Long-overdue update time.
Here's a new video ahead of the NCFC next week. 4 minutes long, 25MB, if you don't want to download it, it will be YouTubed in time for the 21st. As usual, capturing the video with Fraps affects the frame rate in the larger rooms like Lake Hylia, but I didn't think it was so bad I had to leave those shots out.
So, the stuff you see in the video are glimpses of the concepts I've been talking about for ages. You see a bit of the ship travelling from one port to the next; a journey from the waking world to the nightmare world, how it works and a general idea of what it looks like (I appreciate the skies are a bit empty - they'll ultimately be filled with distant floating chunks of landscape); plus how I've reworked some stuff for 2D (Freezzards!). There's a quick look at a frozen ice dungeon, which I've done a bit of work on because a few months back it looked like I'd be switching the first two dungeons round, but I've since decided against that - just thought you might like to know it exists!
I also wanted to show what the observatory revealed in some screens a while back was for. It has other purposes, related to the overall story, but primarily it's a replacement for the figurine gallery from the Wind Waker. As you travel the overworld you'll find books containing mysterious sets of numbers, which turn out to be astronomical coordinates. So you go to the observatory telescope and check the coordinates and you get to *name* your newly-discovered constellation. There's one for every NPC in the game, just like the figurine gallery, and it if you're stuck you can consult the star chart and it will give cryptic hints as to what might rid them of their nightmare.
I think that's about the size of it, and I know I'm not posting anything playable but there's nothing I can take out and put into a neat self-contained demo that wouldn't be utterly pointless, and I don't really want to have to do that anyway...
So, hope you enjoy.
Cheers,
KM
Edit: A thousand thank yous to HelpTheWretched, without whom this video would be significantly quieter.
Cheers, man.