Ratgibnak Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Hey everyone, My name is Antoine, I am a dev and I am currently working on my first indie 2D game made with Unity ! Dolus is an introspective journey into the world of grief. You will have to find your way through the five stages of loss in this hand drawn adventure platformer. The main animations of our sad little fellow are almost all done. We used normal maps on our sprites to handle the light. In Dolus you will be able to slide on walls ! How cool is that ? This is what you will see when you will die in game. I have added some particules to the animation, I'll show you the updated version later on Last week we started the animations from the monsters and it's going quite well ! I'll come post as soon as I have some interesting update Follow the game development journey of Dolus !InstaTwitterFacebook Ratgibnak Zerinho, Mighty Professional, Shenmue and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Professional Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Cool unique concept, looking good so far. Good luck! Ratgibnak 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 Thank you Mighty Professional ! We tried many designs for the character and the monsters, we are quite happy with the result so far :) The jump animation for today ! And the double-jump of course We had some fun using the necklace as an active part of the animation. Ratgibnak Weylon Santana and Mighty Professional 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 Try again, back to life ! In Dolus, you can actually die. But until you go through all the stages of your own grief, you will come back to face it ! This is your destiny, your only way out. Going through every daemon, every emotion. What do you think of the respawn animation ? I still have to fix a few light issues but it's already looking pretty good Ratgibnak WereAlpaca , Beast Boyz, George and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted February 20, 2021 Author Share Posted February 20, 2021 Saturday news ! We finalized our attack animation, added some particles emitting light coming out of the necklace and some hits particles for the monster ! And as a bonus, here is the dash animation ! gooby and Beast Boyz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted February 26, 2021 Author Share Posted February 26, 2021 Death Animation for the One Eye Monster This is what happen when the demons of your unconscious dare resisting your progress ! What do you think of the dissolve effect at the end with the flying particles ? Ratgibnak Beast Boyz and Khaikaa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 We had some fun articulating these chains and animating the whole thing. Can you guess what this odd mechanism will do to our sad little fellow ?? We will improve on this trap all week long ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 I updated the animation from our trap and added some lights. But most important of all, we now have a dangerous mystical shiny ball coming out of it ! Make sure to avoid it ! Ratgibnak George 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 Animation update ! The eye is now rolling and you can interact with the remains from the demons of your unconscious before it dissolves Ratgibak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted March 26, 2021 Author Share Posted March 26, 2021 This is how our little fellow defeated this monstruous trap that stood between him and his redemption. But beware the several others, they may be not that easy to take down ! Ratgibnak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 New platforms are in place ! And for the first time we are proud to show you the wall jump with the wall slide ! Have you noticed the moving stars in the background ? We will soon share more on this ! Ratgibnak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 We are starting the level design for Dolus and the rules tiles are so easy ! We made good progress this week ! Embedded Video Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 Strong emotions should not be repressed. Understand them, feel them fully and make them your shield ! Today we have a new ability to show you ! The player will be able to spawn an energy shield to prevent damages. What do you think of the shield's design ? gooby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share Posted April 23, 2021 Now that you know how to put boundaries that protect your emotions and soul, you can use it on demand. As you can see we have some particles bursting out of the shield when it's impacted by an attack. We are thinking about adding some visual effect to the creature attack to notify the player that this specific attack was blocked. Do you think it's too much ? We already have the particles showing that a block happened. Should the player's character have an animation ? Follow us in our game development journey ! Insta Twitter Facebook Ratgibnak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted May 1, 2021 Author Share Posted May 1, 2021 Concentrated Power Attack ! This is what you will be able to cast in Dolus once you gather enough energy through time and defeating your demons. How could we improve this ? Does it look good to you ? We also made some progress on a new monster that will be part of the Denial level. Creepy right ? ^^ Next step is to work on the animations to kill that monster ! You will have to hit it several times to be able to get rid of it ! Follow us in our game development journey ! Insta - Twitter - Facebook Ratgibnak germs, Cocolharicot and Beast Boyz 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted May 10, 2021 Author Share Posted May 10, 2021 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 ? Follow us in our game development journey ! Insta - Twitter - Facebook Ratgibnak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted May 22, 2021 Author Share Posted May 22, 2021 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 ! Follow us in our game development journey ! Insta - Twitter - Facebook Ratgibnak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted May 29, 2021 Author Share Posted May 29, 2021 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted June 12, 2021 Author Share Posted June 12, 2021 Last week we joined LaGameCup contest for French indie games ! We are very happy with the current progress we made on Dolus and all the feedbacks we got from the community. We hope to win the contest ! Wish us good luck To celebrate here is not only 1 or 2 but 3 gifs (I can’t post long gifs :p) from the video presentation that we made for the competition As you can see we have added a new object in the environment 🙂 The Flames ! They will light your path ! Next week we will show you some cool stuff we made for the stars. We also have another great news but it's still a bit early to tell :p Ratgibnak Xeno 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted June 26, 2021 Author Share Posted June 26, 2021 Last week we 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 Cheshire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 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 ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted July 30, 2021 Author Share Posted July 30, 2021 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. Follow us in our game development journey ! Insta - Twitter - Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted August 8, 2021 Author Share Posted August 8, 2021 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 ! Follow us in our game development journey ! Insta - Twitter - Facebook Cheshire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted October 9, 2021 Author Share Posted October 9, 2021 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. ---- Follow us in our game development journey ! Insta - Twitter - Facebook Weylon Santana and Cheshire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratgibnak Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 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 ✨ ---- Follow us in our game development journey ! Insta - Twitter - Facebook Cheshire and Mighty Professional 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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