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Hippo

v1.27 has been released!

Changes: -New character Sebright. -Updated breeding system to guarantee success after certain number of attempts.

Been super busy over the last month with University and work but hoping to return to decent weekly updates. Sebright can now be found across several maps on the west side of Etheldia. Nobody likes to be really unlucky, so I added some code so that a pair will automatically produce an offspring after a set amount of attempts have failed.

Looking to create a community on the Etheldia Discord, come along if you want to chat about Etheldia, game development, coding, art, or just life in general. That's all for this week, keep checking back for more updates! -Hippo

kryzmak

I wanted to play your game, but for any reason it did not load. Going to 100 % (which unfortunately takes about 3 minutes with my connection) it just "hangs" at BUILDING WORLD. After 5 minutes of waiting I gave up. Was there a server problem?

Using Firefox ESR version on Linux. I figured out, that I just see a black box without any content. With another browser (Epiphany which uses WebkitGTK+) I see that login screen but the buttons and input fields do not recognize any interaction.

Hippo

Thanks for trying to test out the game!

I think the loading problems have something to do with browsers not properly recognizing emscriptem. Since the game is made on an old 2.1 version of Godot from 2015 the exporting is a bit outdated. I'm planning to update to version 3 at some point which will hopefully fix those issues.

The input fields not recognizing interaction I think has something to do with the game window losing focus. I've had this bug myself sporadically and have tried to fix it but I can't figure out why it happens. Refreshing the page usually fixes the problem.

Hippo

v1.28 has been released!

Changes: -Created a new treasure chest system so chests can only be looted once per player. -New weapon - Swamp Axe. -Transparency issue fixed on Sebright sprite.

Treasure chest system will be used with the upcoming dungeon I've been working on. For the time being you can explore the swamp to find a treasure chest with the new swamp axe weapon!

Hippo

v1.30 has been released!

Changes: -Updated design for Eke, credit to Rhisis for the really cute sprite! -Created a new ability and added it to the daily prizes list. -Fixed a bug which caused ability costs to sometimes be quartered. -Fixed a bug where one of the daily prize items would glitch.

My laptop is dying slowly making it frustrating and laggy to code and test the game so I'm mostly working on graphics at the moment. Still as committed to making Etheldia awesome as ever though, exciting things to come!

Looking to create a community on the Etheldia Discord, come along if you want to chat about Etheldia, game development, coding, art, or just life in general. That's all for now, keep checking back for more updates! -Hippo

Hippo

There's been five updates since I posted here last, the major addition to the game in which has been a new dungeon leading into the sky. For this version though..

v1.35 has been released!

Changes: -Cleaned up map 16. -Fixed white chocolate bunny sprite. -Pegasus (pegasi?) ability item drops. -Shifted position of sky dungeon level tracker. -Slightly reduced sky dungeon air dragon levels. -Added weapon chest to top floor of sky dungeon.

Lots of little additions this week. Originally planned for map 16 above the air tribe to be much more complex but was a bit too ambitious so I've toned it down to clean the level up. Thanks to ChimaereJade for providing the grass tile for the updated map! More stuff to come!

Hippo

v1.40 has been released!

Changes: -Common Rat -Plague Pet Ability -Jail map added

The new jail map is located in the centre of Etheldia, underground near the fountain. Inside you'll be able to find the Common Rat. <img src="http://etheldia.net/images/common_rat.png">

The Common Rat may occasionally drop dark magic items and will also learn the ability Plague Pet at level 20. Plague Pet reduces the cost of casting dark magic by 75%, making the Common Rat a perfect companion for a dark mage character. The jail itself will serve as a spawn point for any temporarily banned users in future.

Been a while since the last update, my laptop is old and slow so I've been mainly focusing on graphics for an upcoming offline Etheldia game. Not sure when I'll be able to get a new laptop so updates will probably continue to be infrequent over the next few months. Thanks for checking by though, I'll do my best to get new stuff up when I can!

hari

Wow. Amazing development... and seems like an increasingly rich and interesting game.

Hippo

Thanks hari!

The past week I've been working on and off on a sand shark sprite.

This was pretty challenging to conceptualize as it's a pretty unnatural fusion and I couldn't find much in the way of good references so it took me a few tries to get an outline that I was happy with. I still think it ended up a bit more comedic than I intended but it's good enough to move forward.

If anyone is interested in following this thread as a kind of art dev blog let me know, I'll keep posting more updates like this.

Megalomaniak

Sure always nice to see progress happening. Also I think interstellar marines had a space shark or something in it? Can google that to see if it gives further ideas, though I think it looks good as is.

Hippo

This week on the schedule was a white rabbit, a sky rabbit, and to finish off the desert area I started last week. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/pdi3Ic4.png"> The white rabbit went pretty smoothly. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/YcBIfV6.png"> The sky rabbit took a couple of attempts, and I tried to put a bit more time than usual into the shading. Reasonably pleased with how it turned out. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/Sqw5juH.png"> Been struggling a bit with palm trees and the desert scene in general, trying to figure out some sort of oasis to have at the center of the map. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/LEChXDf.png"> Still needs some work, but it's starting to come together.

@Megalomaniak Thanks for that reference, those are terrifying! I think they definitely would have made the sprite easier to make, but I'm happy enough with how it turned out in the end.

Megalomaniak

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Didn't really consider it beforehand and went a bit too high-res here, but...

Hopefully the image illustrates it well enough. I think the bottom of your palm tree trunk is curved too much. Palms like that might be able to exist in reality perhaps, but they are likely such rare outliers that they just look oddly out of place, I think.

Hippo

@Megalomaniak Thanks, I hadn't really considered that. o: That reference looks really helpful, palms definitely have an unusual sort of curvature to them.

hari

Nice graphics so far.

Hippo

The palm tree saga continues... <img src="https://i.imgur.com/BSwsDYJ.png"> <img src="https://i.imgur.com/vL2P2L2.png"> At this rate I'm going to have a forest. On the to do list this week was a desert battle background, however it turned out pretty uninspired and I think I'll have another attempt in the future. Once again, the palm trees were my nemesis. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/7kdvmq0.png"> I've also been playing around with a character sprite for a fire rabbit. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/mgHDWkm.png"> I actually used layering and opacity to create this effect. I think it leads to an interesting discussion of what place techniques like these have in pixel art. There's a total of 29 colors after using the effect from a starting palette of 8, but how much is too much? Interested to hear others thoughts on this subject.

Megalomaniak

of the 5 trees the fifth is probably the best, IMO. The fourth looks like it reflects my example I provided, but the problem there is that I didn't finish mine, just stopped adding leaves when I felt the one side was ok-ish enough. :)

I was basically creating an example for the trunk of the tree only, really. ;)

@Hippo said: ...palms definitely have an unusual sort of curvature to them.

Yeah, they are kind-of like really big flowers, rather than normal trees. Technically a whole family of plant, including trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecaceae

Megalomaniak

@Hippo said: I've also been playing around with a character sprite for a fire rabbit. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/mgHDWkm.png"> I actually used layering and opacity to create this effect. I think it leads to an interesting discussion of what place techniques like these have in pixel art. There's a total of 29 colors after using the effect from a starting palette of 8, but how much is too much? Interested to hear others thoughts on this subject.

Unless you are targeting really old systems, I'd say it's got a perfectly good spot in modern games. Just because you are using pixelart as a stylization form doesn't IMO at all mean that you have to artificially limit yourself to old/retro hardware limits.

Ultimately it's up to you though as to what feels right to you.

Hippo

@Megalomaniak Thanks for the feedback, it's really helpful. I've put palm trees aside for a while for my own sanity. xD

This week on the schedule was the tileset for a coastal area. I'd originally planned to do a sort of grass coastal plain like those seen in the north of the UK, however the idea occurred to me to create a mangrove type biome. I thought this would be interesting since I can't recall seeing one myself in a game before. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/O45ndsx.png"> I think parts of it could still use some work, most notably the water and tile meshing, but I'm happy enough with it to move on for now.

Megalomaniak

Yeah, looks good, though maybe a bit more water on the middle tiles?

Hippo

This weeks job was the battle background for the coastal area. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/vmWGmRi.png"> It's a bit uninspired and didn't turn out as well as I wanted, but it'll do for now. Onwards!

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