{"id":3312,"date":"2018-08-03T07:49:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T05:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2018-07-27T08:37:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T06:37:40","slug":"planet-stronghold-2-alpha-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/planet-stronghold-2-alpha-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Stronghold 2 alpha demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PS2combat-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PS2combat-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PS2combat-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PS2combat-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PS2combat.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><em>In the screenshot above: like the old times, fighting malfunctioning Roboant in the tutorial battle!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Time for an update on the RPG I&#8217;m currently working on (personally, I have other writers working on other games right now, like Volleyball Heaven and other &#8220;secret stuff&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month I ran a short alpha-testing in my forums (though it was open, everyone could try the prototype) to get some early feedback on the combat. It was very useful since I already added some tweaks\/features. In case you missed it, you can still try the prototype here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/viewtopic.php?f=37&amp;t=4153\">https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/viewtopic.php?f=37&amp;t=4153<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s slightly outdated since I&#8217;ve changed a few things on my side already, but of course if you find more bugs or have suggestions feel free to let me know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think in general the RPG part of the game it&#8217;s at good point, of course I&#8217;ll do a lot of tweaks and updates like I did for my past RPGs during beta, however the base\/core system is there. Now my goal is to get the isometric map working so that I can playtest myself all the missions (and side-missions) of the whole first chapter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently the plan is to have the game divided into 4 chapters (not all of same length!) and have the game demo end at the end of 1st chapter with one of my usual cliffhanger scenes \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The main difficulty is that I&#8217;ll have to deal with a lot of things plot-wise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the fact that you can begin the game either as loyal or rebel<\/li>\n<li>the possibility to continue an existing romance, or start a new one (either with old\/new characters)<\/li>\n<li>using the non-combat skills to solve the missions in various\/different ways<\/li>\n<li>and last but not least, some more branching scenes depending on the choices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">while the RPG part of this game is complex, I&#8217;d say that the plot part is not easy either! So I am first planning everything before I jump into writing scenes that maybe I have to discard later on, because I didn&#8217;t consider this path or this variable or this plot hole and so on. Maybe it doesn&#8217;t seem, and you probably won&#8217;t even notice while playing the final game, but it can be really complex and drive you nuts, believe me!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once I have the first draft of the plot finished I&#8217;ll then start scripting the game and at the same time also code the various battles and quests, and probably add a few more along the way since I always get an inspiration to write new sidequests as I code the main game. My goal is also to have personal quests for each character, since it&#8217;s also a classic of RPG (and almost all my RPGs had this personal quest feature).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I still don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll have the game beta finished before end of year, also because I hope to be &#8220;distracted&#8221; from working on this because I need to publish Corona Borealis and Volleyball Heaven since I know many people are waiting for those games as well \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the screenshot above: like the old times, fighting malfunctioning Roboant in the tutorial battle! Time for an update on the RPG I&#8217;m currently working on (personally, I have other writers working on other games right now, like Volleyball Heaven and other &#8220;secret stuff&#8221;). Last month I ran a short alpha-testing in my forums (though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,6,7,157,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beta-demo","category-development-screenshot","category-general-topics","category-planet-stronghold-2","category-roleplay-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3327,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}