After a couple of years in development, Zerograve was released on Steam early access today.
Zerograve the 6dof FPS
Zerograve is the new name of the 6dof tunnel-flying FPS game. Here’s also a fresh demo:
https://www.indiedb.com/games/project-ascent/downloads/zerograve-demo-2019-12-01
Nuclear Rune demo 20.10.2019
https://www.indiedb.com/games/nuclear-rune/downloads/19-10-20-nuclear-rune-demo
Updated hero unlock and upgrade systems, improved UI, abilities are more responsive, plus many other updates. Full patch notes below.
V0.7.4
Rewards & unlock progression
Encounters once again reward gold and experience when cleared.
Added hero unlocking system, where Gold which is used to purchase/recruit new heroes.
Added class level / upgrade system
- Experience is used to upgrade classes
- Heroes are divided into three classes: Warrior, Rogue, Mage
- Leveling up a class unlocks new abilities for all heroes of that class
Skills
General:
Removed global cooldown between basic attacks and skills to make the heroes feel more responsive.
Reduced or removed cooldown from several abilities, and adjusted mana costs so skill use is mostly limited by mana instead of cooldowns. Also increased mana regen rate.
Reduced cast time of some basic attacks.
Heroes have fewer skills at start, and total number of skills per hero also reduced.
2h warrior
Bouncing Glaive (New) – throw a glaive which bounces, hitting up to 5 enemies and slowing them
Fire Mage:
Immolate (New) – set enemies in an area on fire for heavy damage over time. Fast cast.
Sniper
Boring Shot (new) – fire a shot which hits a single target up to 10 times. If the first target dies, the remaining are are dealt to a nearby target.
UI
Heroes now have a color by their selection index (e.g. 1 = red, 2 = green, 3 = blue etc.). This color is shown on the health bars on left side of screen, as well as on the small health bar in the world.
The selection ID for each hero is shown on the small health bar, and selection status is shown more clearly.
Action targeting
- Added visual indicator for when order is issued
- Added floating text to tell what happened (queued / canceled)
Fixed issue where action targeting would remain active after encounter, causing trouble.
Tooltip box no longer fades in, cos it didn’t look good with tooltips using rich text colors.
Order issued indicator
- Stronger visual effect near order marker
- Text at cursor position on queue/cancel
- Selfcast – add much bigger/clearer indicator
Health and mana bars now have a highlight at the right end to see current value easier
Mana bar now has an indicator for the lowest mana cost required to cast something. Also the bar background is a purple while mana is below that threshold.
Camera
Camera no longer slows when looking far away from heroes, and, it can’t be moved far away from the map anymore.
Encounter modifiers (not used in demo)
Encounters can now have modifiers, inspired by SC2 coop mutations.
E.g. all enemies get large speed boost, everyone gets critically hit easier, etc.
Nuclear Rune – hero pool system
Added system where player chooses heroes for each encounter from a large pool. The heroes have locked skill set without talents or attributes for now.
Check the video to see how it works and get a demo from
https://www.indiedb.com/games/nuclear-rune/downloads/nuclear-rune-demo-19-05-04-hero-pool
Project Ascent demo & video
Project Ascent (working title) is a tunnel flying game with six degrees of freedom, inspired by Descent. Check the video to see how it looks and try out the gameplay with the demo.
Slush 2018
Slush 2018 was cool. First time for me, got to see plenty of great presentations and to visit stands of many interesting startups. The event has style, that’s for certain.
Image from a video made by Sanoma’s stand.
Vaasa Game Days 2018
Ebonscale Games had a stand at Vaasa Game Days 28-29.11.2018. The visitors got to try out a demo of Project Ascent.
Nuclear Rune 1
The project is still alive and kicking, now with gameplay taking place in arenas instead of large 3D levels.