Tribes look great. Cant wait to play around in My Akashic Records
Greetings, Elyrians! Last time we checked in on our latest internal release, we showcased visual targets for the tribes in Chronicles of Elyria and looked at a few work-in-progress screenshots of our character creator. Earlier this week, we broadcasted a live walk through of our character creator, and took suggestions from the Twitch chat. In case you missed it, you can watch the video below.
Throughout the video, we showcase both the eight starting tribes, and the four discoverable tribes in Chronicles of Elyria. We create a few different characters and dive into the details here and there, but if you need an additional recap, read on to find out more!
Before we work on getting the representation of the tribes in the game, we sculpt model targets to ensure we're hitting the vision of each tribe. Below are some of the targets we crafted to help guide the character creation process.
Although Chronicles of Elyria is a fantasy game, we want the ranges of character creation to be realistic. This means that we need to create constraints for each of the tribes when it comes to customization sliders - so no, you can't create big-head mode. We're creating an immersive experience, and that means each character created in game needs to look and feel like they belong to the tribe to which they are born.
Here's a time-lapsed look at some of the body controls in character creation
As with the body constraints, each of the tribes of Elyria have a range of visual characteristics for different facial attributes. We're still tweaking the constraints and ranges, but we're pretty happy with where we've landed so far. And of course you'll be able to give us additional feedback once My Akashic Records (a standalone executable where you can see your character and some of the items you own) is in the hands of Alpha backers. Soon™.
Take a look at this sped-up clip of the facial features in character creation
When you create a character, you choose a birthday and, with each individual birthday, there is a specific alignment of the planets associated with it. As revealed in the livestream, your birthday plays a key part in what sort of destiny may unfold for your character. As to the specifics of how this interacts with our destiny system...you'll have to discover it for yourself at launch.
Your destiny awaits...
Lastly, we decided to split up work for this release. Internally, we've called it the 0.2.0 release. The next production update will be from Vye, and she'll address what we're working on currently in our 0.2.5 internal release, which includes world interaction and inventory management.
If you enjoyed the broadcast, please follow our Twitch channel and you'll get alerted when we go live! We're looking forward to showing off more of the game in the coming weeks.
Until next time. . .
Tribes look great. Cant wait to play around in My Akashic Records
Character creation and the customization of each tribe looks great, keep it going !
the music always hypes
Looks cool but some of them looks the same with only very slight differences. The Yoru, Kypic, Hrothi, Erishe look unique enough but their faces look way to similar.
In real life Humans look very different to each other. You can glance at one and immediately know their decent. Those of European stock look different to those of Asian or African stock. The bodies are more or less the same but there are differences in the bone structure in the face and certain racial features such as the African nose and the Asian eyes.
Will you be adding features like this to make the tribes look more unique?
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Posted By Kelryth at 7:26 PM - Fri Mar 23 2018
Looks cool but some of them looks the same with only very slight differences. The Yoru, Kypic, Hrothi, Erishe look unique enough but their faces look way to similar.
Oh, you might have missed it in the video, but Vye and Caspian actually talk about this in the stream when they start to show off the Yoru for the first time. Most of the tribes are still in the production pipeline, which means they are missing a few elements such as the normal maps that bring out the different shapes in their faces. The Yoru faces in this video are further along in the process though and more indicative of the differences we can evoke.
Hope that helps! :)
looking forward to it, and i will keep to my word.
once i see game play i'll drop $300 on this.
Excellent update, very pleased with the character models and customisation potential. I think keeping the tribes with their original set of distinctive features would be best - interbreeding will soften those features over successive generations in all but those bloodlines who choose to remain purists. As such, their starting features will represent the extremes of each tribe - its "starting point", so to speak.
Either way, very much looking forward to more. Great work!
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Loved the stream. Really excited for the My Akashic Record as well. Definitely going to spend some hours in that.
I just wanna quickly chime in and say that I love everything you guys are doing with the tribes and sense of identity in this game. In terms of looks, clothing, culture or background everything feels very much rooted in medieval life and archetypal fantasy structures - but the unique touch that you bring to it is refreshing. I will very much enjoy inhabiting this world.
"My Akashic Records (a standalone executable where you can see your character and some of the items you own) is in the hands of Alpha backers. Soon™." Is My Akashic Records going to be available for all Alpha backers or just Alpha 1?
Overall I feel like this stream was a success. It's content like this that will help keep the community engaged and dedicated to Chronicles of Elyria. =) Great work.
ahh, yup I missed that part. I sleep during the day so I kept drifting off.
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