With the first map nearly done, I've gone back and decided to touch things up.

Mostly this involves redoing the exterior areas (luckily not too many), but it also has involved some minor redesigns, decorating and using that wonderful palette swapping feature to recolor object and textures.

I'm nearly done correcting all the shading outside of the first map, but have at least half of the second map that needs this touch up as well.

Unfortunatly I didn't pay too much attention to my bright areas and ended up over brightening them. You can go negative shading, which is brightening, but it really just effects the visiblity of the object/texture. I also wasn't setting visibilty ranges for outside, which proved to make things look flat. So now I've gone and darkened walls and set floors to 0 instead of some random negative number they ended up being.

Results are nice, but I wish I had a few comparison shots on hand, otherwise you can compare changes in previous blog post that feature screenshots and videos, or simply visit the game's Blog Page.

Redid the exterior of the first temple, which is actually the exit. Other interiors have been decorated with gold as well, plus a recolor of the dark blue tile to now be red and blue.

Flowers

Captain units, they're stronger, deadlier and smarter than the standard fair. More XP and a nice gold drop from them.

BTW, treasure aside, all gold coins are worth 1, and explode out in a ring around enemies or pottery that gets smashed. The mini-boss also drops a sizable shower of coins for you.

The wall of the Baron's keep, butted up against the town.

Inside part of the keep, looking out at a covered bridge..