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A demo for my 2D roguelike is coming out around the 4th to the 15th of January.

It will include 1 stage, 4-5 polished characters, 5 tracks created by a collaborator of mine, and 10 enemies including 3 bosses (dinosaurs and mammals, not just dinosaurs). It will just be a showcase of what is expected from us for the final version.

I want to release this game in a polished state, once its out I will make sure it gets frequently updated for free at least in the first couple of months, until we are happy with the product.

The updates will include new stages, new enemies, new items and new characters.

For now I will leave you with that, keep an eye out until I eventually paste a link in here.

The demo will of course be free, but we are deciding between how much we want to charge for a license of this game (no DRMs forced by our side, just a way to phrase it). Talks are between 5.50 and 8.50 Australian dollars.

Stay Hungry!

Hi, I haven't been on here a while, just wanted to update the community on the progress I have made on my little indie multiplayer game.

First of all, nothing is delayed nor cancelled, I am still incredibly hyped to release the major, polished, experience. But, it will take a lot of time before the product is even ready to be shown to the public.

In the meanwhile, I have decided to reuse some of my old code from my older projects to create a 2D roguelike, that is a prequel to the main shooter.

Development is going good, on both projects, but expect the prequel to come out in a couple of months. It will give you all the "lore information" necessary for you to hop into this indie franchise that I am building. The game will also include the community voted dinosaurs and other animals that will not appear in the multiplayer shooter.

For now, I will leave you with this sprite of one of the classes you will be able to choose from (Assault).

(The design might change)

Stay Hungry!

Last week, I have officially announced that I am, a 1 dev team, creating a simple, low poly, dinosaur vs human shooter. The game will try to take you back into the prime days of shooters, none of that micro transaction stuff, only fun stupid gameplay.

If the project sounds ambitious, it is. However, I am not fantasizing, without having any experience with game development, that is.

I will not release frequent community updates, due to my own responsibilities outside of the internet. However, expect another, more polished, and more interesting, update, in a couple of months, as I will have more free time to work on this thing in the short future.

For now, lets actually look at the future, what exactly can you, and should you expect from this passion project.

Project HDVH2 Expectations:

1. Polished Gunplay and weapon balancing

I am already looking at tons of videos, articles, and other media formats that are there to lecture small developers, like myself, about how to make guns feel good. The human classes will each have a specific primary and secondary gun, with there being 20 weapons in total. Allowing me to polish and balance each class and weapon, to perfection, hopefully.

2. Good variation, and species spotlight

I will aim to include less known prehistoric reptiles, and other animals, that could likely to be picked by this community too! Currently, I have 8 animals locked in, fully designed abilities wise, but that will change as development progresses. I will try my best to, same as for the weapons, balance these individual species as well as I can, specializing each animal to a different playstyle,

3. Map variation

Each map in this game will be utilized in a different manner. From smaller, close combat focused, mayhem fests, to larger, dinosaur survival game inspired, maps.

4. Gamemodes

There will be 2 launch gamemodes: Team Deathmatch, and a specialized version of control. With another 2 sub gamemodes being added after the public feedback from the first 2, allowing me to focus on making the main modes great, and adding more later on. The 2 sub gamemodes in question will be Dinosaur Team Deathmatch, with a specialized map, and something else I would like to keep secretive for now.

Lastly...

5. Unofficial server support

Since I am a one-person team, the game will launch with unofficial server support. One person will host a server on their device, and other players can join. However, if the game gets popular, with 30 players being my goal for launch, I will implement servers myself. I understand many people might be frustrated by this decision, but for my budget of 15 bucks, and limited amount of free time, I won't be able to risk renting 10 servers on launch. This, as I said, does not mean that there won't changes in the future. I hope you understand :).

Now for something a bit more straight forward...

Development Update 1.0.0

Over the weekend, I have created the character controller basis for testing, nothing too fancy, just walking and jumping. In addition to designing a test map. I hope that this little post has fed you enough information for the time. I can't wait to show you everything else when the time comes.

Oh also, before I forget, expect Sarcosaurus Concept Art later this month! Not drawn by myself since I lack the talent. In addition to its little, venomous dossier, and details for its abilities.

Stay Hungry!

I am creating an unreal engine 5, low poly shooter, mimicking battlebit but on a lower scale. I already have experience with unreal, making little projects in the engine, but nothing yet to this size. I want to stretch this project over a couple of years, to perfectly polish every aspect of its gameplay, to fill the hole in the market of this obscure genre of video games.

Think of it as an indie team fortress "engine", with unofficial server support, (unless it blows up so I have the budget to run a couple of servers) with 4 modes, that are all really simple, and community based map/mod support (built outside of the software), to help me out, because I am a 1 person team, while I will also release updates from time to time, maps, new classes, patches to the core game, etc.

The reason why I am putting this out here is because, the game, is a hero shooter, think of it as team fortress but if teams were decided upon whether you want to be a prehistoric reptile, or a human.

I carefully crafted the abilities for all classes in the past couple of days, human and non-human wise, but I dont think that my animal species have that, hit of biodiversity in them.

I don't want to reveal the specific species, their abilities, sizes, the variation in categories etc., all you really need to know is that at least in my opinion, they do not really look that different from each other.

Any recommendations for unique predators, or interesting herbivores, that could be added into my project, are highly valued.

What makes a dominant species? The question is incredibly broad, so to help us all out, here are some rules:

-The species must have been on top of its food chain

-The species must have lived the longest, compared to its relatives

In addition, if these specifications were not enough, the comparison of ammunition should also be considered; which animal had the most deadly claws, or other features.

I remember doing a presentation in high school on which spinosaurid was the most dominant in its geological timeframe. I compared information gathered on wikipedia between the species. Which one had the least competition, had the most, carnivorously dominant traits, and duration of the species existence.

My final, unbiased, answer, was Oxalaia, a long time ago.

I was really young at the time, I have not educated myself on the recent evidence regarding this family of prehistoric reptiles, may someone inform me about my, most likely incorrect, analysis, and how off I was at the time?