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[Aquanoctis]

Reignfall is project I have been working on for almost a year now and many hours of tears, screaming and headaches have gone into it. It's a slow development but I felt it was the right time to start up a devlog.

:: Story Outline ::

A somewhat clichéd affair I suppose, our story follows Ira (pictured above) on his journey from the peacfeul trading town of Skud to the darkest bowels of robotic mechanism to try and stop automata wiping out the human race!

"Shock horror!" I hear you cry. Fear not as our hero has many abilities to hand...

:: Game Outline ::

- He can shoot a variety of weapons
(Currently) Pulse Gun/Rocket Launcher
- Jump!
- Gain abilities and powerups (e.g. Double Jump)
- and do other things that lengthen this rather short list!

There will of course be numerous enemies and bosses dispatched by the leader of the robotic forces: The creatively named, Number 1!

The world has never feared such evil,

according to the propogandist posters that now litter the formerly grand city of the humans which the robots swept through like fire, swatting human resistance like flies.

- - -

Heavily influenced by the likes of (suprise!) Cave Story and Noitu Love, Reignfall is a platformer with shooting, levelling and exploring.

:: About this Devlog ::

Until I get my site up and running this is where I will post screenshots, mockups, animations, concept art and possibly demos in the future.

:: Other Information ::

The game is being made in game maker mainly due to me being lazy and therefore not wanting to learn C++.
The programming and art (for which I have chosen a retro-esque chunky pixel stylee) is covered by me. However in the future I may need look for people to help with the soundtrack as the stuff I have currently composed doesn't even do a slap to the face any justice.
Also, when I feel the game has reached a reasonable build I will be looking for beta testers to take it for a test drive.

:: Links ::

Game Art

RF Illustration 1
RF Illustration 2
RF Illustration 3 WIP

Concepts

Number 1 concept
Transformation concept

:: Progress ::

Animation for the main character Ira:

[ElijahKatz]

Looks good...
I hope it gets made 

[r. d. ein]

Interesting... 
Although I feel there are too many platformer-shooters in the vein of  lately...

[JaJitsu]

Interesting... 
Although I feel there are too many platformer-shooters in the vein of  lately...

haha i enjoy game like that.
i think this looks sweet!

keep it up.

[Jim]

Interesting... 
Although I feel there are too many platformer-shooters in the vein of  lately...

That comments kinda dissapointing, especially when looking at your avatar

[r. d. ein]

Yeah, I know. I didnt' say I don't enjoy these games though. I'm just being realistic, look at all those platformer-exploration-shooters with cute graphics.

In no way i'm saying this game will be a bad thing. I just felt like expressing my opinion. Sorry if I went too far.

[HyperDuck]

Not at all, just a fair observation. That, although true, does not defy the fact that many people still love these games. I also think for many it is a learning curve and stepping stone in fact, for indie game devs. But to be quite honest, my personal opinion sways to these games every time, I just wuv em so much, WANNACUDDLEEMANDEATEMUP!


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whatwhennywhywhenwho? Where am i?

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[JaJitsu]

Yeah, I know. I didnt' say I don't enjoy theese games though. I'm just being realistic, look at all those platformer-exploration-shooters with cute graphics.

In no way i'm saying this game will be a bad thing. I just felt like expressing my opinion. Sorry if I went too far.

you didnt go too far at all ^_^



[as i try to stay on topic] post some animations Aqua! 

[Sparky]

MaloEspada- totally fair, totally on topic, and respectfully handled to boot.

Aquanoctis- I really like the colors in that image you posted. I hope we'll be seeing more visuals soon!

[Jason Bakker]

Looks pretty cool! Keep us updated Aqua

[Aquanoctis]

Wow. Thanks for the replies everyone.

MaloEspada - Don't worry, that's a fair comment. I definately know what you mean.

Apart from some similar aesthetics and the fact it's a platformer with robots hopefully means it wont be too samey.

Anyways, just a small update.

Animation for Ira.



Not sure what you think...be harsh if that's what is required  Crits greatly appreciated so I can make it better if need be.

Secondly a screenshot (currently the third in-game screen) Not much to it but at the risk of being patronising, it's annotated. It's just I seem to find that my low saturation colours have a habit of causing key objects to fade away into the background.



The long bright lines are meant to be light coming down from above...not sure how clearly that comes across.
The heart chest, when opened, releases a giant white heart into the air which lengthens your life. I'll put that animation up soon when it's finished.

[Iamthejuggler]

I thought those were lighter strips tree trunks before you explained it was beams of light.

Also that running animation looks like the character is running towards us rather than across the screen. I'm also in two minds about the jagged edges to the actual tree trunks. It looked fine in the first screen you posted, but it looks weird in the new one, especially with those beams of light over the top.

Sorry, that all sounds quite negative! I think the chest and box stand out ok, and will stand out even better when the messiness of the background gets better.

[r. d. ein]

I like your colors, although I dislike the fact that the Weapon HUD has transparent background, making it hard to read in screenshots like the one you posted.

[Aquanoctis]

Yeah it's pretty hard to make out. I'm currently working on redoing that though.

Iamthejuggler - I'll reconsider those lights then 

[sloopygoop]

I seem to find that my low saturation colours have a habit of causing key objects to fade away into the background.

That can be a problem, whereas if objects in the foreground are brighter or more saturated, they can be read more easily by the player.  Clarity does a great service to the gamer.