#exilus

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HEY EVERYONE!

I’M RELEASING MY GAME, EXILUS, ONTO ITCH.IO! 

This is a game that I worked on for the majority of this past year and a good portion of last year. It’s been a long journey, but I’m happy to say that it’s more or less over! You can get it HERE or on the Gamedev page of my blog.

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HE’S DONE IT

EXILUS IN GAME MAKER STUDIO

THE GAME HAS CHANGED, FOLKS.

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So, I’ve had one of my games, Exilus, on the back-burner for a bit because I didn’t have any music for it. A few days ago, though, I decided that I’d make some music by myself, and that’s just what I did. Here’s the loop that’ll (most likely) act as the Boss Music for the game. 

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Some Exilus progress for you all! Just polishing stuff today. Revamped the sniper/railgun weapon, the Tetron Railgun. Now, when upgraded, the attack looks more fiery/hotter, as opposed to turning purple and looking like enemy’s attacks. May want to change the color more at a later point, however, as it blends into fire attacks and later-game enemy bullets. 

Also, a little AI update. Now the native creatures of the planet will give you consumables if you fall asleep near them! Be careful though; they’re shy!

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EXILUS SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT.

So, it turns out you can run to the final boss of the game and beat it with just the starting pistol and two rocket upgrades, but it’s VERY tough. Additionally, this is probably impossible in Hard mode, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

Also, it’s hard to tell in the gif, but weapon sprites have been reworked in the game. May post more images of just the weapons at some point soon.

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Two game updates in one? HERESAY!

At the request of my girlfriend, I changed the lantern in Wyrm to a frog. Apologies for the .gif quality; it doesn’t like the lighting system.

In other news, I’ve also added in-game item descriptions into Exilus! 

They’re something the game was missing for a while, so it feels good to have them now. Hopefully the powerups will be easier to understand now.

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Just a fairly bare-bones update since I’ve been busy lately:

I’ve added NPC helpers (crew-members?) who can assist you in various ways throughout the game after being rescued. Depending on whether or not you have one with you at the end, you may get a different ending. 

The one I currently have is named Zora. More to come in the coming days!

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Game Concept Thing

So, a while back I started working on a game based around gathering colors and using them to solve puzzles. You’d control a little witch with a paint-brush which fired paint-bullets, and had linear dungeons (I was originally going for a Zelda feel). Additionally, enemies were vulnerable to their opposite color on the color wheel, and strong against their own color, like an elemental damage system. Warm colors also worked well against cooler colors, and vice-versa. 

It looked like this in terms of style:

The game was (and is) alright, but I slowly ran into problems with the concept and confusing linearity of the dungeons, and set it on the back-burner. 

Then, last night, I had an idea for a new game, using a grid-based movement system (like another game I made in the past called ‘Legend of Demon,’ which is a turn-based RPG), a world similar to Exilus’ continuous world (this time split into chunks, but still connected to every other room), and similar item collection and usage to Zelda, Link’s Awakening, which is my personal favorite Zelda game. 

At first, I just wanted to do a dungeon crawler, but then I thought, “what if I revived my old color game with this movement system?” So now I may start working on this thing.

If anyone’s worried about Exilus, don’t be! The game is more or less complete at this stage, and I feel comfortable setting it aside temporarily while I move on to other things. I still don’t know if/when I’ll release it publicly, but know that I probably will once I’m on summer break from university (which will be in a few weeks).

Cheers!