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One Rotten Oath [Public Preview] - a story-driven 3D time-based defense FPS with FMV and thriller elements

A topic by Piotr Bunkowski created 1 day ago Views: 57 Replies: 3

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Hey there!

I'm a Polish indie dev that created an FMV game called "A Trip to Yugoslavia". I released it a few years ago on Steam. After a long hiatus, I'm working on a new project!

One Rotten Oath is a story-driven 3D time-based defense FPS with FMV and thriller elements. The game puts you in the shoes of the survivor, whose job is to protect the other people who are still trying to lead a normal life in a bunker. A normal night watch turns deadly, when the only working generator malfunctions and turns off in random intervals for 60 seconds.

Public Preview is available now for free. I'd be glad if you could play the demo and leave feedback! If not, that's fine too!

Thanks for your time!

Elias Jose1 day ago

Interesting approach on the art. Did you make the sprites using videos?

Piotr Bunkowski1 day ago

That's right!

I recorded the videos on greenscreen, rendered them into image sequences, resized them and cut characters out from photos frame by frame. Each enemy has its own 4 animations - walking, getting shot, attacking and dying. To keep the illusion of the video being played on engine, I never skipped a frame from the original video. This in turn left me with A LOT of sprites and time spent in photo editing software. For example, basic enemy (such as The Masked Mutant) is made out of 237 frames in total.

Elias Jose1 day ago

Pretty cool!