White Tower

Hi everyone.

So I haven't been working on the game as much as I have done, and I apologize.

I don't really have any reason for it, holidays just hit and I've been fucking around a lot. But I'm starting to get settled again.

Anyway, here's a screenshot of Sapphire Port - the first town in Eastshore.


Other than that I've redone Wildgate to make it a bit less of an eye sore and I've polished a few things from Westland.

Thanks for sticking around!

- Kleos

So all the buildings are finished now, it's really just polish from here on. I'll be getting feedback from the alpha testers in this release because the next one is White Tower's first public release!

As for 0.39, not a huge amount has changed. Some polish here and there, the game is a bit smoother, two new quests and a companion. There is now an armour you can get exclusively from a quest. I won't spoil that one for you ;)



The player can kind of meet the King now. They more just see the King of Westland or 'Westking' as his official title goes knighting Alyn - the most recent companion you can get.

He's the second companion that isn't from the usual classes the player can choose on creation. He is a Knight, who is basically a warrior with more skills and on steroids. Useful guy to have around.

The game is basically releas worthy now, but I just want to check everything one last time before I finish it. Get excited!

- Kleos

Changelog
Alpha 0.39
- Game now starts at 40% volume not 100%
- New Companion: Sir Alyn - Knight
- Hawkfeather Palace complete
- Hawkfeather quest 1 added and completed
- Lord's Gate quest 3 added and completed
- Battle and victory music redone
- Polish here and there
- Various bug fixes

This is a smaller update compared to some, but it has brought us closer to the beta release. In this update I added 2 new quests, one is the first in the House of Arcane storyline (the first proper storyline in the game which will have an actual effect on the game) and a small low level quest for the new guys.

I have also made some more interesting mechanics, for example when you're fighting a Minotaur in one of the new quests instead of just running in and killing it like usual, you can choose to respect it's own traditions in order to fight it, since in this quest it hasn't done anything wrong. You will also not kill it if you chose to challenge it within it's own way.





The player is also able to now buy new spells AND get their staff enchanted, which gives mages a little more excitement since their enchantments are far better than the standard ones, considering they are supposed to be masters with Arcane.



Beta 0.4 is around the corner, I have more quests to add but soon enough I will release a public build.

- Kleos

Changelog
Alpha 0.37
- New Companion: Karn - Mage
- House of Arcane quest 1 added and completed
- Enchantment for Staves added
- Lord's Gate quest 2 added and completed

So the main feature of this update is the new enchantment system in Lord's Gate.
The idea that Lord's Gate is the "Magic Central" of Westland needed to be emphasized a lot, even to the players who don't play with magic. So now they can go to Lord's Gate to get a bit of magic for themselves and enchant their weapon with the power of either Ice, Thunder or Fire.





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You can also name your weapons you enchant, but you can only get a limited amount of enchantments so choose wisely!



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The reason you can only get limited enchantments is I do not yet know how to make the game automatically create the weapon with the correct stats, name and description. So I have to make each weapon variant beforehand, which was annoying enough to do once.



In other news, a few quests have been added. Lord's Gate has 2 buildings in total, the House of Arcane and the weapons shop where you get enchantments.



That's all so far, but the game is very close to being finished! A few quests are needed here and there to make the game a tad more fluid and there are a few rough edges but the game has definitely come a long way.

- Kleos

Changelog
Alpha 0.36
- Enchantments added
- Lord's Gate Quest 1 Added and Completed
- Archer, Mage, Assassin and Priest classes defence buffed
- Equipment automatically equipped after creation
- Stonewall Quest 3 added
- Images added for church and inn visits
- Various bug fixes

So the part that I'm most excited about is the new images that show up when you create a character. I'm considering adding images such as this to other moments when the screen would otherwise go black...

Character creation was once just a black screen with text showing up saying "What class are you?" or something like that.

Now it looks like this:

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While it's a fairly small addition in terms of technical achievement, it's still a great addition and really makes character creation 10x more interesting.

I have also improved the animation for SOME skills, I may have missed some which I will fix over time, but the solution for the issue which showed characters doing what looked like a magical spell when they were doing "Double Strike" has been found and has been implemented so that characters will instead show their weapon when they attack, not magical effects.

Three quests have been completed in 0.34! Stonewall is now officially COMPLETE!
Hawkpeak has still got a few bugs that need polishing (mostly in the Arena) but that it's 100% functional and works fine. I have also added a low level quest to Borderguard as it seemed to be difficult to get into the fun quests at the start before.

Next on the list will be completing Borderguard (The general shop and the magic shop are not finished), polishing the Hawkpeak Arena, creating Gryphon's Keep (The Royal Palace of Westland) and creating Lord's Gate - the last city!

- Kleos

Changelog Alpha 0.34
- Character Creation Images Added
- Borderguard Inn added
- Melee Skills animation improved
- Categorized Trust System Added
- Borderguard Quest 1 Added and Completed
- Borderguard Northguard HQ Added
- Northguard Sprites completed
- Traveler's Guild Quest 2 completed
- Stonewall Quest 2 Completed
- Various bug fixes