Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

In today's issue, we're servin' up some serious updates on a few large-scale, ongoing 3D models and concept pieces. Using a few detailed concepts from our art department, our 3D Character Designer, Bianca, has been working the past few sprints on modeling out each of our three Kota soldier variants and their accompanying armor sets.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

link] Concept Art. In order to initiate these changes, however, it was vital that we had proper environmental and character concepts to work from so that our 3D modeling team was fully capable of bringing the Kristala that exists in our minds to life in Unreal Engine. We can't wait to go back again next year!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

Concept Art. Pete not only possesses a wealth of talent and experience when it comes to concept art, but he's also an incredibly skilled character modeler and rigger too. As Pete's first official task for Kristala, we had him work on revising the concept art for a very important NPC, Gustav Gondasa.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Concept Art. As part of our demo overhaul, we recently welcomed a few new team members into our motley crew in order to help us better establish the dark-fantasy vibe we're going for—including the newest member to our Concept Art team, Harold. Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Here's how it works: each month, we share all the progress every branch of development has made as they collectively work towards completing Kristala's vertical slice—from stunning concept art and 3D models to custom animations, level design, and everything in between. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We're also giving you a special first look at some new environmental concepts and progress made to our newest WIP level area. With some incredible concepts from our art department as her guide, our 3D Character Designer, Bianca, has been working on modeling a few base armor sets for our three variants of Kota soldiers.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

We’ll be sharing some clips from David’s recording sesh for Hiratrola—plus many more making-the-trailer goodies—over on the Kristala Patreon hub , so join us over there if you’d like to snag some exclusive Kristala content you definitely won’t find anywhere else. Concept Art. Staff Parry Icon. Riposte Icon. Stay tuned!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

After fiddling around and running some tests, Will was able to make it so that the character can effectively roll through various environmental objects - like the barrels shown in the clip below - to destroy them. Here's a recent track Adeel put together for our demo, backed by some awesome gameplay clips Allie recorded and pieced together.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Here we follow the single responsibility principle where we created the audio manager and gave it only one responsibility which is to play the audio clip that we pass to its PlaySound function. The audio clips are going to be in other classes such as Player, Enemy, Coin, and so on. Writing code is a form of art. That’s it.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. Finally I think a lot of why we’ve moved away from secrets has to do with thinking of games as products as opposed to art. It also is kind of hard to do, practically, in tabletop games (although it is possible !).

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a general concept teleportation technology exists in quite a few varieties throughout the world of Cogmind, though the player only has access to some of them. In fact I have two new concepts for teleportation tech, which is kinda funny because of how they evolved out of the same idea. Personal Teleporter v0.10

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

The stunning Cruising Pavilion installation at the 2018 Venice Biennale My previous cruising game The Tearoom focused on the emotional and psychological aspects of cruising, and eventually went on tour with the fantastic group art exhibition Cruising Pavilion. L of semen for each one. So for example, instead of redeeming two men for a +3.0

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