We got our first awesome piece of music from Michael Shawn Carbaugh the Second. Check it out!
Tents
March 29, 2015
Did you hear about the work Freedan Studios has been doing? It's pretty in-tents.
Battle It Out
March 24, 2015
Right now I'm looking at some numbers for Maven's battle system. I'm crunching out a bunch of random numbers on the left and calculating various amounts of damage on the right. The last four columns were poorly labeled and are as follows: average end health (that is health after average damage), max decrease end health, percentage (of max health) decrease in health from average damage, and percentage decrease in health from maximum damage. This isn't final, but it's an update.
More Planning
March 17, 2015
We might have two new team members on board for Maven. That's an answer to prayer. One of the two being a story-er, I have been working to compile a well organized system of all notes on Maven's story-line. In addition to the implementation of the story through JourNotes, I also made a hover-over-the-place-and-see-about-it interactive map to solidify a spatial awareness of the game. Although I cannot show any of the JourNotes stuff (since it is the story), I can show a little bit of the interactive map (unfortunately, I don't have a demo version with story content edited out available).
N.B. These are graphics from RPG Maker used for planning purposes, not the actual game graphics.
Partnering
February 15, 2015
We are praying about expanding our development team for Maven. If you or someone you know would be interested in joining the team, please contact us. We would also appreciate your prayer in the matter.
Hey, Look!
January 25, 2015
On the graphical side of things, Freedan Studios has whipped up this fancy-shmancy artwork.
Week 3
January 18, 2015
Amazingly, we have a third consecutive weekly post!
This past week has been a little bit of a conglomerate of messing around with Game Character Hub's character generator, trying to decide on a method of attack animations, and as always some good old-fashioned brainstorming (primarily in regards to early story-boarding).
That's about it for this week, but check back again next week!
This past week has been a little bit of a conglomerate of messing around with Game Character Hub's character generator, trying to decide on a method of attack animations, and as always some good old-fashioned brainstorming (primarily in regards to early story-boarding).
That's about it for this week, but check back again next week!
Spot the Difference
January 5, 2015
"But I've seen this already!!!" Look again. There are three major progress updates in this alpha screenshot, two of which transpired in the last week.
So, somehow I missed the Saturday evening reminder to post on here, but I seem to be getting into this Sunday afternoon posting habit.
Question of the day: What is your life worth?
So, somehow I missed the Saturday evening reminder to post on here, but I seem to be getting into this Sunday afternoon posting habit.
Question of the day: What is your life worth?
I've just been thinking recently about the high value I place on my own life when Jesus said, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate...their own life--such a person cannot be my disciple," (Luke 14:26) and, "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends" (John 15:13). I want to say I would give up my life for Christ, but I don't know if I would. This song captures my heart's attitude well:
6 Months Later...
January 5, 2015
It has been far too long since the last post I made on SoloVid. First of all, yes, we are still working on Maven. The last six months have been busy, and it has been hard to find time or motivation to work on this project.
However, in the last few weeks, we have been making some substantial progress. In the screenshot below you will see two features of late: a local file save system (We went from 0 to 21 files in a couple of days. Technically, the saving part of this system is not implemented yet because the in-game menu is not yet available.), and a much-improved cursor map system in which the cursor will navigate two-dimensionally from point to point based on direction while the points are listed linearly in what may be an unordered array.
However, in the last few weeks, we have been making some substantial progress. In the screenshot below you will see two features of late: a local file save system (We went from 0 to 21 files in a couple of days. Technically, the saving part of this system is not implemented yet because the in-game menu is not yet available.), and a much-improved cursor map system in which the cursor will navigate two-dimensionally from point to point based on direction while the points are listed linearly in what may be an unordered array.
More features and graphics are in the works. Check back next Saturday evening for the next post (I have set a reminder on my iPhone now) to see how Maven is coming. We would love to hear comments on anything going on here at SoloVid.
It is hard in all of this work to remember the reason for our labor is that God be glorified. My prayer is that God be glorified regardless of our success or failure, and He will be.
It is hard in all of this work to remember the reason for our labor is that God be glorified. My prayer is that God be glorified regardless of our success or failure, and He will be.