February 2022 Development Update

March 2, 2022

And we’re back with another development update! Despite being the shortest month of the year, February has been a busy month at Wyrdren. At the beginning of the month we added another member to the team, Brett, who is a programmer. Brett has been so amazing so far and has been invaluable in helping to improve and fine-tune Spellbound: TMW. Some of the things he’s been working on include Universal Pipeline Rendering (UPR), which means we can now edit the lighting inside of the scene making it look like morning, noon, and night, etc. This gives the scenes within the game a more dynamic feeling, and overall makes the scene “feel” more alive.

Here are some examples of UPR in action:

This lighting also works well because it doesn’t take a huge amount of power to render it . This allows us to move the game to console eventually as it doesn’t need a big memory or graphics card.

We’re also now working on an overhaul of the character creator, which will include the addition of more options for you to choose from, as well as a better user experience overall. 

Our community means the world to us, and we are always looking for ways to create a better user experience for all of you. We have taken on a lot of the suggestions you all have made, and are working very hard to implement as many of them as we can. We want the game to be as interesting and fun as we can make it, that way can spend as much time as you want doing the things you like most, especially if you’re like us and spend half an hour in the character creator alone. It’s important to know that with our development, it’s not that we’re taking anything away, it’s that we’re trying to make it a better experience overall. 

 As we’ve spoken about before, up until recently, Spellbound was a solo development project. Now that we’re taking on more team members it means we can add & adjust features as we’d like because we now wonderfully have the means to do so! 

We hope this update has been helpful for you, if you do have any questions please feel free to ask us anything. Wyrdren has its own Discord server where you can meet other Wyrdren fans and ask any of the questions you may have, so do be sure to check it out.  

 We’re so excited to show you what’s coming next, be sure to check in with us often as we post regular updates. Remember to keep playing, and stay Wyrd!