I am creating a computer game (horror adventure) :)

Kyriakos · Feb 6, 2016

Update, 9/7

Link to video.

Intro part video & original score composed for the game

One of the rooms wip: (interface is placeholder, some sprites are just there for editing purposes

)

Btw, FINALLY my Essex uni diploma has found a use...

The game's plot is centered on one or two of the stories in my recently published book. I am making the graphics myself (with 3d modelling programs, ie Blender currently).

You can comment, and if you also happen to know about indie horror games you could give advice as well, on anything... I write somewhat horror (in reality dark psychological) literature, so the plot is something i can do on my own. Using AGS to build the game

ruby_sauce · Feb 6, 2016

Will it be point and click? My girlfriend is a fan of those types of games, as well as horror movies. I will follow this project just because of that. Besides, your graphics are always of high quality anyway

Kitomakazu · Feb 6, 2016

You might want to check out the Game Jolt website. It's filled with so many indie games of all colors and shades. And ofc, whatever is out there that you can pull up in a search for research on indies online can provide useful info (I don't recall any other particular site atm, sorry)

Kyriakos · Feb 6, 2016

Thank you both

(yes, it is point and click, but the character you control won't be visible-- so as to scare you more

)

Currently i am only creating the rooms, and then will have to create cut-scenes and/or zoom-ins of parts of those rooms.

Of course the colors will change as well, but i will worry about that once all the rooms are ready and in renderable state...

leif erikson · Feb 6, 2016

Moderator Action: Moved to All Other Games as this is not Civ3 related.

Kyriakos · Feb 9, 2016

Kickstarter and similar is awesome with funding indie games, particularly horror

Anyway, did some more work, it will be a 3d environment game, likely (engine-wise) a cross between Penumbra and Scratches (but far closer to the latter, despite physics enabled)

Kyriakos · Feb 20, 2016

Well, any views? What do you mean there were no preview images of note?

People these days :shake:

It will be gloomy, that is for sure..

warpus · Feb 23, 2016

When is your alpha going to be out, so we can try to break it and report bugs and so on? Because I would screw around with it, if you actually release an alpha or beta.

Kyriakos · Feb 23, 2016

Thanks!

Well: (ETA for the beta demo is something like 1-1,5 months -- depending on what coding i might need...)

Still on demo-creation (rooms and items currently) + plotline done of course..

Any suggestions? (virtually placeholder lighting, and the item window is entirely placeholder)

Kyriakos · Feb 23, 2016

And some more progress of the demo rooms:

warpus · Feb 25, 2016

Why does it look so grainy, is that just due to the screenshot software you're using, or just placeholder skins that are going to be upgraded and look better later? Not criticizing, just curious.

Kyriakos · Feb 25, 2016

^While the skins are placeholder (to be more precise, those aren't skins currently; they are not UV-mapped but Blender generated textures/colors) i am toying with the idea of having some grainy effect due to the mood of the game (horror).

Also i am not set on whether the demo itself will be full 3d or a progression of renders of 3d. It likely will be both (it will obviously have animation too, which is crucial for the demo plot).

One idea is to go full 3d (not as in a FPS but as in the horror adventure Scratches, ie with cut-scenes and immobile ultra-zoom) for the demo, but another is to have a more basic "x1,x2,x3,x4 key allows you to animate/move set stable distance Y to direction A,B,C,D".

I am mostly going for mood. Actual 3d movement in real time isn't hard with the programs i am using to make this, and the cut-scenes will be 3d animation films anyway.

Kyriakos · Feb 26, 2016

Two new rooms being worked upon..

Kyriakos · Mar 2, 2016

Some progress...:

Kyriakos · Mar 6, 2016

(scene not rendered, obviously) Looks innocent enough, but still fishy :eekdance:

(don't worry, the pun won't be in the game

I only think of using the fish statue to have the narrator recollect a line by Heraklitus, "sea water is purest and vilest; drinkable and the salvation of fish, undrinkable and the demise of humans".

Wip of the living room, with some allusion to Paul Klee's "The Goldfish"

schlaufuchs · Mar 7, 2016

Why would there be 2 wall lamps literally a foot apart?

Kyriakos · Mar 9, 2016

Well, that can change

Kyriakos · Mar 15, 2016

Right side of likely the most central room of the demo

Angst · Mar 17, 2016

I think making the pictures grainy is a good call since it stylizes appropriately to the genre and offsets the demand from your 3D skills. Your models are fine and dandy but I'm very sure making it grainy is an easy way to make it look more professional.

Kyriakos · Mar 17, 2016

Yes, it is. It can be non-grainy, but then it should be very stylised (and takes more time, let alone that i am not mainly a graphical artist in the first place

).

Hm, what do you think of this version of that room?

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