Redemption – The Third Era

We are working in order to make available the Endurance mode for the closed Beta release date: this game mode has a game mechanic that is more innovative respect to our initial idea. Matches could be more varied and interesting.

In the Endurance mode, Decks consists of a Hero Card and from a minimum of one to a maximum of eight Character Cards.

In this game mode, the Character Card that survived the clash may continue the Match and will struggle against the next Character Card played by the other player.

Actually, Match scene starts as represented like in following image and it consists of:

1. Hero Cards of Player (on the bottom left of the picture) and Opponent (on the top left of the picture);
2. Hole Deck (the player’s one on the bottom and the Opponent’s one on the top), namely the Cards part of the deck and that will be later drawn by the players;
3. Three face-up Cards both for the Player (on the bottom) and for Opponent (on the top), namely the Cards already drawn by the players and that deal the group from which to select the playable Card. The player can see the Opponent’s Cards too, but he can’t know whether the Opponent will activate or not the available skills before he plays those Cards;
4. HUD zone (on the left of the screen, the up position is the Opponent’s one and the bottom position is the Player’s one, in the middle you can find the Game Timer) includes the Energetic Pool, the Fame points and the Graveyard, on which the “defeated” Cards will place.

 

The fight against icons is a lost one …

Every time one is finally ready, and you believe it is the right one, but the following day you look at it again and a doubt insinuates … will it be really clear, what does it show? What if I would add something more? Maybe a more detailed drawing? A revealing writing?! Why do they have to be so bloody small?!!

We have passed months over months racking our own brains over their role and they right picture to place there, the right colour, texture, without considering the aggravating factor that  we wanted to have ‘post atomic’ icons, as if in a 40 pixel side square it would be easy to insert everything …

We have reached a decision, the main icons will be those you can see in the picture and the compulsory order the graphics have been given has been a resolute STOP, stop changing, stop adjustments, stop all doubts and most of all stop saying stuff like: ‘…an idea for the icons has come into my mind…’

Do not get us wrong, we have always considered perfectionism an integral part of our work as it helps us to improve our skills, but faced by many things we still have to accomplish, focusing on something that is ‘ready’ is blocking the developments on parts that yet need to be finished. The improvements are always more than welcome and maybe, maybe, these icons will be changed again, the fundamental thing being that you won’t let this reach our graphics … be it necessary we would like to surprise them!

This is the Staff of the Third Era!

As already anticipated in last December’s post, we are late with the works on the Redemption The Third Era project.

We took some time to analyze what must yet be developed, what is necessary and what is not for the launch of our Closed Beta. This time has been useful to create a new schedule of goals, actions and needed time for the release. Analyzing the reasons for the delay we have understood that the time needed to implement some functionalities have been underestimated and we are now arranging for widening the number of our collaborators in order to go even faster.

We have decided to create and experiment a game system that will make innovative what we are now developing related to the extant collectible cards games set. Our goal is still to create a cards game that is suitable as far as the mechanics are concerned when two people are playing at a distance, but at the same time we would also give birth to something that will make the game experience the most original possible. Here is the reason for the post atomic setting and for the game model we are now developing that has got the name of Endurance. In the next weeks we will write some thorough posts on this matter.

The new release date is so June 1st 2016.

To reach this date we have lots of work to do and specifically we expert to reach it through the steps hereby listed:

January 2016

• Implementing of the game client of the News system;
• Revision of the cards, and of their skills, supporting the new model of the game Endurance;
• Implementing of the new game model server;
• Start of the implementation of the new model of game in the client;
• Completion of the design of the HUD improvements.

February 2016

• Completion of the cards graphics;
• End of the HUD client implementation;
• Implementation of the Currencies in the client;

March 2016

• Implementation of the Shop in the client;
• Implementation of the Shop in the server;
• Implementation of the users levels in the client;
• Final selection of music and sound effects;

April 2016

• Implementation of the messaging system in the client;
• Implementation of the rewards system in the client;
• Revision of the creation of decks of cards for the Endurance model needs.

May 2016

• End of the implementation of the new game model in the client;
• Overall revision of the developments.

1st of June 2016 – Closed Beta Start up.