AoD January update

[likaq]

Welcome to 2013, boys and girls. Should be an exciting year.

As I'm sure you know, Steam has kindly greenlighted us and we're in the process of signing paperwork and such. They seem to be a bunch of friendly and helpful people, which is always nice. The "greenlighening" has attracted a lot of attention and increased the number of pre-orders, so we already feel the effect.

In unrelated news, we entered the demo into IGF 2013 in Oct. I've never thought that we would win, obviously, but hoped for a nomination. Didn't happen, sadly. The judge couldn't get out of the town and felt that the demo was "seriously limited". I explained but I guess the damage was already done. Oh well...

Working on a location aptly named Inferiae - (Rom. Antiq.) Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends. Greatly expanded the main character's dialogue file, almost to the point of getting lost in the branches myself. You have a lengthy chat with this character and if she doesn't like your answers, you'll be offered as the aforementioned sacrifice.

Added another path there. Kinda tried another angle to see if it works and it worked. Added two more options if you do end up becoming a sacrifice and tied one of the options to another location, which fixed one of the issues in that location as well. So, all and all, I'm very pleased with this month's progress.

Now, on to the screenshots. House Aurelian. There are several scenarios there that determine how the conversation would go:

- agreed to find the temple for Antidas; serving House Daratan in a low capacity
- Daratan's praetor
- left Teron early, either in AG1, or after stealing Carrinas' documents, or any other case
- you are on Gaelius' personal shitlist, in which case it's not a conversation you want to have

Here is option #1 (the Etiquette option allows you to perform the 'weasel' maneuver).

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IF you find the helmet and manage to keep it (don't forget the raiders), you can bring it to Gaelius and get your reward and the next quest or ... you can put it on and see what happens. Hint: something happens. Then you will unlock a new branch of the main quest that will eventually lead you to a very different ending.

As always, screens here:

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,3170.0.html

 

[tuluse]

The judge couldn't get out of the town and felt that the demo was "seriously limited".

VD can lead you to water, but he can't drink for you.

Although, I do think it would help new players if it was communicated that you really need to play multiple backgrounds to get the most out of this game.

 

[Niektory]

Apparently he didn't figure out how to get to the bandit camp and the mine.

 

[Commissar Draco]

The judge couldn't get out of the town and felt that the demo was "seriously limited"

Age of Decadence needs a quest compass , Gaelius is one smug bastard but sticking to Antidas should gives us greater prize; well done Vince can't wait till Thursday.

 

[Brayko]

Go VD GO!

 

[ubiky]

this game looks good