A new twist of Red Riding Hood

[fair kettle]

Hey everyone, I’m one of the developers at R16 Interactive. We’re working on Tale’s Edge, a third-person action RPG that blends stealth and parkour in an epic fantasy setting. If you’re curious, here’s a short video showing our latest movement tests:
https://youtu.be/Bk4XOF3ecgA

Curious how it all looks in-game? Check us on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3752650/Tales_Edge/

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Tale's Edge

You play as Red, a teenage huntress raised in an enchanted forest by the legendary Huntsman. Since childhood, Red has seen the world through a fractured lens, haunted by memories of the monstrous Wolf that once scarred her. Your mission is to uncover the truth behind the Huntsman's recent disappearance. You'll navigate a living fairytale world s…

Release Date

To be announced

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[analog sentinel]

What sort of new mechanics should we be on the look for?

[fair kettle]

For starters, nobody so far created a cool way to traverse trees and natural shapes. Parkour is mostly created for cubic shapes and urban environment.
Regarding other stuff, check our youtube channel 😉

[rustic flicker]

hey

[analog sentinel]

Assassin's Creed III, Tomb Raider especially newer ones, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Breath of the Wild have all created systems for navigating organic shapes, from parkour to tree climbing techniques.

I mean for instance such as spider crawls or other novel parkour techniques you see in Ninja Warrior (the show) or Ghostrunner?

[fair kettle]

Those are all custom setup and repetitive setups, most times hacked.
I've personally worked on 2 assassins creed titles, and my colleagues on the project worked on AC as well next to Horizon Series. Their systems are flawed even though the amount of money and years they've spent developing that parkour is insane.
We are trying to do something different with 1000x less money and with just a few people.
Our ultimate goal is to have a fully procedural forest and tree shapes that work well with parkour in any given situation.

[analog sentinel]

The game looks awesome, I am just curious about your influences and the direction you plan to go. To be more pointed, I think a better way to pose my question rather than comparison to mechanics, would be a literal ask of the mechancis for traversal to be explained in how they'll adapt.

Like when falling, does weather effect your movement, etc.

[fair kettle]

We are not yet that far into design, still preproduction 🙂 but in the future, weather influence to gameplay is a plan to test out