The Essence Reaper Ritual
Multiplayer new game to be beta released in October. Play Remote Together
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendsofeternalia/dungeons-and-undead
See more about the videogame;
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Play together in local Wifi, or connect through Steam Remote Play Together with people anywhere in the world. Your friends could connect using their PCs even if they dont own / pay for the videogame (assuming a good internet connection, it consumes quite a lot of data). Voice and text chat are included in Steam Play Together, so you can have fun with your friends / family.
Here is the Steam link to the videogame to be released in beta in October 15th;
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1278580/Dungeons_and_Undead/
Please feel free to let me know your thoughts and ideas.
Thanks!
Game released from beta
It has been a good while developing this videogame. Crowdfunding didnt provide with much, so I kept developing and finishing this videogame as promised.
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I am now working on my second videogame, which is being developed much smoothly, with all I learnt these years, in the hard way (plenty of challenges and headaches).
So, plan is, if you people like playing The Essence Reaper Ritual (ERR) and you provide with feedback and ideas, I could keep making it better.
In the meantime, if I dont see much activity on this videogame ERR, I will working on my second project, please follow my second videogame either in Kickstarter or Indiegogo;
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendsofeternalia/dungeons-and-undead
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dungeons-undead/coming_soon/x/15000834
A short concept tests on what I am working now;
https://youtu.be/bQK5GPb0xtw
And please do share among your people. WIth a good community around the project I could make a better project.
Thank you,
CORRECT LINK FOR KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN. PLEASE SHARE ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendsofeternalia/the-essence-reaper-ritual-final-version?ref=afhen5&token=1302bbff
Thanks!
Beta version ready. Main quest story line finished.
Beta version finished at last!
And now going for crowdfunding in Kickstart to get more resources to make it nicer;
https://kickstarter.com/projects/legendsofeternalia/the-essence-reaper-ritual-final-version
Alright, I worked a lot on this during my Xmas holidays and the weekends after to finally be able to have the whole thing, at least whenever family allows me to. I will keep working on the small bugs and improvements.
It has been a long road since I started programming this videogame, but I am now glad for both finishing the story and for all the development of my programming / game development skills.
There is much I could do to improve this Indie videogame, how fast I do it will depend on you people. If people like it, I will keep adding content, improving animations, combat system, etc. I have many more scenes, quests, books, etc, I could add to videogame.
I will be preparing a last Kickstarter campaign, before passing from beta to final version. Depending on what we get, I will improve further animations, environments and perhaps, both some nice 2D designs + professional voiceover for some sequences - cinematics where some important parts of the story are told.
What would be new for this crowdfunding? I will add a feature so you could import pictures for your main characters. And I did some quick tests to be able to add your faces into some of the 3D playable character. No promises for the stuff of the faces as yet, but if I like how it ends, I will add it to the crowdfunding. Imagine that a playable character may have your face, or one of your kid, etc. I think it could be fun, it is not difficult to do the programming, it is more the artistic part of messing around with texture. But I will explain more about that and how it is done on the crowdfunding page. I will publish here so you can follow up and hopefully provide me with your feedback and thoughts.
To show you how playable characters look like now, please dont hesitate to see the latest videos on my youtube channel;
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbk6Ou93f388avND2DaWJTA
Oh, I am doing some fast conceptual work for the next videogame, this one will be multiplayer and very fun to play with friends, kids, etc. More about that after the crowdfunding. One step at the time!
Thank you everyone for following this up.
The Essence Reaper Ritual, almost finished!
Game is almost finished. Just working on the the three Real Time Strategy mini games before the last level, final of the game. Game should be finished next month or the following as latest. I am also messing around with the Evil path, so for the next weeks, please play “Benign / good” choices to ensure game is relatively stable.
My apologies for the long delay, I feel I should explain you what happened; personal / family issues with a close family member being ill, I also changed job and company. I finally was able to get some holidays around Xmas to dedicate -in between family events- to this videogame. I really love it and enjoy it very much, I created all the programming and game deveplopment on my own from scratch, I havent got external help or a company, other than the great Unity community, full of manuals, courses and people always happy to answer difficult questions and problems on their forums.
Anyway, as promised back in May 2008 I am finishing this videogame. And it is nearly finished. I have learnt much on programming and game development during this time. I wanted to create an old fashioned RPG and here it is. I have ideas, scripts and stories to make this videogame like x5 – x 10 bigger, but that is entirely up to you people. If you people like it, I will keep adding content relatively fast at weekends, otherwise, I will do it from time to time as a hobby.
I am also thinking on my next project, influenced by my nephews. We want a fun Hack and Slash multiplayer game in the world of Eternalia, easy to play, up to four people, either to play on the same screen or perhaps I could think on an option for online multiplayer, PC, Xbox, PlayStation... etc. Right now I call this idea “Dungeons and Undead” (D&U). But more about that in the coming weeks, for now, I am finishing the Essence Reaper Ritual.
Thanks to those who follow this video game, and to those who takes their time to provide with ideas, critics to improve, etc. Special thanks to my backers from Kickstarters, the first people who supported this videogame (Hi Weirum!), and lastly although most importantly, my wife who have been always there by my side, at both jobs; the real one which pay the invoices and this one as game developer.
Looking forward to hear your ideas and feedback.
Developing a new large city. See first screen captures.
Working on Northern City, a major city with different districts. It is almost as big as all the previous levels and scenes in the videogame.
See how we start from scratch the scene in Unity, then adding different textures, 3D models, etc. We still have to add a lot more buildings. Once it is done, we will add trees, small details, .. and obviously people and a couple of quests.
Our idea to go easy on computers is that only one district will be active at the time, your party will be able to move freely all over the entire city. You can choose to move to any other district at any time (when not in combat or in dialogue mode). So basically we created this city in different pieces, and only the active district and close surrounding environment will be active, along NPC, lights, etc.
Please feel free to comment or share your ideas / thoughts.
MAY UPDATE. Level Up script implemented. New location almost ready.
So we finally implemented a level up script in our beta version. It is good as your demon weapon Dalila gets more powerful as you do.
Dalila cause level / 3 necro damage, with a minimum of 1. This necro damage bypass any necro resistance, and it damages any type of creature, including demon lords, liches, and even the very gods, ... of course assuming the dont tear you apart quickly.
https://youtu.be/uEmbsYMi3uI
Showing a new location which is almost ready, where you may recruit the good paladin at the service of the god of justice, in the case of good alignment characters. Otherwise, you may recruit the dark paladin at the service of the evil god Arawn, in the case of evil alignment characters.
Working the coming week to release the new location and add special abilities and spells to playable character. Some of them have the icon with the ability but they dont work as yet.
Please feel free to provide with any feedback, we welcome it!
Thanks
March 2018 Update. RTS level implemented
We implemented the RTS mini game. We are still testing it, especially saving / loading data, so please report any bug which you find.
We will be focusing on the next weeks on;
- Debugging RTS scenes and scripts
- Implementing a level up script so your characters get more powerful. All characters will have the same level as your main character.
- We are close to finish NortherEnd Inn. New location. You may recruit here either the good paladin or the bad paladin, depending on your alignment, and give you a new quest related to slaves.
- We started designing a major city (Northern City), building the 3D scene, so you can advance in the main story. We plan on adding side quests here.
UPDATE 1.0.13
* Implemented script to keep invisible rooms with doors closed. When door is open, then room is activated along its contents, enemies, etc.
* Added special abilities to the player data. In the main menu, click on "Characters" and "Attributes". Scroll down to the button, and you will see the special abilities are there with descriptions. So far few abilities description have been entered.
* Fixed spell GUI bug. Now changing character with spells to another character with no spells does not make GUI button bar dissapear.
* Vivace Forest pathfinding; characters pass through bushes now. Players were reporting issues when going through the forest, it looked more like a labyrinth. Now it is more friendly, only major trees should interfere in your movements.
Take care
Legends of Eternalia
2018 March Update; new Real Time Strategy (RTS) levels added !!!
We wanted to work on this a bit further before releasing it, as this mini game is being integrated with the rest of the game, however our small community were (rightfully) asking for new updates, so here it is.
See a video;
https://youtu.be/sazKHYwoneo
It will be integrated soon, so in the new updates with new locations and quests, you will have sometime the option to fight with the regiments, units and resources you gather, in these RTS levels. That was our original idea for this videogame, to mix a classic RPS with a classic RTS.
We tried no to say too much about it because among videogames, deep story multichoices RPGs are among the most complex, RTS are also difficult, and being a new Indie Dev I wanted to make sure we could deliver something enough close to our dreams before talking too much about it.
Apologies to those of you who really follow this project, because we can not go any faster. Being a small Indie Dev, we have our real jobs and families to attend, but we do keep working on it.
In the next weeks, we will working on fixing some bugs with evil alignments (e.g. AI and animations for the demon and evil wolf) as well as preparing a new location ; Nothern Inn, where you will be presented with the choice of recruiting either the good paladin or the dark one. Oh, yes, and your first RTS level integrated in the game!
UPDATE 1.0.12
* NEW BETA TEST FOR RTS (REAL TIME STRATEGIC) BATTLES! A lot of things to improve, however some of you were worried we havent updated the game in awhile, thus we prefered to release it sooner.
* Added de map of West Eternalia to the build. Scroll in to see the details! By Ricardo Rico, 2D Artist.
* Added cover of the "The Essence Reaper Ritual", by Jamie Noble Frier, 2D Artist.
* Added a reward when finishing the quest of the wolves. Go back to the sargent of the guards inside the inn, in Heartbreak Valley.
* Improved Load from Main Menu; Scroll down menu, so when many profiles are created you may scroll down.
* Fixed Rose bug. Run animation continued on when changing character. Fixed. Still more work is needed, specially in battle.
* Fixed Rab evil alignment bug. Rab description is now available in quest items with evil alignments.
* Fixed minor issues with tactical camera when in Pause.
* Changed autosave setting for Rab Pet Companion in the childhood so it will continue to be in Quest Items inventory.
As usual, please feel free to send us your comments and feedback.
Your Indie Dev,
Legends of Eternalia.
MORE RESOLUTIONS AVAILABLE!
We have just implemented some changes on the GUI (Graphic User Interface) so text size scales up or down according to your resolution.
So, please feel free to try now higher resolutions.
There are still few changes we are working on;
* Images on button to stretch over the full button.
* Some text not being generated by the main GUI script is still generated too small for higher resolutions, however we will go through them to implement the scalable script we developed.
Please feel free to let us know any bug, or even send us screen captures of things you want us to improve.
Thank you all for playing our game.
Legends of Eternalia.