Progress
As of this update, every kinfolk you’ve seen concept art for (including a certain silhouette) has been modeled in 3D! Animations are currently underway for Gladias and the King, and Slyphur’s animations have recently wrapped up!
Earlier this week, we officially welcomed Joey to our dev team! He’s been hard at work creating the website’s account system, and as he finishes that up he’ll be joining the other devs in writing code for Kindred Fates!
We’ll be entering the testing stage for the account system within the coming week, and hope to release it soon!
The design team spent a lot of time this week on sculpting terrain for the Alpha arenas. We hope to to treat you to some breathtaking views as you knock the breath out of your opponents!
The development team has a variety of different abilities working, all of which are are now properly synced between the client and server. Party member switching has also been implemented and is synced between client and server too. In addition to this, the dev team spent a good amount of time getting Playfab to work properly, so that servers running in the cloud can host games.
It’s come to our attention that we mistakenly left the Kickstarter-exclusive Founder’s hoodie in the packages on our website store. It was originally listed alongside other exclusives on the website as a part of our late-backing stage, and should have been removed at the same time. However, we’d still like to reward those who pre-order the game with a special cosmetic. Therefore, anyone who has purchased a copy of the game through any platform (including Kickstarter) will now receive an exclusive Forebears’ hoodie. This will be included in every purchase of the game until launch. This also means that those who backed and late-backed our Kickstarter will now be receiving both the Founder’s hoodie and the Forebears’ hoodie. We’re really sorry for the confusion; if you have any questions feel free to reach out to us at support@skymill.com.
Community
We had the best time talking with Don Pablo and Cookie last week with you! How did you like those animation bloopers? If you missed out on the fun, you can watch the stream on our YouTube channel!
Our next Twitch stream will be Chill With the Devs 5: The ARK Rematch! The devs and Discord mods will be returning to ARK to play a round of capture the flag. This time, they will have 3 hours before the stream to build their bases, and then an hour and a half on-stream to duke it out! More information about the date and time will be released this week on our Discord and Twitter.
Thanks for checking in with us! We’ll see you next time, on August 14th!
