Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

We're a little late dropping this-here new issue of the Kristala dev blog, but we promise we've got a good reason. WE ARE OFFICIALLY IN THE FINAL DEV CRUNCH FOR THE KRISTALA VERTICAL SLICE DEMO! Until that fateful day when Kristala is figuratively in your hands, you already know we'll be here sharing our dev process with you.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Our architecture is also being designed to be a platform for game devs looking for a great place to test, experiment, showcase, or browse other developers' ideas. Our three lovely devs can explain - Karim, Yael, and Zach. This calls for another ECS concept: “ Archetypes ”. The current concept. For a networked sandbox?

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 31, 2023

In cognitive psychology, there’s this concept called “Cognitive Load”. You already have all of these things you’re thinking about already - this quest for this NPC, that collection for the thing you wanted to craft, how to defeat these particular monsters, etc. Beyond that maximum, you start forgetting things and need to be reminded.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

Welcome back to the Kristala dev blog! We know we've promised you bi-weekly dev blogs, but in truth, there's been a lot happening lately here at ACS headquarters. We know we've promised you bi-weekly dev blogs, but in truth, there's been a lot happening lately here at ACS headquarters. We're happy you're here. We promise. ;).

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome back to another magically entrancing issue of the Kristala dev blog. 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.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Welcome back to another exciting issue of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog! We'll be sure to keep you posted on all the sweet deets as we near our Patreon launch date, so be sure to stay tuned to our socials and public dev blogs for updates and announcements (including an exciting kick-off contest where you can snag a FREE PS5 ).

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

Hello, and welcome back to another issue of the Kristala game dev blog! Stay tuned at the end of this dev blog to get a peek at all the progress we've made on Kristala in the last 12 months. But first, let's dive into what the dev team has been up to over the course of the last sprint. 3D Asset Design. Check it out!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Welcome back to another exciting issue of the Kristala Dev blog. 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.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Concept Art. First, James worked on the concept for our Warp VFX sequence.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Okay, I got you to do all of this because we often find in our more advanced online course that we teach, students learn abstract concepts better if they first get their hands dirty working with the materials first. Step 5: Visual Scripting Language & Concepts. Like what is this small colored circle, or this one?

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. We used the term actively on MUD-Dev back in the day, making the distinction between simulation and “stagecraft.” It famously only added any crafting because the dev team saw it in UO during beta.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Perfect for pretending to have played Deathloop if you find yourself talking to a game dev. Not that you should ever talk to a game dev. NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power).

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2012, John Mix Meyer wrote "Women aren’t vending machines you put kindness coins into until sex falls out" to critique proto-PUA concepts like the friendzone. In this situation, the NPC knows what you're here for and he wants it too, even if you kinda hate each other. Sometimes people have sex with someone they don't like.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Some players may try to guess an NPC's sexual mood based on stereotypes like muscular tops, skinny submissive twink bottoms, etc. Violence is usually the first thing to prototype in an action game, but here it surprised me how much work it took to hack violence into an existing system that had no concept of it. L of semen for each one.

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