by all means, don't make this for free. I really don't like when people ask if a game will be free. Games takes time, effort and lots of work. All that has a price that must be paid to fund the project and help the dev making more games.

So... this is interesting. The whole "BIG ASS BOSSES" is kind of trendy lately... and it is for a reason! It tends to be pretty epic and cool. And I like the twist on them needing more than one player to be defeated.

Only fear is that games that need more than one player at once. I love 'em, but is harder to market them. Good luck! (:

Hey! yeah I agree, as much as I'd like to make the game more accesible by making it free to play.... I gotta eat :D

And I'm glad you like the idea of taking the theme of boss fighting and adding cooperative gameplay to it, I do think it can make for a really fun game.

Great animations. The whole "you can't beat this by yourself" design philosophy reminds me of Monster Hunter, which is good. Following! 

Hey thanks a lot! And YES! Monster Hunter is actually a very nice reference for what I want to achieve with the game. It's just insanely fun to beat some gigantic thing to a pulp with your friends 

Your running animations are beautiful. I hope the camera is a bit closer than it seems to be in the gifs, your art actually looks much better close up than it does farther away.

If you prefer the wide camera, I'd at least consider a dynamic camera that allows closer viewing between the chaos of battles.

Thanks a ton! I really appreciate it :D

Yeah we are actually contemplating a closer camera, and the thing is that the game has already implemented a dynamic camera that will be zooming in or out depending on how far apart are the "points of interest" in the screen (characters, enemies, etc). The time will come when we will dedicate a lot of hours to making the camera awesome to showcase the chaos of the battles

This is how Serafine's run cycle is looking so far. Still need to fix some stuff but it's almost there :D

Working on the run cycle for one of the new characters in Casmage: Serafine.

[Serafine, the Fire Archer]

We are working on many things at the same time. One of those many things is another character:

Serafine, the Fire Archer


As you might have guessed, she is an archer, and uses fire. She is a powerful sniper that gets stronger with each arrow she fires, but her magic is so powerful that she risks exploding if it goes out of control, immediately killing her .

Sounds neat doesn't it? I think it does

This is so far my favorite dev log    is there any playtest i could play.
Also is this game going to be free

Oh stop it you 

Unfortunately there's no public build available right now And it won't be free to play...
But it will definitely be super fun to play Wish I had something else to back me up... But you will have to trust me on that one 

Finished working on the new run cycle for the remade Bast in Casmage



Looking pretty good if you ask me :3

Alright, finished Bast's run cycle for now :D There are a couple of fixes that can be applied here and there... but for  the sake of moving forward, we'll address those later.

The animation is fantastic! there is a lot of urgency to it, what is great in a running animation!
I'm not sure if this is a happy accident or not, but I really enjoy the fact that the character looks like its running with 2 peg legs... so much personality!

Glad you like it!

And well, it's actually a design choice to make legs look like peg legs :3

Working right now on the Run Cycle animation:



This is pretty much just the blobs of color in, just so you can tell which part is which, but its enough to tell how the animation flows :D

I really enjoy the way the art is looking so far. There is a classic Prince of Persia vibe that I really enjoy. Bosses in 2D games are always a fun exercise of imagination and I'm pretty sure you're showing lot of potential to us.

Keep it up. I hope to see more!

Thanks a ton! I really appreciate it :D

New art looks nice and I already love the idea of this game! Following for sure!

Hey I'm glad you dig it! There's surely much more to come

So, after a long time dedicated exclusively to working on the art for the game. We are finally giving Casmage's art the love it deserves. The game now enjoys the presence of an actual Art Director that's doing an amazing job. And this is one of the first things that are improving:


Bast has been completely remade, and we've also increased the character's sprites to allow for sweeter animations that will come soon :D

We are actually doing a bunch of stuff at the same time, which we will be showing little by little in the weeks to come.

There is also some stuff related to movement. Aquos will always try to move towards the next reachable player, and if there is none, he will simply go to the nearest "waypoint" and move around until a player is reachable again.





Note: Perhaps its a little hard to tell where the player is since the camera is so zoomed out... but just look for the small red triangle :D

Prototyping a little bit of Aquos. Starting with its first attack which is eating a player.

What I learned from The Eye is that making bosses is hard, like *Oh God* hard. And it becomes increasingly hard the more things you make it do. So, for Aquos I wanted to keep it as simple as possible, while also letting it have multiple phases. I think we reached a spot where Aquos is a simple enemy, but the place it is in compliments the difficulty of the fight so it doesn't feel lacking.

One thing I forgot to mention is that Aquos actually changes shapes. But this is to actually reflect what attacks it is doing, so it will be able to change its head between a total of 3 Shapes: Dragon, Cannon, Spear. I know "changing shapes" sounds not simple at all but since these are mostly feedback there's no problem with that.

Before talking about its abilities, you need to know that these exist:

- Ice Mines: When touched by a player, these mines explode, freezing them for a duration. These mines can be destroyed by players.

So, let's stalk abilities:

- High Pressure (passive): Aquos' watery body is highly pressurized, meaning that whenever a player is overlapping it, they will take continuous damage.

- Defensive measures (passive): When Aquos becomes stunned, it will spawn X Ice Mines around it after a short period of time, to protect itself against the players.
   X is the amount of times Aquos has been stunned so far, so if it has been stunned 10 times, it will spawn 10 mines.

- Eat Player: When Aquos is in Dragon form, it is able to eat a player that is close enough. An eaten player becomes completely disabled and is trapped inside Aquos.

- Ice Cannon: When Aquos is in Cannon form, it is able to fire Ice Projectiles that when hitting a player or a wall, will spawn an Ice Mine.

- Charge: When Aquos is in Spear mode, it is able to charge forward until it hits a wall, dealing massive damage to any players hit.


So, Aquos actually has only 3 active abilities. It's not much, but they are definitely useful for it to kill the players.

The first phase of the fight will be pretty straightforward, players have to either deal a certain amount of damage to Aquos, or stun it once. During this phase Aquos only follows players trying to eat them, nothing more.

When entering the second phase, Aquos starts to get smarter about hunting the players. It's now able to use Ice Cannon, and it will be using it to try and freeze players in place, if it succeeds in doing so, it will immediately switch to Dragon mode and rush to eat the frozen players. It gets much more dangerous now.

The third and last phase will be way harder. Aquos will now be able to use Charge when transforming into a Spear. And it will be sometimes the same tactic as phase 2: Freeze a player but then it will use Charge instead of Eat player to attack them. The problem in this phase is that Charge deals a bazillion points of damage, so getting frozen and then Charged will probably mean you will die. Generally getting hit by Charge will hurt, a lot.

I think the fight is pretty straightforward, the attacks Aquos has are not too complicated or hard to understand (not even hard to implement, thank god), I think the biggest challenge for players will be figuring out how to stun Aquos.

So, that's Aquos for you. It's gonna be an awesome fight :D

So here's a little gif of Aquos following you around.



Almost all the things there are placeholders as you can tell, but we will replacing them bit by bit.

Also the camera won't be as close all the time, because you know... you have to be able to tell where the hell it is.

I did say I would be talking about Aquos as soon as I had the concept art for it but... That's not done yet and it doesn't make sense to keep it hidden so long so... here it goes.

Aquos is the boss that players will be facing in the Water Faculty. As expected, this place has to do with water and so does Aquos (figures, right?), so I thought of it as this sort of serpent-shaped watery creature that lurks through the pipes of the Water Faculty.

The initial premise I had for it was that I wanted players to feel hunted. I wanted Aquos to be this relentless and aggressive hunter that would forget about protecting itself for the sole purpose of shredding its enemies. I want this fight to be all about aggression from both players and the boss, both have to get into these high risk high reward situations if they want to beat their enemy. Also I wanted to make the fight as different as possible from The Eye, just to give a good sense of how far can the difference in bosses span.

It's made of water, it moves all the time, it's a single enemy, etc. You get the idea.

So, as for the fight itself, players will be moving around in these pipes that traverse the walls of the Faculty. These pipes are Aquos' domain, as they are what it uses to travel without being seen, so right off the bat, players are in this disadvantageous place. The pipes are pretty big, so they still have a lot of room to move around, but the problem is that Aquos is as big as the pipes, so in the case it is chasing after a player, this player has no other option but to run away from it, as there's nowhere else to go.

One interesting thought I wanted to apply for Aquos is the lack of "invinsibility periods" for the boss. When fighting a boss in a game, you usually have to stun them or something to be able to hit them in their weaks spot, and then when the stun is finished you can no longer hurt it until you go to the next cycle. And usually repeat this 3 times in order to beat it. I wanted to experiment with getting rid of it, and so I've made Aquos vulnerable to attacks *all the time*.

Aquos' weak spot is its core. This core in reality is Aquos itself, it's a magic orb that lets Aquos manipulate water in such a way that it can create its watery body. You can't actually hurt the body, you have to hit the core. So, for starters, the core is pretty hard to reach and has to be done pretty carefully.

One last thing for Aquos to be killable, is being able to stun it. I said it was always vulnerable, and that as long as the players hit the core, they would deal damage to it, but sadly it has way too much HP to just be killed like this, players have to stun it in order to be able to dish out consistent amounts of damage to eventually kill it.

To stun Aquos, a player has to hit the core with any kind of ability that knocksbacks, immobilizes, snare, etc. Any kind of crowd control skill will effectively stun Aquos. This may sound crazy (and I've yet to test how viable this actually is, but bear with me), but remember that hitting the core is the hard part here.

When Aquos becomes stunned, its body explodes and the core falls to the ground, where players can whack it as much as they want until the body reforms again. Players will need to find ways to stun Aquos and position themselves properly to do so. Because of this, the actual level design of the place where the boss fight occurs is super important, because it will dictate just how hard the fight will be, by providing players with vantage points to exploit Aquos' weakness.

Sadly we are still working on the layout of the level so I don't have much to show about it ... But what I can do is write a lot more text about what Aquos' does! Yes! Let's do that! On the next post

Keep up the great work! Screenshake in your sig gif looks nice, I'm expecting an explosion when I see it

Thanks! And well yeah of course there will be an explosion... there will be many explosions :D.

This is all looking so good!

Thanks a lot!

I know what it looks like , but this is actually an idle movement test for the next boss I'm making for Casmage.

So, I'm naming the new boss Aquos, because it's a water boss. Not too original I know, but I've wanted to give it a name at least until I come up with a better one, because referring to it as "The water boss" each time was getting annoying.

Anyway, Aquos... I haven't actually mentioned anything about it or what the fight is about I think... And it's gonna be that way for a little longer  please bear with me.

In the meantime, you can look at this... I know what you are thinking. I know. I've been working on the body movement it will have, since it will pretty much behave like you would expect idk... like a chinese dragon flying. So this is a test for the idle movement of the body.