Supporter newsletter 2

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This is a copy of Eternal and Diamond Supporter Newsletter #2, published by Grinding Gear Games.

Hello Diamond Supporters!

I am planning to make sending this newsletter a weekly event on Mondays (New Zealand time).

I am sending this one a little earlier, as I will be attending a short conference in Wellington for the New Zealand games industry.

0.10.2

This week the 0.10.2 patch will be released onto Open Beta.

Aside from a skill, several balance changes and a couple of new microtransactions, it will be include 4 unique items, three of them created by Diamond supporters (Metronomy, DevilJade and LeHeup80).

We have three unique items essentially ready for the week after in 0.10.3, however they need to be fully tested and signed off.

We are still working on the processes for getting 3d artwork for the unique items in game. You may have seen that some of the unique items have full 3d artwork now, such as Death’s Harp, however we have many more to do.

I see that many of the high poly versions of new items have been done, these will then be converted into usable assets and rigged to the in-game characters.

Avatars

I have seen a couple of forum avatars ready to go, and Erik has now organised producing them regularly. When a forum avatar is ready you will be contacted for sign off, and should be able to to expect it up on the site within a week after that.

Insider Info

This week, I have some concept art for an upcoming microtransaction effect to show off:

Green Skull http://i.imgur.com/T1WJXjp.jpg