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Devblog #21
🕑 Added 2024-12-16 16:06:12 +0000 UTCHey, Wizards!
Shady Character One here!
I am going to be frank with all of you, I was dead sure that this devblog was due tomorrow. That just shows how fast this past week flew by. Like it wasn't even there.
In the aftermath of the major update release me and Shady Character Two decided, or more like told by our bodies, to get a bit of a breather. The "breather" did not go well, since again, both Shady Two and I got sick. Bummer...
Since this is still only our pet project, working on the game is the first thing that gets dropped if we don't have energy for it. Nonetheless, we decided to focus on some low-maintenance tasks like "bugfixing" and "concept work."
Bugfixing is a given. Especially since the major update brought both new bugs that thankfully only crashed the game once, and old ones that went unnoticed due to a general lack of testers. This bunch of fixes would be propagated forward, so you won't have to wait two more weeks just to get them.
Concept work is something that we are constantly working with and something that we are still not happy with. Designing a whole school is hard, especially if you want it to be both intriguing and cohesive. And since we don't have a team of environmental concept artists and architects behind our backs, the progress moves slowly. But there is still progress there. Both in aesthetic of the school and its surroundings, and in the architectural planning of the school.
Right now the main focus of our concept-work are the four Houses. Mostly because they are their own buildings that are separate from the main body of the school, and thus are a bit easier to plan in isolation. But also, because they will be a major part of the protagonist's story, and will likely be ones of the first actual (not placeholder) backgrounds that Shady Two will tackle.
And since we actually never told you anything about the Houses where the students live in, besides a couple of tiny snippets, here's a few of the concepts that we had been using in our planning for you:
House Dunagall is located a three-storey circular building, with a major spiral staircase/bookshelf in the middle.
Students of House Ruachan live in a tall, seven-floor tower.
And here's a couple of concepts for the Talamhdan. No roof here though. Hope it doesn't rain before we come up with one.
As for Cairngorm - I don't have anything half-decent for you now. Maybe next time there will be something that will not pull you into the realm of geometrical madness.
For now, see you next week!
Shady Character One, out!
