Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Many of our friends who've already had a chance to play early builds of Kristala have lovingly referred to it as Cat Souls. Concept Art. And with a dark fantasy action RPG like Kristala, there's pleeenty of concepts to go around, especially when it comes to weapons and armor. and they're not wrong. Ladies first, right? ;).

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Cult of the Lamb by Massive Monster This is a Hades-like / Binding of Issac-ish 2D action roguelike wrapped around a Don't Starve / Rimworld-y town building crafting survival system, with all the subversively violent dark cartoon humor of those references. After all, how many games offer you a "suffering musician" build?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

Below are two videos that showcase the throwing functionality; the first is an in-depth peel into the actual programming process within Unreal Engine 4, and the second showcases the throwing in action within the Kristala game build. link] After tackling that, Allie focused on bringing some fun new enemies into the Kristala game build.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

When we last met, we shared some exciting updates from our time exhibiting at Play NYC 2021, and shared all the work that went into ensuring the exclusive build we prepared for the convention was in tip-top shape and ready to be played. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to indoor items, Nasahara was also in need of a few structural pieces to help further build out the eerie, abandoned nature of this once-great, sprawling city. We're pumped to get this into the game build once all five are completely finished. Concept Art. Level Design.

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AWS Games

APRIL 2, 2024

FMOps stems from the concept of Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), which is the combination of people, processes, and technology to deliver machine learning solutions efficiently into production. Creating a unique experience each time a player interacts with an NPC or watches a cut scene can increase player satisfaction.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Concept Art. As part of our demo overhaul, we recently welcomed a few new team members into our motley crew in order to help us better establish the dark-fantasy vibe we're going for—including the newest member to our Concept Art team, Harold. Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

If you're just tuning in, you may not have known that we unveiled a pre-alpha alpha alpha combat build of Kristala at last year's 2019 PlayNYC convention in - you guessed it - New York City! The concept Bianca's working with is pictured first, and then Bianca's (totally badass) model follows. Check it out! Programming.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Let’s imagine we want to just keep ourselves organized so we want to use a comment node so we can easily describe what we’re building. We want it to encase our two other nodes, because we want to describe what we’re building. Step 5: Visual Scripting Language & Concepts. So let’s search for that now.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Concept Art. In our last issue, we introduced you to a bunch of new team members that recently joined our growing family, including our newest Environmental Concept artist, Harold. Right away, Harold dove into creating fresh, detailed concepts for each level area in the Kristala demo. Let's dive in.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Here's how it works: each month, we share all the progress every branch of development has made as they collectively work towards completing Kristala's vertical slice—from stunning concept art and 3D models to custom animations, level design, and everything in between. Concept Art. These pieces will vary in both shape and strength.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

Concept Art. When we last met, our concept art team was working on finalizing a few last-minute items needed for our Vertical Slice. With these icons completed, James was then able to turn his attention back to creating a few detailed concepts featuring a bunch of the custom VFX we've got in the works. Staff Parry Icon.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

There were creative worlds such as MOOs where anyone could build anything. It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. Some of this was used to just add nicer NPCs, with conversations, reactions to the environment, etc. Why did something like that come to be?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. By the end of the game, that threat has disappeared and your build is fun and OP. Very streamlined, much faster, low stakes, and often just setting up the inevitable ensuing gunfight. It would feel terrible.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Also, worth listening to my conversation with Pete Seicienski on his “Adventure Games” concept, which is very much related to this Sense of Wonder thing ). You don’t have to build a fully functioning economy or put something behind every single door, or whatever.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Moria’s descendant Angband also included ego items ( over 100 properties), but expanded the concept of randomized items even further by adding the option to activate “Randomly Generated Artifacts,” abbreviated “randarts.” Other types of NPCs can modify or convert other types of items. Find a nearby Sentry.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Warcraft Rumble features an innovative progression meta, allowing players to build armies with leaders and troops and allows for almost unlimited gameplay which is interesting compared to other games in the genre such as Marvel Strike Force and Galaxy of Heroes etc. This is great! It’s just too overwhelming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Warcraft Rumble features an innovative progression meta, allowing players to build armies with leaders and troops and allows for almost unlimited gameplay which is interesting compared to other games in the genre such as Marvel Strike Force and Galaxy of Heroes etc. This is great! It’s just too overwhelming.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Can we build a sex dungeon that would do Jane Jacobs proud? Some players may try to guess an NPC's sexual mood based on stereotypes like muscular tops, skinny submissive twink bottoms, etc. Building up huge group sessions is the key to completing later levels. Lindell focuses on two aspects: wandering and visibility.

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