Posted at 2016-06-15 10:51:25 — Link
These days I only check the current game to see any update about the future one. Is there any other source of the information, apart of the first page of a single news post? There was a link to Angel's DeviantArt account, but I have found no information there either.
Posted at 2016-06-15 11:59:01 — Link
I periodically check that link to Angel's DeviantArt and can say that it's definitely in progress. She put out an ad seeking an artist to design the environment tiles for Explore in September, and another for an artist to design the creatures in March. I assume that by this time both of those positions have been filled and that the intervening time has been spent working on game mechanics. No official word, though, so I imagine we're still in for a pretty long wait.
Posted at 2016-06-21 01:15:02 — Link
We'll defintely post an update here in the news when we will have something to show :) The amount of work is very big for such a small team, so the progress may be not as fast as we would like to have it, but we're definitely on our way!
We found isometric environment artist, creature artist and isometric animator for our pets, and they all produce fantastic artworks and are true professionals in their scope.
A bunch of new creature linearts are done, and I'm in progress of shading them and converting to format that we can use for dynamic generation of patterns. We're also going to use the pets from current game version (except the dragon which will have completely new look) but with dynamically generated color and patterns. Creatures with old lines have a number of beautiful outfits created. Several pet profile backgrounds are ready as well. Explore environment art is a huge and time-consuming task, but we already have basic tiles for 3 biotopes plus some objects.
We have lots of new assets and visuals and a giant detailed concept, but at this moment it's too early to make a development blog. The coding part is a bit behind as we're searching for an optimal solution for our case. We tried a number of technologies and some were a good fit, but some didn't work for us. One of the slowdowns is that at least two of our chosen technologies are still in development themselves (backend and frontend frameworks). But they are very promising and have a number pros comparing with alternatives, so we would like to use them in any case.
Posted at 2016-08-07 08:56:50 — Link
Wow, good news that you are developing a new game version!
What technology are you looking at?
It's tough to use in-development technologies, I know the feeling because I have done it (I am a software developer for a website also, though not game related)
Posted at 2016-08-07 16:26:44 — Link
Truffula, we decided to go with fullstack JS and hybrid database. Right now we're using SailsJS + ArangoDB for backend, EmberJS for frontend and CraftyJS for our html5 needs. Sails, Arango and Ember are all very young technologies comparing with their alternatives. Sails and Ember are still in beta at this moment.
Posted at 2016-08-07 22:43:37 — Link
May I piggyback on this thread? i was just wondering the same thing! I'm a new member here (started about a month ago) and I am so happy to have found this site! I look forward to my first Kami event every day. So, I'm confused with "BeastKeeper V2"... Where can I learn more? What will happen to the current BeastKeeper and our accounts/pets? Will there continue to be events and Kami? I love the idea of seasonal changes and I'm aso excited for Autumn (my favorite)!
Thank you for creating such a great game. I am so excited for more!
Posted at 2016-08-07 23:48:23 — Link
I'd love another Dreamlands event. I suppose it'll be a summer kami, a halloween/thanksgiving event and another winter tundra season.
Will there be newer colourways on the etelia I wonder? I love my etelia. After 99 tries it still didn't breed, though. Ugh.
Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Random acts of senseless kindness.
Posted at 2016-08-09 07:19:24 — Link
We finally opened a dev blog to post previews, updates and just show the development process :) A couple of posts is already there!
I will create a dev subforum here on BeastKeeper in a couple of days to simplify the discussion for our players.
GoldenRam, current BeastKeeper will stay as it is with all the accounts and pets. Most likely it won't have any gameplay updates and new features - actually the difficulty of updating and supporting it was our first reason to start creating its better rethought version. We're still running seasonal events, but no new mechanics will be added to them. The new game will be very different from this one, and unfortunately it's not possible to merge them. We plan to reuse a lot of the existing pet art and the world setting, but the gameplay will be mostly different.
Posted at 2016-08-09 12:36:23 — Link
I love the new explore environment! My lykos are itching to sink their pointy teeth into some monsters!! :D
Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Random acts of senseless kindness.
Posted at 2016-08-13 10:56:13 — Link
May I ask is it still possible to have the Seassonal Triad event ?
I was wondering because the summer is almost over and there's still no sign of any event.
Lorry14
