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[ferreiradaselva]

Long time I don't post here.
I'm just beginning my game, so keeping track with a devlog would be nice (for anyone interested and for me).

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Plot
Ghouls in the Neighborhood is an adventure game where mysterious creatures dominated your school and are spreading to the neighborhood. For some reason, monsters from the other side are appearing and people are turning crazy. It is up to you, with your water gun, to save the school and the neighborhood.

Status
The game development is at its very beginning, with some sprites and tilesets made. I terms of coding, I'm using my own engine and I have a good amount of components made.

Inspiration
Well, I have a set of inspirations for this game, and I have no shame to reveal them: Zombies Ate My Neighboors, Earthbound and Adventure Time.

Images

Mockup


Cute school girl, the main character. Probably there will be a second main character.


Map for school second floor made using Tiled.

Hope you like. And critics are wellcome, too!

Cheers.

[Jasmine]

Hey, this sounds cute! Not much up yet, but I'm digging it so far! Love the water gun concept -- all innocent and whatnot.

[lobstersteve]

Looks charming

[ferreiradaselva]

Thank you, both!
I read it is better to make a devlog earlier than later. And I kinda like the idea of seeing how things will progress.

[QOG]

Mockup looks great, I'll be interested to follow development.

[ferreiradaselva]

Cause my notebook is on repair, I will make some art (doodles) for the game until I get it back.


Messed up a little bit with her left hand and water gun.


Pajamas girl. During the "invasion" of monsters from the other side (I'm still thinking on a name for the other side), some citizens were turned into slaves of the Lord of evil.

[Geoff Moore]

Your style is awesome!! Those sprites are too damn cute :D Looking forward to this.

[Connor]

looks badass. im a massive anime fan, slice of life/school life in particular, so this is great.

[Pezomi]

Looks awesome!

[cynicalsandel]

looking forward to future updates

[vaaasm]

really cute! can't wait to see more sprites and gameplay. I also love the colors in the tileset and player, since the tileset brings out the whole ghoul aspect and its clear to tell who the player is with that red hoodie.

[ferreiradaselva]

Hello, tigs =)

I was tweaking with the main loop of the engine, trying to improve it, and I guess I found a good on LÖVE wiki (link if you have interest).

Plus, I made an outdoor tileset. I googled for japanese references of residential and rural areas. I'm trying to keep the japanese city feeling.

Some distractions:
Here is the house of our little girl:

My first thought was to make buildings with exactly same size outside and inside. Now I will keep them a bit smaller from outside. I like the undulated effect, because it gives a perspective-like feel.


I would like to give a friendship feeling through the game, so I made more main characters, whose we will encounter during the journey:


(1) Our main character, again.
(2) Don't be mistaken, this is a defense system!
(3) Not a vampire! But, yes, can turn into a bat!

Side update: I will have to buy a new notebook. I'm working on a prehistoric computer for now. :p

I hope to give some gifs of characters next update!

Cheers

[ferreiradaselva]

looks badass. im a massive anime fan, slice of life/school life in particular, so this is great.

@Connor, can slice of life fans sense each other?? 

really cute! can't wait to see more sprites and gameplay. I also love the colors in the tileset and player, since the tileset brings out the whole ghoul aspect and its clear to tell who the player is with that red hoodie.

I will have to tweak the palette color a bit. They look too different on different displays!

Looks awesome!

Thank you! =)

looking forward to future updates

Glad you are interested! =)

Your style is awesome!! Those sprites are too damn cute :D Looking forward to this.

Thank you! The sprite style or the doodle style?

[ｂ∀ ｋｋｕｓａ]

gifs in your twitter are surprisingly cute, especially the red thing chasing the girl.
good luck on this project.

[Jasmine]

This is adorabubble! Is Adventure Time an influence? Feeling it in certain art pieces (especially the bat lady).

[kraed]

The colors are working great. Good combination of influences, very promising project.
I think you should stick with "the other side", fits the world and atmosphere.

[ferreiradaselva]

Hi, kids!

I thought you might like this:

Enemies + Two main characters. I'm looking for a resource with creepy creatures to make more enemies. In doubt about the bat-lady's t-shirt.


Not done, although. Well, I was making designs of the game, and I believe the gameplay will look more like Earthbound+Zelda than ZAMN. But, the ZAMN reference is still up, mostly because of my intentions to make it like a Run 'n' Gun.

The colors are working great. Good combination of influences, very promising project.
I think you should stick with "the other side", fits the world and atmosphere.

Blue-like and pink-like colors make a good combination, surprisingly.

This is adorabubble! Is Adventure Time an influence? Feeling it in certain art pieces (especially the bat lady).

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!  But, seriously, thank you!

gifs in your twitter are surprisingly cute, especially the red thing chasing the girl.
good luck on this project.

Thank you. Ow, I forgot about that little guy.

Edit:

The game will definitely have more than a neighborhood as scenario (I've been making maps).

[ferreiradaselva]

Made a TumblrDevlog: http://felipefsdev.tumblr.com/

Check this out!





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[KaiTheSpy]

your art style is really cute

[ferreiradaselva]

Thank you!