February 2024 Progress Update

Gataela

A decade ago a civil war tore across the Kingdom. Zack, an orphan, embarks on a mission to improve his loved ones' lives. Uncover schemes, investigate mysteries, and debate the citizens and nobles of Gataela! Will he discover hidden truths that threaten to rip apart the nation all over again?

We hope everyone is having a Feb-ulous Fab-ruary! Here’s what we were up to for the last month~ [h1]Ziacia[/h1] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31931167/1ec9bdbc9b6a816fed86dc2ab342fc364603744c.jpg[/img] Ziacia is the capital city of Gataela and home to the King’s Palace, just north of the city across a small bridge. The city itself is surrounded by a star fort, but it’s still easily accessible by boat if needed. (And we hope that won’t ever be needed.) [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31931167/c623ece6b29d0d3a3606edcb6f9ff31d1b85ba2e.png[/img] Ziacia is home to many tall buildings, many of which function as apartments. For example, this building contains four apartments with two on each floor. Pictured are two small units on the first floor: [list] [*] Left: Someone with quite an expensive taste in furniture, but it seems they blew all their budget so they don’t have much else [*]Right: A single parent lives here with their child. It seems they’re getting ready for a picnic. [/list] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31931167/a50561d83fa5914cd391d73fcdda6278ee5ad57e.png[/img] Some of the buildings also house groups of students all renting together… although it seems like this particular one has someone cramming for an exam, thesis or some other important thing. Let’s wish them luck, it seems they’ll need it. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31931167/eede5e0a109745a354b5175dd07242c8ea2f837c.png[/img] Ziacia has a “famous” local bar down by the pier. Many sailors and military officers stop by here everyday as their favourite spot so it’s always packed. That being said there’s never any reports of issues because, after all, no one wants to anger the bar manager. Or else. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31931167/2be501b5610f566c29035283c45e3d5c4af4bf31.png[/img] A small home belonging to a local sailor. It doesn’t seem like they are home very often, or perhaps they just haven’t cleaned in a while. But hm? Is that something behind their wardrobe? [h1]What’s Next?[/h1] We’ll be focusing on the following for the next month or so: [list] [*]Olvia Interiors [*]Kickstarter Interiors [*]MSQ Cutscenes [*]TTBattle VFX [/list] Olvia will be the last city we need to do interiors for and will contain most of the Kickstarter interiors (as most of you guys picked the same theme for your interiors. Wow.) It’ll take a month or two to complete, so we’ll have more about it in April’s update. A few people also reported some bugs in the demo, so we’ll begin to look at pushing out an update for that in early March which should contain other performance improvements and so on since the last update. It’ll be quite the patch notes. Take care everyone!