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So... Many... Variables

The Artificer Wheel has a connected book called the Lexicon UI. There's a Page for Each Zone which contains NPCs from that Zone, and pages for Major Abilities, Places, Things, Events, and Enemies of note. Each ski...

The Artificer Wheel

I spent some time in Sketchup... can you tell?

One of the things which made Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask so utterly addicting was that you had a magic tool which was your constant companion. D...

MILESTONE 4: Cleanup Tasks

Not much can happen until we're done wiring up the Time Travel System. It's required for forward progression. We coded it back in MILESTONE 2 last year. But it's just been sitting and waiting. You can see the firs...

Milestone 3: Open World Tour

THE BIG NEWS IS THE BEST NEWS

It’s taken a long time to reach this point. One of the hardest things in the creation of a game or new IP is the foundation of a unique sense of universe. I’m a huge advocate, as a writer,...

The Overworld is COMPLETE!

Big announcements are always the best ones. Our friends have gathered to let the community know that the Design of the Overworld is now 100% complete (barring a couple of small fixes discovered in Post).

Over the next week, we'll do a love...

LOSTLANDS & TURN CRANK PFFT (0.3S.20)

THE LAST TWO MAJOR ZONES!

THE LOSTLANDS

Personally, this is one of my favorite zones in the game. It's Greco-Roman themed (in the sense that the ruins there are) and has a tribal theme for the race t...

DESOLACE & BLACKSPIRE PEAK (0.3S.18)

WE'RE GETTING INCREDIBLY CLOSE TO THE END OF THIS MILESTONE

...a phrase which is incredibly fun to say. 0.1 was Infra. 0.2 Was UI and Core Func...

16 WORLDS & COUNTING (0.3S.14) HAMMERDELL

I WONDER IF IT'S LIKE THIS FOR OTHER DEVS...

I spend every free second I have Developing. I am not sure what that means f...

Unity, My Foe, my Friend

First and Foremost, I confused Emberspark for Heavensreach. Don't ask how but during the creation process I mixed the home of the Scienifelves with the Gobots....

Render...ing?!

Librus is huge. It's genuinely the size of the overworld in ES IV. Which is... both cool as heck and incredibly challenging.

I genuinely didn't understand what went into lighting a scene. Which is to say, you would THINK you...

Customizing Librus (Past the ½ Way Point)

Oh world design, you magnificently challenging task you.

We're finally at the half way point of the world buildout. It's one of th...

Mad King's Lair: Tome of Destruction (03s.09)

"I've spent about... 4,000 hours on this project at this point. Which... is both a lot, and was less time then I spent playing either Dark Age of Camelot or World of Warcraft. I was a video game QA for a very, very long time. So repea...

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