Hi everyone,

my game Thousands Layered Edge is now on sale on Google Play Store

It's a 3D action/fighting/RPG with a unique ink-wash painting style for android platform

Check it here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studio13th.cuttingedge

Trailers:

Final Trailer 

Decided to change title's main text to japanese

Man. I would be lying if I said these visuals weren't stunning! This is so cool!

Thanks 

How far along are you in development? What are you expectations with the battle system? Is it meant to be more like a fast-paced hack and slash of sorts?

I'm working on the last chapter. Although I still need to put more contents like enemy skin variations and unlockables.
The battle system itself is like stormblade / infinity blade game where you just swipe the screen to parry and/or attack the enemy.

2nd trailer

Working on a player's skin/clothing (old paper overlay)


The warlord skins (still, old paper overlay)


Mockup of wip minigame, with new paper overlay

My first trailer

Try this game [link removed],  it looks a lot as yours!

In some ways, yes, it's much faster paced too...

When you've become overpowered from all the 'testing' sessions

youtube video

Added title screen

Update:
- Added modular skin models (hats, clothings, pants)
- Added in battle break cutscene

Update :
Added baked day cycle (dusk/day/dawn/night)
More guns
More special zombies

Link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studio13.endlesszombieshooter&hl=en

Update:
- Added river scene
- Added hit animation
- Added victory menu

Looks stunning from the short video. Sent you an email 

Thanks 

A little update, added lifebar for both player and enemy

Title     : Thousands Layered Edge (千層の剣)
Platform  : Android
Genre     : Action-Fighting
Tool used : Unity

Thousands Layered Edge (千層の剣) is an action-fighting game similar to stormblade(android/iOS) or infinity blade(iOS), where you fight an enemy one by one and perform attack and/or parry by swiping the touch screen. The game is rendered using a fragment shader to simulate an ink painting or sumi-e paintings.
I'm still not sure if the game will be more of stormblade or infinity blade, I kind of not to fond of the swipe spamming in stormblade but I also want to stay away from infinity blade's 'stun' system...

This is a sphere rendered with said shader


Current progress :

• ink-paint shader
• attack & parry system
• female player animation
• enemy katana animation

To do list

• menu screens
• battle UI
• male player animation
• enemy ninjato animation
• enemy naginata animation
• and everything else to finish the whole game...

I never realized that the to do list is still long until I made the list above

btw, here's a basic attack and parry video

Zombie District is my experiental 3rd person zombie shooter with diegetic UI and menus, and pseudo random generated level.
Since it trying to steer away from typical android games, some features are a little bit unusual, like non hand-holding tutorial, diegetic UI and menus, 'floating' joystick and more...
And since it a little bit unusual, there are some feedback I'd like to hear:

• Is the tutorial easy to understand? Or is it too confusing even for 'hardcore' android players?
• Are the menus like gun store and skills easily accessible? The menus are integrated to the game in diegetic style, means that no screen space seperated menu like in other games
• Are the controls comfortable? I'm trying to eliminate screespace joystick and buttons and use floating joystick, gesture and game space buttons
• If the controls are comfortable, I'd like to create another game with similar control, it's like 4 vs 4 old counterstrike games but offline and on android, is it sound interesting?
• Is it fun at all?

Link to the game
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studio13.endlesszombieshooter


Thanks for your time.

Screenshots :

Are there any isometric games that have vertically oriented levels that are interconnected and complex such as those in 3D games or sidescrollers? Do you know any 2D isometric games that utilize height in their gameplay? Do you have any other ideas for makind isometric 2D more vertical?

Some levels in Super Mario RPG (SNES) does this... It use player's blob shadow to help determining the height(but not really that helpful unfortunately)

How about changing the reason for mobile stamina..
The old one is to prevent player from playing the game(except if he/she willing to spent some gems or something), you don't want to do that, not anymore, change that to be an excuse to remind player to comeback to play the game, let them play the game as many as they want, but when they are not playing, remind them to comeback.

Change the stamina into something that's not blocking player's progress like powerups or something that once used need to be refilled for an amount of time

FEAR and Operation FlashPoint is a good example of player having actual body(and legs) and cast shadow too...
But intersetingly, most recent FPS seems to skip this nice feature(Call of Duty series including MWs and BOs).
[EDIT]
OOPS, I posted while the sites from Sean's post was still loading and fail to notice that both are already mentioned in the site

^you can use additional data.
let say that we use this AB format for tile code, where A = detailType and B = tileType.
First we compare B%10 to check if there should be a wall or not and what kind of wall should be put there.
Then we use the A/10 to check what kind of detail to be shown on the wall(plain wall, windowed wall, cracked wall etc).
If you need more than 10 type of wall you still can use AABB format and check the B%100 to check the wall and A/100 for the wall detail.

wait, did I say 8 neighbouring tiles?
Actually you only need 2 check, horizontally and vertically, could be [x,y] to [x-1,y], or [xy] to [x+1,y] and [x,y] to [x,y-1] or [x,y] to [x,y+1].
Checking it four times will only creating unnecessary wall.
it will most likely decided by the two tiles I guess but you can use different-coded-same-graphic tile to create different wall.