{"id":1723,"date":"2014-03-14T09:18:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T08:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2014-03-14T09:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T08:24:39","slug":"the-spring-of-the-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/the-spring-of-the-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spring Of The Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRowinda in her typical serious attire, featuring the Madness spell \ud83d\ude00<\/em><\/p>\n

This Spring will be the Season Of The Wolf (when I’ll release the first beta of this game). So technically I have time until the 21st June \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Jokes apart as I said in previous post too, I hope to have the beta done by next month. The extra delay is due to some last minute decisions: as you can notice from the screenshot above, I decided to remove the skilltree system, allowing the players to decide which skill to learn in any order.<\/p>\n

This also means that each character will have 12 unique skills, no more variations like Blizzard I, II & III. Of course, some skills are variations of others, I don’t claim that I have made over 100 skills ALL UNIQUE! \ud83d\ude42 However, I really feel I have pushed the original Loren RPG framework to its limits in this game, some spells\/skills are quite interesting.<\/p>\n

The beta will include only the first Season (Winter), but at least will give people a good idea of what to expect if they decide to pre-order the game. A part of delay is also due to new random enemies that I need to do (wild animals, etc) and also to the tileset system:<\/p>\n

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\nSOTW will feature an isometric multi-screen map with hotspots to explore<\/em><\/p>\n

Now don’t expect a scrollable map, but the map can be split into several screens, so I can make bigger maps. There’ll be various “hotspots”, marked with arrows:<\/p>\n