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Blooming Darkness [DEMO]
5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2QNYAwaX2E

For this #ScreenshotSaturday, I bring to you... water!

I know that water is a kind of hard to implement correctly in games, but I couldn't pass on making flooded caves!

Don't mind the missing death animation, btw.

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As soon as you touch water, you'll be slowed down a little. I didn't want to make it like Super Metroid though.

When you are submerged in it, the music will muffle and you'll jump about 1 tile higher (per jump), become floatier, and your stomp move won't go all the way down.

first_water_test.gif

This gif was made before I added post-processing and the oxygen system. For now, you have about a minute of oxygen, and getting hit hard will decrease that by 10 seconds.

Once you start drowning, you'll start using your energy to stay alive and the screen will get darker and darker until you drown.



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I pretty much just need to implement a more secure save system (it's just for the highscore, but still).

I might update it in the future (I have some ideas), but I want to get back to Blooming Darkness.

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Blooming Darkness demo is now scheduled for release next week! Things never go well whenever I make plans for this stuff, but I'm fairly confident this time!

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I added a Bestiary to Blooming Darkness! I this should help flush out the world a bit, and perhaps even hint at some lore

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A patched #Demo of #BloomingDarkness has been released! This should hopefully make the controls less awkward and decrease the difficulty a bit. https://gamejolt.com/games/blooming_darkness/398415

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Happy #WIPWednesday! Are you working on a game? Making some art? Practicing a song? Something else? Tell us in the comments!

I made a game in 12 hours! Am I a real game developer now?

I'll continue to improve it, and hopefully release it here soon. Maybe I'll make it into a full mobile game in the future.

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Blooming Darkness is now public! No demo just yet, but I'll keep you updated. https://gamejolt.com/games/blooming_darkness/398415

Lace fight was hard.. on my feelings...

This ability won't be in the demo, but I wanted to show it off anyway. Also, this was totally done first try and was definitely not spliced!

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