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Genre: Role-playing (RPG), Indie

Elemental World Part 1: Rise of the Guardians

Whats happening
Hi quick update on whats happening
Due to personal stuff and lack of funds the game is on hiatus for foreseeable future ill keep working on it in free time where possible

Worst case will be i start from scratch scale everything back and release a basic online rpg as i have alot of old assets for systems but due to loss of networker at vital time due to the war everythings been on hold but im trying fix the issue but hitting a wall due to time,money and personal restraints

Update on status 30/7/23
Hi this just update to whats happening so far
The game is not abandoned but the networker has still yet to update me the main issue seems be the war as they live in Ukraine and i only seem get messeage every few months now.
Sales have been paused through steam as the main game cant run but for those that still own it there should still be an old archived working version in the games steam/beta settings

If things still dont improve i might have to try scale back the game to be offline rpg system then mmo until i can afford another networker but will see how things go

I have also changed unity versions from HDRP to standard as many of my addons was not liking the HD shaders but as things go on it will hopefully improve

Update on whats happening
Hi this post to update people on progress what i thought would be a quick fix turned out much longer due to the people working on network end was in ukraine and the war stuff but i just got a message by one that 2/3 systems fixed and 3rd should be done "soon" so a new version will hopefully be in next few months sorry for delay everyone :)

Small update on progress
Hi everyone sorry not posted much lately so far for progress its abit slow as i still cant figure out the issue so im going to try redo alot things from blank
The upside is the few addons i had that make the core gameplay have been updated/added to so this new version if works will hopefully have few extra abilitys/gathering things such as fishing, taming etc

The other good update is i recently upgraded my main dev pc so now instead old i3 from like 8 years ago it now 2020 i9
2060 ghaphics (12GB)
and 64GB Ram
Which means it should be alot faster to compile/build (actual hardware to run should work on most recent pc 2018+)

With luck it be back up and ready for testing in month or two of dev time dependent on other rl job other dev providing fast replys etc (like updated addons/latest network software)
When it does go back on for sale it will likly be barebones to test everyone can get on and basic UI
Once that up and everyone can play ill start update AI/UI add more quests etc to get it back up and ofcorse there be a discount/sale when it reboots (likely 30/40% due to been off so long and starting roll back to barebones)

Another minor issue that here is terrain trees/grass not supported as well in unity so updating that incase fixes in latest but otherwise might be lacking alot trees rock etc to start or missing textures (eg purple trees example this pic)

Update on progress
Hi everyone this just a quick update message on the progress
So far no luck my end to fix the issue so im looking into hiring a networker to fix the issue
Also due to circumstances i had to take a job (warehousing) to make some income which has meant less time on the game but im working to get it up and runing again asap :)

Game issues
Hi everyone just an update on progress i have been updating the servers but still having trouble connecting etc so until the servers are back and running development on pause while i try get atleast the base stuff running networked and i asked steam to hide the store page and pause the ability to buy the game
Im hoping it just a weird config issue and the game,server and updates will start happing by easter but for now im unsure when the next server update will happen

Network finally updating
Hi everyone just a post to let you know the network code that was broken is finally updated now the coder out of hospital from covid im going to do some tests but once thats all set up and works ill be doing a basic game update to link to new servers and then later readd any missing content

Update 27/8/21
Hi everyone just post on progress
First is the map was to broken so i made a new map for starter area and i am in the process of it building the server now and once thats done ill do test run of it and upload for others.
Right now its only basics to make sure everything works and no major crashing with the new server software/hud then ill readd the gathering,rewording quests and stuff in a patch

Update soon
Hi quick post to let everyone know progress been bit ill last few days so things been slow but i got most it back up but due to missing items/currupt files the npcs and gatherables will need be replaced/resetup so will take bit longer then expected (item files fine eg IRon ore cost 1g etc just map placement)


Edit 22/7:
I think i found the cause of the freezing/not loading which is im using 2019 software and i think the version of HDRP im trying to use to advanaced so im now updating the project to 2021 build of the software see if that fixes

Servers going down for upgrades
Hi everyone just to let you know the game servers will be going down briefly while i update the servers background software (sql,node etc) over the next hour or two.

Also for those having issues logging in/character create stuck there is a version before the live servers which you can roll back to from the start of the year just open up settings in steam goto beta and select the 2021 branch that way you can still enjoy the base game while updates happening :)


Edit:11/7
Keep having software crashes but the backend of new servers atleast done.
The plan now is copy over the stuff in game into new project folder to only what im currently using with luck this will also reduce load times for development and lower user side filesize

Edit 12/7
Since there is a big change to backend software and it not cleanly upgradeding i decided to copy paste the vital bits such as quests and maps but the Ui has to be redone but hopefully will look better overall
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