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Antharion - Update #14, Final Days, Magic

Orphic has posted Update #14 for their Antharion Kickstarter as the enter the last three days. With $17k on the board, they have their sights on the $20k stretch. This update also looks at magic:

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Today we're going to talk a bit about magic. In Antharion there are three schools of magic: Black, White and Gray. Antharion's magic system is relatively unique in that each of its spell schools focuses singularly on one thing. Black Magic focuses on harmful spells, White Magic focuses on buffs and restorative spells, and Gray Magic focuses on alterative and illusory spells. This means you won't find any damage spells in the school of White Magic and likewise you won't find any buffs in Gray, etc. Below is a complete list of all of the spells we currently have working. Keep in mind that we will continue adding/refining spells throughout the remainder of development.
Black Magic

Firebolt - Hurls a ball of fire at a single target
Summon Beast - Conjure a rat to fight for you
Curse of Weakness - Increase the target's weakness to physical attacks
Poison - Does damage over time to a single target
Curse of Sloth - Slows your enemy temporarily lowering his action points
Web - Immobilizes the target in a spider's web
Life-Tap - Convert some of your life into mana
Inferno - Create a huge wall of fire extending out in every direction
Ice Bolt - Hurl a shard of ice at a single target freezing it
Death Blow - Deals a single devastating blow to an adjacent target
Cone of Cold - Freezes all targets within its cone
Curse of Magic - Makes the target susceptible to magical damage
Poison Cloud - Poison all targets within its radius
Summon Demon - Summon an imp to hurl fireballs at your enemies
Last Stand - Create a massive explosion killing the caster in the process

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A rat is a beast. Hmm…

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Originally Posted by rjshae (Post 1061178077)

A rat is a beast. Hmm…

This list is merely of working spells and is subject to lots of changes/revisions prior to release (remember this is entirely pre-alpha).

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Originally Posted by rjshae (Post 1061178077)

A rat is a beast. Hmm…

Maybe it's a really BIG rat.

Another update showing the progress of art and tech over the last year.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/…80098#comments
Definitely a LOT of progress! It looks pretty good for hitting the second stretch goal at 20k, just $1.8k with 40 hours to go.

I still wounder how much they'll need to fix the walking animations….

Quite a bit more, from what they said - it would mean a lot more art would have to be created. I've personally accepted it will probably stay the way it is.

That's the problem with 2D. I have the same with people asking me for diverse monster animations, not realizing the budget to animate 100 monsters, even basically, would range in the tens of thousands. And take forever.

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Originally Posted by Fargol (Post 1061178146)

Maybe it's a really BIG rat.

Yes, they could always just say it's a "bane rat", or some such thing. :)

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Originally Posted by GhanBuriGhan (Post 1061178157)

Quite a bit more, from what they said - it would mean a lot more art would have to be created. I've personally accepted it will probably stay the way it is.

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Originally Posted by Charles-cgr (Post 1061178159)

It would be a big improvement if they just added anti-aliasing.

My god the things people find so important.

Yeesh. It's just a chat forum. :p