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This is our game from SkyForts. It's a platformer game with additional mechanic such as stage-rotating and tile-headbutt.
The game itself told the story of Welsho Nion who had sold her soul to a Devil. Instead of killing Nion and took her soul, the Devil made Nion his subordinate and forced her to collect souls. Thus, Nion's day as ghouls-miner begins.

GhoulsMiner's main screen

Game Play

The objective on GhoulsMiner is to collect fragment souls inside dungeon by using Nion’s 3 basic ability: Platforming, Headbutting, and Stage-Rotating, which are the core-mechanics of this game.
Fragment soul resides on Gem and Ghoul, so to get them Nion has to mine gem or beat ghouls.

inside the dungeon

The Gem itself also acts as ingame-currency that Nion could use to upgrade her powerup. There are 3 types of gem, so we use 3 currency system.

shop

Our inspiration for the game comes from Mario, Spelunky, Pacman, etc.

Team
GhoulsMiner is being worked on by 2 people.
Myself, mostly working on the code, and spiralhalo doing the graphic and story.



That's all for now. Later I will explain more about gameplay and story.
 
Meanwhile, you could follow us on http://skyforts.tumblr.com/ and @SkyForts

[Joh]

This looks really good and interesting!
Kind of a neat little idea with adorable art.

Hopefully all goes well, Good luck!

[bluilisht]

This looks really good and interesting!
Kind of a neat little idea with adorable art.

Hopefully all goes well, Good luck!

thanks for your kind word 

Long time not posting here, the game is still working on but it's slower than I thought it would be.

I made a design for the Devil, what do you think guys.

[bluilisht]

halo had been working on Nion sprite

v1  v2 v3

The left one is the first sprite that he made. Then he changed it to v2, but it's not really fit on the stage. So v3 is the current sprite that we use.

There's also other form that Nion would use after taking powerups. But it's still based on v2 style. We might change it later.

[Savick]

Cool looking mechanic, cute art. Doesn't she need like a shovel though? I mean she's just bashing rocks with her head, right? Seems like it would hurt. It does add to the cute factor though.

[The Translocator]

It looks cool. I only have one question: can you kill the enemies by bashing a block under them like in Mario?

[spiralhalo]

Hi. spiralhalo here, thanks for checking out our game!

Cool looking mechanic, cute art. Doesn't she need like a shovel though? I mean she's just bashing rocks with her head, right? Seems like it would hurt. It does add to the cute factor though.

Good point. Well, I thought about using a drill helmet once but just it doesn't feel right. In Nion's initial design she is supposed to be a peculiar adventurer with a trademark helmet that has magic capabilities. Let's say her helmet absorbs all impact so her head doesn't hurt!

It looks cool. I only have one question: can you kill the enemies by bashing a block under them like in Mario?

No. We want to stick with the pacman style of removing enemies which adds to the game's arcade feel.

[spiralhalo]

we made some notable changes to the game recently

now the game has mission system that asks player to complete missions in 4 different dungeons. another addition includes a harder block variant. I revamped the art to match the change, as well as adding some cool contrast. you can tell which are the harder block variant by their similarity. there're still some correction to be done but I liked the new style so far

following the mission system, the house now has 4 trophy slots that stores a new trophy for every dungeon cleared. you will be able to access an endless mode for each dungeon from those trophies later (the cat double is due to debugging)

[Oxeren]

Interesting take on screen rotation mechanic.

[bluilisht]

Art & character design progress for Welsho Nion, the bottom-right will be used for dialogue avatar.

The top images were done by spiralhalo. You can see the initial design that he made. He actually responsible to draw dialogue avatar too, but I forced him to give that task to me.

I wanted to draw something that not too anime, I even draw something creepy. But the final piece is still looking anime-ish

[spiralhalo]

A bit late to the party, but here's a concept art for Chatom the ghost cat (cat ghost?)

It's basically a hi-res version of the sprite, as a reference for the dialogue avatar that blue is working on

[bluilisht]

finished another avatar. It took me 1 week to do this.



Anyway, Chatom is a spirit cat that owns a treehouse called Death's Abode. It's a basecamp for adventurer who wants to explore the Weeping Tower nearby. He's also an acquaintance of the Devil.

[bluilisht]

Hi guys, i bring you some new updates!

spiralhalo had been reworking the tiles (again)

a preview for ice-room (he said that so far, this is his best pixel work)

he finished the dialog box too

oh, it feels so good to finally see my artwork in the game (even though it's just a mockup). I should do something like this more often 

and guess


who's coming

[CasePortman]

I like the graphics, they've evolved into something quite nice! I'm looking forward to see how this game plays out!

[joseph ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Art is developing into totally adorable status. Loving that backpack illustration -- everything is very clever, nice core gameplay mechanic.

[bluilisht]

I like the graphics, they've evolved into something quite nice! I'm looking forward to see how this game plays out!

Art is developing into totally adorable status. Loving that backpack illustration -- everything is very clever, nice core gameplay mechanic.

thank you 



finally all three of them are done. I still have to make their expression tho.

[spiralhalo]

been a while since I visited this thread. thank you kindly for the nice comments  

this is our recent status update. we're working on the mission board along with the mission system, which is the second last important piece for the game (the other one being the cutscenes)

on another news, we had a composer joined us to work with the game music we're currently waiting to hear back from him

here is a mockup sketch for the mission board (pardon the intentional misspelling

and an older sketch (rejected)

[Lazcht]

+1 to random descriptions. i love that (and how is your digital handwriting surprisingly very good compared to mine)

looking good so far, i hope those boards wouldn't turn out as popups, instead using the room attributes as the mission/result screen, hohoho.

[bluilisht]

+1 to random descriptions. i love that (and how is your digital handwriting surprisingly very good compared to mine)

looking good so far, i hope those boards wouldn't turn out as popups, instead using the room attributes as the mission/result screen, hohoho.

well it's a popup ._.

made some progress on the intro, just started to understand Starling Filter a lot better. I'm just gonna leave the gif here.
Pardon the unfinished dialogue, spiralhalo is too lazy busy to finish it at the moment.

[Conker534]

Yeah I'm definitely following the development to this game, followed on twitter as well!