Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In today's issue, you'll get an update on all the custom 3D assets we've been working on for the capital city of Nisar, plus a peek into our process for creating a fully functional facial rig for our female main character. He's been working behind the scenes for the past few weeks to get familiarized with our game build in Unreal Engine 4.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

After over a year of exhibiting at various online game conventions, we can't properly tell you how stoked we are to be presenting an exclusive build of Kristala—featuring our revamped demo level—at this year's Play NYC convention. Kristala at Play NYC 2021. Concept Art.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

One perk of Law is that even if a spell is outside your Jurisdiction, you can rig the laws to allow it anyway: There's a lot of great properties there. In fighting game parlance, that's known as an "option select," which is also the name of a Puzzle Strike chip!) Let's compare it to when you destroy a tech building.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Though Nasahara's streets were damaged, many of its buildings and structures remain standing to this day. If you've ever had a chance to play existing builds of Kristala, you'll know how helpful this particular improvement will be when it comes to the aggravating, baby Gromphas bugs. link] Rigging / Animation. Programming.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Because the new model for our main character is vastly different than the existing model in the game build, we've had to go back through all the existing armor sets and properly adapt them for the shape and size of the new piece. Game Production / Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You'll read a lot about the work that went into making our Play build smooth and seamless in this issue of the blog, but check out this article from our friends at NoobFeed and the following video from Piercing Metal that explain a bit more about the exclusive build of Kristala we exhibited at Play NYC. In-tact and broken Amulets.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition? Next, Pete exported the hair cards into Unreal in order to build a universal hair shader that could then ultimately be applied to every fur-havin' character in Kristala. link] Rigging / Animation. Convenient, right?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This month, in addition to our typical development sprints, we've also been hard at work prepping a super special convention build of Kristala for the upcoming Play NYC convention. link] Rigging / Animation. We especially love how Tiff made one of the moons blue and the other purple.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Many of our friends who've already had a chance to play early builds of Kristala have lovingly referred to it as Cat Souls. Last up for James this sprint was to create a design for a new kind of pickup we'll be implementing in the Kristala game build: Kristal Memories. link] Rigging / Animation. and they're not wrong.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Once a peer review for a 3D model is done, the original artist then goes back through and makes refinements before handing the finished piece off to our level designers for placement in the game build. Rigging / Animation. Stay tuned to future issues of the dev blog for more updates from our level design team. link] Programming.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

When we last met, we shared some exciting updates from our time exhibiting at Play NYC 2021, and shared all the work that went into ensuring the exclusive build we prepared for the convention was in tip-top shape and ready to be played. Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

Featuring a vast web of buildings and abodes that slowly snake up the catacomb walls, Myr is a mysterious city of labyrinthian paths and alleyways. It's safe to say that things are really looking great in the Kristala game build following all of Ricardo's awesome updates. link] Rigging / Animation.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The parasite model we’ll use in this game is downloaded from www.mixamo.com : Mixamo is a really useful site for game developer becuase all the 3D models are free, plus you can animate them and you can even upload your own 3D models, rig them, and animate them.

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