*** WE ARE NOW LIVE @ https://sinetwo.itch.io/rhythmpg ***

RhythmPG: The turn based, rhythm based, pixelart synthwave inspired RPG (it's a mouthful, we know!)

Credits: 

• DustyDusk - Lead Programmer / UI / Concept / Battle System -> https://dustydusk.itch.io/
• SineTwo - Music / Programmer / Concept / Animation / Producer / Lighting -> https://sinetwo.itch.io/ 
• Irene - Art / Story

Setup:

• Engine: Unity
• Render pipeline: URP with 2d lighting (experimental)
• Assets: Koreographer
• Mechanics: made for this jam
• Graphics: made for this jam
• Music: made for this game
• Dialogue system: made for this jam

A turn based, rhythm based game sounds very good! 

Here's early concept art from Irene!

Characters:

Level design:

This game is going to be fantastic! Can’t wait to see it when it comes out. I’m a big fan of the lead programmers past games; this may become the best one yet!

This sounds and looks awesome! I want to play it already.

And here are the perfectly sync'ed arrows using Koreographer! 

Next steps would be to expand on this and extend it to cater for battle mechanics. It's likely we'll use some stock assets for now whilst we work on the pixel art and custom animations.

RHYTHMPG! :D

The lead character has been revealed! 

Used Inverse Kinematics on Irene's main protagonist. The idle animation is looking a bit robotic but this will be improved.

Here's the base attack animation with a placeholder particle effect. It'll do until we crunch and finesse it :)

And here are the temporary PlayerDefend and PlayerHit animations. Still looking a bit robotic :/ 

Irene's new background is in, and here's me having added all 2D lights via URP using the experimental package. This contains 4 types of lights: point lights, global light, sprite light (for the bar sign) and parametric light.

My post processing got busted so I need to add the post processing volume again, and I realise the spotlight hitting the ground is also illuminating the character. I'll fix these issues. The last part is *potentially* adding shadow cast by the light on to the character, but this is a nice to have as I'm not sure how good it would look...

Enemy concept by Irene!

Here are the idle animations for the 2nd boss

Here's Dusk's combo system in effect with health bars. I still need to work on the animations a bit as they're not as snappy as I'd expect, but overall the project is starting to take shape!

In terms of the devlog, have a look at our Trello board. It's really been a huge team effort over the past week and a half given that we've got work/school commitments and families to cater for in the evenings. 1.5 more days of fixing bugs and we release the 3 stage demo!

And here are some near completion screenshots :)

The combo and health bar system in effect:

Finishing touches in the game. Look at these 'street light spark effects' which no one is ever going to notice :D 

Right, we have published!

RhythmPG: The turn based, rhythm based, pixelart synthwave inspired RPG (it's a mouthful, we know!)

Massive team effort with DustyDusk and Irene . DustyDusk will be posting the Mac and Windows builds prior to the gamejam finishing, but the WebGL build (tested with Chrome) is now live!

https://sinetwo.itch.io/rhythmpg

And here is the link to the downloadable version for Windows and MacOS!

https://dustydusk.itch.io/rhythmpg