Various things (mostly hardware issues) made this take about a month longer than it should have, but we can now dedicate more of our time and energy into getting In The Dark finished. A lot of things have been rewritten from the ground up. We’re working on several new animations and monsters, the map editor is now more intuitive, and the game is more stable in general. Perhaps most importantly, I will be posting updates more often.
Our lives have been in the way of development these past 2 months, but that shouldn’t last much longer.
Luckily, we have still been able to get some work done. In The Dark now has a lite mode which in testing runs quite well on netbooks and other low end PCs, and sometime soon we will be posting another video so you can see some of the other monsters in action.
Heres a work in progress shot of the improved lighting we’re working on.
It’s not quite done yet, but it looks much better than before.
Between visiting family, getting sick, and playing Super Meat Boy, I haven’t posted anything on here in over a month! Well Bump now has other monsters to interact with! Some are scary (example on left), some are just weird (example on right). Bump will run into many monsters on his journey. Some will try to eat him! others he’ll need to get help from! the rest will probably mind their own business.
More things to come, but for now, everyone enjoy their time off of work, school, or whatever it is you normally do.
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Originally this level editor was just a tool to make level design easier for us, but after some tweaks to make it a little more user friendly we’ve decided that it should ship with the game. This means that anyone will be able to make their own custom levels. This is just a snapshot of a work in progress, the final version will likely look very different.
Aww snap!
Posted a couple more screenshots which should be visible in the gallery in the previous post. We’ve done a lot this past week and we should have some videos up in the next few days if we have time. Look for more updates soon.
Progress is steady, but still much to be done. Heres a few early screenshots of mostly finished levels:
This is Bump, the main character in our current project.
He is a monster who lives under a kid’s bed. But when his family moves into a new house Bump gets left behind, and has to find his way to his new home.
The problem is that Bump can’t move through light, in fact light is completely solid to him.
Bump must navigate his way across town before sunrise if he ever wants to get home!
In The Dark will be a 2D puzzle / platform game using a lot of physics.
I will be posting more details soon.