This process arrests their physical development and transforms their outward appearance, leaving no doubt as to what they are." I think Josh's description says it best: "Wichts are the bodies of children that were born without souls, grew to adolescence, and were then possessed by a malevolent lost soul or soul fragment that has been artificially inserted through animancy. Since it would be pretty mean of me to talk about the creatures without showing one, here is a small taste of one of my "favorites" - the wicht. Overall, we think it will lead to a better experience.Įven with this short amount of time, we have been able to get about eight different creatures into the game. It also lets us be more flexible with how we spend our polish time. This allows us to get creatures into the game much more quickly. Instead of taking a creature from concept to a final, polished product, we have been taking creatures to a blockout stage before moving to the next. We are taking a different approach in Project Eternity than we have on other projects. The Concept Artists, Animators, and Character Artists have been burning through our creatures. It is really starting to make the city feel alive. In addition to that, our two new Design Interns - Matt and Ryan - have been filling in the areas with smaller quests and NPCs. Two of those districts are now at an Alpha level and even at an early stage, are a lot of fun to play. Considering the size of the city, it is a pretty good accomplishment. They were able to get three of the city's districts completely blocked out in under a week. While the Environment Art team is busy filling out the visuals, the Area Design team is meticulously planning and executing quests, NPC dialogs, and other goodies throughout the city. I am pretty impressed with the speed that the team is able to get all of this together.
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The city feels full of life and character. It was a little ambitious, but the team did really well. For this first milestone our target was to get three of Defiance Bay's districts to Alpha level quality. The Environment Artists have wasted no time in constructing an expansive Defiance Bay. While he has been implementing many features, he most closely works with the Concept Artists to get our UI to Alpha. He also creates dialogues, quests, and blockouts.īrian is Project Eternity's Programming Intern.
Like Matt, Ryan is one of our new Design Interns. Along with creating NPCs, quests, and blockouts, he also does maintenance work on areas (hooking up transitions, loot passes, encounters, etc.). She has already made a large contribution in filling out the existing areas with new props. Holly is an Environment Artist that joined us about a week ago. She has been doing an amazing job in creating the interiors that populate Defiance Bay. It stands at the forefront of experimentation in soul magic and exemplifies the age of discovery."Ī ton has been accomplished in a pretty short amount of time and we would like to share some of it with you.
Defiance Bay is a city of the common people, where the most prominent and respected citizens are self-made men. In George Ziets' own words, "Defiance Bay is the capital and largest city in the Dyrwood, gateway to the riches of Glanfath, teeming with adventurers and explorers from all over the region. Our first target has been Defiance Bay (our first BIG city) and the team has been busting their collective butts to get as much fantasy roleplaying goodness as possible into the city. As you know, over the past six weeks we have been working on our first production milestone - the cleverly titled Production 01 milestone.
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