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[kylethompson]

Just wanted to say that I saw the trailer on reddit, and this is probably the indie game I'm looking forward to the most right now!  Definitely my type of game.  Level editor is looking great too!

[nt]

A bit of progress on the level editor. It's kinda fun to code, at the same time it's a pain. Basically with unity new UI you need to re-implement a lot of really basic stuff.

Just wanted to say that I saw the trailer on reddit, and this is probably the indie game I'm looking forward to the most right now!  Definitely my type of game.  Level editor is looking great too!

Thanks!

[adriantalens]

Beautiful. This is a game I would love to play just to explore everywhere.

[farginnoob]

Been watching the development of this for a while now and I really like the look. Your tool development discussion is also really interesting. Keep up the good work!

[nt]

Added a bunch of things, like layers and drawing collider zone.

Making the collider gizmo with handles that can be edited took me way too long to implement.

Beautiful. This is a game I would love to play just to explore everywhere.

Maybe if later people make their own levels with the editor I will be able to explore it too, that would be cool

Been watching the development of this for a while now and I really like the look. Your tool development discussion is also really interesting. Keep up the good work!

Thanks! im gonna try to post more often from now on

[oldblood]

Awesome work on the level editor. I've always wanted to design a level editor but the scope is usually pretty intimidating. Nice to see someone tackle one. Looking pretty intuitive.

[nt]

it's a lot of work, I pushed it for later for a while thinking it would be too much work but I seriously regret it now, It would have made my life easier. I mean it is a lot of work, even more so inside Unity. It would be easier to do something in QT or something, but I really wanted to have the option to let people make levels directly from the game.

[and]

Hey, so what are you working on now? I need my regular In The Shadows fix!

[nt]

Hey, so what are you working on now? I need my regular In The Shadows fix!

Busy making a demo and preparing for some sort of alpha testing with a small group of people. Making a better website too.

I was wondering if I should start the greenlight at the same time I get the demo out or before, also, I would like to start taking pre-order but I don't know if its too early or If i should wait the demo to be out too.

[Igor Sandman]

I just saw your trailer. I love it.
The colors, the lighting, the music everything fits perfectly together.
Good job!

[and]

Hey, so what are you working on now? I need my regular In The Shadows fix!

Busy making a demo and preparing for some sort of alpha testing with a small group of people. Making a better website too.

I was wondering if I should start the greenlight at the same time I get the demo out or before, also, I would like to start taking pre-order but I don't know if its too early or If i should wait the demo to be out too.

Well, I'll not accuse you of being lazy then...

From what I've seen of Greenlight it seems like a great way to cross-promote with other things. So if you're planning crowdfunding, then it can send a lot of traffic that way. It could be a good way to get folks to go to your website and download the demo or preorder the game. It might help with contacting press too. I mean, sure you can send them an email when you launch on Greenlight, then another when the demo is out and another when preorders are up (or whatever order you're thinking of doing it), but if you've got all 3 at once then it packs a bigger punch.

Although, I'm no expert there so maybe someone else has some different thoughts on the matter?

[nt]

So once again I didn't post in a while, I do post more often on twitter tho, but my "devlog" is a bit quiet. It's hard to talk about development since for the last couple of weeks I'm hard at work on the demo levels, and beside fixing bugs I didn't add that many new feature that required lots of talking about. But I did work on some new things

- Dynamic audio, for the music that will change with player behavior.
- New monsters!
- some new light gameplay mechanics
- Making levels that are interesting
- Added collectibles items (in the form of stars)

I worked a lot on the "envelope" of the game, meaning, loading screen, level management and those kinds of things. I also wrote a game updater that will be used a lot for the beta phase of the game.

I'm currently playing with Nullsoft installer, I don't know if other people have much experience with it, it's easy enough but can get complicated real fast when you want to do more advanced things.

I have been playing with the idea of being able to choose your player as a boy or a girl. I read this article a long time ago  http://www.wired.com/2013/03/donkey-kong-pauline-hack/ and it's always been inspirational for me. In the context of the game, the fact that the player is a boy is enterely because I am a guy. It has virtualy no impact on the story or the game whatsoever. In a way if we look at it in a "art" point of view, I guess I should be free to just have the player be a boy and it should all be fine, but I think having the option is also good since it would help more people relate to the character of the game. The story can apply to both. So in that perspective I tried some design for fun :

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So this is in no way a promise, because first and foremost it would take me a while to make the sprites sheet, but It's something I will keep in mind for later. If anyone as comments on the whole thing it would be great, either pro or cons, Id like to hear what people have to say about it, and please read the article on wired first, it puts the whole thing in context.

In other news, here are some recent screenshots and gifs :

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This new monster is pretty fun to play with.

[Zorg]

I love the new screenshots and the new monster is awesome!

I think it's good that you are thinking about the option to add a female character. The tie looks a bit off, but it seems you just did a quick sketch to test the idea. If you decide to add her, you should put some effort in it and try to give her an own personality and avoid a "Ms. Pac-Man".

P.S.: I hope you don't mind i pushed a few pixels around in your design. I tried to give her an own business outfit and to combine her two hairstyles: http://i.imgur.com/c0Ehfrf.png

[nt]

oh that's really cool, the missing pixel on the neck really make the face better too. I'm gonna use some of that for sure, if you don't mind. I did my version pretty fast indeed, I wanted to have a feel of it and see people views on the subject, but yeah the ms pac-man bit is very true.

Thanks!

[Bluebutton]

Love everything about this, the foreground/background stuff is really effective. I'll be buying this!

[nt]

Been working on this level today, the floor is lava, literally!

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[gereon]

I watched your trailer. Wow what an amazing game! I love the artwork and atmosphere.
Hopefully it will be available soon, are you working full time on it?

[michelmohr]

WOW, those blurred forefront pipes in the gif are really working out.
Didn't think blur and pixelart would ever mix but damn.

[nt]

I watched your trailer. Wow what an amazing game! I love the artwork and atmosphere.
Hopefully it will be available soon, are you working full time on it?

Thanks! yeah working full time. No release date to announce yet tho

WOW, those blurred forefront pipes in the gif are really working out.
Didn't think blur and pixelart would ever mix but damn.

Yup I had doubts when I thought about it first, but it worked out pretty well I think. It doesn't always work tho so it will be in strategic places only. When it make sense.


Here some more lava (click for full size) :

[gereon]

Lava is nice.
Good to hear you're doing it fulltime. I guess it's a lot of work to do.
I want to play it soon