Land of fire is a game that takes inspiration from various anime. Despite this, we're still basing the general lore that surrounds the world on Japanese mythology and folklore. We're hoping to create a sandbox environment and personally we found the most immersive part of playing sandbox games were the joys of discovery. To create something new from common items not only brought new ways to play a game but it also brought satisfaction knowing that i have the option of playing the way I wanted to.
Moving on. in the art department we've been hammering away w/ some tiles and general environment construction.
New building sets. These were made for a new village but these also tie in with our construction system. You now have more building types you can possibly create. Mostly we're hopeful to have entire villages constructed and ran by players. To an extent of course.
Speaking of environments we've also been working on several different biomes though they are still in the WIP stages I can show a sneak peak of one of them in it's early stages of design. This would also give those who're interested in taking a look at our work flow.
This one here is inspired heavily by Avatar[the movie with the blue people] With it's blue forests and almost luminescent fauna. Here I tried to achieve something similar with a sorta teal orange pallet you see being abused in alot of movies these days. Mostly to achieve that vibrant look. This is still pretty early one but you can get a general feel for the atmosphere we're trying to achieve with this scene.
And finally These are some weapons and tools you can look forward to creating w/ the crafting system we've talked so much about.
In the programming area we're putting the finishing touches on our weapon smithing system. Here's a .gif of it in action!
So you can go mine, refine your ore and then take them to a black smith station to create a weapon you've unlocked the schematics for.
Schematics are literally blueprints for weapons[or other types of gear] that can be bought or found throughout the world. They range from D rank to S rank with D being common schematics and S being rare and unique schematics.
Well that wraps up what we've managed to accomplish this week. Next week we hope to fix some of the UI issues we've received some feedback on.