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. I just had an e-mail about it and saw the video explaining the new stuff that's being added - new Rogue-type class and stuff 
. I wish I had enough money to be able to afford the really big backing-tier thingys in games like this - those are the ones where you get to actually design stuff for the game. It must be so cool to be able to actually come up with ideas for monsters or locations or history or whatever and have them make it into the game!
There was artwork of one of the characters on the update.Hey guys!
Chris here first, just introducing all of our new team members. I also want to quickly nudge in here that we're on time with production and we'll be launching alpha in July and beta a couple of months after! I'll have a more exact date soon. On to the new team members!
Andrew (Coder): He is Arakion's experienced new lead coder. He's working on shoring up all our systems and creating everything we need moving into alpha testing.
"Greetings & such. I'm Andrew. I'm coding the guts of a game I love in a language I love in an engine I love so I'm gonna get right back to that."
Periyanna (Coder): Peri is a great coder who has taken over lead on the card game.
"Hi Guys, I am Prasanna I am working on the card game logic and multiplayer, I love challenges, I love coding , and I am enjoying every bit of it
Nikki (Intern Artist): Currently working on character and pet concept art
Drew (Level Design): Developing ideas, puzzles and layouts for tons of new levels for everyone to enjoy.
"Hello all, I'm Drew, not to be confused with Andrew. I'm working on level design and really pushing myself and the team to create great content. Hoping to stump a few of you with my puzzles."
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Jack's here now for the introduction of a new type of updates: the "flash updates"
We’re striving to write new updates every week to keep you posted, and we hope you enjoyed the last ones.
But long posts are time consuming and we need time to develop the game, so let’s try out this new “revolving” template for quick updates.
Here’s how the revolving method works:
This first time we’re going to post a complete report for every section involved in the development. For future updates we plan to split the updates into sections and post about one section at a time. There are four sections, so we hope to update you monthly about every one of them. They are: Art & Animation, Story & Level Design, Coding & Testing, and Game Design.
Here we go: the first flash update about the Arakion team!
Story & Setting (from Jack):
Creating concepts for the Darkest Night setting
Writing and choosing concepts to implement enemies to be faced in The Darkest Night
Editing and completing the Floating Islands concepts
Editing and completing the Ancients concept
Editing and completing the main antagonist
Designing primary character dialogue structures based on character personalities
Coding (from Maus, Acade, Periyanna and Chris):
Working on the database structure
Creating custom tools needed to develop the game
Developing the network capabilities for card game and Arakion multiplayer
Refining current code within the game
Refining the GUI System
Optimizing the path finding system
Art (Chris, Drew, Audrey and the rest of the art team)
Temple Region
Forest Region
Animation from Mixamo
Multiple prop and character creations
Working towards finalizing the alpha levels
Game Design (Chris)
Restructured the stat system
Gor are no longer a playable race, being replaced with a yet to be released race
Restructured the UI (it is now a diagetic UI)
Structuring DLC and Expansion systems
Fleshing out the final character design systems
We will send you more of these flash updates just to let you know what’s going on.
Any feedback is welcome, you may post your comments here or on the Arakion forum.
See you soon!
Attached is a obligatory image.
. It's been relatively quiet lately, but I think that's 'cause they're so busy working on stuff .