Development

Happy to announce that the dummy test did indeed take place during week 22 of development. Player attacks are now a thing, and the tests are looking quite promising as well.

Damage is being transmitted to a target, UI elements display the amount of damage done as well as the type of damage and whether it's a dot or not and crit or not. Most formulas and functions set in place seem to be working right on the first test, which could in theory mean a lighter debugging phase for the original attack implementation.

During week 23, looking forward to conclude the debugging of all of the attack/damage functionalities, wrap up the dummy test and slowly return to the adpating of the questing functionalities (linking defeats to the quest system).

Moreover, work has been done on all of the other domains that will be covered once the pure coding development of the game is complete. Multiple proof of concepts have been established for the artistic domains (static meshes, animations, sound, vfx, etc...) as well as for the marketing of the game.

For quite a bit of the artistic side of development, some test scenes will be created to represent the artstyle and degree of fidelity of the game. These test scenes will have to pass 3 different validations in order to confirm that the artistic flows put into place are good enough to be mass-deployed for the development of the game.

The 3 validations are the internal validation (if I believe the scenes look good enough to be in the game), comparative validation (compared to some other titles in the same genre, do the scenes have the same level of detail and aesthetic immersion), and the external validation (from any given amount of people asked about the scenes, more than 60% should say they like what they are seeing and that they would be excited to play a game from which these scenes were taken from)