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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #33

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Their leather armor is often decorated with twisting vines, animal imagery, preserved flowers, and other natural craftsmanship. In our last issue, we showed off Nicholas's progress on the details he's added to give this NPC the signature Keozan look. Here are a few clips to show off some of these camera adjustments.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #21

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Last issue, we shared 3D Character Designer Bianca's progress on the model for our Nisargan forest nymph NPC. Here are a few clips of our menu systems and consumables in action so you can get an idea of how they're intended to look - and work! - Here's a look at Allie's work on the Gilsanka's Sword and Teleport animations.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #19

Astral Clock Tower Studios

[link] Next, Will worked on modifying the death systems for our main character (and some of the game's enemies) to allow them to utilize the new death animations Producer Allie recently created (make sure you check out the Game Production section to see them in action). Animation / Rigging / Production. Let us know in the comments!

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #17

Astral Clock Tower Studios

After fiddling around and running some tests, Will was able to make it so that the character can effectively roll through various environmental objects - like the barrels shown in the clip below - to destroy them. Animation / Rigging / Production. First, Shelly gave a little facelift to the texturing used on our Masarusa enemy.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #32

Astral Clock Tower Studios

There's a specific role the damaged piece plays in the Kristala demo's core storyline, and it coincides with an NPC we've been keeping under wraps up until this point. Rodrigo also added an animated Game Save/Loading icon too, which we ultimately ended up changing to a blue hue (vs. link] Rigging / Animation.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #35

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Secondly, the animations that trigger when a potion is consumed take significantly longer to play out compared to the new VFX animations we have in the works for these crystal designs and results in having to halt the player while the animations play out. They were instead created by a special NPC for a specific purpose.

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Indie game capsule reviews: Immortality, Wayward Strand, Cult of the Lamb, Betrayal at Club Low, Atuel

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And among the video clips there's an awfully convenient ratio of raw behind the scenes rehearsal footage vs. expensive finished setpiece production footage -- which gets a sort of wink wink lampshading treatment, but still dispels a bit of the otherwise strong "this is how movies get made" magic for me. But also veganism?

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