TheGatewayOfRealities

Map update

Added 2016-09-20 15:43:52 +0000 UTC

So, I started to work on a new map! Right now its a lifeless and empty desert, but later I shall populate it with rocks, trees, grass, villages. This map is huge and will surely take me a while to complete. First step will be to draw some concept art to determine further asset development, and I already started that. This way I will have a list of all things I need to model for the environments!

This map is going to be the first playable area, it will be the home for 3 species you can pick when you enter the map, as your starting species.

One of major changes when moving on from 2.5D to full 3D game, is that instead of having many small maps, we're going to have a few giant ones! Hopefully they will prove more interesting, encourage exploration, and give a sense of freedom!

Vast open landscapes, while awesome, can be tedious to cross by foot. But we will have waypoints, flight, and maybe even a vehicle at some point later in the development!

Open world games are very resource intensive. A way to optimize this is to have levels separated into different areas that are not loaded and not processed by the game while there is no player around.

And, of course, it's all a huge task ahead - lots of assets to create, lots of textures to paint. But, oh boy, how much I enjoy creating worlds!

PS: I hope all the embedded screenshots load properly, for me it doesn't do that all the time for some reason. Maybe Google Drive is not the best choice to host them.