Deadly Swarm - Elevator pitch

Loxyrak

You know the Resident Evil 1(the movie) umbrella soldiers that enter the hive ?
Kind of the vibe I want to go with.

So, imagine you are in the otherworld of Silent Hill (monsters, fog, horror, etc) and the entire world is now like that, you are the commander of a group of mercenaries and you can direct them to missions (like the hive of resident evil 1 ) in a RTS manner.

Those mercenaries can be recruited, upgraded, better armed, etc at your base that you will have to periodically defend from horrifying monsters inspired by Silent Hill 1.
Those mercenaries if killed are erased from your roaster.
I imagined a mix between Silent Hill, Darkest Dungeon, and a squad-based RTS game like Door Knockers.

I already made a prototype in 2D, I took a break to get better at 3D modelling and I'm now converting everything to 3D.

Erich_L

Are you a one man show? Why not stay in 2D?

Loxyrak

After messing around with blender for 2 months, I think I'm better at 3D than 2D, and I want to use the modela I'm making 🙂

Also, faking an rts camera angle in 2D is much much harder for me.

Here's my artstation for reference :

https://www.artstation.com/loxyrak5

Also yes I am a one man show, I might try and get some stuff done by others if possibls, audio is mostly the area I think is in need.

TwoFox

I could help out with writing and a bit of code

Loxyrak

From left to right.

Sharpshooter, Engineer, Assault, Heavy

Loxyrak

All the classes are modelled, now on to weapons and monsters 🙂

From left to right :

Engineer, Sharpshooter, Medic, Rusher, Assault and Heavy

Loxyrak

Unit selection, and movement is working.
(You can also select units with the number keys now)

Loxyrak

2 new weapons : a smg for the Medic and a machinegun for the Heavy

Loxyrak

One of the monsters I made, now I have no idea how to animate her 🙁

Megalomaniak

Loxyrak now I have no idea how to animate her

bendy bones.

Loxyrak

Here's a turnaround of the Siren, a simple animation and threat acquisition + attacking is now implemented.

For reference, the rig looks like this lol :

Loxyrak

A new monster :

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aoy1Vz

Loxyrak

Started making some modular assets for level design

Loxyrak

Early texture work on environnement

Loxyrak

Just a recap of the current monster lineup I got for the game.

xyz

Loxyrak I like the balance between design consistency and variety. Each one is clearly different but they all look like they crawled out of the same hellhole 🙂

Loxyrak

xyz Thanks, it's exactly what I hoped shined through them ahah

heroic

Looks pretty interesting to me. I think a small squad-based game could really unique addition to the horror genre. I think if done properly you could really do some interesting mechanics blending squad management and survival horror.

Loxyrak

Got inspired and made a new monster :

Loxyrak

WIP "Building B"