Vox Malus - Voice Of Evil

Welcome to the production blog for Vox Malus! An entry for the "Off the Map 2014" competition, being run by Crytek and The British Library! The theme this year being Gothic, we were given a choice of three different briefs, and our group has decided to go with Whitby. This blog will give you breif updates about what we've been upto, our creation process, and our ideas. It will have insight from the creators of the game; Ryan Addis, Gage Maggs, Martin Mullen, Troy Rich, Joshua Thurston and Matthew De-Veale Cutts. Over the course of production will we update you with inside looks of things such as Ideas, Asset creation, design choices and the origins of the game.

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Voice of Evil - First rough trailer. 

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I believed only one as ugly as I would love me, though I am aware these trapped devils are using me as I use them.

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Here's Some images of the crypt while you wait for the trailer!  Keep Calm and Vox Malus

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We Have It!

Hey Guys! We have the first rough cut of a trailer! It'll be uploaded at some point in the next day!  As I said In the previous post, please please PLEASE remember that this hasn't even reached ALPHA yet and it is still a game very much in the development process!  It looks awesome and we hope you enjoy it! Hope to see you soon!  Keep Calm and Vox Malus!

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What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

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Heres one of the outdoors! Fantastic. 

Keep Calm and Vox Malus!

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You think that putting some holy crest on a door will lock me in this cell? I shall break free of its power and you shall be the first I drain you foolish mortal.

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Hello!  Today We can provide you with some high quality shots of the abbey in game! This is absolutely stunning, and everyone has put their best efforts in to make it look as awesome as possible! Looks kinda creepy right? 

 This is the kind of light we were aiming for to create atmosphere, and it has been captured here fantastically! Get your horror on!  Keep Calm and Vox Malus

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Can you hear me? They will kill you... they will kill us all… hello? Are you a puppet? Controlled by some foreign demon or some forsaken angel?

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Short but sweet update, EARLY VOICE OF EVIL TRAILER

Hello Guys! Its us, Vox Malus again!  Just a short update to say, sometime over the next two days, there will be a short gameplay teaser coming up on the blog.  I would hastened to point out, the game is not complete, this isn't even alpha footage, and its a project in the works! 

We hope you like it, If you can't wait to see it, just Keep Calm, and Vox Malus!

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Time for your usual dose of assets, these assets were provided by Ryan Addis, who has given his all this project to create some awesome models to use in game! 

 These assets were created using Maya Autodesk 2014! 

Stay posted for more updates!  Keep Calm and Vox Malus!

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Why would you kill something that only wished to live?

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Another Update!

Hello again! Vox Malus here!  Its about time for a general update of our progress! We are now at the stage where we have the entire of the outside of the Abbey designed by Martin Mullen! We have the abbey which is at a completely finished state and has been imported, we have the crypt underneath the abbey, and we now have voices for our characters! 

The Game mechanics are going along rather well and work rather smoothly! We just need to do more playtesting!  Although we're no where near an alpha point, we are making good progress on Voice of Evil, and we have some amazing stuff to post this week!  Just stay updated and keep it here, Keep Calm and Vox Malus! 

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And here's some more images of the abbey when it was almost completed last week! The real thing is still to come! 

Stay posted, and remember,  Keep Calm and Vox Malus!

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Todays upload consists of some very good assets for the game themselves, created by Ryan Addis, who is an excellent modeller may I add. These are going to go straight into engine!  Keep Calm and Vox Malus! 

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You know the youths of today are so crass and uneducated… gathering in the abbey’s ruins I can hear their ever beating hearts…

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Audio Update!

The Audio for the game HAS BEEN RECORDED!!! 

Thats right, we have finished recording the audio. I bet your wondering what kind of approach we plan on taking? 

With the audio we're aiming for acappella music from the various creatures, the reason behind this is to add a sense of dark humour to the game, and we want to use it at certain parts of the game to make the player feel the atmosphere, and feel uneasy. 

 The music for the game we want to be as atmospheric as possible, and we want to actually HEAR the sound of the wind battering against the Abbey, and perhaps a touch of thunder and lightening here and there to add to the atmosphere. 

As for the characters, we have added audio which will continue to taunt and confuse the player as they proceed to go on. 

ARE YOU EXCITED YET? Well, in that case, stay tuned, and Keep Calm and Vox Malus!