LeoDev

Making Ichor Online: an Action MMORPG inspired by the classics. Powered by open-source: @godotengine @blender @spacetimedb 🎮❤️

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

I'm excited to announce my game Ichor Online: an Action MMORPG inspired by the classics. Explore, craft, and grow in a player-driven economy.

No quest markers, no hidden subscription fees, and no pay-to-win.

More to come soon. Wishlist on steam:

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

@MjTheHunter I wonder if the cinematic trailers still have good engagement and conversion, considering how much work goes into it and how little it tells about the game

[SpacetimeDB @spacetimedb]

Check out the kinds of projects Spacetime is enabling!

[FR3NKD @FR3NKD]

Last week we were nobodies.

After our first YouTube video we are now at 5,000 wishlists with a Discord server full of players talking about the game and the first Patreon members are already trying the pre-alpha!!

I can't even describe how surreal this is..

[80 LEVEL @80Level]

Indie developers @FR3NKD and @leogamedevlog
showcased their upcoming MMORPG Ichor Online, powered by open-source software.

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

@80Level @FR3NKD Thanks for the shout out! We’re working hard to deliver a cool game!

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

@MjTheHunter It’s so fun to optimize and see improvements. My goal is to have my game running on a old potato laptop I have here with integrated GPU 😅

[FR3NKD @FR3NKD]

We've just surpassed 3,000 wishlists...

[MAZEBREAKER | Steam Playtest Soon!✨ @Asbar_official]

If you like Monster Hunter’s Great Sword, you might like this. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #monsterhunter

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

@JonasTyroller @FR3NKD Hey, thanks for the support! Big fan of ur videos!

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

@SawmanUk @RageDarling There are some channels with entire generated scripts. With sharp ears you can really hear the quirks and patterns only AI writes. It puts me off, but most people don’t seem to care

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

@SawmanUk Congrats! Proximity chat is always fun lol

[MJ @MjTheHunter]

Lowkey amazing vibe already! Will definitely be interesting to follow

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

@halette_briefer The journey should be interesting and even walking around should be enjoyable!
Some games end up having to do those mechanics because the world is way too big and empty

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

“Convenience kills adventure”

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

I played World of Warcraft for many, many years (stopped around early Cata days). The one thing that stood out to me more than anything was its massive size. It was literally a world. And it felt huge because you had to explore everything by foot (to start with anyway).

This might be a hot take but I always felt that some of the magic got lost with the flying mounts and teleports later on. The upgrade from walking to getting your first mount was nice (it felt like a real milestone) but the flying mount and teleports turned a once massive world into a set of waypoints.

I know it's all under the umbrella of convenience but I felt that the world really started to shrink and lost a big chunk of its charm. It wasn't about exploring anymore, it was about getting to the next dungeon or raid as fast as possible, relegating everything else to secondary importance, including all the little details, NPCs, caves, coastlines, mountains, and everything that that was once so wonderful to explore.

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

@MrCollison @FR3NKD Thank you!! Frank did a great job on the art!

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

Extremely thankful for all the support and love!!

[FR3NKD @FR3NKD]

What's going on? This is our first video on the channel, it shouldn't go this well.

Don't get me wrong, we'll definitely take it 😅

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

@TiCladStudios @FR3NKD Thanks! And absolutely, we had to integrate physics, skeleton animation playback, pathfinding and other things into spacetime. Kind of a mini engine at this point.

On Godot side we’re making several tools, chunk streaming, lots of work!!

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

@sirokuro_selbin @mootiongraphics Hey! Have you looked into root motion? If the animation is “baked” with the distances, it gets easier to figure out the speeds in engine to match the actual traveled distance with minimal foot sliding

[piterpasma @piterpasma]

20KB JS | no libraries | artisanal code | zero tokens

[LeoDev @leogamedevlog]

@gruni @FR3NKD No vibes, no generative AI. Only serious engineering and hand crafted art.

Took several months to make the small prototype we showcased in the video.

[Nick @CentralScruty]

Warhorse studios deserve all the credit in the world for letting us be able to actually step into the past like this. The reverence and respect for history is unprecedented in Kingdom Come Deliverance.