UpChomp will be released as open source(free!!) in a couple of days, I have made a project page for it in the meantime.

DreamSphere is getting an drastic overhaul. While it will contain the same basic story we are scrapping Maleia as the main character in favor of allowing the player to make their own hero. The game will also receive a multiplayer option and a new skill system where your skills depend on your character’s aligned element(Fire, Wind, Ice, Earth) and equipped weapon. We are excited about the new direction DreamSphere is going but naturally it does mean a significant delay on the release date. Being a game whose development team consist of two people, both with regular jobs, we can’t accurately give a release date anyways, it’ll be available when it’s available!

A lot of work has been going on for DreamSphere over the past few weeks. During the summer I will be dedicating at least 16 hours a week to the game in hopes that a demo will be ready by the end of the summer.

Here are some things that we are currently working on…

• Weapons for both Maleia and Wayne(Prince).
  • Maleia will use staves while Wayne will use other melee oriented weapons.
• New UI for quick switching of abilities/weapons.
• Enemies for the first area(Snow area).
• Level editor

And probably some other stuff too. A friend has also stepped in and begin dedicating much of his time to the game. His name is Renoki and he’s been modeling some of the characters, weapons, and enemies for the game. It’s been really nice having someone focus on design while I have been focusing on programming. He gets a Chompy Gold Star(C.G.S.)… or at least he would if such a thing existed! Anyways next post I hope to show off some of the work he’s done and perhaps post a few screenshots of some of the new mechanics we have in store.

I’ve added quite a few things to the DreamSphere level editor. Here is a list of what it can do now…

• Load/Save Levels
• Delete tiles
• Switch between titles (it auto loads all 3D models in a certain directory to use as tiles)
• Flipping horizontally and vertically

It’s got everything one would need to get started in making a level. However it’s still not so easy to use, I sure wouldn’t feel too comfortable trying to make a large level with this editor. However, what I was able to make in the image above really makes me think that this could work!

It needs to be tested with much much larger levels, since each tile is a separate object loaded into memory, there is no doubt that it’ll probably get memory intensive.

There is something about placing 3D cubes that reminds me of Minecraft. Speaking of which, I’m 2/3rd of the way to making a Minecraft clone! Just need to add another axis and I’m good to go!

I finally decided DreamSphere needed its own website. If only to prove to myself that it’s going to be big. I’m sure it’ll be nice to have once the game is finished and I’m trying to promote it! Check it out here… http://www.dreamspheregame.com