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[Derqs]

-NIVO-

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Platformer shooter, if Supercratebox and risk of rain had a baby..
Will feature dozens of guns and dozens of different ammunition.
Randomized gun + randomized ammo = tons of different guns.


Current to do list:

• Implement at least 6 different weapons.
• Give each weapon their own behavior.
• Get the drone to disappear and spawn.
• Working grenades for the grenade launcher.
• Get the first vehicle to work

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[Derqs]

Been wanting to start a devlog here for quite some time..

-NIVO- is a platformer shooter, heavily inspired by games as Super Crate Box, Risk Of Rain and the Lost Planet series.
This will be the first ever game I'll finish. I have made some games here and there, but they were mostly rushed and I didnt put any thought in it.
That's why I'm not giving myself a deadline this time. I'm not very good at art, really bad at programming and I work slow.
So about the game,
You start of underground, a few levels below the surface and your goal is to get to the surface.
You do this by collecting Boxes, these boxes will construct a tower once you've collected enough, so you can ascend a level higher and so on..
While you collect these boxes, you'll encouter lots of monsters who will try to kill you, oh and your weapons changes when u collect a box(hehe)
I plan to have a lot of variation in weapons, including vehicles, drones etc.
When you shoot a monster it will drop some energy, collecting these will help keep you alive, since you need these to breath below surface.

So I started off with this....



Which slowly(I mean really slow) transformed into this, when I started to care a bit more about pixelart and changed from gamemaker to construct 2.


When I figured it was time to change the artstyle I went to this:

Well I really liked that style, so I added some grass tiles and made a drone companion.

But then I figured it would be really hard to animate that character, so I changed him to this and added an running animation:

And as you can see, he can only shoot left and right from now on.

[DarkWanderer]

That last character sprite is really cool, love the style. The run cycle could use some work though.
I happen to personally prefer fixed aiming to mouse aiming in 2D platformers, but why can't you at least aim up or down? 

[Derqs]

That last character sprite is really cool, love the style. The run cycle could use some work though.
I happen to personally prefer fixed aiming to mouse aiming in 2D platformers, but why can't you at least aim up or down? 

Thanks!, Up and down aiming is definitely something I can add, I actually had not thought about it.

Here are some sprites;
recoloured the assault rifle, new ground tiles, box and some enemies.

[Derqs]

Here's a quick mockup scene:

Still haven't decided about how I'll display the healthbar for the player, does this look any good?

[Derqs]

Another mockup, played a little with a dawnbringer's palette this time.

[Derqs]

Another mockup, I think I'll stick to this from now on and start working on the actual game again.

[Derqs]

Made some progress, 6 working weapons in the game( grenades of the grenade launcher don't work yet tho)

Pistol:                                           Drone Companion:                      Shotgun:

Assault Rifle:                                 Grenade Launcher:

Attacking monster:                         Picking up a box:

[deddhogg]

Looks really good. What're you making it in?

[Cobralad]

why is there soldier from risk of rain?

[sakuyo]

This looks pretty awesome - I especially like the drone interactions.

[Derqs]

@deadhog      I can't code, so I'm making this is in Construct2.
@Cobralad     Crap, I tried to avoid that. I'll try to change him a little bit when I have time.
@sakuyo        Thanks!

Here's another enemy:

[jlauener]

Wow this looks amazing. Being a sucker for SCB I'm looking forward this one.

[Derqs]

@jlauener Haha thanks, that's really motivating!

Just found out there is a DB32 colour palette, how could I've missed that.
Decided to drop it on the earlier tiles
Is this better or worse? because I kinda like more this way

[sidbarnhoorn]

This looks awesome. Definitely a game I'd like to play!

[jovanmilic97]

Bumping this,hoping this isnt dead.

[Fauxfox]

me too. <.< >.>