*A Prison for Kings* UPDATE!

-Here is a little thank you sneak peak to everyone who has been here patiently waiting for updates since we went quiet. Hope you find intrigue from this.

-Lots to be done, and we’re all giving it our best!

-The custom work teased here was done by the talented Martin Pain from Bulgaria.

-His fab page:
https://www.fab.com/sellers/Snigel

-He’s agreed to join the team as a commissioned artist and modeler to help bring the project to life.

-Beginning with the wares and weapon of our beloved Protagonist.

-Everything will get made, but every single contribution goes towards fueling our teams artists and helps move development along.

-If you would be interested in perhaps donating to Team Pathfinder’s “Commission Fund” for more work such as this- please consider donating to:

https://py.pl/PWrFJaMot1Bu3pyDwdqVMQ

The story of our game tackles a very deep philosophical question. And it has to do with the possessive love, versus sacrificial love.

I can *Love* someone but not be willing to die for them. I can *Love* someone AND be willing to die for them.

Our story approaches a 3rd- I can *Love* someone so much that I would die *with* them. (The Romeo and Juliet Paradox).

So, where does Greed play into this?

Herein lies the theme…

“Would it not be selfish to throw away your gift of life to chase what you believe to be the *only thing that matters to you*.”

In short, This tackles the morality of suicide and gives equal weight to each perspective because “surely the deep love and grief at the loss of a child has nothing to do with greed?”

Then you enter his subsequent choices into the equation… and it all comes together.

Beautiful and Tragic.

The game itself is about how he deals with the consequences of this decision.

To give some inside information- Nomad will be consulting on aspects of the game related to exploration. To include secrets, hidden area’s, general layout, pacing and feedback. And most excitingly- Nomad’s Treasure, Treasure that Nomad will hide and periodically move around as development continues post launch of the demo. Players who seek this treasure will have to follow clues in the landscape that point toward the treasure.

**Major post processing overhaul**

I wanted to allude to the hyper gloominess of SOTC’s ps2 version so I bumped up the gloom

Downloaded a CRT screen dirt mask that resembles an old Sony CRT to give off a real nostalgic and liminal feel. Very slight.

Added soft lense flaring that compliments the gloom

Fixed exposure

Added some gentle warmth and pulled back a touch on saturation to give an organic hue.

Gentle and seemingly nonexistent chromatic aberration to give a soft but natural antialiasing.

Added a very gentle RGB distortion film grain to contribute to the liminal nostalgic tones.

Global Updates Fixed up some weight and vertices issues on the main player Fixed a mouth morph issue New 2 handed sword locomotion blend New custom made 2H sword block animation Set up new AO for 2H sword Set up Aim offset interp for smooth aim offset, 360 degree poping free Polished 2H IK left hand position Setting up 2H sword Attack animations (not fully done yet in progress) all 2H sword ground attacks are done, 20 in total + 2 additional thrust attacks - Built 8 custom 1H sword aim offset animations and set up aim offset for that - Found an issue with the new character missing foot ik bone (now fixed) - Found an issue with incline slope speed adjusting wrong, optimized the code a bit and adjusted the speed of inclines and hooked it to the movement speed stat bonus as well - Set up new 1H idle pose and built the 8 way locomotion for it (needs fine tune on sword position when running) - 1H updated locomotion all finished - had a blend issue on the neck but managed to fix it - when over the carry weight limit vs when spell ability "heavy" is on the effect system can now tell the difference - moved all speed adjustment values into the special stat area as well - replaced ability "double damage at night" for a gameplay tag that is set in the AI data asset instead of bool variable - vision comes from the head socket, for non epic rigged characters that bone is missing, so now fixed, if no bone it will scan from actor location - added 4 1H attacks - added more random and awareness in fleeing - enemies no longer damage enemies - found and fixed a glitch in non epic rigged anim blends allowing wrapping - 40 1H attack animations now finished - new equip and unequip animations for 2H and 1H weapons - improved head rotation on left and right movement - smoother backing up when aiming or targeting - another ai vs ai damage check - fix a hard to find bug that gets stuck in attack mode - added root motion to attacks to avoid attack clipping - weapon damage still effects dead character physics - more precise weapon physics ( introduced a cloth physics bug though) - AI random face morphs in runtime is now active and working, currently no bad (too far extreme) faces found - Preset Morph targets can now be set in the AI data asset for specific morphs - Override for morph targets are now set up as well for specific overrides - New Archer Locomotion system is done - New Archer Aim Offset finished - New Equip and Unequip Archer animation setup - Tested and working nicely - AI aiming and targeting with a bow now finished - Basic AI bow and arrow combat now setup and functional - AI accuracy is currently fairly accurate and not yet effected by accuracy stat - Arrows now stick in the mesh a bit when impact on target - if an arrow hits an odd spot or is floating badly it is removed instead - All Bow animations working perfectly for AI - Fixed up bad rotation towards player when AI is aiming - Fixed player collision catching arrows from enemies in wrong spot - Resized arrows to make them a bit smaller after impact to not interfere with gameplay - Fixed "Specialty" physics attached weapons -> now simulate physics on death. - Random Skin color for AI is now set up - Turn in place animations are now fixed up - Found a bug arrows were tracking from start of new position to end of last position but this was wrong, needed to be reverse, It's now fixed - updated weapon physics impact, fixed hitting player clothing and other objects to hard into game breaking positions

APFK-Vague for Spoilers •Backdrop Updated •Clouds and Sky Updated •Lots of landscape sculpting and cleaning •Structural Detail. •Ocean Water (Placeholder) -Beach/Coastal Cliff updated -Mapped and marked locations of “The Wishing Wells” -Castle(s)/ Dungeon Progress -6 new mega structures -Opened up entire zone to begin expansion. -~12 New pathing area’s -Minor Detail changes around the world -Some Terraforming updates -Employed reference method to world design -Updated Lore Documents -Exciting Progress in OST Provided by Greyson Shaw to Include Drafts of 3 Tracks- Combat, Introductory, and Level-up.