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Over 200 years ago a war was waged against the floating city of Avalon lead by the demonic overlord Vylenkine. A powerful mage stood up against his evil forces and cast a spell that would seal the portals to the demonic realms forever. Except... there was a problem. The city froze and crashed and along with it all the citizens of Avalon including the love of his life, Avia. For hundreds of years he has been seeking a way to free Avia from the spell that he himself cast with little success. That is until you came... Tears of Avia combines turn based tactical game play with a diverse set of abilities coupled with a dynamic story system that reflects not only the decisions that you make but also the attitudes of the party you travel with.

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This time we look at some of the user interface and the direction we're taking our story system.

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This week we've been busy working up our UI. We wanted to have a very painterly, handcrafted feel to the UI in our game to compliment the art in the game world itself. Thusfar the user interface has been functional, but not aesthetically pleasing as we liked. We also didn't want to go too wild, we wanted something that looked painterly but also readable and clear.

Here's some screenshots to show the direction we've been moving in

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This is the skill upgrade screen, here you can spend skill points to improve character abilities.

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In-game HUD. We've only got 5 skills equipped here, but you can have a total of 8. Five are from your class and three are from your weapon. We limited the amount of skills we have in the prototype so that we don't overwhelm players when we take it to EGX next month.

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Some inventory management shenanigans. Players can equip different weapons to their characters, which can have different skills attached to them.

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In Tears of Avia, conversation is presented in a Tachi-e style. Every character have different dispositions towards one another, the conversations you have reflect this. Some attitudes characters have towards one another include friendship, jealousy, frustration, fear, annoyance, admiration, pity, doubt, hatred, love, respect (and a whole load of shades in between).

The party you bring along can be really harmonious, or they might seethe with poisonous hatred and jealousy. The conversations you have lead you down sub-arcs and are unique to who you play with. Play the game with a different party composition, you'll probably have a different experience.

Also, in-battle conversations have a different twist in that they react depending on who is still alive. Complete a level with a full party, you'll probably have a conversation where the entire party reflect on the battle they just had. But if your party nearly wipes and you're left with one person alive, they'll instead have a monologue about how rough the experience was.

We're hoping that people are able to experience the game a few times over and get a different experience each time.

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asdertxx
asdertxx

Beautiful

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manhnd92133
manhnd92133

The character is so cute

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Koobazaur
Koobazaur

Oooh I like the visual style, even tho I normally scoff at "yet another animu jrpg." Not many that actually pull it off in 3D!

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