Video of Sci-Fi Environment
In this video we are revealing examples of the first layer directly below the surface of Apotheosis City. We acquired most of the art assets in this level. The skill and expertise of our environmental art team is shown in the way the pieces are combined – in the lighting, the layout, and the special effects. We’re creating a completely new environment, and this is our first example of a mission map. Our players won’t just do missions inside a standard 20th century warehouse; there is a lot more going on aboard the Justice.
We have also added a few crewmen to the environment. Security guards, scientists, and workmen from the crew are all present. Ambassador and Meltdown take a run through the area, looking for a suspected problem and only find one cyborg. Meeting up with Sword Blossom, they share the results of their investigation.
The largest room we’re showing off is located directly below the Arch. The Arch is huge, and only a part of it is above the surface of Apotheosis City. You’ll also see an example of an engineering control center, along with multiple corridors and rooms that we intend to use both as components of future mission maps, and to build out multiple layers below Apotheosis City as we expand the game.
As always, comments and suggestions are taken on our forums in the Ask the Devs section, at https://www.shipofheroes.com/ where a discussion of this video is already underway.
Summer 2021 Schedule
Our last newsletter talked a bit about the kinds of events we did in 2020, as well as our winter holiday content. In this newsletter we want to talk about the next upcoming event, our overall plans for 2021, and some new areas of Apotheosis City that we’ve created.
Creating a Mission Map in SoH
Hello, everyone! We hope that you’re all happy and full of Thanksgiving goodness. This is part three of a series on how we create missions. You can see the previous parts here and here. We previously covered how the mission design is created when the mission’s story is written. But what happens when the art team gets ahold of that design?
Mission Creation in Ship of Heroes
Our audience loves to play MMORPGs. But most of us only have a very general idea of how they are brought to life. Today we want to explain a little bit about how we create interesting missions in Ship of Heroes, since it’s something we’re focused on at the moment. Other teams and other games can use different processes, but our process is working well for Heroic Games.