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A  quick screenshot of the great hall (located at York Castle) which allows the player to work as a servant, delivering orders to each of the diners. Video to follow, although all the voices are done by yours truly at the moment so might need a bit of a tweak in the future 😉 The hall reflects the normal layout of a medieval hall, namely the head table occupied

by the most important diners, and then 3 passageways leading off to the Pantry, Buttery and Kitchens. In keeping with medieval health and safety advice, the kitchen isn’t part of the great hall building, as they had a tendency to catch on fire, so was usually a hop across the courtyard for the servants! We’re also planning to create this setup in the large courtyard houses currently being developed

The next few weeks we’ll be adding in some of the minigames – repeatable games that the player can do at various points in town. Right now this includes:-

• ‘Pizza’ delivery. Ok fair enough we know that pizza wasn’t exactly on the menu in 14th century York, so we’re being a bit creative here. Pick up a pizza from the shop, and deliver it as quickly you can, with a bonus paid for quick delivery. Over time the player will learn about shortcuts and Snickleways!
• Taxi. Please see above for historial accuracy(!). But essentially the player will be in charge of a horse and cart, and the game mechanic will be similar to the delivery game – pick up a player, and deliver them where they want to go. The quicker they get there, the higher the reward!
• Treasury. Help the treasurer at the castle work out...

A stone circle leads to the Witches hovel, one of the . .ahem . . less historically accurate places in the game . .

An early look at in game footage, medieval Ouse bridge (complete with houses, church and gatehouse) can be seen in the background

With a working, turning mechanism. Today’s windmill is, of course, built much later but it is highly likely that a windmill existed on the site long before, its just too good a spot!