News & Announcements - Totem Tribe II: Jotun

This time we will tell you how we plan to handle endgame.

Despite the fact that Totem Tribe 2 will be an online multiplayer game, it doesn't mean it will be endless pointless game without ultimate goal like number of those games on Facebook.

We plan to have 6 completely different Victories that player can aspire to. Those endings are Adventure, Culture, Science, Wealth, Expansion, and War Victories. Let me tell about them one by one.

Adventure Victory is basically like you end the game in Totem Tribe 1 - you follow the story until the end, beat the final boss in the end and you are done.

Culture Victory involves focus on building buildings that increase culture of your country and when it's high enough, your country will start luring persons of figure and quests associated with them. Once you will have whole pantheon, you win!

Science Victory requires to research every single unlockable thing in the Technology Tree (and that tree is quite big). You will have to focus on having buildings that increase your research.

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Posted 13 years ago

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The fact that Totem Tribe 2 is an online multiplayer game means there will be enough competition for those people who are into battles and player-versus-player warfare. But what about those more casual folk who are not interested in battling others, but still would like to experience some kind of lighter competition? That's where achievements come in. Totem Tribe 2 will feature achievement system which will allow you to compete with other players without engaging them directly.

There will be thousands of different achievements in 6 categories. When you get some achievement you are awarded with prestige points and when you have enough prestige points in some category, you will receive a medal.
Here how those medals will look like:

(These are 9 out of 60 medals already made)
Both your prestige points and medals will be visible to other players at the player info screen, next to your hero picture. And that will be visible on the website too!

Posted 13 years ago

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In the last update I've posted the screenshot of the seashore location and since we haven't been showing up music for a while, I decided to let you hear what kind of music will be playing on such locations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkuyLpbsIdE

Posted 13 years ago

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At the moment we are deep into technical stuff with Totem Tribe 2 website and some other things that probably are not too interesting to most of players. Thus I decided to post some screenshots or things you havent seen before.

In original game most of the game took place on tropical islands. In TT2 the game will take place mainly in continental parts, but that does not mean you will not have a chance to see some familial sceneries from the first game like this one:

There will be also trademark "get a strange object somewhere and put it somewhere else" interaction. For example, this is the Idol of Fortune:

And in this well once a day you can find lucky coin:

After getting that coin you can give it to the idol and he will grant you some random useful item. Just a little incentive to enter the game each day : )

Posted 13 years ago

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Looking at the schedule there is one last major milestone left before the launch of alpha version. That milestone is launching the dedicated website and we are currently working hard on it.

Why website is so important and requires so much work if we could just use already existing website scripts and slap our design on it? That's because we want to have website tightly integrated with the game. The website will have same accounts as the game and when people post - the portraits of their heroes are displayed next to their posts. Also when you click detailed info of the player, you can see their details from the game - level of his/her hero, population size, etc. Finally, right before the website launch we will reveal one very important and interesting feature about Totem Tribe 2 that we kept secret for all this time : ) This thing is quite big so hopefully will be a good surprise to most of you.

Posted 13 years ago

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Puzzles were important part of original Totem Tribe and it is important to bring enough puzzles in Totem Tribe 2. Recently we finished the programming preparations necessary to create puzzle in TT2 and created the first one:

From now on, adding other puzzles will be way easier, we only need to create content objects and do some minor logic programming.

There will be basically 2 kinds of puzzles in TT2. Story-related and story-unrelated. Story-related puzzles are exactly like they were in TT1, while story-unrelated puzzles have two important changes:

1. Each puzzle has 6 difficulty levels. The higher difficulty - the greater reward. This means that you can find 2 similar puzzles at different places, but they will have different difficulty levels.

2. Story-unrelated puzzles are randomized - you will never know which one of those puzzles you will find next, where it will be, and the rewards from them are randomized too!

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Posted 13 years ago

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As we are moving towards launching separate website for Totem Tribe 2 and closed alpha release date is getting a bit closer we wanted to shed some light on game's story structure and release plans.
The story of the game is planned to have following parts: Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Epilogue
One of the four chapters is planned roughly the size of original Totem Tribe so you can imagine how big it will be. We have drafts for first two chapters, but a lot of work required to implement them in the game, so we plan to release the closed alpha with Prologue only.
Prologue is basically an extensive tutorial that teaches you all the new stuff while you are being introduced to this new world and the story behind it. This includes one building location and couple of small quest locations.
Small re-iteration to those who missed the part about locations: In TT2 you will have 2 types of levels - building locations where you can build your village, gather resources, train units, and quest locations where you only explore, solve puzzles, etc.
The quest locations is where the main story is going on, while building levels will have little to no storyline-related stuff, but will have different randomly generated content like puzzles, chests, hidden objects, etc. Read More... »

Posted 13 years ago

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In original Totem Tribe there wasn't much talking going on, thefore it was unclear what kind of personality main heroes had.
This time in sequel we decided that characters should express themselves better. And since the player now will be represented by his or her custom created character, we thought it would be cool if player can play out their character in coversations too!
Thus we created interactive conversations in Totem Tribe 2!
When some character speaks, you can ask questions, respond to their words, even take some action throughout the conversation. Take a look at this:
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Posted 13 years ago

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As we are moving towards the more important stuff, let me introduce two of the most important characters. I could call them main heroine and main villain, but it will be not technically correct, since the main hero of the game will be character generated by player. Here they go:

(Click to view full picture) ____ (Click to view full picture)
Female to the left is Annah. She will be an important person in the story, similar to Aruku in TT1.
Mysterious male is Jack of Swords. Unlike original games, this time the villains will have personality and you will be able to have conversations couple of times, before eventually opposing them.

Posted 13 years ago

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As people become more active in comments we will try to post updates more frequently (aiming at once per week). This time I will tell about research and unlocking stuff.
In original Totem Tribe a lot of people complained that it was boring to do the same upgrades over and over in each new level. We considered those remarks and in Totem Tribe 2 redesigned the upgrade system completely.

In Totem Tribe 2 there will be global technology tree where you research and unlock everything - new buildings, new units, improvements, etc.
Here is the screenshot so you get a feeling of what I am talking about:

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Posted 13 years ago

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Since we are currently busy mainly on non-visual stuff and I know you like updates with pictures I want to show some stuff we made last year.
Remember those ancient ruins bits we've displayed earlier in an old news post back in August?
Take a look how they fit into an actual level:

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Posted 13 years ago

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It's 2013 and we are working hard still, but just to break the silence since the beginning of the new year I decided I will post results from the latest thing we did.
We have finished portrait generator which will allow you to create your hero and decided to post 9 random female and 9 random male portraits out of millions of possible combinations.
Females:

Males:

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Posted 13 years ago

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The year is coming to an end and in order to summarize our work on Totem Tribe 2 and set proper goals we did a small internal in-house testing phase. Although that phase was small it allowed us to see what needs to be done before we will be able to invite people into the game.
Here I will try to detail the work and show what percentage of it is already done so you will have an idea about how long it might take:
#1. Tutorial
Totem Tribe 2 is more complicated game than original one due to the list of new features and increased amount of content, therefore we feel that it's crucial to have a proper tutorial in place before letting people in. The tutorial will be integrated into first game level so you will learn and play at the same time.
Completion - 50%
#2. Sandbox Mode Read More... »

Posted 14 years ago

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As Christmas and Winter Holidays approach we would like to make a small present to our devoted fans who still wait for Totem Tribe 2 release. No, this is not the game release unfortunately, we will make an announcement regarding the game state a bit later, but hopefully this little present will be enjoayble too.
Totem Tribe 2 will take place on planet Teya and we've created a detailed picture of this planet and made a wallpaper for your desktop out of it.
Here is the small portion of this wallpaper:

To download full-size wallpaper for your desktop please open this thread on forums.
In the actual game you will see this planet image in the very beginning. When you start the game - you will be asked in what part of the world you would like to start your adventure - you will be able to pick Moderate Grasslands, Tropical Jungle, Equatorial Desert, or Snowy Tundra. Read More... »

Posted 14 years ago

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I know some of you are checking daily for updates and some new information bits so here goes some info about items in the game. Actually we have finished a preliminary list of items for Totem Tribe 2 as you can see on pictures below:

(These are 9 out of 80+ items already made)
On a side note recently we've reviewed our work done on Totem Tribe 2 and it looks like it exceeds effort on original Totem Tribe by at least 4 times already. And the game is barely shaping up for a closed alpha test. Imagine how massive and epic it is designed to be : )

Posted 14 years ago

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Recently we've been busy completely reworking look and feel of the player's village and finally we are happy with the result. Therefore we are sharing it with you in this couple of screenshots:

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If you are curious, you can go ahead and check this thread on forums to see how player's village looked back in 2011 (hint: this one is much better). Read More... »

Posted 14 years ago

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All Totem Tribe fans who have Apple mobile devices should rejoice now as Totem Tribe Gold recently was released for iPhone and iPad.
Grab it from iTunes here:
Totem Tribe Gold for iPhone
Totem Tribe Gold HD for iPad
If you downloaded it and like it, please write a short review in the App Store to help spreading the word about the game : )
Here you can take a look at the game trailer

Posted 14 years ago

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I thought it was a long time since we posted character art from the game and here we would like to do just that. These are two new characters that will take an important role in Totem Tribe 2 story. Their names are Loku and Matriarch.

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Posted 14 years ago

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As the development moves forward we will be posting more and more work-in-progress screenshots for those devoted players who check our website from time to time. Here is a couple of them:

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Posted 14 years ago

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We've been posting some screenshots back in the days, but those screenshots were showing only some scenery bits alone. Now we want to show you screenshots of one real level which will be seen in the final game almost exactly as you see it now. This way you can judge the final quality of the level design in Totem Tribe 2. Let us know what you think about these pictures comparing to the graphics of original game.