Hello everyone!
We have a small announcement to make. We have been debating over a few things concerning the roadmap of Skulls & Timber. Out of this debate came two major decisions.
First off we will be changing from a 1st person camera to a 3rd person camera. Reason being this will save us A LOT of time and headaches, so we can focus on content and quality of awesome animations / models.
Secondly, we will be overhauling our graphical style a little bit. We initially chose for a diffuse none-texture style. But we have decided to add some texture detail after all. We will be adding normal detail using zbrush to pretty much everything we make, giving it more character and making our world feel less empty.
What does this mean for development? Well, we will have to rework quite a bit of models (unwrapping them, adding detail, reimporting) and we have to rewrite some code to make everything based on 1 third person camera viewpoint. This will halt further development for about a week. After that we will do some more bug fixing and tweaking and then we hope to finally make a multiplayer video. We have promised this for much too long now and it’s really time we made one. The difficulty is getting people together to record the gameplay. As everyone we can send the build always has something to do that prevents them from being able to play when everyone else does. But redemption is close as we are looking to set up a dedicated server soon once we get a stable build with little to no bugs and then we will send out some builds to folks so they can connect to the server whenever they want. The server will most likely have 50 slots. Which should be plenty to always have at least a few players online. If you are interested in receiving a build to play test, please don’t hesitate to send me a pm!
We are sorry for the delay and the fact we haven’t updated the thread in more than a week, we needed some time to clear some things up and discuss some important matters about the future of our game. But everything is now back on track and we are ready to throw you guys new updates weekly. So stick around! 