Greetings Adventurers ⚔️, we're excited to give you an update on our progress! Here’s what we’re working on:
Vertical Slice
TL:DR: Our Vertical Slice build with essential gameplay, includes exploration, PvP, PvE, and social aspects.
The way we're approaching development for Primorden is through creating something called a Vertical Slice, which is a build that features all the essential gameplay elements and a small section of content. As developers, this helps us test and observe the core loop of our game for “fun”.
The Vertical Slice will feature several Classes we can test on a small selection of monster types, each with droppable loot and resources.
Gameplay will take place in a “beautiful corner” of our full open-world map, including areas like safe zones and full-loot PvPvE zones.
We’ll be using these to determine how players will interact with the environment, enemies, and each other.
Art 🎨
Completed multiple Origin artworks, some of which are critical to Primorden’s foundational lore. We may be revealing some of these soon!
Developing foundational concept art for the “Solania” region to upgrade our old art and make the world more cohesive and immersive.
Established a new art pipeline to maximize artists’ skills and produce content faster.
Development 🖥️
Developed persistence and chat using our custom lightweight and scalable backend system.
Early WIP! Likely to change. .
Created a predictive AI targeting system for monsters for more challenging monster encounters.
Added 2 Boss encounters to the Vertical Slice and potentially fitting in a 3rd class.
Developed custom building and design tools, which allow for more effective game design and level building.
Design ✒️
Continuing Primorden lore building, specifically in the Solania region, including races, culture, clothing, religions, and more!
Built out more areas of our Vertical Slice to expand the amount of exploration players will be able to do.
Continued UI work with a core goal of readability and immersion.
Brought in an ex-League of Legends game designer and ex-Assassin's Creed level designer as advisors to help our team level up output.
Music 🎵
Finished multiple theme songs for our OST and will be releasing an early version of one of our tracks soon 👀
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