Celestian Tales - Year-End Update

Ekuator Games released a new year end update for Celestian Tales: Old North.

Year-End Update!

Hello everyone!

A few days ago we finished our last working days for the years! After three days of final burst of work hours, we managed to finish most of the targets we set. Here's a compact list of the things we've done since the last update.

Game Framework

• Added numerous functions for events -- such as timed random facing for a sprite to show a 'confused' expression, or sprite 'jump' to show 'surprised' expression (see Suikoden 2 for a sense of how it looks) and audio fade effects for smoother BGM transitions.
• Functions for Sub-events, essentially enabling us to make an object doing something over and over again (e.g. a soldier training with a dummy)
• Functions for screen overlay and text or image fading effects for storytelling purposes (e.g. reading a letter)
• NPC talk-to functions, triggers, as well as NPC behaviour functions.
• More intuitive event editor.

Battle Framework

• Basic combat UI placement.
• Bug fixes for attack, defend, and use item functions and calculations.
• Bug fixes for level and stat growth on all playable characters.
• Bug fixes for skill functions on all playable characters.
• Reworked enemy aggro calculations.

Pixel Arts

• Lucienne, Reed, and Ylianne's 8-directional walking animation.
• Lucienne, Reed, and Ylianne's 8-directional running animation.
• Drawing weapon and weapons-ready animation for all playable characters.

Environment Arts

• Assets for 'Warcamp' scene.
• Scene placements for 'Warcamp' scene.
• Assets for 'Montcalm' scene (unfinished, about 70% done)

Script and Screenplay

• Finished full script for Second Decade.
• Listed all needed assets and scenes for Second Decade.
• Made colliders, triggers, and events located in 'Warcamp'.