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Ancient Rift Chronicles: Spotlight - Goblins

Ancient Rift Chronicles: Spotlight - Goblins

Below is a video of a 3D character model representing our concept of a goblin that we have produced for the game. It will be one of the many playable races as well as a people you will meet along your journeys. Well met!

Ancient Rift Chronicles: Special effects on the menu

Ancient Rift Chronicles: Special effects on the menu

Adding in the intro videos, main menu, background music and special effects.

Modding support in development

Modding support in development

Thanks to feedback from our fans we've decided to implement modding support. This is something most games simply don't allow anymore, as they focus on paid DLCs and microtransactions instead. Here at Shadowfinder Studios we've always loved games that had deep integration with the

Ragdoll effect after killing a wolf!

Ragdoll effect after killing a wolf!

Got the ragdoll effect working after killing a wolf!

You can now fight wolves!

You can now fight wolves!

I managed to finish working on the wolf NPC logic. You can now fight wolves! I don't have snarling wolf attack sounds set up yet, which would lend a lot of impact to the fight scene.

Adding support for wolves

Adding support for wolves

We're going to have wolves. I had bought the Malbers wolves pack with the recent spring 1/2 off sale, but it doesn't include npc or controller systems. They were just mesh and anims, so I made a wolf controller. It took me several hours because

Ancient Rift Chronicles: Adjusting lighting for daytime

Ancient Rift Chronicles: Adjusting lighting for daytime

I'm working a bit on the lighting for the daytime, here's a video of progress on that front:

Ancient Rift Chronicles: Adding nature to the scene

Ancient Rift Chronicles: Adding nature to the scene

I've added some trees, rocks, logs, other debris and adjusted the lighting and post processing a bit.

Moving to Unreal Engine

Moving to Unreal Engine

Just a bit of character work...

Just a bit of character work...

Here's a teaser of some character work we've been working on recently: King Philip Alrik Connolly II was born and raised in Boesmoques of Urkesh. He is the son of King Philip Alrik Connolly, slain during The United War. King Connolly The Second became ruler when

Design: Monsters

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Design: Monsters

Design: City of Frond

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Design: City of Frond

Making of the music behind The Ancient Rift Chronicles

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Making of the music behind The Ancient Rift Chronicles

We've just posted the "making of" video for "The Ancient Rift Chronicles" Take a look at how we made the theme music!

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Concept Art

The Races of The Ancient Rift Chronicles

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The Races of The Ancient Rift Chronicles

What is The Ancient Rift Chronicles?

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What is The Ancient Rift Chronicles?

What is the ancient rift chronicles? * A rich world focused on medieval fantasy adventure, exploring, and deep storytelling in first person perspective. * Single Player - With co-op play potentially * Persistent world * Realistic character behaviors Background The story of The Ancient Rift Chronicles is told in an ancient land of wonder.

Shadowfinder Studios presents...

This is the beginning of our blog for an upcoming open world first and third person adventure video game "The Ancient Rift Chronicles™" coming soon for PC. Other platforms such as Playstation™ and Xbox™ may be considered in the future. We need your help! Please subscribe to this