Monsters & Memories - An Old School Indie MMO

[Harris]

Looking forward to this.

[Zukan]

Hey sort of update-y: I threw together a rough wood elf into unity last night. They're one of our super thin races. Still need to make the low poly version but it seemed like it works pretty well. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jibartik]

look at you go!!!!

[Zukan]

Just dropped the July Update, you all should check it on the site here because there is too many images to try and paste in here and there is a video showing off some initial UI ideas.

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Hello everyone!

Despite the heat, vacations, and all the other trappings of Summer, the team has continued to get an update worthy amount of work done!

We hope you’re staying cool. Grab an icy beverage and enjoy!

Character Art & Concepts

• Human, Gnome, and Ogre geometry reworked to facilitate better topology around the armpits
  
• UV and Weight Painting cleaned up accordingly
  
• Animations were reworked, both from the Art & Tech side of things (more below)
  
• Modelling on Female Humans and Wood Elves started
  
• Attachable items (backpacks, belt packs) working on Player Characters
  
• New NPC & Monster Concepts
  
• Some NPC/Monsters Concepted via Sculpting
  
• Experimentation with reuse of existing textures to create new equipment variations
  
• Additional Character Customization (and tooling)

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Environment Art & Concepts

• Continued work on Night Harbor Western District
  Market
  Temple Entrance
  Tannery
  Additional Streets and Structures
  
  
• Newbie yard revamp
  
• Fallen Watch façade updated and added to Shaded Dunes and Vale of Zintar
  
• Cat Rooms (dog rooms coming soon)
  
• Wyrmsbane Entrance Model updated and added to NH Western Newbie Yard
  
• Wyrmsbane Zone Expanded
  
• Additional Tomb areas grey boxed
  
• Cavern areas grey boxed

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UI & UI Concepts

• UI Mockup & UX flows concepted
  
• UI Texture Style concepted
  
• Character Race Selection illustration
  
• Character creation UI and workflow improvements
  
• Added additional character name validation
  
• Added confirmation before deleting characters
  
• Ability, buff, and Hotbar UI visual and functional changes
  
• Various Bug fixes

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Design & QA

• Itemization Work
  
• Recipes Work
  
• New Mob Spawns and Mob Spawn Adjustments for Night Harbor
  
• Started adding new MUD Objects for Night Harbor and Tomb of the Last Wyrmsbane zones
  
• Misc. Ability Work
  
• All Newbie Note quests in data or implemented (some PH)
  
• Public Test Milestone Checklist
  
• Misc. Ability work, updates, and bug fixes
  
• Pruned/modified starting abilities for certain classes
  
• Gameplay Testing/Bug Reporting/Regression

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Tech

• CICD pipeline support for automatic building of server and client
  
• CICD pipeline support for publishing patch releases available to launcher patching
  
• More work on login server integration with login via launcher
  
• Database restructuring
  
• Implemented additional texture processes such as masking
  
• Implemented attachable items (backpacks, beltpacks)
  
• Animation system revamp. It is now all programmatic.
  
• More robust “RPG style” functionality added for Reagents, Food, Merchants.
  
  For Example:
  Merchants will now only buy items that they are tagged to buy
  Light sources can consume “charges,” similar to food
  Light sources can be recharged (ex. Oil Lamp)
  Multiple reagents can be used at once or only have a chance to be consumed
  
  
• Navigation fixes
  
• Wwise integration proof of concept and research for overhauling audio is underway
  
• Skin tone and facial features for NPCs
  
• Fixed some zone line problems

In Closing
As you can see, despite vacations (or in Ali’s case - because of…), the team has kept things moving along nicely!

Next month we’ll have some info on our latest addition to the team, and possibly an update on the search for an Animator.

Exciting stuff!

If you haven’t already, don’t forget to check out our:
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Mailing List

Have a great day and hopefully, we’ll see you on one of our streams or in Discord!

[Jibartik]

hah cat room nice touch

[Zukan]

ALovingRobot chats about some interesting mmo topics.

[Lifebar]

Bump for victory! I can't wait to play, take my money.

[Kaveh]

Originally Posted by Mblake1981 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What was your first EQ dungeon experience?

Mine was,
https://wiki.project1999.com/Befallen

Befallen and kedge are two of my favorite zones. Kedge is probably #1

[Kaveh]

Really cool stuff Zukan

[Mblake1981]

Originally Posted by Kaveh [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Befallen and kedge are two of my favorite zones. Kedge is probably #1

Sol B or LGuk would probably be my first choice as I spent the most time in those dungeons in era, Kedge is notable for being a fully underwater dungeon that modern games struggle with despite having large budgets and an army of programmers. Its an intellectual insult that goes all the way back to the second Deus Ex game and Thief 3: Deadly Shadows.