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Hey everyone!

Conscript is a project I have been working on by myself for 3 years now. It was inspired by both my love of classic survival horror games and passion for history.

This demo contains around 40-60 minutes of gameplay from the trench area of the game. I hope you enjoy! If you know fans of classic survival horror, be sure to let them know about this project.

The game is still in alpha, so everything found in the demo is subject to change in the full release.

https://catchweight-studio.itch.io/conscriptdemo

Check out the new short trailer: 

It also coincides with the launch of a Kickstarter campaign so I can fund the completion of the project. You can check that out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/562623591/conscript-ww1-survival-horror

Thank you! Let me know what you all think. 

Bingo, 3D models exported at low res then cleaned up by hand

Hey guys. I have put together an alpha demo and would like to know if anybody is interested in testing it for bugs and to provide feedback. Let me know!

CONSCRIPT is a 2D classic survival horror game set during WW1 with a pixel art low-res aesthetic. I have been working on this game tirelessly over the past few years as survival horror has always been my favorite genre. It shares game design philosophies with classic Resident Evil and Silent Hill, such as: route planning, bizarre creatures, item management, emphasis on puzzles, strong audio design, industrial Silent Hill-esque soundtrack and fleshed out intricate environments.

Here are some random gifs of some random environments and scenes. I am aiming to have a demo released in around a month. Hopefully a kickstarter too eventually!

Larger gifs:

Trench Combat!

Trench Night Atmosphere

Watch your back!

Itembox

Breaking some barrels

Save Room Feels

Saving the Game (with limited saving!)

Gassed Soldier (image)

The Wire Door (image)

If you guys are interested please follow me on twitter! Most updates are posted here.

https://twitter.com/ConscriptGame

Soundtrack samples (make sure volume isn't too loud):

https://soundcloud.com/user-24977573/sets/conscript-soundtrack-sample

Thanks for playing my friend! There will def be music that isn't just ambience in the future. Not currently looking for anybody but that may change in the future so I'll keep you in mind!

Thanks for playing my friend!!

Hey man thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed.

Thanks for the feedback! Just watched the whole vid. You don't have to worry about being too harsh haha,  the only possible way to make a great game is with feedback like yours tbh.  My focus for the next demo is to revamp combat - because admittedly it's an area I've ignored for a while. The plan is to to have 8 directional movement with full 8 directional aiming and for the guns to carry more weight and stopping power.  Enemies will also stagger and react to shots.The reason this has taken a while is because I absolutely dread animating sprites and having to re sprite the player movement in 8 directions  is quite a lot of work - but it must be done :). Also was thinking of having some sort of clear indicator as to what inspections in the room are important - similar to the item sparkle effect. Anyways, hope you will play the next version (whenever that is), because feedback like this is so crucial for me and helps me set important dev goals.

thanks for playing! release date is not decided yet but if I would have to predict, maybe mid 2019.

Thanks you! glad you enjoyed it. I will finish this project, dont worry :)

During the second World War, a conscript finds himself waking in a nightmarish reality. He must find his brother.

Project Abel is an upcoming 2D indie game inspired by classic survival horror titles such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Project Abel will blend all the punishing mechanics of older survival horror games into a cohesive, tense experience that fans of such titles won’t forget.

Over the past year I have been working on Project Abel in an attempt to make a classic survival horror game in a time where basically none exist. Please check out the demo if you're a fan of classic Resident Evil, Silent Hill or pixel art games in general. Feedback is much appreciated. 

DEMO AVAILABLE HERE: https://abeldev.itch.io/project-abel-alpha-demo

Glad you enjoyed! can you remember what the bug was?

Hey, thanks for playing. Did you play on KBM?

Thanks for playing! Yeah that was something I've been thinking about

thanks writ! Yeah I've already balanced the ammo count vs enemy health and am also thinking of ways to make aiming easier :)

Hey Roy! Thanks so much for checking out the demo, really glad you enjoyed it. Once I finish this patch the demo will be a lot smoother 😎

thanks for playing, I'm gonna figure out whats happening with widescreen

thanks for playing! To use the gun you have to equip it in the inventory. I probably should have specified that in game

thanks for playing! Yeah I’m still trying to figure out what direction to go with the different aspects of combat like aiming. Posts like yours help me with that though!

thanks for playing! All valid criticisms that I have been thinking about and working on 🙂

Thanks so much for playing man! Really glad you enjoyed. I'm gonna start smoothing out the KB+M controls soon as i can :)

thanks for playing! much appreciated

Thanks for playing!

https://twitter.com/ProjectAbelGame?lang=en

updates coming soon

sweet. I’ll check that out. Thanks man 

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks heaps for the feedback! I'l get to work on tweaking those things. Also the truth is I don't have an aim animation yet at all because of the massive task it would be... any ideas how I could handle animating that considering you can move and aim in all directions? How exactly can I animate both the torso and legs while running and consequently synchronize them to look natural.   I played around with not being able to move at all with aiming - that way I would only have to animate 4 (probably 8 in the future) directions. I prefer the current movement options though... :/

Thank you for playing. I should have mentioned in the tutorial you can aim 360 degrees with the right joystick lol. I'm gonna update the demo

Thank you! Music and everything is planned, but that will come much later. Also yeah controller controls are fucked atm, I should have notified that. Also will mess around with the whole aim shake thing when I get the chance.

Thanks for feedback, all easily changeable :)

hmmm... would you be able to download my shitty prototype form last Demo Day and see if you can move in that one?

Sweet, thanks for the feedback. I'm aware of the aiming animation fuckery and the rest can be easily fixed. Also yeah a map is definitely planned because this level  eventually ends up looping around on itself twice.

Cool, no worries. Criticisms noted.

Thank you very much! Yeah I've been replaying games like RE4, REmake and Dead Space in an attempt to understand how to properly balance movement, reloading, item pickups, etc.  I'll keep all that in mind!