs
2. Greatly optimized the game performance