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[karlo87club]

Hello!   PIGBOOK is a metroidvania about intellectual animal world after apocalyptic times of the human race. Game tells a human's world story with some depth using cute pig with human characteristics as main character.

Here's some preview from early development:



GAMEPLAY VIDEO links:(last video clips at the bottom of page)

https://www.zabers.org/oxygen-07l3

This is a solo project. I'll post news about progress here once in a while.

https://twitter.com/KarlisZabers

https://www.zabers.org/

Try also other game soon available on Steam. VOID SCRAPPERS

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2126420/Void_Scrappers_Prologue/

[karlo87club]

Working on a new biome. 

[karlo87club]

Here's a bit from gameplay. Main mechanic is jumping on enemies multiple times and to stay in air as long as possible to reach bigger score.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1569643501788315648

[karlo87club]

Game will feature boss battles.

Here's look of a miniboss from early levels.

[Beastboy]

This looks fun, i love the theme

[karlo87club]

In core it's going to be a simple metroidvania platformer with more or less the same metroidvania elements and mechanics. Idea came from my old flash games where I tried to tell a story using somewhat cute animal characters with human characteristics. Except as writer I wish to create story around adult, spiritual themes rather than creating some fantasy that doesn't relate to player personally.

I am open for suggestions of what you expect from another new metroidvania.

[karlo87club]

A small screen capture fighting level 1 boss.

https://twitter.com/KarlisZabers/status/1572307578582876160

[karlo87club]

Image of the 1st level shortcut area. I'm trying to find a balance between linear and open world metroidvana game. I called it metroidvania but the level design is a bit different than classic metroidvanaia. I has many branching paths but I wish to avoid too much of backtracking and crossing explored areas too much.

[karlo87club]

Working on level1 worldmap currently.

[karlo87club]

Hello! My previous project Void Scrappers will be out in November. Check it out as well.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2005210/Void_Scrappers/

Also you can find more information about my work on www.zabers.org

[karlo87club]

Are the colors alright? I dunno.

[JeremyNunns]

Oh man I love the art style and colours. Characters look hilarious.

Will it be quite story-driven?

[karlo87club]

Yes it will have a story. And game gradually gets darker story wise till the ending.
I have written several pages of all sorts of details but I'm not sticking to any script. Game might change over time.

[kscav]

Hello! Project "PIGBOOK" isn't abandoned, some progress has been made. My homepage has changed from www.zabers.org to www.karliszabers.com

You can follow development progress on twitter. I post screenshots and gameplay footage every week.

https://twitter.com/kscavcyborg7

https://twitter.com/i/status/1693614994393387074

[kscav]

Hello!  I have uploaded an early build for windows, containing 3 levels and 2 bosses.
There's several and many things missing, like music isn't made yet, several paths are blocked off, might be some bugs, that I'm not aware of and map system isn't in place yet but if you are interested of how it plays then feel free to download demo. If you encounter shader error that will be fixed in future.

https://karliszabers.itch.io/pigbook-demo

[kscav]

Hello!  My solo project Pigbook is finished. It's not a big game but oldschool nes game fans might enjoy it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2707190/Pigbook/

[kscav]

Pigbook is released!    https://store.steampowered.com/app/2707190/Pigbook/?beta=0

[kscav]

Hello! Although lack of interest Pigbook had several updated after the release. One update on it's way. You are welcome to give it a try, I still think it was worth my time to make it. Your reviews would help me make better games in the future.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2707190/Pigbook/

Currently started development on Wreckdigger 2 avoiding some mistakes - like Pigbook animations were not playing at 60fps, which might have misunderstood as lag although it was just early decision to make it 36fps, Wreckdigger 2 feels much faster and smoother. I wish to keep some of the elements from Pigbook in the next game and build upon what was good in it.
You can also try out Wreckdigger 1, it's free.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1742510/Wreckdigger/

[kscav]

An early image for comparison. So more detailed than first Wreckdigger part.
I reused some ideas from Pigbook which I have come up after other platformer games I have made over the years. So if something seems good why not keep it but it will feel like a completely different game if I get that far as to finish it.
Visual solution is minimalistic NES like with modern approach using restricted pallete.

[kscav]

Here's one of the early bosses for Wreckdigger2