Pickledtezcat Game Devblog

I've already been working on the project for some time so you can see some of what I've made so far. I try to put things in video form or post pictures on the forums where I go to get help and inspiration. Here's some of the early development, mostly art content, as I've only just started the coding and game content. For some reason Blogger can't find these videos normally so I've had to manually embed them. Anyway, it gives some idea of what I've been working on until now. You can see that my style is partly cartoony and partly realistic, I want to take advantage of modern computer graphics, but that's only part of the game, the most important thing is the gameplay, and because there's only one person developing this thing it needs to use simple art assets.

"Enter Stranger!" Do you miss the old games? Old school RPGs where winning was about tactics and thought rather than how often and how quickly you can click the mouse? Are most of your favorite games ones which you never finished? Are you sick of grinding? Do you remember when a Sword +1 was something to get excited about? Are you the sort of person who enjoys finding 100/100 secrets? Would you like to play a game which is generated specially for you every time you play? Do you agree that permadeath gives a game real consequences and makes you really feel for your characters? Well, hopefully this project will interest you. My inspirations are the old games that I used to play as a kid, I've tried newer games such as Diablo 3 and it seems more like streetfighter than an RPG. Do you remember these: Pool of Radiance. Warriors of the Eternal Sun. Eye of the Beholder. These were all great games and I'll be trying to resurrect some of the charm and my...