Legend of Grimrock(fort société)

[Cambrey]

C’est pas le débat.

Que le jeu soit dispo sur Steam, je m’en fou. Les gens achètent ou ils veulent ca les regarde. Mais que Steam soit imposé à tout le monde en devenant la seule plateforme de distribution, ca, ca me dérange grandement. Cette facon de forcer les gens à utiliser ceci ou cela m’exaspère. A chacun ses convictions.

Bon, rien n’a été annoncé, donc je ne panique pas trop pour le moment, mais j’ai peur que leur silence face à certaines réactions de joueurs sur leur blog en dise long sur leurs intentions…
Edité le 24/09/2011 à 16:25

[daffytheduck]

Que le jeu soit dispo sur Steam, je m’en fou. Les gens achètent ou ils veulent ca les regarde. Mais que Steam soit imposé à tout le monde en devenant la seule plateforme de distribution, ca, ca me dérange grandement. Cette facon de forcer les gens à utiliser ceci ou cela m’exaspère. A chacun ses convictions.

Le problème c’est qu’on n’accède pas à Steam comme ça, il y a des conditions et des critères à respecter.
Steam peut dire “ok, on met votre jeu en vente sur notre plateforme mais on en prend l’exclusivité.” C’est du donnant-donnant, les dév’s profitent de la notoriété de Steam et Steam se frotte les mains si le jeu cartonne.
Edité le 24/09/2011 à 16:01

[Cambrey]

Les choses avancent, doucement mais surement :

• Created 2 new dungeon levels with emphasis on puzzles
• Olli has been polishing animations for three monsters (or do the “in-betweens” as they say in animator jargon)
• Antti has been adding new melee weapons and armor.
• Added a new special melee attack mode for a “secret super-aggressive enemy type” (sorry, we want to keep details about enemies pretty vague so the monsters will be more scary and mysterious when you encounter them)
• We got the first draft of the Grimrock theme music from our composer. It rocks!
• We had a long brainstorm session about the end game which we are starting to work on next week. That should be fun!

Edité le 02/10/2011 à 00:21

[Cambrey]

Ils peaufinent la fin du jeu. Ils veulent une fin mémorable, et pas seulement un gros boss à buter pour finir le jeu. Combat et énigmes à résoudre sont donc au programme pour terminer le jeu.

• Antti has been adding new items to the game and we have almost one hundred unique items now. I think we are still going to add some more but I think we should have almost everything we need now.

• We have added some more dungeon levels this week but they’re not in alpha stage yet. We have placeholders for two more levels and then all the levels should be in place.

• Projectile routines have been rewritten. The old code was inaccurate, inflexible and was in dire need of some love.

• We had our very first high profile vip visitor at the office on Thursday. The meeting went well, except our second-hand coffee machine (yeah, we are that cheap ) didn’t co-operate with us, so the first batch of coffee pretty much vaporized into thin air somehow ? we are a bit lost what exactly happened (believe or not, none of us are coffee drinkers). Thankfully the second batch worked out.

Plus une jolie image du jeu.

[Cambrey]

La magie de Grimrock se dévoile un peu plus. Cette dernière est accouplée à un système de runes permettant plusieurs combinaisons.
Edité le 14/10/2011 à 17:44

[Draggor]

Clair que ça a l’air super prometteur !!
Edité le 17/10/2011 à 19:52

[Cambrey]

Les choses ont bien avancé dernièrement, avec pas mal d’updates :

* New levels! Every level needed for the final game now exist (although if inspiration strikes, we might still add some more) and it should take only like a day’s worth of work anymore to have them all in alpha stage. We’ve also revisited some old levels and improved them, including the very beginning of the game.
* The end game is shaping up. We’ve custom built a lot of content and functionality for it!
* End cinematic. I could describe this in more detail but somehow I think there’s some spoilers there.
* A new dungeon environment. It’s a short sentence but trust me, it involves a lot of work!
* The game now has 14 distinct monsters! All of them are fully animated too. If my brain would work like a marketing person’s, I would have said 16 since that’s the number if you include variants in the calculation. We’ve got a few more in the pipeline at the moment too.
* A new spell, what ever it is, I’ll never tell! Oh well! Swell

Okay, let’s move on

* Automap is in almost final form (and yes you can disable it too if you happen have a pad of graph paper that needs to be filled)
* This is a little more under-the-hood but still very important: packaging and game launcher have progressed. This means that the game can be distributed and installed on other computers more easily.
* The game features a marching order (two people on the front, two on the back) and now we’ve got the interface for it to change it while playing.
* We’ve got food in the game. This has been cooking for a while (ha!) but it’s nearing completion now. We’ve got herbs too with some mystical properties!

Et encore une belle image. :love:

[Cambrey]

Pour cette semaine :

We’ve reworked the skill system and there should be tons of added flavor in this new version. Leveling up and creating the characters is now much more interesting!

A lot of game balance improvements. Monster stats and where they can be found in the game have been improved and we’ve also fiddled around with some of the items as well as looked at how quickly the characters develop.

A new monster, mostly geared towards the end game sections, is in the works.

The steady trickle of new items continues. New ranged weapons like a sling and a crossbow have been added and a new set of armor and a shield have also been done and some other more minor things. We have well over 100 items in the game now.

We have four new spells. Although it’s basically one new kind of spell that has four variants of it.

There’s some new variations in enemy animations to reduce some of the repetition.

We have a pretty much final version of the theme song too! Maybe we’ll have to release a new video some day so that we would have a good excuse to showcase the music too

[Cambrey]

Le jeu passe officiellement en alpha.

[Cambrey]

Quelques infos supplémentaires :

* Player movement has been adjusted: the screen now bobs when you move. Also if you carry too much stuff, the movement slows down.
* We added potions and a system for mixing your own drinks from herbs found in the dungeon.
* We added sacks and crates for all you pack rats out there!
* There’s one entirely new monster in the game and a ranged weapon variant of one of our older monsters (I suppose the word “old” works here on more than one level! (And the word “level” works here on more than one level!)).
* A new spell has been implemented.
* Plenty of small balancing touches: monster stats, item attributes and level design were improved in many places.
* The end cinematic graphics are in progress. Juho will probably finish them during next week.
* More items! In the beginning I never thought that it would be a problem during this project but the atlas texture that contains the graphics for the item icons is starting to be pretty full! I think we’ll add support for multiple textures here once we hit the limit, it’s something that we would have had to do sometime in the future anyway. The texture has space for 157 item icons and there’s only 13 slots left!
* We’ve been playing the game here for the whole day today! Miscellaneous bugs and balancing issues were ruthlessly eradicated in the process.
* Juho did an interview with Games On Net. Read it up, it’s interesting stuff!

Plusse une interview ici.

[Cambrey]

Pour cette semaine :

• First pass of story related content has been added to the game. This will continue as we work towards the beta.
  • Juho has finalized end cinematic graphics.
  • We have all monsters now in place and animated. Olli is still going to add more detail to animations and keep improving them.
  • First batch of performance optimizations have been implemented. The game is now playable in 1080p with decent frame rate even with our relative old and cheap PCs!
  • We’re in the middle of redoing the gui so that it scales to higher resolutions nicely. This work should be complete sometime next week.
  • Related to the gui changes we have a new font rendering system which is capable of rendering vectorized true type fonts (previously all fonts were bitmap based), so text look much sharper now, especially in higher resolutions.
  • Groundwork for “secrets found” statistics has been done, i.e. we have a mechanism of marking and tracking secrets in the game. The game has already 45 secrets and I think we’ll still add a bunch!
  • Antti has been generating a gallon of mucus and has also been adding new items to the game.
  • Work on tutorials has been started.

[Cambrey]

Le jeu est en béta :

We’ve got some big news this time! Let’s get started with the most important one: Legend of Grimrock has reached beta! This means that every feature, all enemies and all levels that are going to be in the final game are now in place, and we can now fully concentrate on polishing and balancing the game and fixing bugs until everything is perfect. If we get cool new ideas we might still add them to the game but improving existing features has now higher priority. And before you ask, at this point we are not looking for additional beta testers!

Le jeu ne sortira pas à la fin de l’année. C’est quand meme nettement plus raisonnable et personnellement je n’y croyais pas du tout :

Secondly, many of you have been asking if we’re on time for launch at the end of this year. Looking at the game we have now we could do it but that wouldn’t be the best game we can deliver. We want to make this game really shine so that’s why we have decided to push the release to early next year. With the extra time we can hopefully fix all the bugs, make the level flow better, tweak item attributes to perfection and adjust the balance to be just right. These are the things that really matter to us, and hopefully to you as a player too! We are not ready to give an exact release date yet, because when we give a date we want to keep the promise too. But don’t worry, we won’t take too long!

Le jeu sortira dans un premier temps sur Steam (oh surprise !). En espérant que cela ne soit pas une exclusivité Steam :

We also need to start looking more closely at our distribution options. We would really like to release first on Steam because it’s simply the biggest digital distribution service on the PC and we want to make the game available for the largest audience possible. For that to happen we need to pass their evaluation process, so we really hope that the guys at Valve like our game!

Et enfin de nouvelles images. Les squelettes légionnaires sont superbes.

[Mad-Bhaal]

:miam:

Bah Steam est un incontournable de la distrib en démat’ quand même. Ce serait con de passer à coté. En espérant que Gog.com aura fini sa mutation au moment de la sortie et pourra distribuer aussi ^^’

[Cambrey]

Pas mal de rajouts cette semaine :

• You can write notes on the map now (ca j’aime :miam:). We are also redoing the map background graphics and layout to look better and show more information.
• 2 final levels have been reworked quite a bit. The flow of these levels clearly needed improvement.
• More character portraits have been added (19 total now).
• Graphics and audio options have been implemented.
• Added support for treasure maps.
• Game statistics have been implemented. For example, you can now track the number of monsters killed, items found and most importantly your progress on the secrets.
• The tutorial has been improved and extended quite a bit.
• Added compass item which should be helpful if you dare to play in old school mode (no auto-map).
• Work on adding special attacks for monsters has started.
• And of course lots and lots of bug fixes and polishing.

[Gwenichou]

Ce jeu sera mien à sa sortie, ne serait-ce que pour aider le studio.

Merci pour ton travail de mise à jour Cambray :super:

[Cambrey]

Pas grand chose cette semaine. Juste quelques explications sur les guerriers squelettes.

[Cambrey]

De nombreuses modifications :

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beta-1.0.2 changelog (all changes since 5th December 2011):

• added a new spell (with 4 variations)
• tweaked shields
• added legionary shield, legionary spear and a new helmet
• added and tweaked monster loot drops
• added elemental resistances to XXX
• tweaked nutrition values of food items
• modeled and animated background scene for XXX
• removed offhandedness (any weapon can now be wielded in left or right hand)
• any item can now be carried in hand slots
• separated attack power and accuracy values for left and right hand
• attack icons now double act as inventory slots so that items can be quickly exchanged between prisoners
• reduced arrow count a little in level 3
• tweaked skeleton archer audio volumes and distances
• improved lvl3 monster teleport puzzle
• added new decorative floor objects
• added dragon statue dungeon prop
• smoothed Warden idle animation
• improved level 2 herder cavern section
• removed damage text colors (green text for poison can be easily confused with healing)
• polished automap background
• resized vault treasure map
• wall texts now use scaled font
• added secret found sound
• improved scroll gui
• mouse item name is displayed on screen under portraits
• compressed a few textures
• added broken crate block model
• added dungeon wall dirt and spider webs
• added broken barrels & crates
• tweaked dungeon walls & pillars
• added spider eggs
• updated XXX rig and fixed a bug
• animated XXX to rotate longer after explosion
• item placement tweaked in a few places
• added broken blockage meshes
• blockages can now be damaged with area of effect spells
• added new notes by Toorum
• added a new puzzle
• implemented rush attack for Warden
• improved credits
• improved Warden walk animation
• slow-motion debris effect for XXX animated
• audio pass for Warden
• modeled wall ivies and ceiling roots (not placed into levels yet)
• improved game over
• tweaked player’s torch position, color and intensity a bit
• tweaked a few puzzles
• added new secrets
• added treasure items
• added treasures found statistic
• added soundtrack for XXX
• improved transition between XXX and XXX
• increased number of charges for XXX, XXX and XXX
• tweaked armor weights
• added heavy armor proficiency requirement for some items
• cloaks now give evasion bonuses
• added optional secret section to level XX
• separated troll attack and impact sounds
• added a few traps
• added secondary troll attack animation
• slowed down troll attack rate a bit
• added impact sound for monster attacks
• increased accuracy of troll and Warden attacks
• improved graphics and placement of tooltips
• small herder attack jump animation smooth pass
• diviner’s cloak modeled
• added pointy shoes
• long bow modeled
• tooltips now scale with resolution
• improved ui scaling for commonly used resolutions
• new hires graphics for character sheet, portraits and attack icons
• added food and load meters to stats tab
• scaled up dead character portrait
• improved map note markers
• added compass
• XXX modeled
• fixed fireball trap timer
• updated Warden attack left and right animations
• added audio for blobs
• improved blob particles
• improved level 2 a bit
• added audio for climbing stairs
• longer underscore in font 24
• reduced projectile shadow map resolution from 256 to 128
• fixed a secret that triggered incorrectly
• fixed troll attack animation not to clip with temple gate arches
• bug fix: teleporting items between levels is not implemented
• bug fix: throwing items into stairs is buggy
• bug fix: if player is standing on stairs he can’t go back to the previous level
• bug fix: item orientation is buggy when projectile drops to floor
• bug fix: player doesn’t fall into pits
• bug fix: monsters sometimes walk through walls and each other if the party passes through them on another level
• bug fix: heavy armor penalty applies even if the item is in backpack
• bug fix: mouse item info and formation panel do not take ui scaling into account
• bug fix: monster teleporting did not work and always triggered “NYI: teleporting monster to another level” warning
• bug fix: alt-tabbing in intro crashes the game
• bug fix: monsters rush into open pits
• bug fix: player sometimes goes through rushing monsters when both the monster and player is moving
• bug fix: monsters sometimes walk through sliding walls or closed doors when levels are reloaded or when restoring a saved game
• bug fix: if game is saved while party is moving, the loaded save game has an invisible obstacle in the tile where the party was moving to
• bug fix: projectiles do not collide against crystals and blockages
• bug fix: diseased champions are not resurrected properly
• bug fix: XXX does the side attack through closed doors
• bug fix: dead prisoners are incorrectly resurrected when drinking a healing potion, buying a health upgrade or gaining a level
• bug fix: crystals remove the level up icons
• bug fix: touching crystals creates an invisible obstacle if player is moving
• bug fix: items can be thrown through character sheet and sidecar panels
• bug fix: time multiplier is reset to 1 when mouse is clicked
• bug fix: player’s torch doesn’t rotate properly with the camera
• bug fix: items added to altars are not placed in the level causing them to act up weirdly
• bug fix: altars cease to work after first activation
• bug fix: game crashes when XXX starts moving
• bug fix: healing indicators are not ui scaled properly
• bug fix: map note drawing crashes
  [/spoiler]

[Cambrey]

Un fond d’écran.

[daffytheduck]

Sympa.

[Cambrey]

Hop, on reprend du service et il reste 30 bugs connus :

[spoiler]

• tweaked item skill requirements
• adjusted monster difficulty
• fixed crab turn right animation clipping through doors
• Uggradian strafe and walk back animations (not plugged in yet)
• added bigger variation to the attack speeds of weapons
• weapon damage balancing
• item tool tips now show weapon’s speed rating
• balanced skills
• new fighter skill: athletics
• removed daggers from fighter skills
• replaced herders in level 7 with slimes
• item and monster placements tweaked
• added script for analyzing weapon DPS
• balanced some weapon attack powers and speeds
• ogre two-handed attack animation (not plugged in yet)
• elemental damage bonuses are now formatted as percentages in the ui
• improved auto pickup so that each hand remembers the type of item it had
• improved audio, animation and timing of XXX
• resting is no longer interrupted by damage from poisoning
• added a short delay after going to sleep before health & mana regeneration starts
• tweaked XXX’s interval and duration
• improved readability of some in-game texts by adding shadow under them
• improved texts in level 11
• fixed z-fighting of floor dirts
• nerfed herder_small (reduced damage by 50%)
• improved ranged AI to not shoot at closed portcullises
• weights reduced from several items
• minor level bug fixes
• added script for analyzing item weights
• cleaned up todo list
• improved level 5 end areas
• increased damage of skeleton archers
• updated credits
• tweaked exp awards so that prisoners who do not participate in combat don’t get exp
• changed poison cloud spell recipe
• added monster flags
• fixed temple wall texts position
• added dirt prop for 2nd and 3rd wallset
• distributed some missile weapons more evenly and other item placement adjustments
• more wall texts added
• implemented telefragging
• added a treasure sack to level XXX
• modeled cavein prop
• implemented sample variations
• cleaned up samples
• added champion_die sound
• added damage sound variants
• thrown XXX stack now deal more damage than a single XXX
• items can no longer be picked up if a monster is standing on them
• modeled wall lantern
• sharp projectiles now stick to monsters
• increased teleport grid puzzle difficulty
• added alpha tested shadow support to the graphics engine (fixes shadows of plants)
• changed layout of some sections in level 5
• added a new trap and a secret
• item and monster placement adjusted
• added console command “clear”
• improved robustness of teleportation across levels
• updated buglist with bugs from beta testing
• XXX icon brightened
• animated pressure plates to move up and down
• improved positioning of monster loot drops
• disabled wall variations (at least temporarily) from 3rd wallset
• tweaked spell scroll placement in levels
• improved position of wall text translations
• added a new spell
• added thrust swipe for legionary spear
• added wall set definition scripts
• improved iron basinet texturing
• added reach ability for spears
• cleaned up and refactored spell routines so that it’s easier to add new spells
• improved texture resolution in some places
• knoffer retextured
• cleaned up ogre animation clips names
• improved ogre get hit animations
• fixed an incorrect fbx filename
• modified globe treasure
• added audio for text writer
• faster ogre attack animation
• added and tweaked some treasure maps
• added more item descriptions
• fixed Warden chains deformer bug
• improved end game messages
• modified XXX timing
• level scripting improvement: improved trigger events to support anonymous functions
• tweaked staves and orbs
• added high quality ssao setting
• hide gui when in pause menu
• added random plants to levels
• added new decoration items
• added whoosh to ogre attack
• added fog layer to XXX
• added distance fog support to the graphics engine and enabled it
• moved lights more to the side of clusters in XXX
• minor item placement tweaks
• textured gears
• added ancient_apparatus
• tutorial clarifications
• updated the tutorial to match the new interface
• cleaned up menu code
• improved unarmed attack icons and turned them around
• cleaned up an unused area in level 5
• removed bug reports that no longer apply
• new attack panel graphics
• added new treasures
• fixed a potential showstopper in trappedRoom
• replaced a pitroot bread for more variety
• tweaked read_scroll sound
• added metal debris noises to XXX
• added support for custom postprocessing passes to the graphics engine
• tweaked armor skill
• adjusted vault level entrance
• added legionary helmet
• bug fix: put short bow in right hand and a single arrow in left hand, shoot -> the bow disappears
• bug fix: pick up XXX and throw it -> game crashes
• bug fix: falling into double pits (two pits on top of each other) does not work
• bug fix: thrown melee weapons use incorrect attack power
• bug fix: destroyed blockages can still be damaged with area of effect spells
• bug fix: if a crowern is doing the attack_move manouver while it is hit, get_hit animation snaps crowern back to the old cell
• bug fix: a crowern and the party can get into same cell if the crowern does the attack_move manouver and player moves into the cell
• bug fix: if the player is falling down a pit while a teleporter activates the player is teleported to incorrect location
• bug fix: pressure plates get invalid values (-1) if player falls on the plate
• bug fix: if player is teleported off a pressure plate, the plate does not deactivate
• bug fix: if you stand on the same XY coordinates as a pressure plate but on a different level and then teleport to the same level as the pressure plate is on (but not on top of said pressure plate), the pressure plate deactivates and also potentially produces invalid counter values
• bug fix: gui disappears after saving the game (oops!)
• bug fix: new map notes are drawn on both pages when adding a new note
• bug fix: turn page sound plays repeatedly when holding down left/right arrow key in map mode
• bug fix: exp stat in equipment page has decimals
• bug fix: dead champions can eat and drink
• bug fix: keyboard buffer is not cleared when loading a saved game or jumping to pits
• bug fix: item slots flicker empty for one frame when placing items into them
• bug fix: a cell can become temporarily inaccessible if a prisoner is overburdened
• bug fix: auto equip does not work with empty hands
• bug fix: text writer bugs with ‘ characters
• bug fix: key and mouse input can mess up game over
• bug fix: equipping items to attack icons does not work during cool down
• bug fix: wall dirts are placed on top of pits
• bug fix: hidden pressure plates z-fight with regular pressure plates if placed in the same tile

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Edité le 07/01/2012 à 14:15