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Hello mortals, here we are again with an update on the development of Dungeon Crowley, these months have been tough with COVID-19 pandemic hitting hard in Brazil, but luckily we are all safe and the project is progressing towards the upcoming Early Access update. We are all reall
Hello dear mortals, this Dungeon Crowley devlog update starts with a very special partnership, our friend Matheus Mazuqueli from Ignite Game Studio, created a new magical staff for the game (thank you very much!). What do you think about it? Is there a specific type of magic do y
Hello dear mortals, welcome to this new post about level design insights, we will tell you more about how we are building our levels and a very interesting (and free tool) that we use to randomize elements in them. Along this Early Access stage, we are sharing the different stage
Hello dear mortals, hope you all are doing good, this month of March has been a bit hectic on our side, the Coronavirus pandemic came and, as with many other people, impacted our daily lives, luckily we are all healthy and taking the recommended hygienic and distance measures whi
Hello dear mortals, we are moving forward with the development, and as we implement the basic structure of the campaign mode, we are also improving level design procedural routines and added a mini-map. Here are the most recent updates we shared on social media: In this room from
Hello dear mortals, today we want to show you the progress we made in the rituals animations and the way dungeons are generated. Here is a finished ritual pose. This is the end resulting model rendered inside Unreal Engine. The rituals are used to teleport the player to the diffe
Hello dear mortals, as we approach our next Early Access milestone, we want to share with you some nice 3D artwork for the rituals, an essential part of the game. Hope you like it! This is the concept-art drawing: After the concept art, some physic techniques were applied to crea
Hello dear mortals, these past weeks week we've been working on more elaborated AI behaviors such as escape points for the "worm" foe, which sneaks through pipes and can be found on wet places. Our goal is to better integrate enemy's reactions with the environment where they're i
Hello, Dear mortals! In this week's post we bring a closer look at our Dungeon Crowley intro storyboard creation process. 1. Seeking a camera framing study that most closely portray the key points of the narrative, that way we introduce the player to the game's plot. 2. We portra
We keep working on polishing the new dungeons generation system, that allows us more variety and freedom in our level design. We can create handcrafted rooms, allowing more coherent content, like this custom archery challenge, do you like how it looks?
Our plot spins around someone who engages with the occult for his personal purposes; that being said, Aleister Crowley's work plays a major role into it. Aleister is one of the most prominent occultists of the modern time. Founder of Thelema and involved in many occult orders of
We are implementing a new dungeons generation system that allows us to use level design techniques that normally aren't used in procedural scenarios, such as baked reflections, lightmaps and mesh-paint. What do you think of how it looks? This technique will also allow us to add e
Hello, Dear mortals! sometimes, a dead-end is the only way out of something. This is a WIP of our #intro cut-scene. We've used a combination of dynamic / baked lightning, to get a time-lapse feeling: We've used a combination of dynamic / baked lightning, to get a time-lapse feeli
Hello, dear mortals! We finished the first animation for our new Slime enemy! The Slime lives in the Dungeon Forest area, and behaves in a very classic RPG way, splitting into other mini clones when you hit it. Be careful with this ferocious beast! We had issues to upload the ani
Hello, dear mortals! how have you been? we have been doing lots of improvements to the game in the last weeks. In this post we want to share two new brand new enemies and details on their building and design process. The Gargoyle uses LOD (Level of Detail), a technique to improve
WEEKLY UPDATE Greetings, Mortals, we are improving the post effects on Dungeons visuals, re-worked bloom and added contrast, specially on shadows, to emphasize golden assets and improve lightning. What do you think about the results? BEFORE: AFTER: BEFORE: AFTER: BEFORE: AFTER: A
Greetings Mortals, time for another patch: 0.33.28 IMPROVEMENTS Player interface re-design : improving visuals and better explaining player data Esc interface re-design : improving visuals and better explaining player data Desert's first level foes revision : New attacks timing /
Following our game-play improvements: IMPROVEMENTS Desert's first level foes revision : New attacks timing / AI behavior updated for every foe in this map. FIXES Duplicated damage on some Foe's projectiles Crash regarding specific conditions during a map load Enjoy!
Greetings, mortals. Patch 0.33.6 is now live: FEATURES Dark temple (second level) was now completely re-worked and updated with new AI behaviors. IMPROVEMENTS New way to compute area damage Some (especial) foes won't receive fizzle from player`ss flawless block anymore Reduced da
Patch 0.33.3 is now live: FEATURES Graveyard levels re-design : using new AI behaviors , loot / drop rate also revised Dark temple re-design : first two level foes, loot / drop revised Shortcuts improved : item description UI is now displayed when an shortcut is hovered. Other sh