SlumberNapped devlog 17
I'm sharing some stuff that has been going into the game over the year that I haven't been sharing because I wasn't sure if I was going to do it from a design perspective.
Stat editor
First is the character stat editor. This is the UI that you use to edit a party member's starting stats. Visually, it's inspired by DADA collage art. Here's a vid of me testing it from the start of the year. I've cropped out some of the details because I want the area this happens in to have some surprises! The pictures you move around have a "+", "++", and a "-" on them and stand for boost "+", strong boost "++", or downgrade "-".
This new area, I'm not willing to show the name yet, will be a place that you go to before every nightmare.
The Lore book.
I added a in world lore book with collectible pages. You collect them from a character called Lorenzo. Lorenzo personally writes each of the pages in the lore book himself and even draws a little sketch of something he found and lore tidbits he discovers. There are currently 20 planned lore pages, and they all reveal extra story info about the game and its world that you wouldn't get otherwise.
Body stuff
This is a video of the flaowing eye's in the body nightmare, there's a lot of game makers primative 3d going on in the backgrounds of the game, like the moon for example.
Van travel
One of Blinkson's brothers will be able to take you to and from Nightmares in his Magical van. This is an early test for the animated transition when you travel to a different location via the van.
The spiky edge has been softened for the final version.
Last, something hopefully fun. There's a big image that I do all the initial character art in. I do this so I can make sure everything says in good proportions with eachother. What Ive done is I wanted to show off the variety of characters in the game, but still leave a little mystery, so here are most of the characters sprites in silhouette. Some I've shown and will be obvious, but there are a lot here I've not shown in any form till now. Have fun!
-The Kappawumpus
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