Future Expansions

Future expansions using the same engine as The Dream are being planned.

Content Funding

The main problem with 3D games is content - models, textures, sound effects, music, etc.

Tom has invested into a 3D engine (Unity 3D), a texture generator that solves most texture problems (Filter Forge) as well as bought models and audio content. Donations to BattleMaster have allowed this to happen, as costs are considerable.

Fans of The Dream on IRC came up with the idea of "fund drives". What that means is when Tom is working on a project that requires additional content, he will post here what content he needs (more or less specifically, depending on whether it's to be a surprise or not) and what the cost are. You can then mark your donation to BattleMaster as intended for expansion content, and all of those donations will be summed up and the content bought when enough donations are there.

These donations go seperately from the regular BattleMaster donations, because otherwise keeping track of it all would be a hassle. They will require a special donation link that I will be putting here (or somewhere) when it's ready.

All donors, no matter how much or how little you donated, will get access to the beta version of the extensions that I'm working on. The top donors will also be mentioned in the credits.

Content Wanted

Here's some stuff that I have my eyes on. I've not yet decided, just collecting links of stuff that might be useful:

affordable

• Dungeon Pack ($10 = ca. 8 €) - some additional props that could be useful, not telling which ones...
• Ancient Ruins ($37 = ca. 29 €) - contains lots of ruins, not sure but it might be useful, good ruins are a bit hard to find.
• Knight (30 €) - possible knight character, at least I've not yet found a better one, most of the others are too much fantasy.
• Chicken ($17 = ca. 13 €) - to liven up farms a little.
• Scorpion ($32 = ca. 25 €) - a possible monster to use as an enemy
• Armoured Warrior ($52 = ca. 40 €) - an alternative for the knight

expensive

• Thief Character ($119 = ca. 92 €) - as the in-game representation of an adventurer, definitely better suited than a knight.
• Gargoyle ($149 = ca. 115 €) - what a fantastic boss monster.
• buy motions - pretty expensive (they charge several bucks per motion, so it adds up really quick) but could be useful to add motions that stuff I buy is missing, e.g. a "pick up something" motion or more varied combat motions. Tests:
  • Tested successfully with the free 3drt models
  • No luck with the dexsoft models I own (villagers)

Sneak Peek

Here's an early preview of an upcoming project, still very early in development: