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(http://hollowsdeep.com/promotional/logoclear.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/)

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THE TEAM

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• Chevy Ray Johnston (http://chevyray.com) - Story, design, & programming
• Sara Gross (http://twobitart.com) - Concept art & graphics
• Ben Ruiz (http://benruiz.net) - Animation rigs
• Josh Whelchel (http://soundofjw.com/) - Music
• HyperDuck SoundWorks (http://hyperduck.co.uk/) - Sound design

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THE GIST

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I wrote a huge blog post about the game, detailing what it's about, who you play as, and some more info!

ChevyRay.com - What Is Hollow's Deep? (http://chevyray.com/2011/11/what-is-hollows-deep/)

(http://hollowsdeep.com/images/moths.png)

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ARTWORK

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(http://hollowsdeep.com/characters/ruinn_stances.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/characters/ruinn_stances.png)
(http://chevyray.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/forest.png)
(http://chevyray.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/houses.png)
(http://chevyray.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ruinn.png)
(http://hollowsdeep.com/characters/ruinn.jpg)
(http://chevyray.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/haska-150x150.jpg)(http://hollowsdeep.com/characters/ruinn_face.jpg)(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/deco_kukeri2.png)(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/deco_kukeri.png)

(http://chevyray.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/editor_stuff.png)

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WALLPAPER

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Here I will post pretty desktop wallpaper that you are welcome to!

Girl With The Lantern - 1280x768 (http://hollowsdeep.com/wallpaper/hollows_deep_1280x768.png) | 1680x1050 (http://hollowsdeep.com/wallpaper/hollows_deep_1680x1050.png) | 1920x1080 (http://hollowsdeep.com/wallpaper/hollows_deep_1920x1080.png)
(http://hollowsdeep.com/wallpaper/hollows_deep_1280x768.png)

Jumping Stabby - 1280x720 (http://hollowsdeep.com/promotional/teaserpic.png)
(http://hollowsdeep.com/promotional/teaserpic.png)

First!

Hahah okay Chevy this looks awesome, love the concept art and really interested in seeing where this goes!

Looks good so far. I've been watching it from twitter, and I'll continue to watch it here. :3

Subscribed!

I've been watching the videos and it's cool to have a concept to apply to them now  :).  The art is looks stunning, concept sounds interesting, and am looking forward to the devlogs!

Thanks guys!

List of to-do/doing stuff:

• Going to skype the animator in about 20 minutes, will hopefully settle on a workload/timeframe for milestone 1. You've seen his work before.
• Currently coding: room transitions & fancy text rendering stuff
• Art progress: working on mockups and in-game perspective/look stuff

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I have been keeping an eye on this project through your twitter updates, this looks FANTASTIC.

Looks awesome.
Don't want to thread hijack, but I hope when this is done you'll go back to Flee Buster. I think that game was intense and highly replayable.

That said, maybe the time pressure element could work well in this game.

Looking really interesting, and the concept art is gorgeous.

The first thing I thought when I read about the game was 'Ah, so it's a 4F game...?'  :lol:

Thanks! :) What's 4F?

:D

 :lol:

Okay you've officially confused me. But I like it <3

Just had call with Mr. Ben Ruiz (http://benruiz.net/) (FlashBang, Offroad Velociraptor Safari, Minotaur China Shop, etc.), who is now going to be animating for Hollow's Deep full-time.

This shit's gon' RAWK.

The quote is from the announcement page. I saw the 4 words starting with F and the terrible pun/riff on '4X games' ( "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate." )  sprung to mind. I'm a terrible person, and I'm sorry. I'll  stop hijacking your thread now go stand in the corner.

No, I got the four letter Fs part, I just didn't get the reference, 'cause I'd never heard of "4X games" before, that's new to me.

Hehe

So is this going to be a PC or Xbox game? Both?  ;D

Definitely PC, not sure about XBox, as I've never released a console game before. More concerned with just developing+finishing the game right now.

Looking very cool, Chevy

Can't wait to see the animations! Good luck you guys!

Beautiful!!! Man, I would LOVE to compose for this game!

He's just trying to say it's going to be FFFFing awesome.

As I've already told you this looks promising.
Movement engine is looking very neat, and the editor is shaping up.

Shall be keeping my eye on this one as it develops.

Here have an art (click for full-size):

(http://hollowsdeep.com/promotional/logopaint3.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/promotional/logopaint3.png)

On the to-do list today:

• Add parallax-able backdrops to editor (done now, just tweaking)
• Add event triggers to editor (done, extending them into different event types and making them work now)
• Work on animations (Ben is on it :))

This looks cool, I'll be keeping an eye on this.  That new title is pretty nice, although I think I actually prefer the original more stylised one.  The reindeer-thing in the new version doesn't really stand out enough to make it look like part of the lettering, making the curl coming off the 'H' look a bit wimpy and unbalanced.

For some reason I can't unsee the long arm of the W as being slightly.... phallic.  :facepalm:

Very impressive artworks.

 :beer:

This is a message of support.

Hah, thanks Jasper. Actually, considering the game you're working on right now, we should chat sometime, as there are a few visual/aesthetic themes in common. Maybe there's a few things we could bat off each other.

Thanks for the ups people, I think I'm gonna record another video log this evening, as just showing off art is cool... but not really informative, and I'd feel bad if I just posted hype shit with no actual meat & potatoes.

Wyrd.

I like me some meat 'n' p'taters. Mmmhrrrmmmmmmm.

Much obliged, fine 'sir.

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Looking forward to it :3

Well gosh, this looks pretty.

You're right! MORE RIM LIGHTING! :waaagh:

UPDATE: Well I put it on there but I don't think that it worked...  :( I suppose Chevy can decide if he likes it better or not.

Rim, phallic, and deep, huh? This is shaping up to be quite the sexy-sounding game! :D

Oh, it is.


Also :( my mic busted and I can't record audio, so video devlogs suspended until I get that back. But ben got started on the animations and I'm looking forward to progress on that this week as sara and I work on gettin the level art and assets stuff lookin' and feelin' fine.

New background! thanks. Looks like this is shaping up to be awesome.

argh! i was just about to ask when you were gonna make more of these! they were fantastic :)

The concept art is looking awesome btw.  Logo's not working for me yet though, typographically it's cool, it's just the gradient and softness I'm not in.


For sure...   Hit me up anytime man.  Would love to know how you get on with LS if you have a moment to check it out too.

My current to-do list:

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/todo_chevy.jpg)

Vs. twobitart's to-do list:

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/todo_sara.jpg)

How do you have such beautiful handwriting?

Aside from that.. quite impressed with how fast you're progressing on this. Looking great so far, keep up the good work all.

Yeah, for serious, Chevy! You probably have that teacher handwriting stuff going on.

I feel so ashamed of mine. You'd think I didn't know how to hold a pencil.  :droop:

I just can't wait 'til we can show screenshots!

Come on, Chevy, you're killing us!

Who wants a mockup? This is a pic of actual game assets arranged, I can more or less already build areas like this in the editor. Twobitart added fog and stuff to this since I haven't coded in the rendering for that yet, but this is the look we're going for, more or less:

(http://hollowsdeep.com/images/moths.png)

The moths will be creatures that actually fly around, and sort of "follow" you, I'm looking into shaders to achieve a nice glow-effect with certain objects like that in the game.

What think?

Very cool, good to see some assets for this. :handthumbsupR:

You can see the time that went into it, so best of luck to twooby as this ambitious thing goes on. Be careful with color though, the greens flatten things out a little.

hot damn that looks fly as hell.

are those the finished assets? some bits look a little sketchy still.

It's not finished until the entire game is finished. We're holding off realllly polishing the artwork until twobitart can see all the things in-motion. I'm able to place objects on different layers for a really elaborate parallax effect in motion, so once she sees that, we'll do tweaks to make it look good.

Make no assumptions about what it'll look like when it's done, 'cause you'll be wrong :) just showing off some WIP stuff 'cause you guys have been asking, that's all.


I can only afford to pay twobit for so long before my funds run out, so up to this point I've been like "plz make as much as you can really fast!", once I get things in motion and all of the pieces come together (really soon!), I'll see what my options are.

Exited, though, it's going really smoothly :)

The game looks just awesome, though it's a big shame that you're developing it in XNA (-> Windows only).

Thanks!

Could be ported later, no problem. The fact that I get to work in C# is probably the only reason this game will actually get finished, so to be honest it'd only be a shame if I wasn't doing it in XNA :lol:

Yes, I have been paying attention to that and put a blue tint into everything, but you're so right. It took me a while to find the right balance of green tones to separate the closer elements from the further ones. Chevy's gotta send me a build with his fog and such so I can compensate with detail and especially contrast. For now, I've put a bit of an underlighting blue tint on all the foliage in the hopes of complementing the fog.

Also, I haven't made any torches or light source items. Right now I'm just getting background atmosphere.

I suppose after I learn how this stuff is gonna look in motion that I'll need to know how the lighting engine is gonna work, or if I'm going to just straight up paint the sources. My hope is that your character will be running through "pools" of light scattered in the forest or even having her way lit by moths.

*insert moth to flame metaphors here*  :waaagh:

For my glow which acts on everything, I do a blur of the main buffer, and draw it back over the original in Flash's "screen" blend mode, which according their site: "Multiplies the inverse of the blend color by the base color, resulting in a bleaching effect."  Might be an approach worth trying.  You could glow specific objects by having a different buffer that you rendered to...

Can't remember much about shaders in XNA, but should be possible.

I love the art, and I'd really like it just as it is (sketchy, rather than super detailed.)

Awesome, thanks jasper. Yeah I've already got code in place for rendering specific objects (by z-depth, z-range, type, etc.) to a buffer, so I'll do that and try applying different shaders to it and rendering it over/on the main buffer and see how it works, will definitely take some experimentation.

that comes later on though, focusing on more functional stuff atm.


That makes two of us. :)


That sounds like pretty much exactly how I was imagining it.

We can do that? Yessss!



Yay! Well we still gotta do the character animations, there might be a chance that sketchy is the way to go because she'll look weird or something.

All I can say is keep up the good work, you two.

The mockup looks beautiful and sets a great mood. Can't wait for more!  :-*

Sexy mockup = immediate interest! Keep it up!

DingDingDingDing. :) :thumbsupr:

I've put your wallpaper on my desktop :)
It's cool

To celebrate 10k followers on my side-project tumblr Gamestorm, I uploaded a design sketch (http://gamestorm.tumblr.com/post/11439353726/just-wanted-to-say-thanks-to-everybody-who-follows) for Hollow's Deep :)

Click for full.

(http://hollowsdeep.com/characters/ruinn_stances.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/characters/ruinn_stances.png)

Whips?  Yes please :laughter:

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/hollowsderp.png)

Here's a pic of a test area I'm putting together with the edtior (click for full):

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/editing_levels.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/editing_levels.png)

Putting in a bunch of the player animations now (got about 147 frames across 13 different animations), so the player is starting to already look and feel really good! :)

Hi. This looks amazing.

Also: Rising attack = Shoryuken + Zelda jump attack  >:D

Artwork looks VERY good, I couldn't view the gameplay video

Keep up the good work

this looks really amazing so far :)

So very very nice.. *slowly hugs screen*

*slowly hugs Mecha*

Thanks, guys!

Ahh, fun stuff! I found that I can use the last half of the ledge-climb animation as a "hard landing" animation :D resourceful! So when you fall at decent speed and hit the ground, she goes down into kinda a crouch, breaking her pace, and rises up. Works nicely, but doesn't happen when you land from normal jumps.

Here's a peek at my wall of Hollow's Deep concept art.

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/wall_of_deep.jpg)

Just printed on black+white 'cause that's the only printer I had access to. It still helps to keep me inspired & getting to work when I sit down at the computer to face it, though ;D

Sorry it's blurry, took the photo that way intentionally 'cause some of the pics have pretty big spoilers.

I can see... Wait, no... I think that's... A... No... That's not it... Wait...
Yeah I can't see what anything there is. Spoiler-free!

Pfft, don't tell me you couldn't even make out the giraffe?

I MEAN

It looks really incredible!

*rotates head in attempt to see*

Jeez, Chevy! SPOILERS! GAWD! :apoplectic: Next you'll be telling them about the fire truck and the bananas. For eff's sake! :screamy:

The giraffe better be driving this fire truck full of potassium filled delights.

Oh...oh man, you have no idea... :whome:

Giraffe + Potassium Filled Delights (http://twitter.com/#!/twobitart/status/126364719987687424/photo/1/large)

Oh wow, can't believe I missed this. This looks really cool :D Great job on the art as well, twobit.

twobitart send napkins please, tea all over my screen... =)  :eyebrows: :eyebrows: :eyebrows: :eyebrows: :eyebrows: :eyebrows: :eyebrows: :eyebrows: :eyebrows: :eyebrows:

Oh yes.

 :epileptic: Don't know if want.

I'll wear a pink T-Shirt to have this. Hell I'll wear a pink 3 piece suit to have this.

 :nono: Thats just wrong. I'll never look at firetrucks or bananas the same way.

Curious. How would you have looked at them previously?


Cloth or paper?

:o

...

:biglaff: Indie developers.

You're busted ChevyRay, I have 3d monitor and watching the picture from the right side of my monitor :blink:

Cloth embroidered with "Giraffe Muchacho"

Oh shiiii

Discovered I can change one line of code to make the game look like LIMBO!

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/limbo_mode.png)

I can slowly transition between regular colors and blending, also easily tint objects with all kinds of parameters for nice effects. Will play around with this more, and use sparingly for cinematic effect when applicable.

Holy silhouettes
GOTY 2012

While twoobs plays around with tile stitching... (click for full)

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/buildexample.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/buildexample.png)

I just finished up room transitions, and making my TIGJam to-do list for the game.

I didn't even put any trees into it...  :wtf:


Yea-uhhh, buddy!

:biglaff:

 :beer: for this comical and usable misspelling of tubes.

:beer: for this comical misinterpretation of what is actually my nickname.  :)

:beer: for this comical misinterpretation of a uh... :droop:

Whatever. I knew that it was your nickname.

Hahahaha the eye droopy made that perfect.  :)  :droop:

I'm the one who made the eye-droopy smiley too :) so it's only appropriate!

What, really? :droop:
Thanks, I use it a lot.

This looks beautiful, well done twobit.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7UyesaqfeFM/TmUTMYv0IiI/AAAAAAAAANE/lxclINENzkE/s1600/TheMoreYouKnow.jpg)


Thanks! ^_^ I can't wait 'til you guys get to see all the stuff in action - but for now I get to take all the compliments! MWAHAHAHAHAHA! :waaagh: ALL OF THEMS!

I've seen more to-do lists mentioned so far than I've ever seen metioned in an indie game  :handpencil: 8) <--- Chevy

I said this to a fella on Twitter yesterday: "I think every time Chevy and I brainstorm we add 3 months <to the production schedule>...Should be called the "OOOOOWhatifIdidthis?" factor."

I wish I coulda heard everyone watching the game and the follow up convo last night (they were on the other side of the room from the livestream - NYUUURRGHHH!). I had stayed up hoping to listen in on feedback or suggestions - or even to hear Chevy talk real-time about his thoughts so I had them more in context than an email.

this is def not two bit art

its at least 24

noobs

Two bit as in cheap, worthless, etc. Describes Sara's awful scribblings PERFECTLY if you ask me, yeesh what crap.

Also, WHO DA NOOB NOW!?





Okay fine, here's what I'm currently working on, attack collision/detection/response stuff (click for full):

(http://hollowsdeep.com/hd_attacking.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/hd_attacking.png)

It's going slow 'cause I slept for 18 hours today only to wake up coughing blood for some godforsaken reason. So if I stop posting stuff here, just assume I died and move along ;D

Also asked twoobs to mess around with dialogue display ideas and stuff, how speech should appear, etc. The format was hilarious (also click for full on these):

(http://hollowsdeep.com/dialogue1.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/dialogue1.png)

(http://hollowsdeep.com/dialogue3.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/dialogue3.png)

(http://hollowsdeep.com/dialogue5.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/dialogue5.png)

(http://hollowsdeep.com/dialogue8.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/dialogue8.png)

If you have any suggestions/ideas about how this could look, feel free to speak 'em, I'd like to hear.

I love how the guy repeats it twice, vote for the last one!

I like the first and third one.

This isn't a democracy! No voting!

Suggestions and ideas are encouraged, though :)

EDIT: PS: thx, glad you like 'em. My favorite stuff to see in devlogs is "evolving" designs like this, which is why I shared these.

Don't write things like that  :(  It makes me sad

I'd suggest speech bubbles to be kept simple and readable. 4th is completely wrong for me, not readable and sucks IMO :)
3rd is too fancy, for me the best choice would be the first concept, but second also would be good.

I like the first, although if you go with it you'll probably have to shadow the text.

Or like...whores. :monoclepop: I think I came up with it when I thought of Christopher Lloyd singing "shave and a haircut" in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.


I was showing how the type looked in all caps and in regular, lol. I made all of these in like 5 minutes so there!

The 4th one is my favorite because no one likes it.

That's how I roll, biz-natches. 8)

Added visible selection list, highlighting, and instance naming to the editor:

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/instance_names.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/instance_names.png)

So now I can "label" instances by name, and reference them in scripts. I also added a script interface, but the scripts aren't actually being parsed and activated yet. That comes next!

Here's some more art bits as well:

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/deco_kukeri.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/deco_kukeri2.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/deco_kukeri.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/deco_kukeri2.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/deco_kukeri.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/deco_kukeri2.png)

Oh the KUKERI HORROR
Those are very nice, and very ominous.

Someone knows what Kukeri are?!  :tearsofjoy:

One step closer to preventing people from calling it Celtic! :coffee:

YAY

Also, made good progress last night and today with scripting :) Got scripts added to editor and can now place/edit them, and scripts are now getting parsed. Haven't mapped all the actions yet, but that's the next step. Exciting :mockangry: for me anyways.

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/pants.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/pants.png)

Who needs writers?! I think our dialog is going swimmingly.  :laughter:

It really fits the mood created by the fancy artwork. :giggle:

Great dialog. When it's done I hope it wins best writing.

I heard you like concept stuff!

Here, have some of Twobit's concept sketches (8 different thumbs, click 'em for full size!)

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks1.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks1.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks2.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks2.png)

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks3.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks3.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks4.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks4.png)

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks5.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks5.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks6.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks6.png)

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks7.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks7.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks8.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/villagechunks8.png)



Today I got more event stuff working, wiring in events and testing out cutscene stuff. I added more parameters to room portals, so I can do fancy stuff (attach specialized scripts to them, or make them one-way portals). Also wrote down a ton of notes for thematic/story things that will occur, and secrets to be hidden away in the game, but these need to be reviewed and some of them prototyped before I decide to actually put them in.

Making this game is way too much fun.

Just wrote a massive blog post as well! Huge reveal (well, sorta) :) I tell a lot more about the game, the themes, and show off a bunch of yet-unseen artwork!

What Is Hollow's Deep? (http://chevyray.com/2011/11/what-is-hollows-deep/)

Also, have a wallpaper (click for full):

(http://hollowsdeep.com/promotional/teaserpic.png) (http://hollowsdeep.com/promotional/teaserpic.png)

Awesome blog post- it's amazing the amount of work that you guys are putting into this! Keep up the great work :)

Oh my, those sketches... they're so beautiful  :o

Good progress today as well, I added a bunch more function calls to scripts! Also re-working how scene transitions work, now that I realize scripts made the old system totally redundant 0_o I didn't realize how powerful these were going to be! Omg excited.

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/script_types.png)

I can place slice-scripts (the left) or radial-scripts (the right). Slice scripts are triggered when the player crosses the line, and radial scripts are placed when the player enters the radius (which I can adjust in the editor).

So I can now do things like, place a radial script on the ground, tell it to spawn a bunch of particles when the player hits that spot (eg. stepping on a patch of moths). And with slice scripts, say I want to trigger some kind of event or something once the player gets into the middle of a room, I can script it.

Now to finish reworking scene transitions...

You're lucky you have an art slave.

I don't have an art slave.

Why so serious

What makes you think I didn't say it in my Goof Troop voice? You'll never know :laughter:

Because you didn't say it, you typed it.  :mockangry:

Says you! Doesn't everybody else read out loud what they type on the internet? ??? Don't tell me I've been doing it all this time on my own.

But it's still true, art slave I have not.

I say everything I type lol, and I also read everything out loud the way I interpret it  :lol:

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t81/cuppincakes/indentured-1.png)  :'(

I don't remember saying you could speak. Don't you have pine needles to paint?

Bleeding hands? I don't care if you have to hold the stylus with your teeth.

AAAAAAAAhahaha i did laugh out loud as internets famous lol would indeed, ahh.. suggest.

Those scripts sound pretty awesome. Do you write them in a custom language or something like that?

It's actually ridiculously simple. They're not really scripts, as much as a list of commands w/ parameters that I can type out in the editor.

So it just breaks it up line-by-line, determined which event to queue up based on the name, and passes that event the parameters. For example:


That will disable all IActor objects (eg. disable player from controller, disable enemies). For in-game physics objects, it will disable their behavior components and make them just default to regular non-controlled physics (so in the case I want to move them around with events, I can do so).

Then, the camera will move to the target position in 1.2 seconds using a quadratic ease-in, and at the same time the camera will fade to black. The Wait() is a special type of call that suspends the event queue until all currently active events are finished (in this case, the Fade() and CameraTo(), and then it will switch the scene (opening up a level called OtherArea).

The event queue is persistent across scenes, so then it will DisableAll() in the new room, fade back in, and when that is done, it will re-enable all the actors.

Scripts will have control over other things too, such as particle emitters, screen effects, all in-game actors, and the speech/dialogue system.

Awesome stuff, I like the looks of it. Are you parsing it as C# or doing manually? In the case of the latter I do wonder why the syntax isn't more like:


(Not sure where parenthesis are needed or not.)

Looks like an interactive programming console.

Doing it manually. Keeping it in function syntax 'cause that's what I look at all day long, so instead of having to jump back and forth between 2 different syntax, I can just script the event functions as I'm used to seeing them.

Would take like 2 seconds to switch to the syntax you're using though, if I wanted to. Haven't really seen a syntax that struck me as really good, yet, and I have no problem with the current one, but if people have suggestions, I'll take 'em.

Fair enough.

On second thoughts, if it were me, I'd probably keep the parenthesis but drop the semi-colons; it kind of looks messy without parenthesis, at least when it's not syntax highlighted.

In that case I'd have to just add one more bit of code to skip empty lines, 'cause currently it's split on the semicolons, not on the newlines.

To be honest, I put the semicolons in 'cause when I was typing the scripts, I kept on putting them there automatically without thinking, so either my scripts have to embrace 'em or know how to ignore 'em. C#, unlike ActionScript 3, dies if you don't use semicolons, so it's become automatic.

The joys of regular expressions, or whatever you're using. :)

Nah no regexps, I don't know how to use those. Just like 10 lines of code that chops up the whole thing.

EDIT: Really need to sit down one day and memorize how to use regexps though, every time I use 'em I have to re-teach myself. Just don't use 'em often enough.

I just wanted to say that it's one of maybe a few games on TIGSource that I'm waiting to buy them. Or maybe even on the first place cuz Cobalt isn't on TIGSource.

Wow, it's amazing how far this seems to have come in such a short amount of time.  Keep up the good work!

Ooooooo! Whatt-a dis?:

http://indiegames.com/2011/11/introducing_hollows_deep_from_.html

(http://www.tarladalal.com/glossary/ing/Nice%20biscuit.jpg)

Congrats  :)

Haha, I love the collective sigh as everybody thought it was another "silhouette" game because of the jumping-stabby picture he posted at the top of the article.

Twoobs, it's time.

Start painting everything black!



EDIT: :lol: The first comment on that article is the best.

Uh noooo..."ninja" is the new black, remember? *paints everything in ninja*  :ninja:

I see a pants and I want it painted black.

Ninja is an awesome color. :P

Character concept (click for full):

(http://hollowsdeep.com/characters/haska_1.jpg) (http://hollowsdeep.com/characters/haska_1.jpg)

Sorry about a quiet few days, been insanely busy + sick/allergies and it's been tough to work.

Here's something to hold you off. Twoobs did the original sketch, then I inked over it and colored it when I was bored without telling.

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/hollowdays.png)

I did another. I've been working on writing/narrative stuff a lot lately, and when I get into that mode it's also my "art" mode so I've been drawing and coloring while I write stuff.

Doodled a chibi-Ruinn last night:

(http://hollowsdeep.com/misc/toon_ruinn.png)

Hey Chevy, how are you doing that scripting stuff for your level editor? Did you actually write a parser for those commands yourself?

Yeah. It was only like, 12 lines of code though. It's pretty very basic.

Oh my, we have a video:

http://youtu.be/mVGh15zpAaI

Ok, wow. This project has just made it to the top of my "highlights of 2012" planner. It looks amazing.

Looks great, but I was a bit disappointed by not actually seeing the layers parallaxing in the video...

I think it's because she just did that in photoshop and not in the actual game. Just a guess.

Also holy hell the main character is so small compared to the background. Am I going to have to squint to play this game?   :crazy: :handjoystick:

I could show them in motion, but since it's really Chevy's game, I don't want to steal his thunder...so it's going to have to be up to him, I suppose.  :(


That's the thing. She's not. Those backgrounds are REALLY far back in space with a bazillion trees inbetween. I'm just showing you how I set up for painting assets and how all that stuff looks together.

YAY! I enjoyed this :D Thanks Saraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

... Heehee. Twooby. :3
Lookin' pretty as usual. The game, I mean.

Bump for interest~

+1

(http://www.jakobhaglof.com/items/hollow.jpg)

 :handthumbsupL:

awesome.

This looks pretty exciting.  Twobit your art is amazing; ChevyRay the editor looks badass.

I'd be interested to hear how everything began; how the team assembled, acquired funding, decided on game direction etc.

Yeah, an eventual (lengthy) postmortem on this game is sure to be meaty and fantastic.

Why is this project abandoned  :'(

I could be wrong but I don't think it's abandoned, ANtY!

Got excited thinking there was an update to this.

Hopefully we'll hear some news soon. It's been awhile.

There's nothing on the blog too, but yeah, I still have the hope  :(

I liked the dev blog videos. I wouldn't mind seeing more of those.

A well made dev video goes a long way. Give to your fans brother.

I remember a while back Sara, the artist on this, tweeting about how bummed she was that this project got shelved, so unless something has changed since then I'd say this project is currently dead.

well...

chevy did recently tweet about working on it again.i'll find it.

edit: https://twitter.com/ChevyRay/status/215513149011537923

uuuffffff  :tearsofjoy: