Today my good friend Neil joins me for a totally unscripted playthrough of Build 12 and the 3D dungeons. When I say unscripted, everything that could go wrong, did! Audio problems, gameplay bugs, 10 foot poles, live code editing and game recompiling, all in the unwavering quest to find The Grigg Ring! Every other Let's Play of Archmage Rises will be better than this one!

In this update we celebrate the team who built Build 12. If you are part of the pre-alpha pre-order group, go to Steam and play it now!

Detailed release notes for Build 12.1 Dungeons released today May 8 2020

This week the small council said Build 12 is good enough (done enough) to release to everyone, as long as we fix some major bugs. And we added another programmer!

It was a hectic week of several 12-hour days, but we finally got Build 12 playable enough for the fan Small Council to review.

We’ll see what they say…

We finally got to Playtesting the game this week and that has generated 68 issues/tasks of which 20 are critical to resolve before we can have anyone play it. Maybe it’s just me, but being able to find a quest item in a dungeon seems pretty important to the whole experience.

In this update I talk through the following flowchart on how the game generates quests using existing people and monsters going about their business in the world into an escalating quest chain. I then show behind the scenes how we generate the quest description for the NPC to speak to the player.

Today I share features of the upcoming Build 12 and then demo some of the dungeon experience. We start gameplay testing of the dungeons on Monday!

This week we really dive behind the scenes and show how we use Unity and C# to procedurally turn an empty 3D box into a decorated thematic dungeon room, with items, wall hangings, and stacking items.

We are happy to report that we are done with the 3D dungeon tech and are now working on the gameplay experience. We think it will take us 3 weeks, or so, meaning sometime in mid to late March.