The Elderin Stone

[youngneil1]

Feeling bad here that I still did not find the time to play further . Sorry for that. On a brighter note, once I will do so, I can use the most refined version, so I can experience the adventure in its best shape, hehe . Really looking forward to it !

[Pongo]

[slowdive]

Looking forward to the update and I'll make the changes to the ibmini version. I remember seeing the exploding zombie issue. I'll try and see if I can figure it out.

[youngneil1]

Thank you, Phil - glad to see you going strong there. And hey, and it feels reassuring/comforting that I am not the only one with an IB fried brain here .

Will look at the zombie issue, too, later. For now, placing it on the bugs list...

[Pongo]

Cool, thanks both. I'll upload the "fixed" version tomorrow evening, with all the convos working.

After that, I need to start on a new project.... but where to go now? The options are to start fleshing out Blackwinter again; to take another of the smaller dungeon areas from Blackwinter and develop it into a standalone, similar to how I did the Elderin Stone (possibly a mountain adventure this time...); or to go back to the sci-fi module I began working on a couple of years back.

At the minute, I'm leaning towards sci-fi. Some of the upcoming changes to the engine (eg with regard to permanent traits etc) will really open up opportunities here, but the main thing that held it back last time was the lack of ammo. Having powerful guns with infinite ammo just didn't work. Of course, ammo is now sorted, and it would be a hell of a lot of fun balancing a module with powerful side arms and less powerful but more reliable melee weapons.

Whatever the setting, I think the next module will be back to a single player character (with recruitable followers) format. I really enjoy the flexibility and challenge from full party creation in modules (and it saves a lot of time not having to add in optional party convos with followers!), but they can be helpful for explaining lore and factions and adding atmosphere.

I'll have a think about it over the next couple of weeks (whilst taking my dwarf party through Hearkenwold!) and work out what I'm actually doing...!

[youngneil1]

Very inspiring to read . I feel the adventure build urge big time, too, but the circle has to be drawn fully first. Tie those loose ends with engine and toolset.

As my own scifi project stalled it would be especially cool to see you doing a scifi adventure. Would prove IBs flexibility big time and also very likely help us find new bugs and discover new exciting features to implement .

[Pongo]

I just uploaded the new version to the Vault.

Incidentally, Slowdive, on your let's play you were wondering where the module's art came from - I made all of the background tiles (walls, grass, rivers etc - which was fun) and the character portraits (which took far longer than I expected), but not the character tokens (which are FRUA). I'm happy for any of my stuff to be reused in other people's modules if anyone would find it helpful.

[slowdive]

Those tiles are awesome! Great work. I'll include them in the default tiles folder for ibmini and they all have a prefix of"t_es_" so builders will know they came from The Elderin Stone module. The new filter buttons in the map editors makes it very easy to show only these tiles while working on Elderin edits. I'll get started with adding the new TES version changes to the ibmini version.

My goal is to have The Elderin Stone, Hearkenwold, and Lanterna ready to go when posting the initial release of ibmini on Google Play.

[Dorateen]

Nice work, Pongo. Look forward to future updates about your next project.

I also liked the floor tiles in Elderin Stone. Made each dungeon level feel unique, oozing with atmosphere.

[Pongo]

Thanks! Hopefully the tiles will get some use in other people's adventures.

I've just immediately uploaded a new version with a couple of spell duration fixes I meant to add in (originally some of them were in turns rather than game seconds!).