Attacking the tower update#
Attacking the tower Pc#

Like with my PC situation, anything can happen, and we've learnt from our mistake of the announcing Late 2021 to not give any more release dates until the game is close enough to completion for a good estimate.Each of the main regions in Tower of Fantasy features a wide array of not only quests, enemies, and treasures, but also a few Scenic Points, each guaranteed to reward players with not only experience points but also with a good amount of Dark Crystals. After storyboarding is done, we do have a good plan for things to do next, and we'll keep you all updated, but there is still no way we can give a good enough timeframe. If you're still after a potential release date, my sincere apologies. So while we’re still a long way from really finishing everything, we’re at least a couple steps back on track in the “audio department”. We were optimistic though, and fortunately about 3 weeks ago, I was able to get a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM to get everything working back in tip-top shape! AtT could’ve ended right there and then, since without those crucial files, we wouldn’t be able to truly complete this project. fla, but I locally save all other things such as music, sound effects, and voiceover). This was awful, especially since all of my locally saved files including AtT were stuck there (we have a Dropbox that is primarily for animation and the master. It still used DDR3 RAM :OĪfter 2 days of setting everything up and getting my files onto it, the desktop just crashed and wasn’t able to power on for more than a second. I then switched to a less-optimal office laptop as a temporary solution until February of this year, where I then switched to a desktop that's been around since 2015. In early October 2021, my laptop stopped working and we were only able to save the files from its hard drive. It's a BIG ONE for sure.Īnother huge piece of good news that I’m really excited about is that I got my PC working again! Since 2020, I’ve been using a nice gaming laptop to do everything from university coursework to gaming, Attacking the Tower development, music, and Ace Attorney Abridged (another fan-made series). One original song in particular, has over 270 audio tracks AND COUNTING! It's been in production since 2020 and still has a lot left to do before it can be deemed complete and ready for mastering. Unfortunately that is all I can share with you for the time being, but it's something that we're super excited about and that I always get excited about when I work on it.

Attacking the tower update#

I think I can be confident enough to say that since then, we’ve majorly improved in our methods and productivity in these areas.Īs mentioned in our End of 2021 Update Video, Attacking the Tower's soundtrack is comprised of original songs made specifically for this fangame, as well as music picked from the Newgrounds Audio Portal, just like how it is in the actual Henry Stickmin games. There were scenes that often felt out of place, forced, or weak relative to other scenes. For the longest time, especially back in 2020, we struggled with keeping a clear and consistent story flow with all the elements in the game. There’s still quite a few more scenes to do for this path, but using this approach for storyboards has definitely improved our productivity. As of right now there’s 1 storyboard in particular that actually starts off in a. fla (Adobe Flash/Animate file) for more complex or nuanced scenes, or a static image to capture the essential shots and poses, as per this template:Īgain, the goal is primarily to get the idea of the scene across to all the team members visually, so this is not a rigid formula - we do the storyboards for each scene based on what works best for it.

The storyboards pretty much can have 2 forms - either done in a. That means once we finish all the required storyboards for one path, then we move onto the next. Placing it as our #1 priority, we’re approaching storyboards on a path-by-path basis so that we can have a clear idea of each ending, one at a time without too much confusion. We’ve started picking up on our storyboarding since our last post, and it’s really helping us to understand the flow of the game and make relevant creative decisions and solutions as issues arise. Not too much has happened over April, but here's what's been going on:

This was meant to come out last week, but due to mid-semester tests, I had to postpone writing it for my studies. Greetings from the land of Strobia! Kejayco here with another devlog post after just over a month.