Pickledtezcat Game Devblog

This week's updates are pretty boring for any readers, just some improvements in project structure and handling of animations. Here's a video. But this week I started work on integrating the Shadow World. [He knows what I'm talking about!] The Shadow World is an idea which I hope will add an extra dimension to the game, literally, as it exists on top of the regular world and can be entered at any point. For an instant idea of what I mean, think of the moment in Lord of the Rings when Frodo puts on the ring. Suddenly the world of daylight is gone, replaced by a world of twilight, similar, yet different. [Gen and his shadow] I had the idea because I've been reading Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea stories.The characters are able to cross over to the land of the dead, a place where the dead go after life. It's not Hell, but it's certainly not Heaven either. More like the afterlife depicted in some pagan mythology. There are no Gods or Devils rewardi...