Hello again everyone!
We're slowly but surely inching our way to a pre-alpha prototype (v0.01) of Dungeons of Daggerhelm! Hooray!
Before we can celebrate, however, there are a couple of things that will come along with v0.01 and pre-alpha preparations. One of which is the game's first boss. Our sprite designer has been working hard to come up with ways to animate the lava golem boss, and since his graphics are going to be 48x48, there is going to be a lot of ground to cover.
We've come a long way since the first few pieces of concept art. Now, we've prepared some of the animation slides:
You may have seen this picture before, but what is it of, exactly? Well, to put it in terms we can describe with text, the first three cells on the far left are the golem's idle animation. We may or may not add that in right away, since it is an aesthetically pleasing visual effect that can come later.
The walking animation will come first, which is what the two cells on the right represent. The golem is walking forward, or, at least trying to.
We've also been developing the Battle-Mage graphics. This was a long time in the making, with many different versions that did not make the cut, sadly. At first, we envisioned the Battle-Mage to look similar to the Paladin, yet we wanted her to be somewhat rogue-like and discreet, based on some observations of concept art. This is what we came up with:
Let us know what you think!
After all this is added, and we make changes to the way class-switching works, v0.01 will be complete, and we will (hopefully) be launching a KickStarter project to help further fund the game.
Stay tuned to find out more information on this!
