Hey everyone! 🖖
Time for our monthly dev update!
Gateway Guardians (GG) .. We have moved back to the earlier build we mentioned while we improve the crowd system, that has all gone smoothly, so we will update you all with some clips of that build as soon as those are ready. We are also completing some environment updates which help the look, as well as some fps improvements. There have also been updates to the build system and some pipeline tools, all of which help speed development which is what we love to see!
A⁷ Tabletop .. We have finalised the designs for our custom dice based on order and chaos, we think they look pretty great! Like everything in A⁷, a lot of thought and attention has gone into making these, we like to make sure that everything we do is imbued with meaning, it’s what being an artist is all about.
We are sharing some ‘making of’ clips shortly to show the design process, and why it makes a difference between doing things this way, and using AI. That way you always know that things we make are made from a process that comes from passion and dedication.
So those high resolution dice models are off to have the positives made for casting at very high resolution, and we’re looking forward to seeing those!
We have also been powering through the final page layouts for the Players Guide and GM’s Guide. We are looking forward to sharing a bunch more of that in the upcoming guides!
We are filming the first guides for A⁷ over the next week, as well as a tabletop play session in around two weeks time. Once those are finished and edited you’ll be able to catch everything on our YouTube channel, so don’t forget to subscribe if you’re not already!
That’s it for now , we hope you‘ve all had an amazing start to the year, and bring on February! 🔥
The image of the dice is a 3d render created from the exact models we are using for the resin casting, we’ve tuned the look to be as close as possible to the final.
Hey everyone! 🖖
Slightly past the end of the month, but we get there eventually, we’ve had a busy month and have a couple of updates!
For Gateway Guardians we last mentioned we made some good progress on our crowds with one of our development branches, while that solution is better it’s still not performing well enough that we’re happy with it. We’ve decided to keep working on that and put some clips together from an earlier build (it still looks great). That way everyone can see how things are looking and we can put some clips up on Steam that we are happy with, while we continue optimising.
Our crowds are a little bit more complicated than a regular army with attack/defence/formation mechanics, these are effectively large crowds of NPCs with personality types, emotional states, and some other elements that bring emergent behaviour into gameplay. It makes things a bit more complicated, but very worth it, as emergent behaviour is a big part of our gameplay experience.
We have someone joining us from today who will be looking after posting and socials at long last, huzzah! We are now switching to multiple posts a week, which I’m sure you’re all pleased to hear 😄
And finally, we are very pleased to announce the launch of our book sales for the tabletop role-playing version of A⁷! 🥳
We are doing this through Kickstarter so we can get exact numbers for book orders and avoid unnecessary print costs, which we think is sensible. You can also get both regular hardcover and luxury hardcover editions, as well as the exclusive custom luxury dice, GM screens and artbooks and prints. As we mentioned before the game itself is free (under a non-commercial license), you can grab the PDFs of the books when they are out!
Our tabletop development is funded separately to the video game development, so we want to be clear we are not using this Kickstarter to raise funds, it is for TTRPG sales for the physical bits. If we do raise extra money from it, it will be used for expanding the tabletop game. Our video game funding is doing well on its own and we are happy with the progress there.
A big update, lots to read! Bring on December! 💪
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Hey everyone! 🖖
We are pleased to share with you a few pre-alpha dev clips from Gateway Guardians combat in the 'Training Area', an intro level designed to familiarise players with the various mechanics.
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Gateway Guardians is a party-based co-op PvE shooter that takes place in the Main Terminal Area of Aten7.
Find out more about Aten7 at https://t.co/2RtkhfHnXF
GG is still in mid-development, so there are plenty of improvements and current fixes to be made. However, we are excited to show you just a little of where we're at right now.
You'll notice we have removed the HUD. This is because it reveals some game mechanics we want to keep under wraps for now.
This also includes the main game mechanic, unique to GG, and something that forms part of the A⁷ story.
Gateway Guardians will be on Steam shortly 🕹️
A⁷ .. GG.. Up and Aten! 🖖
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