Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

Whenever an NPC is about to dump backstory and exposition on you, they'll ask you to take a seat. During big long quest chains, there are periodic quest stages where you have to wait 1-2 in-game days before checking in with the NPC again. Diegetically, the NPC has to prepare a machine or potion, or get supplies, or whatever.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. Well, we've been carefully and strategically saving some of our best content in anticipation of finally launching the official Kristala Patreon campaign. Why, you might ask? BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You'll read a lot about the work that went into making our Play build smooth and seamless in this issue of the blog, but check out this article from our friends at NoobFeed and the following video from Piercing Metal that explain a bit more about the exclusive build of Kristala we exhibited at Play NYC. In-tact and broken Amulets.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The last time we met, we were right in the thick of preparing an early, pre-demo build of Kristala for unveiling at the PlayNYC virtual convention. Last issue, we shared 3D Character Designer Bianca's progress on the model for our Nisargan forest nymph NPC. Take a look! Here's a peek at some of the pickups you'll find in the demo.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

But a Lot of Pretty Things get Repeated While Elden Ring is enormous, a lot of that length comes from repeated content. Fortunately, when you get tired of a certain sort of content, you can skip it. Either NPC characters, ghost monsters, or actual human players. Some bosses show up, lightly reskinned, four times or more.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox? How should I space out my content to create the pacing I want? If so, you probably want to be a game writer.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A hostile NPC statue wakes up, which means you can lure it away from the door.) SHINY ART STYLE: The most obvious difference vs its Skyrim mod roots is the art style -- it went from 2011 pre-PBR Skyrim to 2020 UE4 Quixel 4k photoscans with subsurface scatter'd Character Creator NPCs.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This month, in addition to our typical development sprints, we've also been hard at work prepping a super special convention build of Kristala for the upcoming Play NYC convention. We especially love how Tiff made one of the moons blue and the other purple. Have a look! link] Rigging / Animation.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Others: Multiple replay reasons Lost Ark has innovated on some interesting gameplay systems besides quests and battles that encourage replaying content. Maturity and fullness means that as an online game, Lost Ark’s artistic expression meets the tastes and needs of mainstream players and is massive and varied in content.

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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. Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it. Very streamlined, much faster, low stakes, and often just setting up the inevitable ensuing gunfight.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

One of the magic staves James designed below was created for a super important Kota character that we'll be revealing in our upcoming Patreon content. Though Nasahara's streets were damaged, many of its buildings and structures remain standing to this day. 3D Character Design. Programming. This sprint was no different.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

You don’t have to build a fully functioning economy or put something behind every single door, or whatever. Even a handful of new mechanics or other properties are often enough to help create that question in people’s minds: “what else might be possible in this game?”

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

We’ll be sharing some clips from David’s recording sesh for Hiratrola—plus many more making-the-trailer goodies—over on the Kristala Patreon hub , so join us over there if you’d like to snag some exclusive Kristala content you definitely won’t find anywhere else. Concept Art.

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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. To get an entire Gold set you have to complete the Dungeons 21 times.

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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. To get an entire Gold set you have to complete the Dungeons 21 times.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. Can we build a sex dungeon that would do Jane Jacobs proud? Building up huge group sessions is the key to completing later levels.

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