Update 17: New Year, New Milestones
Introduction
It was a busy start to the year for the Monsters & Memories team. We're pleased to announce that we now have six of our nine team members streaming regularly! Nick has started his Design, QA, and Gameplay streams. Ali has been streaming an educational series on “How to Create a Unity Game in 6 Hours,” coinciding with the Global Game Jam.
Alexander, Harrison, and Connor have also been streaming concept, environment, and character art (respectively).
You can find all of the VODs on the Monsters & Memories YouTube channel.
To help keep you up to date with the latest VODs of our development streams, we've created a #videos channel in our Discord server, (which you should totally join here!). Every time a new video is posted to our YouTube channel, it will automatically be posted there. You can also opt in to receive notifications by reacting with the YouTube emoji in our #notifications-setup Discord channel. We have also organized the videos on our channel into playlists, so you can easily find the type of content you are looking for.
New Milestones
As January winded down, we reached a few fun milestones. First, Shawn hosted Nick and Alexander on his stream to reveal the classes of Monsters & Memories, along with Alexander's excellent class lineup concept art, and Nick's early descriptions and design ideas for the classes. You can find that video below:
Another big moment for us was Ali beginning to implement animations for some of our NPCs. For a sneak preview, check out this video:
We also have a first pass for the Bat’s Attack and Death animations, and a special surprise. We’ll share more in some of our next streams!
Next up, Ali plans to get the human character models in-game and playable, along with animations for them and some of our critters (first up likely to be the Rat).
Connor has also has finished up our beetle critters, and got them in the game:
The Results Are In!
We want to thank everybody who signed up for our Mailing List! We hit our goal of 1,000 newsletter subscribers in the New Year. We took this occasion to send out a poll to our readers. We asked, without much information to go off of (deliberately), which Class and Player Race interests you the most? Here are the results:
Now that we’ve revealed some information about our Classes, expect to see a similar reveal about our Player Races. Hamad has been busily working through these with Shawn.
We’re also looking into getting Class and Player Race information on the website, and talking through what that will look like. Stay tuned!
And after we get a ton more information out on Classes and Races, we will poll you again!
Conclusion
As you can see, we have kicked off a fun start for what we hope is a great year! Thank you again for all of your support. We are certainly feeling the love in our streams and elsewhere on the internet. Thanks again!
