Rolfe
11-09-2004, 12:26 AM
Just want to let the few people that still hang around the boards know that we're still making progress. Things are coming along.
Rich has been making great coding progress over the last few weeks on merchants, trainers, other NPCs, inventory/items/equipment, and probably some things I'm forgetting. He's currently past that and he's beginning to add content. Sunday night he was digging out old maps of Tanzia and old notes as a starting point for content. The actual island of Tanzia is there and mostly terraformed and landscaped from the original project, but Rich will be adding things like wandering monsters and NPC's (including merchants and trainers based on the code he just finished recently for them) to Tanzia.
I'll be working through a large list of mostly art assets so the monsters Rich adds won't all be the same model eventually. Also included in that list of art assets we need are several weapon models, some armor textures, and some other things we'll need for the first release that we didn't get to originally. The others are working on their respective things. Lee is keeping an eye on the boards and I suspect that very soon we may see him adding some details to Tanzia and possibly helping Rich add content once we blow the dust off the old world editor. Msew is working on some long term solutions for systems which we'll hopefully see the results of later on after the first release.
I can't honestly say how long it might be before we see a playable, testable, and interesting build. It really depends on how motivated we all stay and on how much time we all manage to make. I hope to see all of us and all of you in Tanzia someday soon though.
Rich has been making great coding progress over the last few weeks on merchants, trainers, other NPCs, inventory/items/equipment, and probably some things I'm forgetting. He's currently past that and he's beginning to add content. Sunday night he was digging out old maps of Tanzia and old notes as a starting point for content. The actual island of Tanzia is there and mostly terraformed and landscaped from the original project, but Rich will be adding things like wandering monsters and NPC's (including merchants and trainers based on the code he just finished recently for them) to Tanzia.
I'll be working through a large list of mostly art assets so the monsters Rich adds won't all be the same model eventually. Also included in that list of art assets we need are several weapon models, some armor textures, and some other things we'll need for the first release that we didn't get to originally. The others are working on their respective things. Lee is keeping an eye on the boards and I suspect that very soon we may see him adding some details to Tanzia and possibly helping Rich add content once we blow the dust off the old world editor. Msew is working on some long term solutions for systems which we'll hopefully see the results of later on after the first release.
I can't honestly say how long it might be before we see a playable, testable, and interesting build. It really depends on how motivated we all stay and on how much time we all manage to make. I hope to see all of us and all of you in Tanzia someday soon though.