Celestian Tales - A Long & Huge Update

Ekuator Games has posted the next long overdue post-funding update for Celestian Tales: Old North. In the words of the developer it's a huge update of text.

A Long and Huge Update

Hello everyone!

We know we're late in updating and we're sorry about this. We'll make it up to you by making this update a big one.

Illustrations: Alternate Costumes Coloured

We made several exclusive updates in the past few weeks, where Vanguard-tier backers have voted for the alternate costumes of each character. After going through sketches and line arts, the six main cast are now coloured and ready to be shown in their other outfits!

Sprites: Exploration

As we finish animating all combat sprites from enemies to bosses to characters, we've moved on to making exploration sprites. There's a huge load of work of animating to be done. Here's a list of some of the general animations we'll have to do:

• Walking in 8 directions for characters
• Running in 8 directions for characters
• Walking in 4 directions for NPCs
• Drawing a weapon in 4 directions
• Walking in 4 directions with weapon drawn
• Kneeling and standing up (probably just one direction)

Other than these, we'll have to do event-specific animations such as falling dead, shouting, charging at an enemy, swinging weapon (and this must not be repetitive), etc.

Do keep in mind that we'll have to do all these times the number of units we have. We've got 6 main characters with 2 outfits each, 14 unique NPCs, 4 backer characters, and about 37 common dudes and dudettes such as nobles, knights, soldiers, townsfolk, villagers, outlaws, and big grey raiders from beyond the sea.

Audio: Vocal Recording

Just yesterday, we started recording vocal sessions in professional studios. We're a bit late on this, due to one of our vocalists, Cecile, is 5-months pregnant. Not only that it's hard to perform abdominal breathing when your uterus is bloating, it may also harm the baby. So please understand.