AoD - brand new screens

[Vault Dweller]

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Not much to say. Take a look and see for yourself. There should be 4 screens there: a full screen view and 3 dialogue screens in sequence. Hopefully you like the new graphics better.
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[Spazmo]

Looks great, but I'd love to see it in motion to see what kind of animations you have and complain about those. When will there be a demo, BTW?
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[Vault Dweller]

Not sure. We've changed the graphics after the last bitchfest. It would take awhile to update and replace everything. Also, we're planning to add a lot more models then was previously planned and pay more attention to visuals in general.

So, a demo would be available when the game is ready. We apologize for the inconvinience, and hope that you can complain about something else for now. For the record, animations look very decent.
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[Nicolai]

Looks pretty neato to me.

[Sheriff05]

VD, I am totally looking forward to your game. It's really looking great
Question why the low resolution? and is/ will it be possible to adjust.
I still have several older CRT's but was just wondering about the technical limitations.

[Elwro]

The dialogue looks great and I know I should bitch about something else, but I think the floor and grass tiles could be more varied.
Great work nonetheless.
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[obediah]

Looks good to me, as long as it's clean and usable, I'm not overly concerned about graphic quality. It can look like a game from the 80's as long as I don't have to type in 4 characters to cast a spell.

I'd second questions about the resolution. Ideally the bar at the bottom would do some scaling based on resolution, and you'd just show more or less of the world. I know this isn't an easy thing to shoehorn in if it's wasn't in the initial design.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to it.

[Jora]

They look great. I have been reading everything I can about this game and a lot of it (well, everything except timed quests) has been music to my ears. I feared the graphics would turn me off, but thankfully that doesn't seem to be the case.

[Vault Dweller]

Thanks for the support, folks. What's wrong with timed quests, Jora?
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[Nicolai]

Timed quests are not that bad if you've got good time. \o\

[Trash]

Looking pretty damn good. The graphics seem a lot better, but that dialogue is great. Good luck VD, if I manage to get a credit card you've got a costumer.
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[obediah]

I can't speak for Jora, but I dislike timed quests because I tend to meander through games and hate to miss things. I rarely re-play games from the start so I like to do everything I can with the character I build.

Also many games don't make it clear if a time limit will be enforced or not. And since there are so many different ways that time is handled in games it's often hard to figure when the actual last moment to address the problem is. Often games themselves are inconsistent, one quest may seem urgent but have no hard limit, while another does. Also, they are easy to forget about, especially when time is arbitrary through most of the game, only to matter at some random point.

Actually a listing of all timed open quests at the top of the game screen with a countdown, and any travel time from your current location included would be nice.

It's more realistic to have consequences for dawdling, but realistic in the way requiring food and lantern fuel is. My personal taste is to abstract it out in most circumstances.

[MichiK]

Hi,

Just chiming in for the first time... game looks awesome. I love eye-candy as much as the next guy, but right now I am playing Avernum 3 and having a great time... and we all know what those graphics are like

Question - about how big is the game? Avernum 3 size? Fallout? Baldur's gate? Or something more modest like Prelude to Darkness?

[Jora]

[Major_Blackhart]

VD, this game is gonna rock. It looks great, and the dialogue is very well done. Rock n Roll!
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[Vault Dweller]

In regard to timed quests, the reason they are in is that I hate those quests where a granny asks you to help her cross the street, you say sure, go 'xploring, and 6 months later the granny is still there, waiting for you patiently. That just sucks and kills the immersion for me.

So, a few things worth mentioning:

1) Main quests aren't timed. Only certain side quests are timed, and only where it makes sense.

2) Timing is always realistic. It's not a race. If you receive a quest and decide to do it, you would be given enough time to complete it. If you receive a quest, and decide to take care of something in a galaxy far, far away, then you probably won't have enough time, but then again, that means that you didn't care about the timed quest anyway.

3) Example of a timed quest. One of the dialogue lines above mentions the kidnapping. There are many ways to handle it, as you can see, and one of them involves the guards. They give you 24 hours to scout the location and get back with the info, before they attack. Obviously, they won't wait for you forever. With or without the info, they attack, but your info (what you can learn depends on your many skills) will affect the outcome of the attack.

While there is no flashing lights telling you OMG! ONLY 10 HOURS LEFT!! WHAT R U GONNA DO??!!!, the urgency is clear.

Comments?
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[Sheriff05]

[NeutralMilkHotel]

Looks very cool.

[Jed]

The game's really shaping up, VD. Although some of the color pallete is not so great (the grass), I think the graphics look excellent overall. The dialogue looks cleaned up from previous versions you've shown me, and the interface looks much more well-designed now.

All I have left to say is, "Can't wait!"
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[Jora]

[obediah]

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[Jora]

I still have to say that the biggest reason I'm very eagerly looking forward to this game is that after reading comments from game designers and ordinary posters alike about how having different ways (besides the juxtapositioning of good and evil that has come to fashion with the success of KotOR and Fable) to complete quests isn't always realistic, I have really become desperate to play a 'proper' (Volourn, don't kill me) role-playing game. So just remember not to let me down!

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