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OFFICIAL PREVIEW: GUI Edition!
This official preview is to show you the new art for Adventures of Soros. I'm very excited about the way things are going at the moment; a lot of progress has been made on programming, building a full GUI user interface instead of the console previously used. That doesn't mean AoS is losing its classical text-based feel though; your gameplay will still be text-based, but with accompanying illustrations and a much better console to hugely improve the feel of the game world.
In gameplay, few new features have been added though a fully functioning load/save game setup will hopefully greatly help as players want to continue working on their games. I'm hoping to add more enemies, at least one new quest, and hopefully a special new skillset before the next release. There'll probably be relatively little change in areas you can get to, because of the next and biggest announcement...
...which is the addition of an artist, doubling the team size to two! I'm very excited to be working with Claudia Starke (Rotegruetze) on getting the whole world of Soros illustrated! She's already managed to get about 20% of the way through my rather long list of game locations, and more stunning work keeps dropping into my email inbox every few days (which has certainly been something to look forward to alongside my mountains of university work)! As you can see from the images below, her sketches are giving a much more detailed and in-depth feel to the world of Soros, and are generally bringing my rather scatterbrained thoughts to life.
FEATURES
(This is an in progress list; these features are all currently included, but more will be added before release)
- Several unique quest lines
- Three main classes: Fighter, Wizard, and Priest
- Fully working load/save feature
- Many different weapons to use and enemies to fight against
- Full GUI with text-based input screen and accompanying area pictures
Hope you enjoyed this preview - do comment, share it around, and discuss what else you'd like to see in the upcoming edition!