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Story of Ladder Up Episode 3 - Monsters of Purgatory


Hello everyone, in this episode I will tell you how I came up with and added various monsters to the game.

Caretakers:

Yes, according to the game's lore, these characters are called "Caretakers", although in (Unity) I called them by the name (Bob), this was done for the Easter eggs for those who will climb into the game files.

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Initially, there weren't supposed to be any monsters in the game, but a few months later, when I was working on the 2d version, I thought about adding creatures that just stood there and looked at the player for the sake of mystery. That's when I drew the first sketch of this creature:

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After I started writing scripts, I came up with the idea that these creatures are silent, but then I decided to make one of them talkative.

By the way, I came up with that room with a lot of caretakers while working on the second chapter, and I had to draw faces for a lot of creatures.

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For the portrait, I took as a basis the creatures from my previous game (Nightmare Dreams):

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The Eater:

I've already shown you what inspired me to create the eater:

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I don't know why I wanted to create it, but it appeared in the game. I had a lot of difficulties creating it, especially animating it, because it was bigger than the main character, so it was difficult for me, and I had to spend 2 days animating it.

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As for the eater screamer, at first I wanted it through rotoscoping technology, but then I changed my mind and left the idea of rotoscoping for the next project, so I drew a portrait and animated it in (Unity):

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The idea for the second variation of the monster came to me when I was finishing the plot of the game, initially I thought that in the second variation it would be all red, but then I realized that it would be strongly mixed with the rest of the game.

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Something:

The idea of adding something like these are higher powers (Although according to the game's lore, he is the higher powers of purgatory) it came to me by chance, I was thinking that I would like to add another creature, and at first the idea of a big eye came to my mind, but then I watched that video (which I was talking about here - https://gamejolt.com/p/as-i-said-in-the-previous-post-here-is-a-reference-that-i-was-insp-usugerud ) and after a couple of days I decided to make something in the form of a head with this look.

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Also, while I was thinking about the design of something, I had a nightmare at the end of which he was:

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I thought I had another idea for something, but when I tried to draw it on paper from my nightmare, as you can see, it didn't work out (I still think I had this nightmare because I watched the channel (Doctor Nowhere)).

To emphasize that Something is something higher, I decided to add voice acting to it like in analog horror movies.

That's all, see you in the fourth and final episode.

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