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Offline Lancefighter

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« Reply #150 on: December 08, 2012, 12:58:56 am »
and then probably wait until q42013, when youll receive a reply about avww3 theyre finally alphaing.
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« Reply #151 on: December 08, 2012, 07:22:47 am »
I see. Thanks for being so patient and answering all my questions - I really appreciate how refreshingly candid everyone is, and I'm rather envious of the heart you put into it. :3

Please take your time and nurture your game with care - although I'm pretty sure there's rather a lot of anticipation on the forums, I'd personally like it more if you made a priority of taking good care of yourselves. Since your target market is in an older age bracket, I'm sure that most of them understand the virtues of patience.

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« Reply #152 on: December 08, 2012, 10:27:35 am »
Wow, that picture looks awesome! Can't wait till beta. Keep up the good work!

What kinds of DLC are you guys planning on having? Will there be any any new overlords or henchmen as DLC? While the overlords having a backstory helps with immersion, I think it would get old after I played it as much as I did the first game.

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« Reply #153 on: December 08, 2012, 10:32:46 am »
What kinds of DLC are you guys planning on having?
Whether there's DLC depends on how well the game sells :)  As for what it would be, I leave that to Chris to say ;)
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« Reply #154 on: December 08, 2012, 12:44:09 pm »
I'm holding out hope for some sweet horse armor DLC myself.

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« Reply #155 on: December 08, 2012, 01:32:08 pm »
In terms of what the DLC -- or really, AI War style expansion packs -- might be, it would really depend on what most seems interesting to the playerbase and ourselves at the time.  It's always hard to plan that sort of thing in advance unless you're deliberately holding something back, which we're not.  That said, there's always more that can be done in a compelling game world, which we hope you'll find this one to be. :)
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« Reply #156 on: December 08, 2012, 01:49:44 pm »
Here's another screenshot tease.  This one has the same debugging info in the upper right, which would not normally be there.  It also has the miasma dangerfall graphics from the first game at this point (which I intend to replace), and it's showing a piece of character art from the first game (I just haven't had time to code in the last batch of new character art from heavy cat, it's not like we don't have it).

This is from an area of the game where you go to level up.  You can also see the entire HUD down in the bottom left of the screen.  You have four four spells from your mage class (the rightmost one of which costs ammo), you can see how much ammo you have, how many mercenary coins you have, and then what your health is like (the 71 is 71/100 on the third of four health tanks, ala Metroid).

Another fun thing to notice is that we now have angled background walls for the grounds outside, which helps those to look more organic like the foreground ones do.
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« Reply #157 on: December 08, 2012, 01:52:27 pm »
Why hearts?

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« Reply #158 on: December 08, 2012, 01:53:25 pm »
People associate that with health, so it's immediately clear what that is.
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« Reply #159 on: December 08, 2012, 01:58:32 pm »
That background gives me kind of a Phantasy Star vibe. It's looking really great.

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« Reply #160 on: December 08, 2012, 02:04:38 pm »
Oh man, the game's looking very awesome in terms of art. That's one of them things I was thinking about, because you just can't tell with only pictures of sprites, or development screenshots. Looks better and better the closer it gets to beta time. Great job to you guys and Heavy Cat (is that their name?).
I also want to say man, I feel like a jerk for being critical over the placeholder art. I meant to say that it looked alright and that it now looks awesome.

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« Reply #161 on: December 08, 2012, 02:41:00 pm »
The background of the Spells in the hotkeybar looks like it could use some work, it really sticks out in a bad way.

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« Reply #162 on: December 08, 2012, 04:00:55 pm »
As a biologist, this kinda bugs me: Why does AVWW2 leafy foliage only grow indoors on the ceiling of caves? Is it just being contrary?

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« Reply #163 on: December 08, 2012, 04:21:38 pm »
As a biologist, this kinda bugs me: Why does AVWW2 leafy foliage only grow indoors on the ceiling of caves? Is it just being contrary?
I think its because it can't be stepped on on the ceilings.

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« Reply #164 on: December 08, 2012, 04:32:06 pm »
People associate that with health, so it's immediately clear what that is.

While true, going with green seems like an odd choice.

It makes me think he's poisoned.