[Frozen] The Untamed Wild - dark fantasy 2D ARPG

ChimaereJade

Hey there, it feels like most action about godot happens on the discord-server but I would love to start a thread about my gameproject here! I'm still new to godot but learning a lot throught different tutorial series und udemy.

But let me speak about the project: It started as an idea years ago where I created an world which combines the scenario of mankind not being on top of the food chain and dark primal rituals beeing done by some fanatical societies. The world is full of dangers, seen and unseen. Most people live in strongholds, which act like city states and communication from city to city is only possible with guarded caravans. The player will be an mercenary which protects merchants, diplomats and settlers - all hoping for profit and shelter in other cities. You will dive into an world where safety is something most people don't know. If not beasts are your problem, hunger or enviromental dangers will be.

The graphics you can see here are a little teaser of the mood the game will have.

Things you can expect from this project:

a dark and grim world - full of choices and consequences
a dynamic battlesystem which will require tactics and reflexes
exclusive PixelArt, combined with some nice technical effects
passion for detail and atmosphere

- Gameplay:

Travel the world and learn as much as possible to help yourself. Protect yourself in dynamic battles and barter with merchants, explore lost places or make agreements with other humans to survive from day to day.

- Sidenotes: I will use this thread to keep people up to date but atm I have to work on this in my spare time. When i have an prototype I will try to start as part-time-developer and see where I will get. :)

Follow me on discord if you wanna get ALL updates! (the link should work again) https://discordapp.com/invite/zQDqQCA

Hippo

Awesome to see this project coming along. Really love the graphics with the campfire, looking forward to future updates. =)

Megalomaniak

Love the artwork, best wishes and i hope to see this project completed. :)

ChimaereJade

Thanks you two! I will give my best to create an prototype as first milestone. It will take some time but at least I'm not complete new in gamedesign. I hope for much feedback and will show more details and WIP over time. :)

xananax

This is excellent, I hope you continue! Be following

lagarto

What program are you using to create the graphics?

ChimaereJade

@xananax It will take a while from progress to progress because at the moment I can work ~10h per week on it, but I have my vision of this world anderen want bring it to life. :)

@lagarto Hey there, I use aseprite for the graphics. It's a bit of try an error offsetting everything correct in Godot but it works. :)

ChimaereJade

Hey there - are you doing well? It's time for an little update! The end of the year comes closer and closer. My goal until this was to create an interior-tileset and doing some basics in gameplay. Today I want to show you an ingame-scene which shows how the tileset makes progress. :D

TwistedTwigleg

Looks great!

ugly_cat

Love the art style and UI elements. I'm also making an isometric tile based game, but I'm planning on using blender for all the assets. Out of curiosity what does your asset work-flow look like?

ChimaereJade

@TwistedTwigleg Thanks for the positive feedback! I'm using this as a start but will imporve the visuals over time when my abilities are improving too. :)

@ugly_cat Thanks to you too! Right now I'm working on the 2D-part of godot, so I'm using Aseprite with an grid-layer and create the graphics there. After this I load the complete tileset into godot and use it as texture for all the sprites while enableling the region-section and select each part with pixel-snap. After that I save the whole scene and export it as an tileset itself. The only two downsides are, that I need to use some offset-settings for most sprites and I need to handle the depthsorting for bigger sprites like the bed because the pre-build y-sorting just works for top-down and sidescroll but not the isometric-perspective. Hope it helps! :)

UPDATE: Following you can the the progress on the tileset and the first final character for the game. This will define the style of the game a lot. What do you think? :)

Ebenezer

Nice game. Keep it up. In years time, you will be a successful game developer.

ChimaereJade

@Ebenezer Thanks! I don't have much time because of my fulltime-job but I hope to shift this over time and get more productive with this project. :)

Here is an little update about some graphics I did the last weekend. The artstyle should get more consistent and detailed from now! The shadows are kinda placeholders but because of tweaking possibilites I may add an option in the future to deactivate the dynamic lighting and just use those static shadows.

Edit: The next Halloween may need some time nevertheless it's time for an bone-update for "TheUntamedWild"!

ChimaereJade

Note: The starting post has been updated with an actual gif from the project - showing some of the exteriortiles in action - and an more detailed description of the game itself. :)

ChimaereJade

It's been a long time since the last update - time to change this! The last weeks I worked on this tavern - an important place for the people in the settlement.

Beside I'm still working on the walk-animations for the finished basic-movement and started testing some guitarparts for the OST too. I will show you more in the next months!

A lot of new tileset-graphics frequently get created for the weekly "Pixel-Guess-Friday" on the discord too. So there is a lot of work going on - mostly behind the scenes.

Future plans are about a little demoversion in the first quarter of 2020. It won't contain a lot of (later) gameplay but will give you a "feeling" about the atmosphere, characters and little details. There will be a few battles (as example) but not that much (mostly because I need to create all the animations first).

Megalomaniak

I love it, the art style is bringing me right back to my childhood, yet is so much more complex at the same time.

ChimaereJade

As promised - here comes the inn-interior update! And this is the first time you can get a better feeling for the actual game (atmosphere), because I present you this update as a video! The movement animations are still very work-in-progress and I need to fix the last frames of the feet - but after some weeks of preperation and different parts to work on I don't wanna hide any longer where the game is at the moment.

The next update will be more about the concept and the gameplay you will experience. I hope to make more visible progress beside the regular "Pixel-Guess-Friday" for the next weeks. Stay tuned! :D

Hippo

This looks awesome, I'm loving the atmosphere! Looking forward to seeing some gameplay. =)

ChimaereJade

Hey there, just wanted to let you know that I'm still working on this project, but my dayjob didn't let much time left since novembre. I hope this will change in the next weeks and I can show you more progress. At the moment, character-animations and outdoor assets are the big construction sites. If you are interested - the most updates/insights are given on the discord-server for this project. :)

I wish you much fun with godot - have a good time!

fire7side

Looking good. Looks like a huge project.