#strategyrpg

[vindissaga]

All About Tiles

Time to show off some basics! We experimented with a bitwise-bordered tile system a few months ago, similar in appearance to Civilization or XCOM, but our playtests showed that it didn’t really fit a game with such a FFT-style variable height system.

Due to that, we stripped it out and replaced it with some snazzy animated singular tiles. Much better!

Below is the tile spawning animation, slowed down. In-game it’s much snappier to minimize the amount of time the player has to wait. One of the key design philosophies we’re trying to abide by is to make a Final Fantasy Tactics-like system feel as quick and snappy as a typical Fire Emblem game.

[parallelzodiacproject-blog]

The Purpose of This Blog

Here is where, in the long road that has already been this project, progress and updates will be mapped. This project is a video game--a Strategy-heavy RPG--and has always been heavily centered on writing a palpable fantasy with a memorable cast and (hopefully) a little hint of originality in this oversaturated, bogged-down market of mostly reboots and unimaginative successors.

This will be the first time any relative content will ever be released on the internet, and it is with the intent to show that we at Fat Cat Industries are finally making some tangible progress in a story that started in 2007, in my eighteen-year-old mind.

I am your developer; I am your storyteller, and I will be bringing you the fruits of my labour... one little bit at a time.