Mysteries of Westgate Hands-On

[Cap'n CJ]

Warcry has had the chance to have an extended hands-on with Mysteries of Westgate, the lucky rogues. They've given a nice write up of it, and for your reading pleasure, here's a snippet:

Miranda told us that the team was held up slightly when it was determined that the Westgate setting required a sewer tileset for Undergate. He indicated that this was the most difficult period for the team during the development process as they had never created tilesets before. As a result, things were hit or miss for awhile and required innovation in the creation of toolset improvements that would facilitate the tileset's creation. The steep learning curve to create the sewer tileset also caused a slight delay in other aspects of the project such as scripting. The development of several toolset plug ins, however, including a power bar and a spell checker helped get things rolling along.

In addition to toolset improvements, Ossian created several new things specifically for Mysteries of Westgate including the sewer tileset (which IS gorgeous), 100+ placeables, custom sounds, four new monsters, three new companions, some custom load screens and over twenty-five minutes of tailor-made music by David John.

The full article is over at Warcry.