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[Ratgibnak]

The ripples of your suffering can bend the reality around you !



We added a new effect when the player takes damages ! I am creating this shock wave effect via a shader. It took me a bit of time but it was worth it ! We will add more shaders like this in the future.

Should I make it a bit faster or go further ?

[Ratgibnak]

This other-worldly monster won't miss any of your movement ! His gaze will follow you everywhere  !



Next time we will show you what it looks like when you hurt it !

[Ratgibnak]

Run for your Life ! Life is a precious thing. Once lost, it can have a tremendous impact on your loved ones.



This giant jellyfish has some bloom on the tentacles and the electric sparks.
Do you think it's a good idea to change the color of the tentacles to red when you hit it ? Should I also change the color of the sparks on some specific actions made by the jellyfish or the player ?

[Ratgibnak]

We had some big news in the last two weeks !
First of all we joined a French indieGame contest We really hope we will win ! Here is some short clips from the video presentation that we sent to LaGameCup contest :


We also revealed the composer that will work with us on Dolus.

You can check out the demo sound he made for the Denial level :
https://twitter.com/DolusTheGame/status/1405910676917215238

[oahda]

Still think this looks really nice, sorry you're not getting more replies here! Good luck with the contest

[Ratgibnak]

We listened to your feedbacks about the effect from the trap hitting the ground and improved it ! It's now shattering in pieces



You can also have a glimpse of a new column that will be part of the Denial level
 
Thanks Princessa ! The amount of comments it's not that important. Even if only you likes the game, I would already be very happy about it

[Ratgibnak]

We are back from holidays ! Fresh and ready to work hard on the boss from the Denial level !



Do you recognize it from the artwork that we posted a while ago ?
All the patterns from the different attacks are now ready. We will show you in the coming weeks all the animations that we have for this boss.

[Ratgibnak]

The Knight of Denial Idle Animation !
 

 
After facing the dark walls of the fortress of Denial, will you be able to defeat your biggest fear ? What is that fear ?  Your Own Emotions !

[q1]

really enjoying this devlog so far. i like how you're incorporating the themes of grief into the mechanics i'm surprised by how smooth and tight the controls look. love all the death animations for the enemies. just one thing: the reaper looks so small and powerless next to the player! is that intentional?

[Ratgibnak]

Thank you so much Warmsundae ! For the reaper and the other monsters of the Denial level we wanted the player to feel weird around them. That's why they have such strange shapes.
The Denial level will be a tutorial level. In the following one, the Anger level, most of the enemies will feel and look way stronger 

[Ratgibnak]

The death of Death ☠️ The Reaper being reaped!


 
New animation for Dolus! The death of this Denial monster, the Reaper.
What do you think about this ? Let us know and we'll get your comments into consideration for further improvements.

[Ratgibnak]

The first boss of Dolus ! This knight will prevent you from leaving the Denial level. You will have to break all the armor parts to unleash the emotions from your loss !

You can here have a glimpse of what raw emotions looks like. We now need to add lighting and an emission to the Knight for some blur effect ✨

[thehorseman007]

Wow mate, just awesome, animations are too good, lighting is really very nice, just too good and can't express how I am feeling after watching all that stuff, read everything and watched every GIF haha, very nice. I can relate your game just awesome.

If you get time than please give a minute for my project too. I would love to know what you feel about my project because you are doing really good work. 

 

[Ratgibnak]

First Parallax test ! We will add more layers later on and tweak the speed a bit


 
Can you guess who made the placeholders ? Is it Thomas the artist or Antoine the MSPaint master ? ^^

Thank you Horseman ! I am glad you like the style of the art

[vdapps]

Nice art, animations and very interesting concept! Keep up the good work!

[baftis]

Hey, Ratgibnak

This is some great work you guys do. Visuals are quite nice and the enemies are really cool, they stand out a lot. Hope they play as well as they look.

[Ratgibnak]

Thank you so much guys ! It makes me very happy that you like the art style since for us it is the most important thing with the story
I hope I'll manage to make the gameplay feel as good 

[Ratgibnak]

Camera following the player !

The goal is to be able to see above/below when you are on high grounds so you can anticipate traps and monsters.
And to keep the cam low when you are on the ground in order to not waste space with the bottom of the scene.


 
What do you think ? Is the cam moving too fast ? How do you do it in your own games ?

[vdapps]

Seems ok to me! It's not very visible from animation due to low-fps of gif but I guess you have some camera smoothing? So camera lags a bit behind the player and interpolate to player's position. It made a lot of difference in my project.

[Ratgibnak]

Thanks Vdapps, I also have some smoothing for the cam, it changes everything !

Last post before the Holiday season ! We just finished a new animation !


 
How impressive the explosion feels to you? We will add more particles in Unity after that, can’t wait to share these with you !