EthrA (an upcoming RPG by two Spanish developers)

Post by **Rand** » September 13th, 2025, 19:15

Upcoming RPG by two Spanish developers:

Lots of good stuff at their site: https://stonelabgames.com/

Many Twitter posts (their primary devlog site): https://x.com/stonelabstudio

Lots of dev stuff on their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@stonelabstudio226

Inevitable Kickstarter (not active yet): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/et ... elabstudio

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Jordy · Post by **Jordy** » September 13th, 2025, 19:35

First RPG with a siesta mechanic?

Post by **Oyster Sauce** » September 13th, 2025, 20:55

Thought this looked cool until I saw how they redid the 3D sprite stuff. Hate how it looks now.

Before

After

Post by **Rand** » September 14th, 2025, 05:09

Oyster Sauce wrote: ↑ September 13th, 2025, 20:55
Thought this looked cool until I saw how they redid the 3D sprite stuff. Hate how it looks now.

Before

After

My god, what a hideous abomination it is now!!!

No, but... seriously?
It still looks great and runs better.

Anyway, I expect the change was made to make it easier to animate and control and the old 8-way sprites may have been very time consuming to indivdually animate 8 different frames, tens of frames per animation, for 100+ different characters.

Post by **Tweed** » September 14th, 2025, 07:10

No sir, I don't like it.

Post by **Rand** » September 14th, 2025, 19:52

Post by **Rand** » September 14th, 2025, 21:25

The development of the style:

Looks ugly