HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
1 gb game, 10 gigs of banner textures
Seriously.
1 gb game, 10 gigs of banner textures
The Longships is an amazing book.
Between this, FTL, and and Double Fine, Kickstarter is giving me lots of PC games this year.
I heard somewhere that the guy who did this amazing Oregon Trail LP was writing Banner Saga, and that right there was enough to get my $50 for the full three-chapter set. (Then I looked at the gorgeous art and was glad I did.)
They're doing everything right here as far as I'm concerned. I hope they reach at least 500k by the end.Update #5: The Banner Saga progress report for week 2
Posted 2 minutes ago
Hello supporters and backers! It's hard to believe it's only been two weeks since we launched the project and beside the weekly progress reports we've just cracked an unbelievable milestone at 350%! We'll be sending these updates out regularly to make sure you know what we're up to.
Without any further ado, here's the progress report for 2.12.12:
Our top priority is to build on the work we've completed for the prototype. Basically this means hooking up everything that requires extra functionality; the combat interface, progression through each part of the game including character upgrades, building a party, hiring new units, the multiplayer narrative, the combat board itself and so on. It's a lot of foundation work you never really thinking about when you're playing a game.
We've started working on our final designs for characters in combat and their variations, color schemes and upgrades. This work includes sketches and designs that will all end up in the art book! We'll probably pop up an image or two next week to let you see what we've been up to.
We've spent a good portion of our time this week upping the resolution of our existing art to work on the Apple Retina displays for the new iPad, which is a much better step to take sooner than later. I suppose this is a pretty strong indication that we intend to port the game to iOS as soon as we can fit it into a schedule! That said, we won't let this take priority over finishing the game we set out to make on PC and Mac.
We're currently up to our necks in offers to help with the music and have some great leads! We're making a concentrated effort to sort through all the amazing submissions this week and find our best fit for the project. Just like sound, we would have had to scale back the scope of what we could do with our limited manpower. We now have to option to get a dedicated music house to do more than we could have achieved alone at the highest possible quality.
We've begun an honest-to-goodness production schedule with an animation studio who will help us complete all the frame-by-frame animations for combat and a handful of cutscenes that had previously been left on the cutting room floor.
We've also gotten some good leads on great professional help for quality assurance. Boring, you say? It's the most exciting thing we can think of!
That wraps things up for the work in progress this week. We are, once again, floored by the donations that continue to roll in, and will be getting back to the grindstone to make it all happen.
Thanks!
Alex, Arnie and John
Of course this looks good, but I'm skeptical about the gameplay. I really feel like I'd have to wait and hear how that's shaping up before I can support. Even if it a middling game with groundbreaking art though, at least it's got that going for it...
Yeah, SRPGs are so easy to fuck up. But I backed it anyway just because it's so lovely.Of course this looks good, but I'm skeptical about the gameplay.
Actually I think that as far as you have some clear idea of where you want to lead the project, they are way harder to fuck up than action games.Yeah, SRPGs are so easy to fuck up. But I backed it anyway just because it's so lovely.
A Strategic/Tactical RPG just needs some pretty art and a solid, well thought combat system.
Well, but that's true for any game, it's not like a *good* game in any other genre doesn't need balance.it may be really hard to balance it.
Yeah, SRPGs are so easy to fuck up. But I backed it anyway just because it's so lovely.
We've just announced a veritable avalanche of new collaborators. Austin Wintory (composer of Journey) for music, Kpow Audio (sound team on LA Noire), Powerhouse Animation (Epic Mickey, DC Universe, and others) for animation. MADNESS. Check out Update #6!
Awesome new update:
Also coming to iPad and Linux!
wowAwesome new update:
Because it wasn't, when I posted it, and when it became so, someone didn't follow "new thread for new news"That's such a huge update that I'm tempted to say it deserves a new thread or at least a title change. I mean the title right now doesn't even mention it's a Kickstarter project.
Because it wasn't, when I posted it, and when it became so, someone didn't follow "new thread for new news"
Because it wasn't, when I posted it, and when it became so, someone didn't follow "new thread for new news"