Dare to be Digital 2008 Team Blog
Western Lights: Novum Londinium
Set in our time, our world, London – 2008. The story follows Leon Cooper, a young medical student with a passion for healing who discovers he has mystical abilities. A simple journey home leads to a roller-coaster adventure, which forces him to fight for the very existence of our world and those beyond. The game is a 3D Action RPG, where the combat uses a real-time battle system as well as a random enemy generator that creates unique monsters. The player will get to control 6 individual characters all with unique abilities that contribute to an overall team effort.
Latest Video from Western Lights
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Week 9 Diary Entry
06/08/08
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Week 8 Diary Entry
01/08/08
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Novum Londinium Trailer
30/07/08
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Week 7 Diary Entry
27/07/08
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Video Diary Week 6
18/07/08
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Week 5 Video Diary
11/07/08
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Week 4 Diary Entry
09/07/08
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Leon Technical Demo
03/07/08
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Dare 2008 Week 3 Online Diary - Western Lights
02/07/08
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Teaser Trailer
25/06/08
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Dare 2008 Week 1 Online Diary - Western Lights
19/06/08
Latest Updates
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Gameplay - Controls (Revised)
1st August 2008
After our infamous testing session, we realised that our current control scheme needed a revision as it was too confusing. Now our new control system we hope will be more easy to understand but if
Testing Session
30th July 2008
Sorry for the lack of blogs, its mainly because on Monday we had a deadline for our promotional trailer and on Tuesday we had a testing session and we were all desperately working to meet those dea
Production Update - End of Week 7
30th July 2008
Damn is it the end of week 7 already?
Everyone says that when you take on projects like this time flies, but its one thing being told about it and another thing actually experiencing it fo
The Tycoon's Story
24th July 2008
The curse was originally meant as a gift and the Tycoon received it when he was a young child. Several hundreds of years ago (the tycoon is originally from the other realm and therefore lives a lot
Music and Audio Update
23rd July 2008
Here's a little bit about the music and audio of Novum Londinium. As you may have noticed the music of the game is quite electronic/industrial with some orchestral elements. This was quite carefully t
Latest Comments
hmm
Neri says (9th August 2008)
I'm not convinced how well this will work at protoplay, looks a bit too in depth for the majority of the people who will be attending. Having said that, you chose something that's almost impossible to
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well done
natasha says (15th July 2008)
everything is coming together now.....nice environments/sounds and moving camera.
I hope you're enjoying your time there....
Facebook group and Full Length Theme
TimVass says (3rd July 2008)
Hello! This is Tim (Audio guy from Western Lights). We have created a group on facebook with videos and updates of the game and also people can listen to the full length music theme of the game on htt
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Last video - LOL!!!
natasha says (3rd July 2008)
Looking good. Keep up the good work. The drawings can be a little bit sharper with more facial details:-))
lol
westernlights says (2nd July 2008)
Haha I had forgotton I put that in, just as a test though. It's not going to be in the final game :P
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