skwiggs1983

I think I am finally ready to show what I have done so far in Ork.



The game is called "Destimonium" (Basically "Destiny" and "Pandemonium" combined.) and I am planning on having a lot of story elements that will hopefully keep the player interested.





The scenes are all done using the event system and the battle system is definitely ork.

I used a few other assets like "Salsa" for lip syncing, and "Tile a dungeon Sewer kit" for the prison, but the music and the voices are all me.

The battle system will be turn based and will and eventually will have weapons that change your abilities, since the character is only naturally adept at one magic type each.

Check out the video and let me know what you think.

EDIT: wanted to add a couple of pictures of the outside world





EDIT 2:changed the youtube video to add the other 2 floors and more cutscenes

Catacomber

I think you know you need a background scene for your main menu--whether it's 2d or 3d--right? But I think you have the mechanics of other things working well---I love the lip syncing--it's perfect and adds a lot. The movement of the player and enemy is very fluid. I enjoyed the video.

skwiggs1983

I know about the title screen, I just haven't decided on what to do with that yet since it is so early and the tone of the story may change. I just want to make sure that the title matches the tone.

And thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

Shadow_Fire

I like it. Don't really have anything to complain about right now :D
Do you have in mind what the story is gonna be about?

skwiggs1983

I have the main story down, but a lot of the small details change the more I learn about the framework.

Shadow_Fire

Ah, I got you. Very cool. Keep it up.

wtyson

Just a small amount of advice from what i saw in the video and some of the pics u have posted else where on the forums. the depth blur is to much an hurts the eyes. the lay out of the dungeon is good but the repetitive spacing of the gates makes the area seem some what boring.
from your pictures u posted on the main screen shot forum u need to make the textures bigger to get rid of the tiling in the distance or u can do a small script to adjust the shaders tiling the further out it is . not actually sure if this is possible in unity with out a custom shader. least not with the unitys basic terrain material. and last but not least the lighting needs some work the areas to bright for a dungeon.

all in all the rest looks good!

skwiggs1983

-The motion blur was added last minute, because i was interested in the new camera effects that unity added. that is still being tweaked.

-I am using diffent shaders that will help with the tiling in the outer areas, I'm not too worried about it yet since I am missing a few assets that will be finished soon. and there is one other dungeon that will be seen before the person even sees the world map.

-I had lower lights before, but it did was too dark, for now, I decided to make it bright for testing purposes, but eventually i do have to create better lighting. That will be a bigger priority once more of the gameplay is tweaked. Special attacks are still missing as well as strengths/weaknesses on the enemies.

Thank you for the advice

wtyson

yeah one thing i read alot of complaints about is motion blur some people like it but im one of those people who thinks its a little hard on the eyes. Lighting is very important its basically what sets ur games feel. an makes it visually appealing to your players. Keep up the good work.

Phesant33

Cool waterfall hey! Will be interested to see how this goes :)

skwiggs1983

Edit: Added Time System: Sky Master syncs with Ork and displays time on the HUD while you are in the Overworld.



more information here http://forum.orkframework.com/discussion/3907/tutorial-i-think-sky-master-ork-time-system-basics#latest

Bantichai

This is looking really good, the one thing I'd like to bring up is positioning in combat. After all the pokemon games I played, I am used to the player character being on the left side. When I was watching the gameplay I actually thought the player was on the left side too until I noticed the Kasai solider dying.

Studies show that the majority of people when looking at a website/interface will start from the top left, afterall we do read from left to right as well :)

In the mini boss fight, it was even more jarring. Given that the battle menu is in the left hand corner and the promixity of the 3 characters to it, if you posted a random screenshot and asked a gamer which models he thought he controlled, I wager he'd say the left ones.

Regardless it's my own opinion, but it's the only feedback I can give, everything else looks like it's coming along.

skwiggs1983

you have a point @bantichai. I was working on making sure that the battle functioned, since i originally had issues with it. I didn't work on the full presentation of it yet.

Having the main character on the left is a good idea. I also thought of having the player character in the foreground and the enemy in the background, similar to Lost Odyssey or Final Fantasy XIII.

I will update the showcase when I change the battle camera for more feedback.

Thank you.