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[Eigen]

My reaction when you walked up the shadows

Signed,
me

[Claw]

Thanks guys 

This is pretty amazing. Since light plays such a big part, will the whole game be indoors?

Yeah, the setting for the entire game will be 99% underground; toying with a sense of isolation and claustrophobia.

[Franklins Ghost]

At first I was like wow, this looks great in motion. Then I was like Wow, love the split and ripple effect and then I was like WOW he just walked up the shadows  Amazing job

[mauz]

WOW! Stunning and beautiful! great job.

[Zaknafein]

Oh wow, very cool. Following!

[jmcmorris]

Very awesome. I knew there was a reason why I would check this devlog everyday.

[paste]

I'm liking the look of this. Following now.

[amidos2006]

That's really an amazing look and feel and with some quite ambient music will be nice I like the idea about using the shadow like physics, I don't know but it made the game have a deeper feeling about the light and dark

That's really a cool game art and mechanic

[seagaia]

kool dood 

http://indiegames.com/2012/06/limbo_and_fez_shaked_and_stirr.html

[Claw]

Man what a day.

Went to the Manchester gamedev meetup and my phone started going mental with twitter and youtube stuff. Big thanks to indiegames.com for shining a light (har har) on the project :D

No major updates this evening as I spent the better half of today drinking, worked on some level design and puzzle concepts and have a few new ideas which seem promising (in my head).

[orihaus]

Looks like an interesting mechanic! 

[Claw]

@orihaus

Spent half of today going over some of the problems with reflection and mirrors in a 2D environment. The maths and logic becomes increasingly complex with more mirrors if they were to realistically reflect light, basically adds more and more light sources. It also causes a headache with the shadow collisions. From a design perspective it would be awkward to go for straight up reflections too.

Taking all that into account I've come up with some ideas I'll need to prototype over the next few days and see how they look + handle, taking some inspiration from how mirrors worked in Zelda: OoT (or at least how I remember them working). Just need to try a bunch of stuff and see what works.

Wrote out several pages in my notebook about areas and mechanics (after filling half of it with reflection mathematics + collision thoughts) along with other stuff.

Thanks to Her Majesty for giving me a day off work, got some more thoughts to process as a result of the extra time  Back to the grind tomorrow though 

[heysami]

Love this piece! gave an afterthought too : http://heysami.blogspot.sg/2012/06/bunpi-chroma.html

waiting for the release

[Gray Gambit Games]

Looking very interesting! "walking on shadows" was quite a pleasant surprise!

[kamac]

*Walks by*

"Just another epic game."

*Keeps on walking*


But really, this rocks. I mean, tottaly. Another OpenGL guru to me.
Great shadows, lighting, gameplay, idea... everything's perfect. You're going to have a hit. (Or atleast a really nice income)
You might want to try and port it to android / ios tablets. Just incase.