DroK Development Blog

The official blog for the development of the overly ambitious game Divine Right of Kings.

[beelzebox]

It’s time we posted the demo build of our action RPG, Beelzebox! Feel free to download it and share your thoughts and critique. https://shodanon.itch.io/beelzebox

[drokdev]

Have some mountains!

[gataela]

Progress Update - 1/5/18 - 79.2% Complete

Completed:

Final Overworld Maps - 14.2% in progress; 71.7% complete

April Fools!

Maid Adventures

New pixelart sneak preview

Finished all the new UI designs

Worked on updating the UI

Worked on adding new battle animations, and updating current ones

Worked on updating the overworld sprite designs

Worked on improving and simplifying algorithms

Some optimization work to reduce shader overhead

Coming up next:

Round 4 Preparation

Demo Release Preparation

This path month focused on art upgrades, but also programming improvements and optimizations.

Keep reading

[drokdev]

80% done? You’re almost halfway there.

[drokdev]

Maybe one day, I will actually be able to generate terrain like this!

[drokdev]

You will never see the city in this much detail in game. It probably won’t have these textures at all even. Nevertheless, here is the city.

[drokdev]

I am still alive

and I am almost done implementing saving and loading!

[drokdev]

Hey bro, you still working on the game? Hope to hear from you.

Yes! Yes I am. I just don't do much on this blog because I'm a very disorganized individual.I've also re-done the terrain stuff from scratch and have implemented pathfinding.https://imgur.com/a/UCqZv

[drokdev]

TERRAIN BLENDING FINALLY WORKS (these are not final textures by any means)

[drokdev]

Divine Right of Kings: The Astral Chaos

It has been argued that the Astral Chaos is older than time itself. Considering that the great scholars have never managed to find the creators of the Chaos, this explanation is quite accepted. The Chaos, or at least the part that we inhabit, is littered with shards of land, water, air, and magic. The laws of physics vary from place to place, with as many variants as there were stars in the sky in the old world of Telthor. When we fled, we first settled in the strange ruins we found. From the maps, scrolls, and tablets we were able to decipher, we concluded that floating throughout the Astral Chaos was the ruins of worlds long ended. Thus, the Chaos had its second name: the Graveyard of Worlds.

[animeangel2728]

[minionsart]

Making a Toon Fire in Unity with some minor edits to shaders

Masked shader : http://pastebin.com/rDpfjM5F 

Masked Particle Additive : http://pastebin.com/VEWGYEZp

More here :  >Patreon Link<

[drokdev]

Saving this for later.

[drokdev]

UV mapping now works with terrain!

After painstakingly coding some shit up, I managed to make a UV map on terrain. You can now see materials on the procedurally generated mesh.

I used this particular image as a material so that I could see if I was getting any distortion. Thankfully, I wasn’t! The distortion you see here is from the height generation. Going forward, I now have to figure out how the hell I’m going to apply procedural materials to this. I did make a material that was smart enough to know when to be cliff and when to be flat land in Blender’s Cycles renderer, but I don’t know how to only apply it to part of the mesh. The Unity manual talks about “sub-meshes”, and I understand that you can “bake” materials in Blender and maybe export them to Unity? I have more reading to do, clearly.

[drokdev]

Too late to post pics but

perlin noise now works

[drokdev]

I’ve gotten the basic shape of the procedural mesh to work. I haven’t hooked it up to a heightmap or anything yet, but I will in due time.

[minionsart]

A fun Portal effect using Masked shaders and particles :)

Alphablended Masked Particle shader: pastebin.com/vDKT0LPi

More here :  >Patreon Link<

[jasozz]

the pellet gun is implemented

and pellety

[drokdev]

dem animations doe

[drokdev]

I’ve begun work on the “world” stage of the game. This involves a procedurally-generated mesh upon which cities and tile improvements can be placed. Once I learned how to actually generate meshes from nothing, the actual hexagon itself was easy to create. HOWEVER, placing these in the staggered grid fashion was actually a total pain in the ass, since I had to get all of the iterations EXACTLY RIGHT.