As I'm in my final year of university and it's deadline season, Magicosm's development has been progressing a little slower than anticipated. This being said, I only have five more base quests to design and implement before we can officially launch beta testing!
Developer's Log V.1.0:
- Hotel Rooms can now be rented by players, default rent is set at £25 per in-game day but this may change in-game depending on the server story.
- Expanded the Hotel - there are now a total of 22 Rooms available to rent
- Upgraded the Hotel Interior
- Implemented a new Quest Line for Oceanids (Tides Apart)
- 2 New Quest NPCs have been added (Alaric & Alex)
- Added an underwater overlay to the City of Atlantis
- The City of Atlantis now follows the day/night system of Earth
- Implemented a new Quest Line for Mitsunes (Pack's Fortress)
- 3 New Quest NPCs have been added (Aragorn, Raksha & Falkland)
- Implemented a new location for Mitsune's (Pack Fortress)
- Pack's Fortress can now be accessed by player's who have completed the required Questline
- Pack's Fortress can now be used by Mitsunes as a safe house, and so living facilities have been added to the map
- Implemented a new Quest Line for Hethalones (Sister Realms)
- 2 New Quest NPCs have been added (Seraphina & Missandra)
- Fertility Potions have now been added into the game (Players will be able to mix two vials of blood into the potion, the DNA from the blood will determine who the child's parents are. The potion then has to be ingested by a woman who will immediately fall pregnant.)
- Both character Pregnancies and Illnesses now adhere to the Day/Night system
- Implemented Custom Context Menus when right clicking yourself, and other players/NPCs
- Decluttered the Tabs and removed un-necessary verbs
- Newspapers can now be purchased from the Grocery Store
- Newspapers can now be delivered by players working the Paper Route for the Journalist Career
- Inventory was updated with a Gift icon. This allows players to wrap items up and gift them to other players.
- Clothes now also have Custom Context Menus
- Double clicking clothing in your inventory will now wear it, or take it off. If it's on the ground, it will be picked up
- Natural Protection has been implemented (+10,000 Health | +3% Blocking Damage)
- Natural Protection has been added as one of the rewards for completing the Sister Realms questline.
- Alex, Aragorn, Falkland, Missandra, Raksha and Seraphina now have their own sprites and character portrait
- Items can now be dragged out of your inventory and dropped
- Removed all left-over redundant Drop verbs
- Items can now be picked up by double clicking them
- Removed the 'Get' verb
- Staff Verbs have been revamped
- Staff verbs no longer show up in tabs but rather in their own menu
- The Staff menu can now be toggled via the Options button
- Thoughts are now correctly cleared after rebirth
- Implemented Night Vision
- The Lower Realms' darkness no longer updates along with the day/night schedule
- Implemented a new in-game puzzle system (Unscramble the Picture)
- Five unscrambling puzzles have been added to the Puzzle system
- Implemented a Sparring System which allows players to train against each other in a friendly fashion
- Sparring sessions now last three minutes or until one of the players loses all their health
- The sparring system now grants exp bonuses based on the amounts of hits you manage to land
- Sparring now has a 30 minute cooldown
- Implemented 2x new Booby Traps for use in new questlines (Flamethrower | Trapdoor)
- Implemented 5 'X Marks the Spot' puzzles for use in new questlines
- The 'Dig' verb on Shovels now reveals treasure accordingly
- Implemented a new Quest Location (Urckle's Maze)
- Implemented a new Quest Location (Gosport Manor)
- Trapdoors are no longer triggered by players if they are teleported or levitating
- Implemented a new Quest Line for Evil Sorcerers (Orbs of Kelgarth)
- Implemented a new Quest NPC (Kelthor)
- Implemented 3 new fightable NPCs (Charx Lvl 5)
- Implemented a new Quest Line for Good Sorcerers (Tricked and Trapped)
- Implemented a new Quest Boss (Tricked and Trapped - Ezekial)
- Implemented 2 new Quest NPCs (Elisabetta & Giovanna)
- Implemented a new Quest Line for All Races (Gosport Manor)
- The Furniture Seller now operates from an interactive menu as opposed to a drop down list
- When purchasing furniture, you are now able to see the item before buying it
- You are now able to change the quantity of items you are purchasing, allowing you to buy more than one at a time
- The furniture seller's window now automatically updates the total price when the quantity is updated
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