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[sjm9876]

Procedural generation might be a good later addition, but the core game is probably more important.

It might be interesting to have a few terrain options though, from forest to tundra and the like, which i imagine would alter gameplay strategies significantly.

[Araph]

Warden is no longer in development. It's not going on Kickstarter. There are too many deep-seated problems with it, both code-wise and mechanically. It's technically salvageable, but I'd prefer to reflect on what I've learned throughout the game's life and try to apply that to a future project. For now, though, I'm going to get ready for college and decompress after a year of focusing on one project.

Thank you, to all of you awesome folks who sat through testing! I hope you had a good time, and I wouldn't have been able to get this far without your feedback and suggestions. You're all awesome.

The last working version of the game is still available, though it's been moved from my Google Drive to Warden's website. It has a revamped Specter, which was at least an improvement despite the bugs and UI problems.

[UristMcDwarf]

What will be your next project?

[Fikes]

That is too bad. It seemed to be fairly popular. Good luck on college and your next project.

[GentlemanRaptor]

That is a shame. Good luck with whatever comes next!

[BadLemonsXI]

That's it use what you learnt in future projects and It was fun testing the game with you guys. Good luck with college and your next project.

[Aseaheru]

Ahwell, it was fun.

Perhaps the next game you make will be warden MK2?

[Parsely]

What will be your next project?

[Araph]

Good luck on college and your next project.

Good luck with whatever comes next!

Good luck with college and your next project.

Thanks!

What will be your next project?

Way back when, before I began working on Warden, there was a game I wanted to make about wizards fighting. The early version was total crap, but it was FUN crap (the best strategy was to spam fireballs until either the other person died or your computer crashed from all the particles).

I think I might take another crack at it some time in the near future.

More descriptively, you built a deck of 'cards' (in-game they were renamed 'runes' or 'glyphs' or what have you for each class) and could use them to cast spells (i.e. one card = a specific spell, different for each class). You only had a certain number of cards throughout the game, though, so if you ran out you would have to rely on physical methods (melee fighting, parkouring away, dying horribly) to get by. All this took place in a TF2-style multiplayer environment, with a map of limited size and different objectives for different game modes.

Or at least, that would have happened if I had gotten past the 'spam fireballs' stage of gameplay.

I've begun writing up design docs so that I actually have a concrete plan when I start working on it, but actually making the game won't start for some time. Right now I'm focusing on my web programming job so I'll be able to purchase a better drawing tablet in the near future, after which I want to work on artistic stuff (specifically, drawing and animating). I guess what I'm saying is don't expect anything too soon.

[My Name is Immaterial]

You're bringing back Duel?

* My Name is Immaterial squees.

[Araph]

Warden is officially resuming development! I know that's contradictory to everything I posted earlier, but oh well. Two months of semi-idleness changed my mind.

The To-Do List:
First off: rewriting some of the network code to A) make the server be authoritative, and B) transition some stuff away from RPC calls to network serialization. This will make players move more smoothly across clients, eliminate the problem of players being launched into the air when they run into other players, and significantly reduce the game's bandwidth usage.

Second: A couple rounds of testing, bugfixing, and polishing to gradually improve the game. Nothing earth-shattering here.

Third: While working on the second item in the list, I'll start work on a level editor. What this means is that people will be able to create custom maps and share them with friends to hopefully make the game a little more replayable. There will be a few limitations (mostly just slightly reduced performance on custom maps), but I'll do my best to sort through those as they come up.

[flame99]

Yessss!
And I might actually get to play in a few rounds this time too.

[BadLemonsXI]

Nice its back. But the TS that we used last time isn't a 24/7 anymore so we'll have to get on to n9103 about time's to have it up for testing.

[Araph]

I'm back from Thanksgiving break, and I've gotten the player movement networking all rehashed to actually work like it's supposed to. Players should randomly speed up and clip ahead less now, and you (probably) won't go flying up into the air if you walk into somebody.

As I start working on a level editor, would anybody like to try playing the game as it is currently? I don't remember whether or not the revamped Specter was in the game last time we played, so that's something (although both it and the Prop Hunt monster already need to be revamped again, now that I look back over them. I'll get to that eventually).

If the Bay12 TS isn't up, I'll set up a TS or Mumble server or something for the game.

[Aseaheru]

The TS is alive (sorta) again...