Shroud of the Avatar: Six Month Progress Video Details
The most recent update posted to the Shroud of the Avatar website contains, first and foremost, a YouTube version of the six-month demo footage. This may be relevant to those of you not located in the US; I gather that some overseas fans were having issues seeing the IGN footage:
It’s been a little over three months since we released our 3 Month progress video, and we’re excited to share the progress we’ve made since then. We encourage you to set your playback quality to HD, switch to full-screen, and enjoy our six month progress video, narrated by Richard “Lord British” Garriott!
As well, Portalarium gave some details as to the video’s specific contents, in case you’re of a mind to fast forward to a particular feature:
Cities: (0:00) A tour of the scenic waterfront village of Kingsport and the larger, heavily fortified Owl’s Head (1:08). Shows the exteriors of several player houses and the types of property lots to claim for player’s homes.
Parade of Homes: (2:32) A look inside the Edelmenn and Viking (2:50) homes, Wizard’s Tower (3:19), Druid House (4:22), Town Tower (5:11), Lord’s House (6:12), and Lord of the Manor Keep (6:52).
Basements: (8:12) An exploration of the sub-levels available for housing and various sample ways to personalize them.
Home Decorating: (9:38) A demo of item interaction and home decoration using convenient parent/child object manipulation.
Conversations: (11:38) A peek into the full sentence conversation system for interacting with NPC’s.
Crafting: (13:13) Richard explains the phases of crafting and walks through the process of creating some items. (Chicken killing 15:06)
Adventuring and Combat: (15:20) A brief exploration of a prison, known as The Clink by the locals, showing off dungeon mechanics and a look at some very preliminary combat action (16:33). Some further exploration and preliminary combat in the Old Forest (17:03). Afterward, a look into some natural caverns occupied by kobolds, bears, and glowing fungi (18:42). Finally, a look at the Dragon Field (20:28)
Have a watch, if you haven’t already done so.