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How to Train your Human: Skills and Disciplines
Human progression is handled through our skill system. There are currently twenty-four skills across four categories; combat, crafting, gathering, and survival. As you probably guessed, the combat skills deal with vario…
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Made from Scratch: Crafting and Construction
Unlike the raknar and dragons, humans start the game without any weapons or armor. Using resources they gather from the terrain and plants, they can craft various tools, items, and equipment that they will need to survi…
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Combat is a Balancing Act
When it comes to combat in Trials of Ascension: Exile, we’ve aimed for a realistic feel and pacing, so that most fights will not end within just a few seconds. We do not have hit-chance, auto-attack, or auto-avoidance v…
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Making Death Matter; Why we offer perma-death
Death is is a fairly common feature in video games. It is ubiquitous in RPGs, adventure games, tabletop games, MMOs, fighting games, shooters; it’s the universal punishment for failing to keep your character’s life abov…
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Designing Conflict and Competition
Many games offer campaign stories or quest lines to immerse the player and help them to feel connected to the game world, but the result is that every player experiences the game in nearly the same way. The really good…
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Less is More: How Removing Elements Adds to the Game
At first glance, some people might think that our game is missing several features that players have come to expect in modern video games. As standard as these elements are, we believe that leaving them out actually add…
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Build 0.9b2 - A Hot Fix, And More...
Hey Everyone! We've noticed an issue where young and juvenile dragons couldn't interact with anything. We consider that a game breaker for dragons so we've put out a hot fix. We're piggy-backing a few extra tidbits into…
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Welcome to the Lost Isle: Flora, Fauna, Terrain, and Weather
Whether you play as a shipwrecked human fleeing from the mainland invasion, a exploratory raknar separated from the Hive, or a newly hatched dragon struggling to survive, your story will unfold on the first of our islan…
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