Aeges Road Weekly Update

This brings us to Alpha 9.

This has been a productive week for Aeges Road. This weeks weather gave me a couple days off, and I was able to get more done than I expected to. The most exciting thing this week is that I got to remove a character blank and plug Illindey into the artwork. I have also begun rendering the final versions of the gui interface.

Character creation is finished. You can now modify your character for combat. With this inclusion I tweaked the AI a bit, and quite honestly made the game harder than the final version will be. I just thought it might be a fun challenge to test stat tweaks on. Also, the character creation screen will also be the level up screen once I get there. I also have yet to clean up the inventory gui, so further stat tweaks for testing are still available. Just as a note, the rogue has two skills that are not programmed in yet, hide and locks. So don't throw away you points on these.

I whipped up a rough track this morning before church and plugged it into the game. I have another specific place for this track, but thought it would be a nice change of ambience. This track actually helped me to remember the importance of music for setting the mood. If it wasn't for the score in Final Fantasy 6, I don't think this would have been as great a game as it was.

On a side note, I got dos box working on my new mac, and noticed something. All these years I have been running on the cheapest hardware I could find, including soundcard, and I never realized what an incredible music score Star Trail has. None of my previous sound cards would play the luminance behind the leading melody, and all I ever heard was the simple midi melody lines. So a real favorite of mine is shining brighter than ever.