July progress report

[admin]

Art:

• Existing models improved and reworked (will be continuing doing that)
• New ship added - HMS Victory 
• Initial draft water particles implemented (ship wake etc.)
• Basic animated crew and animations reworked 
• General work on improvement of visuals of water and world

Server: 

• Battle Server and infrastructure reworked and improved 
• Continued testing and stabilization of the server for initial focus tests 

Client:

• Ship collisions implemented 
• Basic damage model of sails and masts implemented 
• Foundations of datacore implemented, that will allow ship upgrading and module installation
• Simple combat statistics system implemented
• Wind, inertia, maneuver and ship control systems improved 
• Aiming and firing reworked
• Combat camera being improved

Major goal of our current big milestone is to stabilize and fix bugs in current features; to start testing ship fire, maneuver and combat camera with you. 

[Garetx]

 

Art:

• Existing models improved and reworked (will be continuing doing that)
• New ship added - HMS Victory 
• Initial draft water particles implemented (ship wake etc.)
• Basic animated crew and animations reworked 
• General work on improvement of visuals of water and world

Server: 

• Battle Server and infrastructure reworked and improved 
• Continued testing and stabilization of the server for initial focus tests 

Client:

• Ship collisions implemented 
• Basic damage model of sails and masts implemented 
• Foundations of datacore implemented, that will allow ship upgrading and module installation
• Simple combat statistics system implemented
• Wind, inertia, maneuver and ship control systems improved 
• Aiming and firing reworked
• Combat camera being improved

Major goal of our current big milestone is to stabilize and fix bugs in current features; to start testing ship fire, maneuver and combat camera with you. 

 

Can we see some Screenshots of the Victory =D

[adambomb]

Have you started kickstarter or crowdfunding yet? If so where do I go to get in on it?  Keep up the good work, looking forward to a realistic sailing fighting ship game. A nice video would be nice also..

[bikkebakke]

Have you started kickstarter or crowdfunding yet? If so where do I go to get in on it?  Keep up the good work, looking forward to a realistic sailing fighting ship game. A nice video would be nice also..

I'm guessing that they will wait with any form of crowdfunding project until they actually have solid material to show. Too often people will come up and show an Idea to a project but with hardly anything else than artwork and that usually just hurts the project in the end, i.e project doesn't get funded and might get a bad reputation afterwards. Crowdfunding can be a double edged sword sometimes.

 

If you can it's almost always better to get something solid up to show others that you actually are working on something and will continue working on it. Even if you have those things it can be hard to obtain your goal. The only times you should try crowdfunding before you actually have something solid is if you have great reputation from before or if the idea is increadibly solid to begin with.