Good day, Forgers,

It’s a brand new month and we’re excited to be moving forward with our best! A lot has happened, what with the team finishing Ludum Dare last week, and more people coming to help make AetherForged truly incredible. We have had a new face join the team, with Beardie & Lhin coming on as new team members. Beardie, along with the rest of the lore team, have been in the shadows, moving all the lore onto the blog so it’s easier for you fine folks to be able to read about it.

This week, much of the work has surrounded a couple of releases slated for May which we can’t quite show off yet. The momentum we have, we want to definitely carry over to the next few months so we can get into our pre-alpha. Assets are flooding in, however, including the exploding salt that Justus was working on a couple of weeks ago. When you last hit a minion, you should feel really good that you’re spreading salt all over the place.

In addition, the flames have been lit, and we now have a fiery particle for use in-game when we need fire!

Before we move onto programming, in the meanwhile, one of our concept artists, apidooda, has mocked up an alternate version of Sil that looks pretty nice. As Sil’s skill icons are being mocked up, this was worked on!

For programming, quite a bit of back-end work was done. For a while, Mox and Gigi were having a couple issues connecting to the server to test something, but when all was said and done, the coroutine was set up. More importantly, however, some of our menus work now! Rejoice, for now you can, indeed, choose potato settings for AetherForged and change how loud the music is! The team shaders have also been implemented by nardandas and key-bindings now work in-game as well. All in all, much progress has been made towards something resembling a MOBA.

Finally, SaxPanther has been working hard on making our map look more lively, and while he isn’t done, he’s got a lot of progress…

As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to reach out on reddit, Twitter, or even our Discord,

Cheers,

HeroicTechnology