Bar Room Brawl

Creepy new bar room from Lena! Lots of cool obstacles set the scene for a possible mini-boss fight!

 

Fun with Lights

I bought Dungeon of the Endless a couple of days ago on Steam, and really enjoyed their lighting and tower defence mechanic.  Basically in that game you explore levels and you can choose to turn lights on in every room you go through.  When you do that, creatures can no longer come from the direction of that room to attack you.  It works really well as their central gameplay mechanic, and I thought I'd experiment with something similar in our game.

There have always been a number of lights around the levels, but I had a go of making them all turned off by default. The player can then turn them on as they go past.  Firstly this acts as a way of reminding the players where they came from. Secondly, it makes it less likely that a creature will come from that direction to attack them in future.

 

Lena's new dilapidated bathroom is shaping up to be very creepy!  Comes complete with flickering flourolights and spooky mirrors (Something's behind you!).

New awesome creepy  #horror #indiedev concept for our new environment for #phantasmal by the very talented Lena!  More to come on our new setting soon! :)

Just been doing some research with our new procedural generation system.

The second version will be much easier to use as well as more complex.  We'll be able to generate much better levels with this one - including mixing in some preset rooms with the randomized ones.

Hello everyone!

After having our previous wordpress blog hacked a number of times, I've decided to move things to Blogger.  This should work out a lot better than my previous efforts.

I'll post regularly about development right here about Phantasmal - so stay tuned!