The Making of: City of Aerie

I love the new dock area! Very nice. (again, want that for my POT )

 

Awesome, thanks for the update! It's looking more and more filled out. Now just need to fill it with NPCs to make it alive! Also, would like to see the less affluent areas to be less pristine, more junk and stuff in the streets and grass and whatnot.

Regarding the docks, will we see ships sailing in and out of them? Would love to see the dockworkers loading/unloading equipment and moving them about between the shops in the town.

Also, it's said this is a central hub of commerce and trade, but are there any cultural or entertainment buildings, aside from just stalls and shops? I know there's a tavern but anything else?

Will there be enough NPC buildings to house upwards of 100 NPCs that live in Aerie (based on Lum's thread)?

 

I really like the lay out and the Castle, but are all the cities going to be in clap board and brown colors? Are there not going to be any cities with different color schemes? So far all the towns and cities have muted brown, greys, and tons of wood. I had hoped for elegant looking cities, or is Brittany going to be the only festive and grand city?

 

While this is a TOTAL Photo-Hack-Job (and a pretty bad one at that), if you want a glimpse of Aerie all at once, I kind of mashed the two images together.

 

The castle and docks look good, the slums I understand looking pretty dreary, so that's very fitting. With the same npc building assets and the walls used in other cities though, they're just beginning to make any new city look like other ones already in game. It's hard to see the one section as affluent, aside from the castle because of the drab looking npc buildings, stone walkways, walls/fencing, and textures. It looks very similar to Owl's Head with all the same assets used. I appreciate all of your hard work, really I do, you're doing a good job, the assets part isn't your doing, so that part isn't on you I know. Do you know if there are more npc buildings, walls/fencing, stone, textures being worked on for future cities? I too have been looking forward to seeing some really beautiful, vibrant, cities to come online.

 

Yay! New NPC town with a keep lot. *puts on her racing sneakers*

Seriously, though, it looks beautiful! Can't wait to explore it in game.

 

I agree, this looking great. I like the combination of imposing castle on the hill and the docks. Thanks for sharing!

 

Heh. That's actually from a TOTAL photo hack job I sent Steve of an Aerie overhead map assembled from screenshots in the Unity editor.

 

I really love the Aerie scene in-game. It's really nice. It feels a lot like how I was expecting Etceter or Kingsport to be. Aerie, I was envisioning as some what up on cliffs, above the water, aloft in the air, with hills. I'm not sure where I got that vision stuck in my head, other than the obvious connection to 'air' in the name.

Anyhow, this is certainly an enjoyable scene, and I look forward to continued improvement and development of all the scenes as the game progresses in development.

 

Aerie is huge!

Got a chance to explore today (and get lost several times). Really well done, a lot to explore. Looking forward to seeing the polish over time.

 

The ballistas, trebuchets, etc. need to work ! Also the cannons on the ships !

Just like firing the canons on LB's castle on random passerbys.

 

Great question!

 

http://www.sotamap.com/?map_id=224