Odyssey: Altar of Norax World Development Sneak Peek!
To Adventure!
Greetings adventurers! The world of Odyssey is under construction and our gods have been hard at work creating the world and we wanted to show off some of the hard work that our devs have been putting into designing a world to explore.
NPCs, Shops, questlines, interesting areas throughout the city to investigate, secret areas to find and much much more on the way!!
Lets check out some of the new places and meet some of the new residents and merchants!
Adventure Awaits!
This teaser is a small taste of what's to come in the future. Enjoy this little sneak peek of the sprawling city and some of it's residents!
Jarrod Wyndel
Meet Jarrod Wyndel, resident armorer of the Artisan's Alley on the western side of the sprawling city. Jarrod is likely to be one of your best friends throughout your adventures. When you need to store some of your loot from your journeys or get your gear repaired, Jarrod is your guy!
The Great Cathedral of Allistair!
A shining jewel of the city, the Cathedral of Allistar. Located to the east a giant cathedral stands in monument to the god Allistar where worshippers and believers throughout the city will gather to hear the Archbishop give his sermons. The cathedral is quite old and has many floors and rooms, I wonder what other secrets this great building could hold?
Dante and his Mysterious Relics
Another new face around the city is Dante. Dante owns a shop in the eastern part of Artisan's Alley, not much is known about him or his wares. If you come across a mysterious object that no one seems to be able to figure out, Dante's Reliquary is likely one of the first places to ask! Dante has a collection of unique and mysterious items and and unknown past, what other secrets could he be hiding?
As always make sure to check out our discord for detailed updates and to follow along daily as the game develops over the coming months!
Right in time for the new season, a new patch! Our resident brainiac Bearable has been heard at work making tons of updates, additions and fixes to the game over the passed week. Along with the usual variety of bug fixes and performance updates, there's been some awesome new core features added like dialog boxes, portraits for NPCs and MORE!
For those that are interested in more detailed patch fixes and daily updates on the game Check out the bottom of this post for our discord link and how you can get in touch with us!
Lets dig into some of the new goodies!
NPCs Portraits and Dialog Boxes!
The world has been a quiet place so far, No Longer!
A new UI element has finished being added, giving NPCs their own Dialog box popup UI and portraits! NPCs now have dialog boxes and various options to click on to progress quests, browse items in a shop, chit chat and hear the gossip around town and more!
Visuals additions and Fixes!
Along with a few bug fixes and visual fixes for some particle effects and lighting, a new visual effect was added that is a real quality of life upgrade for visibility in the cities where there are many large buildings that would cover the player. A transparency was added to ceilings and roof layers so that when players pass under these layers you can see where you are and where the doors of the building you are trying to enter are located.
A new visual animation!
Another small update was the addition of a new door and animation mechanic for caves and in the future various other animated / moveable items.
If you're interested in our community and want to keep up to date on the detailed development of Odyssey: Altar of Norax and get a Closed Beta key while available. Come Join our discord!!
This small patch contains a few new features, back end performance and security updates and some new visual features! Lets dive into some of these new goodies! Check out the bottom of this post to get more detailed patch notes and one of the Limited BETA KEYS!!!
Multiple Character Support and UI
Rejoice Alt character addicts! Multi Character support has been added!!!
For those adventurers who love having a multitude of different characters, today marks a minor mile stone in implementing multiple characters. This feature will allow players to have multiple characters tied to their steam accounts. This will allow players to have many alternate characters, classes, and builds all attached to 1 account all tied to their steam!
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Doors have been given a nice facelift!
Small visual update for entrances and exits and doors throughout the world. To give doors a little better visibility and a little flair doors now have a subtle highlight and animation around them.
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A new visual tooltip!
The world is vast and sprawling and so are the metropolises, a new tool tip has been added that will feature bubbles above certain doors that correspond to various shops, merchants, places of interest, locked doors and more!
For our friends and Early adventurers!
If you're interested in our community and want to keep up to date on the detailed development of Odyssey: Altar of Norax and get a Closed Beta key while available. Come Join our discord!!
Discord Link: https://discord.gg/4a7qr6fPNt
Switch to Steam Account Authorization and a Welcome to Grizz
Say goodbye to usernames and passwords! We no longer keep track of any of that! We let Steam do the heavy lifting so you can have a more convenient time.
We continue to work hard on content development and improving the game to be the best it can be for its Early Access release in August. To that end, we welcome our newest mapper to the team, Grizz.
Watch the Developer Build Fridays 8PM-10PM EST
Bear will be working on various aspects of game development, including programming in Java, editing sprite sheets, creating monsters and items, and scripting.
I will be running this stream every Friday 8-10PM EST. As time goes on, we will run more stream events, including gameplay testing or just regular gameplay from players in the community.
Watch the Developer Build Fridays 8PM-10PM EST
Bear will be working on various aspects of game development, including programming in Java, editing sprite sheets, creating monsters and items, and scripting.
I will be running this stream every Friday 8-10PM EST. As time goes on, we will run more stream events, including gameplay testing or just regular gameplay from players in the community.
Watch the Developer Build Fridays 8PM-10PM EST
Bear will be working on various aspects of game development, including programming in Java, editing sprite sheets, creating monsters and items, and scripting.
I will be running this stream every Friday 8-10PM EST. As time goes on, we will run more stream events, including gameplay testing or just regular gameplay from players in the community.
