Zan the Bonebreaker

Dwarven Outlaws

Also known as "haggards." Or your future competition.

Texturing the War Priest

Figured I'd record another character painting process since it's been a while. Enjoy!

To 2026!

2025 was pretty good, me and Papy locked in and worked at a nice and steady pace. I got a lot of bitch work done with the game's assets - props, animations, UI, VFX, sound and some characters, whic...

Dwarven Militia

The city watch.

Dwarven Mercenaries

Man, drawing armor is pure hell :^)

Dwarven Soldiers

Back to working on some dwarves. Figured I'd finally tackle the concept for the army side of the "factions."
This should also give you an idea on what kind of enemies you'll be running into, an...

Finished Player Weapon Animations

A quick tease of the player's arsenal: 3 melee weapons (each with 2 stances) and 2 crossbows. Around 180 animations, finally finished!

I will never take for granted the weapon animations I s...

VFX

Done working on most of the particle vfx that will be used in the game. Here's a sneak peak at the effects you can have on your weapon.

Expect to see more of the combat system next, Papy ha...

Lots of Sound Work

I have finished working the majority of UI/inventory/interaction and generic ambient sounds these last few weeks. The sneak peek at my sound list above should give you better idea...

Anyway, ...

Combat Sound Work

Since we're working on combat, I've been tackling the ever-vital sound design behind it. You know I'm very keen on this often overlooked part of making games, so I'm investing a lot of time and eff...

Shardbreaker - New Hedon Fan Map is Out!

For anyone who's missed the announcement on Discord, Hedon now has a second full-length fan map out there, made by Blake! It's awesome and you should definitely play it (just drag the map .wad file...

Melee Weapon Arsenal

While Papy has been working on the NPC AI and we are going into the combat system, I figured I'd take the time to work on the variety of melee weapons. Unlike Thief, the guards in Haggard will have...

Animation... Lots of Animation

I've pretty much spent the entire month of June working on animations for the dwarves, but I'm done with almost everything other than combat and emotes.
With my handmade approach, I obviously w...

Back to Animating

Since Papy has been working on the quite enormous task of programming the guards' AI, I put the animator hat back on. Just a status update, don't want to spoil too much now.

Progress is being made + Dwarf Hats

Papy has been making progress with coding the guards' behavior, and I'm back to working on animations for the dwarves - a whole lot of stuff that we can't show for now.

But to break radio sil...

Cinematic Test

Even if it's not a major concern at this stage, I wanted to try my hand at creating cinematics for the game. It's doable in a decent amount of time, if enough people show interest in this, it may b...

The Wealth of Knowledge

Various "readables" - some valuable, some containing valuable information.

Book Ornamentation

Inking & Painting some book ornamentation for them readables :^)

More Statuettes

A few statuettes that can be picked in the inventory, with some valuable versions to help you hit that loot goal :^)

Musical Instruments

Used in the making of Dwarven Metal.

Mould Casting

Basically Hedon's Great Forge interactions but as a system. Making these assets took quite a bit of planning, but I think I'm onto something with this setup. Designing systems is the main challenge...

Switches

A plethora of switches, to be attached to various contraptions. I want them to stand out visually and share the same general fancy-dwarf-craft aesthetic.

Making Tools

Tools will be serving various purposes, from the ones you are used to if you've played Arx Fatalis to several others. Here's the making-of vid :^)

Alchemy Equipment

We're going to brew so many ̶ ̶̶̶m̶̶̶u̶̶̶s̶̶̶h̶̶̶r̶̶̶o̶̶̶o̶̶̶m̶̶̶ ̶̶̶v̶̶̶o̶̶̶d̶̶̶k̶̶̶a̶̶̶s̶ potions with these bad boys :^)

2024 Was Good

For our game project, that is (not so much for everything else). Besides the game budget I had gathered being slowly devalued away by inflation, I'm pretty happy with how things are going on the de...

Average Dwarven Lunch

Soup: mushroom stew
Main course: fried mushrooms with bread

Desert: mushroom cream & dried mushrooms

And of course, strong spirits to drink :^)

Making Props...

Been working on inventory stuff these weeks. Here's a making of process for a valuable item, since I haven't posted anything in a while.

Right now the plan is to ̶b̶o̶o̶z̶e̶ ̶a̶...