Aquila Interactive

Salutations! The main theme of today's Dev Diary is the game soundtrack! This Dev Diary is a conversation between Gilded Destiny's composer, John Skoog, and producer, Marc. We discuss the several design elements and goals of the making the game soundtrack—including the creative and composition process, the design challenges and considerations, creating authentic instrumentation, and using a mix of digital and live instruments. The primary goal is to create music authentic and true to the time period, while seamlessly fitting into gameplay without being distracting. Be sure to listen to the backing tracks in this video—they are the pieces you will come to hear in the game! We are looking forward to sharing and discussing the finalized tracks in a future Dev Diary. What did you think of the Podcast format? Would you like to have more of these conversations with members of our dev and design team? The music in this video is also a sneak peek at our in-game music composed by John Skoog, @johnskoogmusic . 🌎 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2189430/Gilded_Destiny/ With the game still in the Pre-Alpha stage, most content will likely change significantly before release, and some placeholders are used, we hope this video gives you a better understanding of where the development is going! Gilded Destiny a Grand Strategy Game is set at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and will allow players to live through the intricacies and challenges of the era. The game's central goal is to transform your chosen country from an agrarian society into an industrial one—where you'll lead your population from subsistence to wealth by controlling key economic, diplomatic, and military factors to achieve your goal. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback in the comments below. And be sure to wishlist us on Steam to stay up to date! Join our Discord community today! https://discord.gg/3d77T9gxDF If you are interested in what we do and want to join us but do not see a relevant job, send us your resume at jobs@aquilainteractive.io! Listen to some of John Skoog's other work on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3PGd3lmURa72oFasqK3N7N?si=nDl4DUTRQGKKLaDtGcHBJw John Skoog Music: https://www.johnskoogmusic.com/ 00:00 Counting In 00:49 Let's Meet John 03:05 Describing the Soundtrack 05:16 Being True to the Time Period 06:00 Creating Classical Music for a Video Game 08:57 Instrumentation and Creative Process 10:44 Using Digital Instruments 13:23 Playing Digital Instruments 15:08 Mixing Digital Instruments 15:50 Conducting Each Piece 17:45 Live Recordings 20:50 John's Favorite Tracks 22:29 Summary 23:19 One Last Question 25:14 How to Find John 25:50 Coda—Stay Tuned

In this video, we are testing Gilded Destiny's Fog of War system. While we don't plan to use fog in the vanilla game, we intend it to be used by modders. The system will be useful for game mechanics and allow our modders to create maps that are not a globe or entirely fantasy based! The music in this video is also a sneak peek at our in-game music composed by John Skoog, @johnskoogmusic. 🌎 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2189430/Gilded_Destiny/ With the game still in the Pre-Alpha stage, most contents will likely change significantly before release, and some placeholders are used, we hope this video gives you a better understanding of where the development is going! Gilded Destiny a Grand Strategy Game is set at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and will allow players to live through the intricacies and challenges of the era. The game's central goal is to transform your chosen country from an agrarian society into an industrial one—where you'll lead your population from subsistence to wealth by controlling key economic, diplomatic, and military factors to achieve your goal. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback in the comments below. And be sure to wishlist us on Steam to stay up to date! Join our Discord community today! https://discord.gg/3d77T9gxDF Listen to some of John Skoog's other work on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3PGd3lmURa72oFasqK3N7N?si=nDl4DUTRQGKKLaDtGcHBJw John Skoog Music: https://www.johnskoogmusic.com/

Let's take a dive into some geometry and cartography for this Dev Diary! In response to the many questions we have received about how we plan to make our 1.6M hexagon map both 1) theoretically and 2) optimized for in game performance. Watch to find out how we scaled down the large triangle faces of an icosahedron to 1.6M hexagons (and a few pentagons) around the globe. It's a bit complicated, so, dust off your Geometry textbooks and enjoy the video! The music in this video is also a sneak peek at our in-game music composed by John Skoog, @johnskoogmusic. 🌎 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2189430/Gilded_Destiny/ With the game still in the Pre-Alpha stage, most contents will likely change significantly before release, and some placeholders are used, we hope this video gives you a better understanding of where the development is going! Gilded Destiny a Grand Strategy Game is set at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and will allow players to live through the intricacies and challenges of the era. The game's central goal is to transform your chosen country from an agrarian society into an industrial one—where you'll lead your population from subsistence to wealth by controlling key economic, diplomatic, and military factors to achieve your goal. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback in the comments below. And be sure to wishlist us on Steam to stay up to date! Join our Discord community today! https://discord.gg/3d77T9gxDF Listen to some of John Skoog's other work on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3PGd3lmURa72oFasqK3N7N?si=nDl4DUTRQGKKLaDtGcHBJw John Skoog Music: https://www.johnskoogmusic.com/

Who do you think these characters are? Leave your answers below! Check out our full-length dev diary on portraits! https://youtu.be/24FYI3H3lbs 🌎 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2189430/Gilded_Destiny/ While most of the images, outfits, military units, menus, and map layers in this vlog are all still pre-alpha renderings, which will likely change significantly before release, and some placeholders are used, we hope this video gives you a better understanding of where the development is going! Gilded Destiny is a Grand Strategy game set at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and will allow players to live through the intricacies and challenges of the era. The game's central goal is to transform your chosen country from an agrarian society into an industrial one—where you'll lead your population from subsistence to wealth by controlling key economic, diplomatic, and military factors to achieve your goal. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback in the comments below. And be sure to wishlist us on Steam to stay up to date! Join our discord community today! https://discord.gg/3d77T9gxDF

Who do you think these characters are? Leave your answers below! Check out our full-length video on portraits! https://youtu.be/24FYI3H3lbs 🌎 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2189430/Gilded_Destiny/ Join our discord community today! https://discord.gg/3d77T9gxDF Gilded Destiny is a grand strategy game built on a spherical map! The game is set at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and will allow players to live through the intricacies and challenges of the era. We also discuss three of the key design features for Gilded Destiny: city construction, industrial chain development, and military advancement. Each one of these features is being developed specifically for the 3D hexagonal globe, which can be fully modified however you like. Create your own alternate worlds, or add more detail to our own. While most of the images and map layers in this vlog are all still pre-alpha renderings, which will likely change significantly before release, and some placeholders are used, we hope this video gives you a better understanding of where the development is going! The game's central goal is to transform your chosen country from an agrarian society into an industrial one—where you'll lead your population from subsistence to wealth by controlling key economic, diplomatic, and military factors to achieve your goal. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback in the comments below. And be sure to wishlist us on Steam to stay up to date!

In this video, we are excited to share the details of Gilded Destiny's portrait system that we will use for leaders. We intend to incorporate fashion trends all around the world, from all walks of life, and all cultures within our portrait system. One of our main focuses with the portrait system is to facilitate moddability, by allowing the player to harness the power of AI. Special Portraits are fully animated and highly detailed, and will be used for unique historical figures. Standard portraits, will be all other other in-game leaders, allowing head and outfit swaps, but with limited motion and a fixed pose. 🌎 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2189430/Gilded_Destiny/ While most of the images, outfits, military units, menus, and map layers in this vlog are all still pre-alpha renderings, which will likely change significantly before release, and some placeholders are used, we hope this video gives you a better understanding of where the development is going! Gilded Destiny is set at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and will allow players to live through the intricacies and challenges of the era. The game's central goal is to transform your chosen country from an agrarian society into an industrial one—where you'll lead your population from subsistence to wealth by controlling key economic, diplomatic, and military factors to achieve your goal. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback in the comments below. And be sure to wishlist us on Steam to stay up to date! Join our discord community today! https://discord.gg/3d77T9gxDF 00:00 Intro 00:08 Salutations 00:39 About The Portrait System 03:16 Special Portraits 03:57 Standard Portraits 04:48 Modding 07:16 Final Thoughts

In this video, we are excited to share some of the updates our programmers have been working on for the map of Gilded Destiny! While most of the renderings are likely to change significantly before release, and some placeholders are used, we hope this video gives you a better understanding of where the development is going! 🌎 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2189430/Gilded_Destiny/ Let us know if you have any questions or feedback in the comments below or join our discord. And be sure to wishlist us on Steam to stay up to date! Join our discord community today! https://discord.gg/3d77T9gxDF