Development Info Lords of Xulima: New Screenshots + Greenlight Entry

[Crooked Bee]

Tags: Lords of Xulima

Independent Spanish studio Numantian Games has released some new screenshots for its party- and turn-based RPG Lords of Xulima -- you know, the one that has isometric exploration and first-person combat, which caused some debate when we last posted about it.

According to the press release, "the development process of Lords of Xulima continues with the publication of 12 new screenshots. The production team has selected these images to show some of the rich diversity of places and creatures that can be found on the mythical continent of Xulima." Check out some of them:

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The rest of the new screenshots can be found here.

You can also help Lords of Xulima by upvoting its Steam Greenlight entry.

 

[felipepepe]

That art style is so weird/bad that in the end it looks good.

Anyway, goo luck to them, already upvoted them.

 

[Irenaeus]

Looking good. Also upvoted them. +

 

[evdk]

That art style is so weird/bad that in the end it looks good.

Anyway, goo luck to them, already upvoted them.

It's charmingly kitschy. Let us blob away!

 

[Micmu]

I like the art style. Village on 4th screenshot looks neat.
Also that treant looks cool with its rape face on.

 

[Zed]

looks charming but the stretched portraits in combat looks fugly.

 

[Broseph]

It's not really the color palette itself that bothers me but the excessive bloom going on.

 

[gromit]

Isometric roaming shifts to first-person tactical combat? That seems a little backwards.

edit:

you know, the one that has isometric exploration and first-person combat, which caused some debate when we last posted about it.

Oh. No. No I did not.

 

[Irenaeus]

Isometric roaming shifts to first-person tactical combat? That seems a little backwards.

It's the opposite of RoA, for instance.

 

[InspectorRumpole]

Combat looks a bit like a jRPG... and the bloom! It does have a certain charm though.

 

[gromit]

It's the opposite of RoA, for instance.

I'd rather not get into the "this game this, that game that" from the other thread... it's backwards from a raw design standpoint. Why have isometric projection if you're not going to take advantage of positioning? Why have first-person if you aren't going to make use of perspective and scale?

Best I can figure, it's simply to stretch the art and design budgets out, which is understandable. But it's also assets dictating mechanics, which always makes me cranky.

 

[Cosmic Misogynerd]

Upvoted. It looks strangely intriguing. o_O

 

[ghostdog]

Looks nice. They should fix the crappy stretching of the avatars in the "who's next" column.

Voted.

 

[GlutenBurger]

Isometric roaming shifts to first-person tactical combat? That seems a little backwards.

I was going to dispute this, then I considered that it's pretty much what Final Fantasy and Pokemon do (Final Fantasy may not shift to first person, but the combat system functions as though it did). Now I don't know what to think. I kind of enjoy decadently dabbling in Pokemon, but wouldn't call it a shining example of RPG design.

I guess you could say that the effect for the player in both cases is efficiency, however. You can get through combat more cleanly when you don't have to worry so much about positioning, and exploration is easier when points of interest in the general vicinity are layed out for immediate viewing. That may have influenced the design decision. This was probably already mentioned in the aforementioned prior debate.

 

[suejak]

The art style reminds me of Windows 95 games with pre-rendered low-poly 3D. I never liked that era, but it's kinda cute.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

Well this looks... different.

I like turn based blobbers though.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

The art style reminds me of Windows 95 games with pre-rendered low-poly 3D. I never liked that era, but it's kinda cute.

Exactly, it looks really bad.

 

[Kron]

Kill it with fire.
Games like these with such bad art direction hurt the genre.

 

[Shaewaroz]

I dunno, to me it looks interesting.

 

[MicoSelva]

Upvoted, because why not.
The art style certainly is non-standard, which is good (?).

 

[thesheeep]

Seems interesting, guess I'll give it a try, as soon as I can.

It would be awesome if the environment in combat was not pre-rendered, but "normal" 3D and react to spells and other conditions (like trees starting to burn when fire is involved or bend when wind is involved, etc.). That would make it more appealing to the inner graphics whore, but I guess it would not be in budget

The stretched portraits are bullshit, of course, but the rest I'd have to see in action.

 

[Psquit]

The game feels like a generic Medieval fantasy game

Trailer helps to get a better view of the game.


More old school rpgs dont hurt no one.

 

[Luzur]

reminds me of DragonQuest for NES.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

Looks interesting, but I don't think that I ever saw such derpy looking monsters. At least not since mid-nineties.

 

[A user named cat]

"Alright guys, we need twelve screenshots to help promote our game. Make sure to include one that shows off our English text!"