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Thanks for saying that! It's always nice to hear that someone, somewhere is still enjoying this game :D

My profile was A_Penn or A7Penn I think. It's been a while. The only other games I remember having posted was Super Bowser, Super Baron Bros and a platformer start engine.

I may still have those game files sitting around somewhere, tho they may have been lost to time at this point. I've moved a lot since then

Thanks! The DKC series has a special place in my heart. I grew up playing the games to death, so making this one was a lot of fun

Thanks! I don't have a release date yet, but I'm planning on having a demo out sometime in 2021

This seems hella ambitious but I love the concept. You're doing a great job of polishing it as you go though, looking forward to seeing more :)

Cool idea. The wrap-around physics almost remind me of a Mario galaxy-esque planet and I like how you have to be mindful of the projectiles you shoot. Nice art style you picked too

DEAD KITTIES

The Grim Reaper is hosting a carnival of death and has forcefully invited Tig and a group of his friends to join the chaos. Will he escape with his life or become one of the dead himself?

BACKGROUND

Since finishing my DKC fan-game a few years back I have yet to finish a project, but have been making progress on my engine. I've been re-iterating over this game for a while now. It was originally supposed to be a megaman-style game, but it's evolved into something completely different. Pretty sure I know the direction I'm taking it at this point, so here goes. 

This is currently a solo project, I'm handling the art direction and the development. Music and audio will eventually be handled by my brother.

GAMEPLAY

Level-design will likely be something similar to a Yoshi's Island/DKC hybrid. I wanted to create a difficult platformer that was still forgiving for when you screw up.  Most of my friends aren't as big into platformers as I am, so I wanted to make something difficult enough that i could enjoy it, as well as them.

With that in mind, I built it so that when you get hit your soul leaves your body. Not an immediate death but you still have to recover your soul similar to the way that Baby Mario has to be caught before the timer runs out.

I'll be approaching the level design to a similar way that I did for my DKC fangame. Each level will have a unique theme that will develop as you progress through it.

TECHNICAL SHIZ

• Unity
• Ferr2D
• SpriteLamp
• Asesprite

I'm building the game in Unity but I'm mostly just using it for rendering purposes. I'm using my own custom-built physics which is more tailored for my needs. Ferr2D is being used instead of tilesets, due to the smooth nature of the slopes in my engine I couldn't really rely on fixed-size blocks.

I'm using Sprite Lamp shaders within Unity for normal mapping with my sprites. I design my diffuse sprites in Asesprite, run a script to generate the lighting profiles, generate the normal maps with Sprite Lamp and apply them as a material in Unity. It allows me to play around with some really nice lighting at runtime:

Here's an example of the lighting profiles of the main character:

I used to do the lighting profiles by hand, which took forever. I still have to make some updates to the lighting script that I have, especially when it comes to the front-lit frame. It's not the top of my priority list right now though.

If you're a code monkey, I publish some of my code publicly on GitHub. This isn't the whole source code for the game, but it contains the majority of the high-level logic if you're curious about that sort of stuff.

SOCIAL SHIZ

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Instagram
• GitHub

I originally posted it at sandbox.yoyogames.com ages ago. That site died and I moved it over to indieDB a few years back. Decided to move it here just cuz I wasn't really maintaining indieDB or anything

Heyo,

This is an old fangame I released in 2011 that I'm giving a new home here. Originally created using Game Maker before I knew how to code, so don't expect any updates as I don't even think I have the source code anymore.

It's a quality adaption if you're a fan of the series, contains 30 levels including a bonus world. If you end up playing it, let me know. I'd love to hear your feedback :)

More info on the game page: https://pebbl3s.itch.io/dkc4-the-dk-bay