More Towns! More Dungeons! More Buuuuuugs! | Circle of Orion - Devlog #7

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Development continues on Circle of Orion, my turn-based JRPG made in Unreal Engine 5. With a slower progress this past month, I decided to show off some new locations and a few more battle system changes.
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[@MonTamerGame]

Thank you so much for the shout out❗🙏 I really appreciate it!

[@CaiusNelson]

Absolutely! Best of luck with your game. Hope to get a chance to play it when it's done!

[@MonTamerGame]

@@CaiusNelson Thank you very much and best of luck to you too! And of course, I would be glad!🙏

[@sethoz22]

Looks awesome. Didn't know about that Townscaper tool. Awesome.

[@coreymatthews5210]

So far its looking really awesome! That brick dungeon is giving Dragon Quest 11 vibes.

[@CaiusNelson]

DQ11 is one of the main inspirations, so that makes me happy to hear!

[@ElickFlash]

This is looking amazing! It motivates me to make my games as well, also love that fact you shout out other devLogs. I'm not one with Turn base RPGS, but honestly would love to give that a go when it's out!

[@MichoSchmidt]

Awesome progress here! Keep going! :) like the graphics!

[@ai._.i]

The Chapter 3 cave map looks very good, keep up the good work!

[@voidbinary]

Love to watch some devlogs. Great work so far. Here some thoughts that might help with level design. So f.e on the path in the forest, there could be fallen down trees with some moss on it and adding bushes to fill in empty spaces rather than just leave it at terrain. That would add some details to it and also make it a not too straight forward path. In regards of the second big city part where you struggled. I think you can make it work, it may just need some more details. The big circle place with the fountain could have a patterned floor like a plaza. The long street could be a marketplace so stores or even guilds on the left and right with signs, around the water parts there could be rectangle flower pots, place some resources so it shows some references to what a store does. On the backside of the stores there could be a balcony or platform to emphasize on the view. The part of the cave dungeon with vines on wall, I would place more vines than just one to make use of that broad width of the wall and just have one long vine so the player can identify that's the part to climb, I assume. I see you added a waterfall in the cave in which you can see the outside through, give that detail by adding light coming into the cave in that area. The bridge in the cave could have some torches, I think the citizens of the city would build a bridge in a cave with light. The cave itself is lighten up yet there are no light sources for it so maybe that is something you would like to add. Just some thoughts I wanted to share. Keep up the great work!

[@amuro9624]

I got into game dev because I was tired of seeing devs giving up on turn based combat so I'm really happy to see there's more people like me who go out of their way to make their own turn based rpg. I don't do devlogs cause I don't have enough free time and I'm way too introverted to start a youtube career but I have some videos of the game I'm working on on my channel if you're interested.

[@peakakupo]

really amazing seeing the quality of your work. I enjoyed this dev log. Something that you mentioned regarding the tactical point system you are unsure off. I was thinking maybe that should be similar to the trace system of FF9. Since your game is based on the effect of elements, you can have it where if the meter fills up the character gets a boots on his elemental damage attack for 2 or 3 turns. That way the system becomes a great asset for boss battles or tight situations.

[@CaiusNelson]

Thanks. Yeah, that is a neat idea.

[@VEOdev]

The game looks good , great work so far, but one feedback I would give you is keep in mind game performance when making those big levels with a log of grass and stones, you may not notice it if you have a powerful developer PC but most of people does not, if the game have bad performance it will push back a lot of potential audiences, keeping performance optimization to the end will result to refactoring a lot of levels that you already spend a lot of time on theme and will make you trade a lot of visuals for the performance.

[@Phyllion-]

Catching up so forgive me if I'm commenting on an issue you potentially solved since then. But, regarding zone scales, I think it might make your life easier if you dropped an actor mesh in your map and then move it every time you make a new "room" to give you a scale reference so that you don't go too big. That aside, looks really neat! Keep up the good work :D

[@justlearning1881]

congrats on the world design, im also a developer,

[@Tbjbu2]

very cool keep it up

[@abhijitleihaorambam3763]

I think making the character a little big bigger will be perfect.

[@Fuddel93]

I'm currently also working on a project where i would need an overview level and some detailed location levels. May i ask how you build the overview one? Did you just scaled the texture UVs in the materials and also the assets (Trees, bushes and so on) down? Great video and project🔥

[@CaiusNelson]

If by overview you mean overworld, yeah that's more or less what I did. Static meshes just got scaled down.

[@ManuelJimenez-bm1wi]

This was awesome and inspiring! I hope you keep releasing these devlogs. Is the character actor and white dotted actors where you transition levels a certain tool or is that just what works for you visually? I like it.

[@CaiusNelson]

Thanks very much! The character mesh is in the editor only, as a way of indicating where the player will spawn. The dots are visible in-game, as they are an indicator that you are about to leave that area.

[@Cooo_oooper]

The second City map looks alot like Anor Londo (Dark Souls) or Leyndell (Elden Ring)

[@jasonbondarchuk5361]

I've been playing a lot of sons of the forest and I noticed that the game was really empty. Even though having a nice open world map with lots to see is cool, if there isn't enough varied gameplay and rewards it can feel boring. Btw I love the modular dungeon ideas you have. Did you model it all yourself?

[@alexandrepv]

I love the backgroudn art style and how everything just feels coherent. Did you make/paint the background elements yourself?

[@CaiusNelson]

Not quite. Essentially everything in the environments is from the marketplace, though I've heavily customized many of the shaders and textures, as well as edited some of the meshes.

[@alexandrepv]

@@CaiusNelson I see, very well done indeed :) I would be great if you could go into more detail on how you did it. Or maybe you already did in a previous video, I need to watch hehe. Thanks again, and keep it up mate!

[@audioLME]

Do you have a twitch channel ? do you stream or something ? would love to follow the journey

[@joshua42777]

*wishlisted*

[@gegi4577]

3:16 what's this music? please tell the name

[@nymestudios]

Hey by any chance do you need a graphics designer to hop on board for side designs or even regular GUI hud designs? i would gladly do it for free if you want to go further with talking about it we can dm about it? hopefully i could have a chance to chat with you about it sometime! keep up the good work the game looks great so far!

[@nymestudios]

@Escape The Matrix you're capitalizing way to much on the Andrew Tate aspect makes it feel... like its false advertisement. if you want i could make a game art for the front page that might draw people to what you're actually making?

[@nymestudios]

@Escape The Matrix yeah as to what respect would you like me too or not?

[@TheRexion]

You might need a microphone arm or something. You go from really loud to completely inaudible very frequently. I couldn’t hear half of what you said because your position in front of the mic changed too often, from the sound of it.

[@shekir2008]

IS THE GAME OPEN WORLD?

[@Tbjbu2]

Caius this matrix guy is advertising in ur comments. check the replies.

[@CaiusNelson]

Seen him. Thanks for the heads up.

[@HTFGamesStudio]

In my opinion footsteps are too loud.

[@chaver28]

does you discord have a section for devs to help eachother?? also keep up the logs dude they are super enjoyable and interesting to watch

[@CaiusNelson]

Yup. There's a section where you can show off your work and projects.

[@PranjayMittal]

Yoo! In 2021 my friend made a server and we divided into teams. My team was called the circle of orion. That's crazy bro

[@PranjayMittal]

Then we renamed it to articus or some stupid shit 😂

[@PranjayMittal]

@Escape The Matrix send a link and ill check it out