Hello everyone!
Adrian here to continue with our devlog on Sarani.
We continued to work on our main character, here is a black and white version:
We are prerry happy so far. We think this character could be anyone, male or female and from any ethnic which was something we wanted for Sarani. After all, the patch of enlightment can be achieved by anyone.
Next we are going to be working on the Base Mask. This is the mask the main character will be wearing when it has no mask equipped. It has to continue with the "blank slate" aspect of the character plus giving it some sort of personality. We hope to show some concepts soon!
Muladhara: Bottom ChakraThe English name for this Charka is
Root and its located in the coxis region. Its a chakra deeply associated with our instics, our animal behaviour. It acts as a base and is related, often, with our conection to earth and nature. When in balance, this chakra will give us will, power and strength and a great base to work with other chakras. When in disbalance, however, we feel fear of loosing our material goods and our safety. Basically is the charka that makes us afraid of trying new things. Furthermore if this chakra is too excited we feel too much attachment with our material goods or relations, making us to become greedy and even use money or power to influence others.
Every Chakra has 3 aspects in the game:
1. The Boss you need to defeat. This will show the unbalanced aspects of the chakra
2. The mask you obtained. It will show the balanced aspects of the chakra.
3. The part of the world this boss influences. As the boss, it must give the feeling of the unbalanced chakra.
In our case the Boss has to show fear. He can be afraid of the character and then make the character to feel afraid, both thinks can be achieved by having many interactions with the boss throughout the level. Furthermore, it has to be conected to nature so its probably going to be an animal or beast. The greedyness aspecpt could be shown in the boss lair, were many treasures can be found.
The scenary would be a jungle or a forest, with lots of creepy plants and shadows lurking around, we can play a lot witth this to give unique sensations.
In the case of the mask, the player will have to feel "light on his feet" as it shows the contact and balance of the legs. It is a carefree sort of mask, that is happy with nothing. We are still thinking about the mechanics and the animations but Im thinking something like
this.
Next week we will be talking about the second chakra: Svadhishthana.
Happy week you all!