Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

As our 3D Generalist, Shelly has her hands in a bunch of different aspects and areas of development, lending both her texturing and modeling skills to help fill in various holes and gaps within our 3D elements. The concept Bianca's working with is pictured first, and then Bianca's (totally badass) model follows. o [link] Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. Hello, faithful feline-lovin' friends and fantasy aficionados! Up next for Harold?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. If you're just joining us, welcome! You can listen to our episode of the Game Raven Review podcast right meow!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the official Kristala dev blog, where we break down the development process for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala each month. Featuring the latest releases from studios large and small—and from developers old and new—Play NYC celebrates every facet of gaming in a way that only the Big Apple can. Concept Art.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

There are other ways to play with this fatigue and stamina concept. Usually game developers don’t give a lot of thought into stamina bars and how it can affect the characters and game design. It probably took me 6 months to implement, iterate, and polish this concept up. Effectively increasing your stamina by 24!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). link] Concept Art. Kristala at Play NYC 2021.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Although this is typically the only place where you can get a monthly peek into all the development that goes into Kristala—a 3D dark fantasy ARPG from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—things will soon be changing. Concept Art. Right away, Harold dove into creating fresh, detailed concepts for each level area in the Kristala demo.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

As AI continues to advance, the future of art and AI in game development holds tremendous promise. Artists have always played a crucial role in game development, meticulously creating characters, environments, and animations. Developers strive relentlessly to make games that seem more realistic and engaging.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. Take a look at some of the recent armor concepts our talented artist James created this month.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This is the place where we break down the development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game currently in development by the talented team at women-owned indie games studios, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. Welcome back to another exciting issue of the Kristala Dev blog.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. If you're new 'round these parts, let us help you get properly acquainted.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. Perhaps as a result, Egor is one of the least interesting and less developed characters in the game unfortunately. It would feel terrible. Kind of sad.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Welcome back to the newest issue of the Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation chronicling all the magic and mystery the Astral Clocktower Studios dev team puts into indie ARPG Kristala every development sprint. Last issue, we shared 3D Character Designer Bianca's progress on the model for our Nisargan forest nymph NPC. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

We're officially in the final development crunch for the vertical slice demo of Kristala! In addition to a major NPC that we're currently keeping under wraps until our gameplay trailer is finished, Shelly also started working on the model for our male playable character. How's it going? We hope well. Wait, wait, wait. wanna see it!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

We know it's been a miiinute since we've shared some in-depth development updates from Kristala with you, but we're SUPER STOKED for you to see everything we've been working on since the last time we met. GDC is the game industry's premier professional event, championing game developers and the advancement of their craft. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to our regular jobs and personal lives, we've really been amping up development for Kristala over the past couple weeks (hey, just look at this dev blog issue for proof). Concept Art. 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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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Also, worth listening to my conversation with Pete Seicienski on his “Adventure Games” concept, which is very much related to this Sense of Wonder thing ). It’s the fault of developers for not exploring new kinds of stories, new kinds of worlds, new kinds of mechanics and so on. This isn’t the fault of players.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. So… DikuMUDs started to add scripting systems , which were generally much more limited than the ones on LPMuds, but fit better with the whole “fill out some rows in a form to add content” development model.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Today, Sovereign Moon Studios, the makers of your favorite online game development course , are bringing you a comprehensive tutorial on how to use Godot’s visual scripting tools designed to help game-makers create video games without having to know how to code. Step 5: Visual Scripting Language & Concepts.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Moria’s descendant Angband also included ego items ( over 100 properties), but expanded the concept of randomized items even further by adding the option to activate “Randomly Generated Artifacts,” abbreviated “randarts.” Other types of NPCs can modify or convert other types of items.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A 10-year gaming industry veteran, leading game development teams focused on free-to-play titles across mobile and PC. In the second battle (see second and third screenshot above) they introduce about 5 new concepts to the game, all of which are kind of new for the genre, and the screen gets so chaotic and confusing that it’s hard to follow.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A 10-year gaming industry veteran, leading game development teams focussed on free-to-play titles across mobile and PC. In the second battle (see second and third screenshot above) they introduce about 5 new concepts to the game, all of which are kind of new for the genre, and the screen gets so chaotic and confusing that it’s hard to follow.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Some players may try to guess an NPC's sexual mood based on stereotypes like muscular tops, skinny submissive twink bottoms, etc. Violence is usually the first thing to prototype in an action game, but here it surprised me how much work it took to hack violence into an existing system that had no concept of it. L of semen for each one.

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 30, 2024

With a rich history that includes introducing AI concepts in programming classes as early as the 1990s, RP4K is now seizing the opportunity to delve deeper into the exciting world of AI. State Machines and Behavior Trees: Tools for designing intelligent NPC behaviors and interactions.

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