What is this?

Glow Flower is an action/adventure game I have been working on for the past few months. The game will have a strong emphasis on exploration, in the same vein as the original Zelda game. The game will be open for players to explore but players will have to survive as well as use their wits to explore it all.

This game started as an entry for the GBJam earlier this year. I didn't end up submitting an entry but I liked this concept and art style enough to continue working on it. The game (per jame rules) started with out 4 colors. It has since jumped up to 7, but I don't intend on going much higher than that, if at all.

The game is being developed in HaxeFlixel for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux). I'm doing the programming, art, and music for the game.

Progress so far

So far, I have a lot of code groundwork done. After building the incredibly rough version intended for GBJam, I spent time doing some heavy refactoring and writing systems to more easily allow me to create entities (based off of JSON data). During which, I did spend time on art and animation. At this point I'm ready to start building content like enemies, locations, other npcs, etc. I've decided to start with designing enemies. I still have a bunch of work ahead of me, obviously! :D

Mockups/Character Art

So, I have a bunch of art to share, so I'm just going to dump those here.

Hey everyone! This'll be a short update. I was getting overwhelmed with other things going on in my life, so I took a break for about a week or so. But I'm back at it now!

1) Dungeon Artwork

I've started work on the artwork for dungeons in the game, So far, I'm just mocking up how it'll look and what assets I'll need. Here's the mockup and a screenshot of me working on it:

2) Dungeon Music

I started work on some music for dungeons. I wrote this, and I like it so far, but it's definitely far from being complete.

3) What's next?

I'm going to continue dungeon work, including art and audio assets plus animations. After that, I'll try my hand at designing a dungeon. I'll be sure to keep you all posted!

Also, please let me know your thoughts on this project so far! I'd love to know what you're all thinking. Thanks!

I spent some more time on art today. I continued to create dungeon art assets by expanding the mockup from my last update. Here's a final version of this dungeon mockup. I threw in that giant skull-spider as a sort of placeholder for a boss. Though, I might still use it.

This game looks great and I like the art style. I hope you complete it someday.