Wrofir

The next title I'm working on is going to have a more specific demographic.
An adventure puzzle game set amongst the mermaid world with drawn sprites on a 2.5D ocean backdrop.

Just finished up the core puzzle element, with most of the basic functions working in a non-polished form!
Hoping for a 3-4 month development time on this one.
Everything is very placeholdery atm

gamingislove

Looks cute :)

Wrofir

RifleFire

@Wrofir ,
looks nice so far. Good music and nice mermaid and fish. What is the almost "whale" sound that occasionally is heard? Nice ui options menu.
RF

Wrofir

Thanks! The whale sound is actually a lions roar... Can't source a good whale yet, at least not one I can use. Might have to have one made

RifleFire

Ah a Lionfish nearby? Those have very poisonous fins, right?? If you do not already have one in your game, maybe you could have one as a enemy? Btw, is this game being done in ORK 2?
BTW, Sent you a PM.
RF

Wrofir

Prototype is ready for testing! 150 megs
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C46pFveD5j09LqxVwAg6M8AN3awgIpBl/view?usp=sharing

All of the art assets are place-holder.

JMR

Tried it,it works. I would advise to have a button that lets you swim faster, with current swim speed it would be a pain to play through a big level.

Wrofir

Thanks for checking it out, you do unlock the Dolphin Dash ability pretty early on which allows you to move much faster, although I'm probably going to change it a bit, as you can dash straight through geometry atm.

JMR

Some people may quit early due to being frustrated with a slow movement speed. If the movement speed change doesn't serve any gameplay purpose other than to provide a sense of progression I would recommend to give access to Dolphin Dash at the beginning and use some other method to make progression feel rewarding :)

Wrofir

For sure, I bumped it up a bit higher, I guess it was a little slow :)

RifleFire

Wrofir,
Tried to run the game on windows 10. Upon selecting new game, there are 2 mermaids side by side and neither mermaid can move. I don't have accounts at any image posting sites so cant show u a picture of it here.
Update 1 : Upps, WASD keys work and let me swim kinda slowly but then cant seem to make erosion work on path blocking corals?
Everything else seems to work great. Looks like a fantastic game.
RF

Wrofir

Ah sorry, I totally redid the controls to work on WASD instead of mouse and uploaded that build so my buds could test it real quick and report back that it worked.

It's a very buggy build atm because I have to swap everything over to the new control scheme, I'll have a better one up on Monday.
Thanks for checking it out though :)

Wrofir

Updated, new WASD controls with mouse aiming for attacks.
Faster swim speed.
Sounds for most player and enemy interactions.

The prototype should be completable now.

Wrofir

One last update for the prototype coming by the end of the month, then starting on the Alpha.
Added challenge rooms and sealed Mermaids to free.

RifleFire

Video looks great!!! did u update the downloadable prototype here with challenge rooms,etc? Unless your game is going to be free, i suggest you save a lot of stuff for the final product?
RF