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[ness io kain]

This game is about a boy who has had to go through some rough things. He hates reality, and escapes it regularly.
But lately his mind has not been a very pleasant place to be.





Wishes Above Clouds will be something sort of like a shooter with roguelike elements. It won't be so much randomly generated as it is randomly determined; there will be a fair bit of consistency from one game to the next, but details will change to keep the experience fresh.

This game is pretty well-thought-out, but I haven't made that much progress as far as "actual work" goes. So far I've just done graphics and music, but soon I'll be ready to start actually coding stuff. I'll probably be working in Game Maker just because it's the only thing I know well right now. I might decide to learn something else for this, but that would eat up a lot of time...

I'm not sure how much I want to tell you about this right now, so here are some random details:
-You fly a rocket ship
-The rocket ship gets weapons
-There are guns as well as ramming weapons
-You blow stuff up
-You collect cookies
-You level up
-You find stuff and use it
-There will be bosses
-There is something resembling a story
-The atmosphere will hopefully be sort of unusual

Feel free to ask questions, but I may not answer them; I don't want to say too much in case plans change.



...I don't get a great deal of free time, so progress has been slow. I am working, though, and hopefully running some sort of log will keep me a little more committed to this.
The idea is to finish this eventually, but I'm guessing I'll be working on it for a long time before I release anything playable.

[Bones]

Are you doing all the art and programming yourself?
Either way, this is looking awesome. 

Just from the screenshot the trail and particle effect looks cool.
And your cave/rock tiles are pretty sweet too, I dig this.

[ness io kain]

Are you doing all the art and programming yourself?
Either way, this is looking awesome. 

Yep, I plan on doing all the work myself... although I might need a little bit of assistance, or at least some tips, when it comes to AI; I'm not that good of a programmer.
...Also, I might be using SFXR for some or all of the sound effects, which might be considered cheating. But anyway, I'm pretty much doing it on my own, yes.

Just from the screenshot the trail and particle effect looks cool.
And your cave/rock tiles are pretty sweet too, I dig this.

Well, this is actually just a mockup, but I've done effects very similar to that before so I shouldn't have too much trouble getting it to look pretty much the same in the actual game.

Anyway, thanks for your comments!

[Alomard]

well i certainly like the art you've posted so far

[Icarus]

Lookin' good. I like the contrast between the background and the objects. And the style looks awesome, too. Awesome, says I. 

[Dom2D]

This game is about a boy who has had to go through some rough things. He hates reality, and escapes it regularly.
But lately his mind has not been a very pleasant place to be.

Can I escape too?