Latest posts tagged with #DragonGame on Bluesky
We expected climbing to not be working at all right now, but turns out that it does! Sort of!
#funny #TheLastSanctum #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #ue5 #dragon #dragonart #survival #survivalgame #dragongame #Blender #3dart #drake
Biweekly Newsletter March 06/2026 (2 images, 1 link)
Basalt River: imgur.com/a/JSC3KS3
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Just coming in for a gentle landing...
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As part of working on combat, we've gotten the UI hooked up to damage and stamina for testing! The visual is still WIP, and the drain values are higher than normal for testing.
#TheLastSanctum #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #dragon #dragons #dragongame #ue5 #unrealengine #flight #stylized
Coding Looked into multiple potential systems for combat interactions, particularly in how to interface locational damage and melee attacks with networking. (Sorry for not much progress here! We've been busy.) Models & Misc Finished the T2 Dragon's Broadcast call. This was a pretty simple adjustment since it's the same as the T3 call with adjusted pitch to make T2 sound younger. Updated animations for Scoria's sprint flap and tap flap. Updated flight smacks and animated skims for all flying wyrms (except T3 Dragon). Updated and added sockets to the T3 Dragon. The sockets are placed near the wingtips and chest so trail VFX and dive wind can be attached. Tweaked the setup of our wing trail VFX to adjust the appearance while still keeping performance in mind. Implemented our existing flight VFX! These include wing trails, speedlines, dive wind, and a camera zoom. Each VFX can activate and scale according to different velocity. Players will be able to disable effects in case of motion sickness. We have some very adjustable parameters, so we still might tweak the look and feel! The wing trails especially have some potential for future cosmetics, with changing the colour and emissives.
Biweekly Newsletter February 06/2026 (1 image, 1 link)
VFX Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfrR...
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We just implemented speed lines and a small camera zoom for diving!
(Note: we plan to allow players to disable camera movement in case it makes them nauseous!)
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Models & Misc Animated the T2/T3 Dragon's Skim animation, and edited its Smack. These are both flight animations related to colliding with obstacles. We'll be doing this for the other wyrms as well! Worked on some NPC and menu UI concepts. Coding Implemented basic flight crashes. Hooked up multiple modes per ray-casting logic with scaling based on angle/speed. Added smooth rotation from crashes. Fixed issues with the user losing control during a crash. Added crash animation logic depending on side/severity of crash. Cleaned up raycast logic per-wyrm You might remember the wing raycasts from last newsletter. Now we've put them to work with implemented crashing! In case you forgot, the raycasts help the game see where the wyrm's wings are. A collision with the green line will be less severe than a collision with the red line. Now that collisions are implemented, we have several types of crashes: Adjustments, Skims, Smacks, Crashes. These are in order of severity and have different effects on the wyrm. Check the video below to see for yourself! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oukYReTdLmU
Updated flight crashes based on testing feedback. Reworked crash angle and speed loss. Updated state logic for handling crash modes and severity. Hooked up crash animations. Fixed some bugs around animations playing multiple times. Fixed an issue where the wyrm would enter uncontrolled fall state during a stall (rather than the intended fall brake state). Fixed some issues around wing flap periodicity, particularly with Levin. Fixed some issues around falling and fall brakes (though they still need some work). Expanded options related to air resistance to help avoid excessive momentum preservation. Added in some basic scripts to help with wyrm stat fiddling. Now, we'll be able to adjust wyrm stats in a spreadsheet and import/export them to and from the game. This is particularly helpful with maintaining experimental versions of the physics for each wyrm! With the addition of crashes, all the main points of the flight system are done on the coding side! We'll still be doing number value tweaking and a couple more bug fixes in the background, but with this we're going to mostly move on from flight and switch to working on the combat system.
Biweekly Newsletter January 23/2026 (2 images, 1 link)
Collision Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oukY...
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This newsletter is pretty short, we're sleepy from the holidays! **Code & Animations** * Refactored player stats (such as health and stamina) to fit them in with movement logic rewrite. * Updated stamina logic to permit more per-wyrm control in movement. * Stamina use now is able to react to external events (such as enemy attacks or artefacts). * Cleaned up clutter that had developed around player controls and some outdated debugging logic. * Reimplemented the hooks for the UI. - Animated T3 Juvi Dragon's Friendly, Threaten and Surrender calls. Here's the Threaten call! Again, we're keeping the juvenile calls pretty short and simple so that the adult T4 wyrms shine.
Biweekly Newsletter January 09/2026 (1 image, 1 video link)
Threaten Call: imgur.com/a/RupV7bS
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If you like my design work in Heliosail, you should check out my new Artificer supplement for 5e! It's up on DTRPG as of today. Artificer Re-Imagined creates an entirely new play style centered on magical objects.
www.dmsguild.com/en/product/5...
#DnD #TTRPG #Artificer #5e #D&D #dragongame
Takeoff has improved- no more weird-lookin boost! And it works well on inclines too!
#TheLastSanctum #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #dragon #dragons #dragongame #ue5 #unrealengine #flight
Coding & Misc Finished polishing the Broadcast, Threaten, Friendly, and Surrender calls for T3 Fire Dragon. Animated the animation for T3 Fire Dragon's Broadcast. You saw this on Bluesky last week! Generally improved takeoff logic and interactions. These changes all work together to make takeoff feel less clunky. Moved the end of takeoff to be while still on the ground rather than in flight. Extended the initial boost of takeoff over a period of time rather than on the first frame. Implemented various utility functions to help with fixed-length impulses (such as flapping and takeoff boosts). Adjusted the "vertical push" of takeoff to help with feel when taking off from a lower point. Added in logic and animations for stationary takeoff (the only revealed wyrm who uses this is Levin). Introduced basic raycasting logic for flight collisions. Implemented a straightforward algorithm for deterministic raycasting based on player state. Raycasting depends on tucking, diving, and flapping, but not braking Added in wyrm-specific logic for selecting ray angles and variations to help with different wing shapes. Will likely be adjusted depending on the wyrm and testing results. Implemented basic collision modes detection depending on hit point, angle, and speed. The effects of collisions are still WIP. Flight crashes still work as intended, and the player can now crash with a fast-enough wing clip. Implemented injured fall behavior for hard flight crashes.
Raycasts essentially help the game "see" where your wings are during flight. We've visually represented these raycasts with red, yellow, and green lines (this is of course just for testing and not gameplay). Collisions with these lines will have different results. Green: Softer hit, likely a clip. Yellow: Harder hit. Red: Hardest hit, possibly a crash. As you can see, this allows players to pull off interesting maneuvers such as wing tucking in tight spaces to avoid wing collision. The space between the lines and the body is somewhat exaggerated for demonstration. This is intended to be synchronized across machines, so the traces may not perfectly match animations. The key difference is that we can calculate the raytrace angle based on clock time rather than frame count or other actions, so the result on the server will be exactly the same regardless of the client animations or calculations. This ensures the raytrace timing is consistent on all machines. This is very work in progress and not finalized.
Biweekly Newsletter December 27/2025 (2 images, 1 link)
Wing Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNwv...
#TheLastSanctum #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #ue5 #dragon #dragonart #survival #survivalgame #dragongame #Blender #3dart #pretty #flight
“One day long from now you shall awaken, on the shores of a great salt water basin.”
#conceptart #art #procreate #indiegame #indiedev
#Merchanted #UE5 #Godot #openworld #newgame #fantasy #dragon #dragongame
Art & Misc Improved and expanded some game UI concepts. Updated our prospective control map (very subject to change of course). Finished painting the Bushfire skin. This is one of our favourites for Scoria so far, and we hope you like it even more than the preview last week!
Coding This sprint was mostly spent bug-hunting! Improved ground logic to better handle momentum (especially when landing). Also includes some math-y fixes to help players slide less on turns. Improved ground collisions, especially with walls. You now slide off the wall instead of getting stuck to it. Fixed air collisions with walls to slide properly (though without friction until further testing for feel). Updated animation logic to include tap-flaps with transitions (which still needs some refinement). Fixed a silly bug where crouching would force you to move even if no other keys were pressed. Fixed a bug where the force from gravity was retained even after landing with tucked wings, making it impossible to get off the ground. With all these combined, we'd like to show you the improvements! Disclaimers: Transitions will be polished in general. Some of them are very snappy at the moment. The landing animation still needs to be added. Video breakdown: At the beginning it shows air to ground momentum preservation, where you'll be able to keep some of your air momentum if you land properly. Next, it shows tap flaps vs sprint flaps. Tap flaps are manual and consume more stamina in return for more power and control. Sprint flaps are from holding the button down and are more efficient. Note that for T3 Dragon in the video, its tap vs sprint is more subtle. Tap flap has a sharper and deeper wingbeat. Eventually, flap sounds will be different depending on flap vs sprint. Lastly, we finally implemented proper collisions for air and ground. Previously, colliding with something would get you stuck, needing to maneuver out of it. Now, you properly slide off the object. Keep in mind that for flight especially, this is missing a lot of crash-related animations! This video just shows the fact we got collisions working.
Biweekly Newsletter November 28/2025 (2 images, 2 links)
Skin: imgur.com/a/pupsjU3
Flight Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTiw...
#TheLastSanctum #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #ue5 #dragon #dragonart #survival #survivalgame #dragongame #Blender #3dart #pretty #flight #texturepainting
So, learned about Myrkul earlier this morning and thought, "oh yeah, that must be who the myrkbrood are based on." Then about an hour ago it hit me that some random sect of former Myrkul cultists are now following someone new and that's who was tryna snatch and grab me. 🙄😮💨 #ttrpg #DragonGame
Biweekly Newsletter November 14/2025 (1 image, 1 link)
Flight Demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZGP...
#TheLastSanctum #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #ue5 #dragon #dragonart #survival #survivalgame #dragongame #Blender #3dart #wyvern #pretty #flight
More dragons?? Yes please! Meet Gravus, one of the male characters for the upcoming Visual Novel, Scale of Deciet! Indigo has the link, so check her out! #dragon #dragons #navy #blue #bigderg #derg #white #game #art #fanart #visualnovel #VN #dragongame
"Attention passengers, we're approaching some turbulence so please return to your seats and fasten your seatbelts"
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Biweekly Newsletter October 31/2025 (1 image, 1 link)
Swamp: imgur.com/a/2wHPXZh
#TheLastSanctum #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #ue5 #dragon #dragonart #survival #survivalgame #dragongame #Blender #3dart #map #leveldesign
The October and November designs are now up on our patreon and ko-fi, these are available to purchase always!
www.patreon.com/c/Palonian
ko-fi.com/palonian/shop
#dragongame #dragonartgame #smallbusiness #artprint #sticker
Here's the Common Venna's most common eating animation!
#TheLastSanctum #tls #dragon #dragongame #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #deer #animal #survival #survivalgame #cute
Models & Misc Finished the T3 Dragon's Friendly call. We're keeping those calls short and simple so the calls of the T4 wyrms shine! Reorganized and reimported all files for all currently completed wyrms (Scoria, Iceclaw, Levin, T2/T3 Dragon, T2/T3 Wyvern). This has been a fairly time-consuming slog, and we're happy to have it finished for the wyrms! Began organizing and reimporting files for NPCs. These took a lot of time to sort out, and included fixing errors or adding animations that were missed before, or would otherwise improve things. (Ex: Juvi Wyvern was missing Swim/Underwater Idles, Bellbat now has a Glide and Dive, Common Venna has idle-to-eat and vice-versa transitions.) Materials have been standardized and set up in preparation for the skin system, and LODs have been set up. Made a new Eat animation for the Common Venna, which will be used most of the time. Its old Eat animation will now be a rare alternate one. Remade the size comparison charts, so now you can see an up to date version! Cetapod is in a separate image because it's Too Large to be contained in the chart with all the other creatures.
Coding Updated models in the animation graph logic. Implemented the Levin Darter as a playable! We mentioned this before when we added Iceclaw, but thanks to previous work done by us, implementing new wyrms is pretty quick! Adding the completed Levin and tweaking basic parameters in-game was a 20 minute task. Of course, we'll have to do much more in-depth tweaking to make the wyrm feel right, and add unique abilities in the future, but we're pleased that we can have a wyrm playable in a basic form so quickly! Here's your first glimpse of Levin in the game. There are some animation transitions to fix, so things might look janky. Levin still needs movement values tweaked, and the video is using a placeholder map and the very WIP new flight system, so there are many issues we're aware of. Hope you enjoy glowy Levin!
Biweekly Newsletter October 17/2025 (2 images, 2 links)
Size Charts: imgur.com/a/RBvAlMX
Levin Implementation: imgur.com/a/MUsda68
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Biweekly Newsletter October 03/2025 (2 images, 3 links)
Climbing Clip: imgur.com/a/6HqeOFE
Seaglow Skin: bsky.app/profile/lind...
Wiki: thelastsanctum.wiki.gg
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Our new skin painter has finished painting Levin's Seaglow skin! What do you think?
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I CANT WAIT TO FINISH THE SECOND SEASON OF DRAGON RAJA! Of course he is with my in game character and i gave her a cute dragon like fit! Hahahaha
#dragonraja #fingervonfrings #dragon #animerecommendations #animerec #oc #dragongame #dragonrajamobile
Coding Implemented flight design changes: Iterated several times on initial feedback (which was positive even with the first rough draft!) Technical details of flight update: Implemented pitch and roll bounds to replace force-based lift/drag acceleration. Implemented momentum preservation for speed and "by mode" to permit acceleration mechanics, such as lift from flapping and tap-flapping. Implemented player controls (and limits on player controls) to smooth rotations while still feeling "snappy". Implemented speed-based smoothing of flight rotations (e.g. flying faster makes it harder to quickly turn). While we still have to work on a lot more polish for a proper showcase, we'd like to show you a brief clip of our new flight design! You can note how it's much easier now for a wyrm to be nimble (of course, not all wyrms will have this level of maneuverability). The video demonstrates that we can control rotations per submode (ex. turning faster while flapping vs gliding), how pitch/rotation scales according to speed, and the overall improved interpolation and dive transition. Overall, this flight change gives us more control over in-game maneuverability, and the number values behind it! Updated Scoria and Iceclaw to be playable with general physics updates (pending number-tweaking to make them feel right). Iceclaw demonstrates a working proof-of-concept of general software engineering updates done previously. Because of a lot of work we put in before, adding new wyrms to the game is trivial!
Models & Animations Created transition animations from parachute fall brake to flight state for all flying wyrms. Added turning animations for new/adjusted flight/flap animations. Cleaned, separated, organized, and charted all existing skins into colour regions, in preparation for the skin system. Also set up some additional colour palettes for the Lichen skin; here it is with its four presets! New_Project41.png Currently in the process of fixing foot twisting on turning animations for all wyrms (Scoria and Iceclaw done, WIP on the rest). Polished various animations, including adding stronger wind effects to T3/T4 Wyvern and Scoria's flying animations, and reanimated Iceclaw's turn in place. Here's Iceclaw's very energetic turn in place animation!
Biweekly Newsletter September 19/2025 (2 images, 2 links)
Flight Clip: imgur.com/a/mQwEA8o
Lichen Skins + Iceclaw Turn: imgur.com/a/V1WIt0B
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Iceclaw has been released and is having a fun time frolicking in the placeholder map!
(Note this is an outdated model and outdated animations, will replace with the new ones soon!)
#TheLastSanctum #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #dragon #survival #dragongame #UE5 #unrealengine #drake
Coding Wrote a design summary outlining extensive flight physics updates based on tester feedback. Focused on player controllability of flight. We aim to reduce physics simulation complexity to help with networking. Documented existing physically-driven flight system in sufficient detail to allow future code work, and possible alternate approach to flight physics. (Don't worry, none of this means our flight system won't be interesting! These changes are specifically to get us the flight system we want, which we think will be very enjoyable once we tweak) Models & Misc Finished the Broadcast call audio for the T3 Dragon. Improved Levin's Flap and Flight animations. Slightly adjusted Levin's Broadcast and Threaten animations to better match the new calls. Now we'd like to show you Levin's new calls! We know some of you might be attached to the old ones, and we are as well, but the new ones are overall a much better audio quality and fit the creature. Here are the new calls! https://youtu.be/CkwHv9Y7-YU
Biweekly Newsletter September 05/2025 (1 image, 1 link)
Levin Call: youtu.be/CkwHv9Y7-YU
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Showing off our new sand asset! If you look closely, you can see sparkles in the sand and wind moving over the surface.
#TheLastSanctum #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #dragonartists #dragon #dragonart #survival #dragongame #tls #cozy #desert #UE5 #unrealengine #Blender #Blenderart
Biweekly Newsletter August 22/2025 (2 images, 2 links)
Trello: trello.com/b/4TRPdZUY/t...
Scoria Call: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dcc...
#TheLastSanctum #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #ue5 #dragon #dragonart #survival #survivalgame #dragongame #tls #Blender #BlenderArt #3dart #roar #dragonroar
We've added a new sound designer to the team! They've been remaking our current wyrm calls. It still needs a polish pass, but here's Levin's new Broadcast call! What do you think?
#TheLastSanctum #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #dragonartists #dragon #dragonart #survival #dragongame #tls #wyvern
