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Kingdom Dawn 05

This devlog has one theme and one theme only. Hand-Painted Textures. Over the a few weeks I have been endless painting of solid surfaces and natural objects. Here we have an example of almost finished paint jobs. What I have come across while painting away is that my speed when painted improve but also what best fits our game. So far the heavier the contrast the better the look because our game is set from a set camera distance it needs to be defined. Well to a quality I am happy with and the team is agreeable too. 

I also learnt the art of not painting because general rules imply that if it cannot be seen, there is nothing to admire. Also it saves a lot of time not having to paint too.

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Kingdom Dawn Devlog 04

This week we had a problem where our hard work for a beta test fell through. So we weren’t able to do digital testing so in turn we went for the most basic way to test. Paper play test. I spent most of my time creating a playable and printable version of our game so we could test balance and test the mechanics. Building a paper play of our game was next level stressful but let me develop deeper thought about our game. For instance communicating information to the player was so vast it was amazing but also frustrating. What tiles do, what things cost, counters so players know what they have done, buildings counters so players know what they have built, upgrades for gear etc. Overall I stress out a lot but it was with worth it because we made a ton of balance changes.

This also gave our coding genius time to build.