KickStarter TaleSpire - Digital Role-playing System

[Dyskolos]

This just looks better and better. It's like what I've always wanted as a followup to FRUA but with so much more charm to everything.

 

[Jonny Ree]

Thanks Dyskolos! I was not aware of FRUA, so thanks for drawing my attention to it. that looks pretty awesome!

 

[Jonny Ree]

I was in the mood for some non-code related tasks. So did a random LP cover and started the tavern tileset:

Paintover sketch:

Mockup:

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Goddamn.

 

[Dorateen]

"I'm going to have to ask you to leave your spear by the door, Mr. Skeleton, before I can serve you."

 

[Jonny Ree]

Yeah. He had the poor skeleton removed unfortunately. He was unwilling to part with his spear.

 

[Durwyn]

Where do I send money to fund additional option for virtual "hand-painting" mode of models and tiles ?

 

[Jonny Ree]

Durwyn: Oh wow. I didn't consider that being a thing.. Now my brain is spinning on how that could be achieved. Shoot. I'll be putting that on my wishlist as well. Although it is a LONG list :-/

TAVERN SET​

Here are some more final shots from the tavern set. I created a new painting filter for Substance Painter which is much like my old one, but now can pick up underlying layers and work on that. which is great. I will post progress as well as go through some of the Substance Designer.

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PS: Also added a newsletter signup at: http://talespire.com

 

[Rhuantavan]

Here are some more final shots from the tavern set...

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Maaan this looks so yummy!

 

[ERYFKRAD]

You know who oughta look at this, nealiios that's who.

I miss the dude.

 

[Rhuantavan]

You know who oughta look at this, nealiios that's who.

I miss the dude.

There there...

 

[nealiios]

You just call on my name, and you know wherever I am... (Suddenly everybody is posting to me all over the Codex today. Did I die? )

I like the screen shots. Look very nice. Reminds me of good ole Baldur's Gate. Warm and fuzzy feelings.

 

[Jonny Ree]

Maaan this looks so yummy!

Thank you!

I like the screen shots. Look very nice. Reminds me of good ole Baldur's Gate. Warm and fuzzy feelings.

That's a pretty nice place to be. Thank you very much!


Final tavern related shot for a while. Showing the power of stacking tiles.

We were also taken a bit by surprise with PCGamer wanting to de a really short write up on TaleSpire: http://www.pcgamer.com/upcoming-pc-games/
I guess we'll have to start taking this thing seriously now

 

[vonAchdorf]

The look's just perfect.

 

[Ninjerk]

I can feel the plastic.

 

[Zep Zepo]

Looking at all the screens...no over and under? Vertical space is infinitely high? (as far as characters go). Only one character or floor per vertical space?

Zep--

 

[Jonny Ree]

vonAchdorf: Thanks!

Ninjerk: Awesome!

Looking at all the screens...no over and under? Vertical space is infinitely high? (as far as characters go). Only one character or floor per vertical space?

Currently it is a 2D map. Meaning there is no true concept of vertical space other than, visual (where on the z-axis the character will drop), and the possibility to calculate difference in height if needed. I have been thinking of ways to make true vertical special awareness.. The problem so far has been how not to become cumbersome to build and to move around in. So a design question basically.
To summarize: Only one character per tile regardless of height.

 

[Zep Zepo]

Is there a demo or alpha/beta signup?

Zep--

 

[Jonny Ree]

Is there a demo or alpha/beta signup?

Zep--

We do have the newsletter signup at: http://talespire.com/ We'll be using that to inform everyone when something that can be tested will be available, among some other things.

 

[Zep Zepo]

Is there a demo or alpha/beta signup?

Zep--

We do have the newsletter signup at: http://talespire.com/ We'll be using that to inform everyone when something that can be tested will be available, among some other things.

Yup. Signed up when you posted about it.

Zep--

 

[Jonny Ree]

Is there a demo or alpha/beta signup?

Zep--

We do have the newsletter signup at: http://talespire.com/ We'll be using that to inform everyone when something that can be tested will be available, among some other things.

Yup. Signed up when you posted about it.

Zep--

Awesome! I'll also put out a call here as well

 

[Jonny Ree]

okay, set up a patreon. I'm gonna give you tenbucks a month for this.

Thanks for that! Very much appreciate your willingness to throw money our way. Maybe patreon could be a way to fund this project eventually, especially once we're primarily dealing with asset creation. Might be a good way to get people engaged. I feel it might be a bit early for that though, as we don't have too much to offer people who do decide to become our patrons on a regular basis quite yet. Maybe that is something we can do once we start testing the game.
Thanks again though! that is pretty awesome

 

[SmartCheetah]

This is actually pretty cool idea, I must say! Setting up patreon to fund additional assets/settings/rulesets/tools after you guys have a strong base already done. I'd get on the paying wagon as well!

 

[AbounI]

Geez, what a project!!! Instant newsletter signed.

Now, perhaps it's too early to ask, but, what rulesetting will it be? Looks like a typical DD, but the Dark Eye one could also work fine too, unless you choose to build up your own ruleset from scratch?

 

[Jonny Ree]

Thanks again guys! We're still working on figuring out how systems should work. So no clear word on that. We've experimented with our own and some 5th ED stuff so far. I'll definitely check out Dark Eye and Dungeon Crawl Classic! Thanks for that.

I recently rewrote the level serialization system to make it support saving and loading multiple types of BoardAssets. (Tiles, Characters, tokens, etc)
This was required to do the next thing which is Fog of War. here is a small preview: