{"id":78,"date":"2025-05-31T08:10:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2025-05-31T08:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:10:52","slug":"emerald-world-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/emerald-world-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerald World #5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last two months saw quite a bit of progress on the remake. Looking back at the post #4, that had the same numbered youtube video (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n0tjDcA08iU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n0tjDcA08iU<\/a>) &#8211; all I had were proto structures with some interactable NPCs inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, 10 videos further, I have 15 videos uploaded showing how gradually the remake comes to be. The latest one shows a party with equipment, movable portraits and reactions. There&#8217;s stats and skills in the game, some spells, mini-map with the Wizard&#8217;s Eye, learning skills, chests, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emerald World #15: Enemy distance in UI, equipment slots and stats, PC turns and who&#039;s active\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/meAIHWAcWOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I never did a write-up of what&#8217;s needed, as: there&#8217;s so much, anything that comes to mind I should likely work on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, however, there might already be some parts done, for example: NPC interaction is mostly done, minus the training grounds and bug fixes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know for sure there are big features still missing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Casting variety of spells<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Better &#8220;stopping of time&#8221; on Pause or browsing inventory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Combat!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dungeons<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Save\/Load<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The end goal is to have the Emerald Island remade. I would then check on how much effort would it be to maybe also have the Harmondale lands &#8211; not in order to add, but just to see if there&#8217;s anything I can do to make adding new locations easier, before going further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the Emerald World is &#8220;complete&#8221;, I&#8217;d either continue (unlikely) or replace the assets (likely I would need to hire some graphic artists to replace the existing assets &#8211; at least the set of those will be known ahead of time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two months saw quite a bit of progress on the remake. Looking back at the post #4, that had the same numbered youtube video (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n0tjDcA08iU) &#8211; all I had were proto structures with some interactable NPCs inside. Now, 10 videos further, I have 15 videos uploaded showing how gradually the remake comes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamedev","category-godot","category-mightandmagic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatuglydude.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}