I made a video game called Into the Necrovale. There's a demo if you want to try it. Ask anything
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I made a video game called Into the Necrovale. There's a demo if you want to try it. Ask anything
Is it fun?
I hope so.
Not thinking about it. Random room.
History of bad choices
Thanks
Buy an ad.
Looks cute anon, I'm proud of you. What was the thinking of of putting an archer in a room with a shit ton of clutter though?
What made you think it was a good idea to shill it here?
Technically it's not shilling since he's being honest on who he is.
its still shilling you dumb c**t
meh idc not my problem when moon stone island had no issue. kek anyone remember that thread?
I usually shit on all agdg trannies and their discord friends massmkarteering their fotm here but I think I remember when OP started making his game and I'm legit happy he finished it. If I'm not mistaken him for someone else that is.
Girls Lovecast thread
the art looks incredible, looking forward to the release.
>thread to shill game actually looks neat
Well, bless my soul
Wishlisted it, will try the demo tomorrow
Grats on making a game
Thanks, I had fun making it
Idea started from playing GR runs in D3. I wanted infinite difficult scaling, and all builds to stem from items so you could experiment as much as you want. And no stupid sets that make the build for you.
what kind of builds do you have
I remember the disdain I felt when some digital artist mass-PM spammed people (when you could do that on youtube) to shill his channel, and I saw much-upvoted comments on the video saying “I’m GLAD you spammed me!” I feel the same about this.
Buy an ad, or don’t. You won’t make it either way.
i think we have to have a healthy immunity against spam and ads. but i have to try anyway, sorry brother
thats a great idea, i will do this. if youre in despair for too long, it will happen.
Tell me about the game
Good job mate
Fantasy Enter the Gungeon?
I like it.
It screams for a mobile port though, if the controls can be translated well
How long did it take you to finish it?
looks good anon, but where are the women, minority, and lgbtq characters?
Ganker cannot support your game unless you make a conscious effort to be as diverse and progressive as possible
thank you in advance
I don't like how lowres/pixelated the art is, I'd much rather have actual good sprites, and I think roguelites are shit and boring.
But good luck nonetheless.
refreshing to have a dev just tell us instead of being cheeky about advertising
i'll give the demo a shot
>straight up shilling
honestly seems more tolerable than stealth shilling
anyway looks fun, ill give the demo a go, best of luck on it devanon
>honestly seems more tolerable than stealth shilling
This. It sets off the cringe alarms when the dev or his friends start obviously samegayging and going "Looks charming!" or "Looks like a blast!"
>roguelike
why tho
the "delve into the necrovale" gif in the shop looks a bit odd, is there really no "facing up" animation for the character?
>lostboy.exe
no thanks devanon
who made the trailer? who did the music? what did you learn from your last game frauki's adventure?
How long did it take to make it?
Do you have a day job?
Good to see you again! It's been a while since I looked at your game. Congrats on your... what, 4th release? How big is this game, and how long did it take for you to make it? Any plans for an even bigger project?
>No blood-pumping music
Meh.
sorry, i dont want to make another mans blood pump
i didn't know if a link would get me banned. and i was too lazy to look at the rules. just google necrovale its on the steam page.
>just google necrovale
I refuse!
Not having memorable soundtrack is just a huge downside.
if the game makes any money i plan to get a lot more songs made. for now i could only afford 3 tracks from a pro
I've been making piano melodies to videos of old top down rpgs like this recently. Making some songs to your game sounds like fun devanon. Do you have gameplay footage or environments past what you've already posted?
That is cool, I'd like to hear anything you end up making. There is a trailer I just made that is on youtube. But if you're looking for longer gameplay footage, let me know
just checked out the YouTube with the trailers and Frauki's Adventure that I'm assuming is yours. I like the treasure room and the idea of making specific melodies when your in conversation with what i assume are the later game npcs like the harlot and coward just cause they look like quest lines. Rest of the environments look like grim dark dungeon which fits the vibe bur do you have other environments planned?
yeah, the final game will have 5 zones. each with a different theme, and with 2-3 different tilesets, and their own set of enemies. what youre seeing is the first zone. each one goes deeper and deepr into the necrovale.
ill drop some keys here when it launches
What are the different zone themes?
You god damned Black personhomosexual, why do I even need to ask for the demo? Why haven't you linked it already?
Had a quick glance at the steam page and it looks like vampire survivors but good, interesting
i will use this quote to promote the game
i will reduce the movement lock window. i think with slower weapons that creates a more clunky feeling.
ill experiment with zooming out more. i recently pulled back by 10%.
cheers
fun but kinda clunky. i had a really slow powerful staff so that only added to the clunkiness
I feel like the camera is too zoomed-in.
Looks interesting, might check it out
>And to not make a platformer.
is there anything wrong with making a platformer past how oversaturated the market is?
not many people want to play them. too finnicky to make feel good. too many out there.
No. you havent done anything for me to thank you for
>No. you havent done anything for me to thank you for
not him but that was rude
Can you give me a special "thank you" in the end credits?
Include me in the creditscap
When's it getting out? and none of that EA shit
It is going into EA soon. There is too much I want to add to the game, impossible without EA.
>a wooden beam kept blocking my shots
ill remove doodads from LoS calcs. thanks
>the rat room was like 10x harder than the other
they spawn infinitely. but the exit is not blocked. you must just escape them. ill make that more clear.
>please add my gnome to your game
ok
also gonna use this quote to promote my game. thanks
thanks
>they spawn infinitely. but the exit is not blocked
yeah i knew that, its just that they all had so much hp that i was getting physically blocked by walls of rats
>>the rat room was like 10x harder than the other
>they spawn infinitely. but the exit is not blocked. you must just escape them. ill make that more clear.
nta but neat, Infra Arcana has the same thing
>get magic staff that summons a pillar of fire wherever you click
>gets blocked by line of sight
thats kinda lame. i get not letting you shoot behind walls but I was in an open room and a wooden beam kept blocking my shots
>rat swarm level
>getting swarmed
>finally find exit
>all rats but 1 despawn
>chest spawns in front of me
>cant move
>rat kills me
Black person
idk if I got unlucky and didnt find a weapon for a while but the rat room was like 10x harder than the others. really felt like a dps check
please add my gnome to your game
keep it up anon, need more Ganker devs
name 10 Ganker devs or ill eat your soul
AN INDIE PIXELSHIT ROGUELITE? WHERE YOU FIGHT INCREASING HORDES OF ENEMIES? HOLY CRAP, I GOTTA CHECK THIS OUT!
looks cool boss looking forward to its release
I will buy your game if you don't put any minorities or gay shit in it.
i hope he adds it just to spite you homosexual. you snowflakes get triggered so easily. it’s a wonder how you can function in society
get a belt necktie and join a statistic Black personhomosexualroony
>advertising your game on a site exclusively used by racist pedophiles
yikes. way to cancel your future success
thanks for thinking i will be successful.
ah, i forgot to rebalance their health along with other enemies. should be less ridiculous in the next update
Add pronouns and I'll buy it
for once the buy an ad morons are correct, buy an ad
or start dropping keys in the thread
Looks alright, I'll try it out later
Will buy if you add cute female children in sexy clothes
Ah nevermind, looks like my intel hd graphics 4000 is too old for this game
no questions from me, just wanted to tell you to keep doing your shit. The demo was really good, and you instantaneously won me over when I noticed how polished the controls are. While I dislike the idea of an EA release, I do understand why, and I'm probably gonna buy it at or near the EA release date.
thanks dude, really appreciate that.
that was sad
i dont want to spoil too much, because each one is going to be released as an update. but the next zone that will come out is called "The Hornslack Ruins". Beyond the dungeons and slums of the necrovale, it will explore the fallen civilization that once occupied the area.
ya, thats the game. the basic systems of the game are fairly simple. the complexity all comes from the items and how they interact. by the end you have quite absurd levels of rube goldberg machine build
If I make anything worthwhile I'll put a link on your YouTube. I tried doing something to the treasure room and it ended up sounding like cut scene inside a castle music. Hornslack Ruins sounds pretty cool with the sprite you have in mind. I dig the world building you sound passionate.
Interesting.
My thoughts are summarized here.
is gifrel the game? looks cool, if a bit simple, but that's not necessarily bad. RE4 is incredibly simple, as long as you just maintain good pacing and the gameplay loop doesn't feel like a waste of time.
Looks decent the trailer is a huge improvement over your last games but I still find it to be a bit bland but hey at least the music feels more appropriate this time. as for the game itself it looks ok but the genre is kind of stuffed so I hope it gets a little attention because your sprite work looks better this time and I do want to see you succeed like anyone else who seems to be putting effort into their games. you do however may want to find a way for your game to stand out a bit more because It is kind of generic. Good luck on making games hopefully you do well at it.
thanks. ill keep improving. my ideas for future projects i think are more distinct, but well see if i can pull them off
sounds good man, thanks
>demo
i'll give it a shot and tell you what i think
>tfw shilling on Ganker works just fine when you actually put forth effort and not just a cash grab project you get your discord buddies to spam on Ganker.
I wish I had the pic of Farnsworth explaining how Ganker works, this thread is a perfect example of it in practice.
Good on you OP, look forward to playing the demo when I get my PC back.
back in 1994 sprite games with a Z axis would showcase characters facing the top of the screen or the bottom
I don't understand why every single indo dev just skips drawing those sprites now that it's 300 times easier to do so compared to back then
Will you do this or are you lazy?
well, i had to make a judgement call between having 4 directional sprites, or having sprites holding different weapons. i chose the different weapons. i couldnt afford to have both, especially with how they multiply together.
if the project makes enough money, i will consider it as an update. but honestly, it is not my highest priority. making more items, more enemies, levels, NPCs, etc... is way more important to me. i know it looks a little janky this way, but if i have to choose, i would rather make the game more fun than more beautiful. and new items are way more fun than more player sprite frames.
thanks. its only a "roguelite", whatever that means. basically, there is no permadeath. you only rarely lose an item youve found.
oh sorry, i just recently moved the roll into its own dedicated control. i need to rework the offhand items and change their descriptions.
i stink at pixel art. these sprites are mostly from an art team helping me out for a good rate.
>i stink at pixel art. these sprites are mostly from an art team helping me out for a good rate.
As a fellow amateur game dev, this interests me greatly.
Where do you even find services like this?
well, i basically built the game initially from shit i cobbled together. assets i found, shitty ones i made, etc. you can see all that in the old trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutYOfgY3lk). well, it was eventually enough to attract a small publisher. he previously had published a really successful game, and the company making that game had a full time art staff making updates. he finagled some of their time for my project, to rework the player, enemy, and NPC sprites.
i knew from my previous project that i wasnt a good enough artist to make something people thought looked really good. so i just tried to make the game as good as i was able, and got lucky eventually and had someone more talented help me out.
>publishers will just swoop if you put in enough effort
Your original art wasn't even that bad
Good to know, thanks.
>currency is in $$
lel
otherwise look nice
Clearly the almighty dollar is transplanar in nature
Won't you cater to the "fans of brown fit tomboy elf" audience with a DLC character?
i don't play roguelikes so i dunno what to feedback, nice work anyways
i'm 25 mins into it - how do i get the off hand items for sommersaulting/saltoing to work? they do nothing for me, pressing the button just makes me stand in place
Serious question, how'd you learn pixel art?
wait
when it comes out ill be sure to leave a review about how the creator uses a nazi website that hates Black folk and gays
Interesting game, I'll try the demo tomorrow and hopefully there'll be another thread for feedback. I like the idea of distilling gifts into a pure experience with no seasonal set .eta bullshittery.
What did you do to get a pcgamer article for the demo though? Sheer luck or something proactive? Last time I saw a agdg dev get featured was DDS (not that DDS anon does any shilling anymore it seems).
Thanks. I don't think I'll create another thread tomorrow, because that would really be pushing it. You can comment on my itch page, steam community, whatever though if you'd like. Just lucky with the PCgamer article. I think he saw a reddit post I made or something.
played for 40 mins, it feels good to play and the art is great
gonna stop there though cause I'm kind of just doing the same thing over and over, I'll check it out again once there's more content
which price range are you thinking? and any unlockable cosmetics for the character?
also a bug where I opened the menu then moved over to my potions to read their description and when I closed the menu the description stayed on my screen until I re-opened and moved the cursor back to my items instead of pots
thanks for trying it. price is probably gonna be 10-15. unlockable cosmetics is on the wishlist. depends on if it does well or not. if it flops i wont do it. thanks for the bug report
for 10-15 I can easily see myself buying it, especially if you're adding a lot more stuff. keep at it man
You should definitely post another thread when it hits EA, ideally with an updated demo and more webms. Purely from a shilling perspective you should have a cool webm showing a different weapon, enemy, something, with each post.
Depending on the amount of content I think 15 sounds like quite a bit - 12 is how this looks to me for what it's worth. It always seems to me that the original RoR pricing to content is a great benchmark. And it's an example of a game that had a lot of Ganker attention through visual style and good webms.
Are you planning any multiplayer?
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Does it have necromancy?
Mac or linux version? If so instant buy
vampire survivor clone #291
>i have many plans for other projects. if this one does poorly i will do a smaller project. if it does well i will do a larger one
How well do you expect it to do? I really want to be like you, not like in a video game developer but working on my own project and spending maybe a year or two learning and trying to develop something.
Cool little game, all that bothers me is that you don't have different sprites for walking up and down.
ok it's late so my thoughts are chaotic but here's my thoughts so far after like 30-40mins in the demo
>the dummy in the "test your damage" room said i did 40k damage (i reported this bug in game already)
>the large areas (not the ones where you get waves, but the ones where you advance) like the slums can often turn into a game of "i need to track down the last enemy but i can't find them" and can feel a tad labyrinthian due to having no indication of where the exit or last surviving enemy is
>the wave areas (like stronghold) spawn many delayed waves of very few enemies instead of several waves of increasingly more enemies, which goes on a bit too long if you're at 28 waves remaining
>sometimes when you open the inventory while clearing a room, the "X enemies remaining" alert on the screen will disappear
>the dodge has an input delay that doesn't feel quite snappy and immediate (if this is intentional than ok, but if not then you should know)
>some of the melee weapons lock you into place for a bit too long, for example an axe i used had really short range and locked me in place after swinging for a while, while the three-show bow basically lets me hope around pretty quickly with a smaller delay
>after a while the unusual rooms stopped being a thing and i just entered a very long loop of combat rooms and that's where i paused for now
also last but not least
>low enemy variety
but that just may be a demo thing
that's the negative feedback i guess
i like the game's feeling (call it atmosphere or choice of audiovisuals) and the item variety and it's a neat little game so far, for a small indie anyway
i'll try it more tomorrow to see if there's more i can say
was a joke post, boss.
Looks good anon. I'm a poorgay and can't afford to buy it but I threw it on my wishlist for a hopeful future. Best of luck on launch!
thanks, cheers. ill pass out some keys on launch
what helps me, though im not even close to the most productive 1. lowering expectations of myself and my project. lowering scope. kill dream projects. have to meet reality where it is, not try and change reality 2. get the project in front of people as early as possible. even a little bit of excitement from people is hugely motivating. 3. ass in chair, don't break the chain. this talk is really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIPmjnsCPR4 even on christmas and new years, i did something, even a small thing. one single say of nodevving can snowball into weeks months or years of nodevving. i learned this dozens of times on frauki 4. think of gamedevving as bigger than any single project. i know after necrovale i have a dozen more things i want to make, so its success or failure wont stop me
dont really have a secret, even if i did its not like im some big success or anything. im still early on
i cant say no to shilling. release is coming very soon
wave count depends on how far into the run you are. final rooms have more waves, but it shouldnt be at 28 ahha. might be a bug
So "ass in chair" then. Got it. Hard to master, but I will get there.
Can you tell me how to commit to a project and actually finish? Looks like you have multiple under your belt. What is it that gets the project done? Is it just "ass in chair" or do you have other things that motivate you or that you can say contribute to you finishing the project?
Because you said "Ask anything." What's your secret, if any?
I take the eggs off the heat while I stir them
This. Eggs are cooked before you think they are.
Inb4 salmonella
Alright, anon, you got me. played a very small amount of the demo, just did a couple of floors or whatever (got to the hub twice) and I think I already like it. Got a lightning staff and it's pretty fun. Looking at the map, it does seem to have a lot going for it. When's the release window? Do you mind if I shill this to a couple of people?
on second thought ignore what i said about enemy waves and the unusual rooms not being a thing in
, i didn't realize you pretty much have to die at a certain point
once i died it went back to normal and i can already tell the enemy waves are slightly bigger this time
>Ask anything
favorite game ever?
number of men you've kissed?
best game of 2023?
biggest fetish?
favorite trope in video games?
can you say the Black person word?
Majora's mask
1, my dad when I was a child
Barely played any games this year, I didn't have the stomach for it after working on one all day
More boring than you'd hope
Seeing an area you can't access, then later getting access to it
Can, but am scared to
Finished demo here are some thoughts curse of the witch is way to good and may just want to be weaker but scaling with hopelessness damage buff that caps a bit lower instead of just 100% flat damage buff. Runic staff was legit better then every common and uncommon weapon I got the fire pillar staff with multiple items buffing it felt weak by comparison. also i got stuck going through what seemed like infinite rooms at the beginning and had to kill myself because nothing could kill me unless I let them If that's meant to go on forever till you die you may just want to introduce a room flat out designed to kill you. weapon balance and infinite room thing aside its a pretty good game you may just want to buff some of your uncommon weapons they mostly seemed weak and melee outside one weapon I got just felt bad and that weapon still didn't feel that good. never got a rare or legendary weapon so have no clue how good they are.
Thanks for trying it out, I'll get those bugs and balance issues fixed. Shame you didn't see any legendary items
I saw a few could only really get use out of the multiple projectiles one though the evasion one didn't seem to do anything I forgot to mention it
It was matador's shoes or something I think
Are there going to be any Ganker easter eggs in it?
There is a character that is a bitter virgin. Does that count? gottem
Oh neat. I've had this on my Wishlist already
Frick off Casey
i go by CLYDE now ughhh its not a phase
ah thanks. i got to go and test every item again before launch. some are busted.
you got this. little bit every day
Are there any spells/trinkets that allow me to summon creatures for allies? Like phantasmal elemental beasts of nature that will devour my foes or unleash frightening displays of primordial magic upon them?
Ally items are in the works, but not enabled yet. They are a bit too janky at the moment. But I have a big plan for summoning allies. Also, your own items that empower you will empower them too. So an item that triples your attacks, will triple all your minions attacks too, etc...
Yesss, I hope it's not just random mook mercenaries or skeletons/zombies.
I wouldn't mind summoning something that seems like a boss either, I just wish more games would just do that...just let you unleash something like a cataclysmic God and have it stick around, maybe have a skill/item set that gives it commands so you are still playing and guiding it in a manner of speaking so that you can't just go and take a nap while it clears the room.
frick you skeletons are great. More games need more skeleton buddies
Personally I'm tired of getting the ability to summon stuff and the only thing they give me are dead things like skeletons and zombies, and I say this as a big fan of Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness. I'm just a big fan of summoning in general and would like to have exotic creatures instead of just randumb necromancy all the time.
HEAR ME, ABYSSAL SHADOW OF THE EVERCHILL!
Life Breaker!
God Drinker!
World Eater!
COME FORTH AND SWALLOW MY FOES! DRINK THEIR BONES!
Did you just...doom the world to clear a room of skeletons?
MAYBE
POSSIBLY
And I'd do it again
I've already managed to break your game and go out of bounds within 1 min of playtime, just by running past the guards south.
oh yeah, the starting area still needs some work. its half baked.
thanks man. i dont think it will get near popular enough to attract haters. but maybe someday ill be so lucky
behold
What the frick this is kino
Congrats on making your game OP. If this gets popular and hated, remember the positive reception you got ITT in case revisionists say the opposite.
Sorry, but I am only play games with hot naked girls.
Add an incredibly tiny chance to randomly die of a heart attack
Call me shit, but I have no idea what you're thinking with the slime tunnels. The map is fricking huge, spaces are tiny, and if you try to rush ahead you're just gonna get swarmed so you are strongly encouraged to take them on one at a time, which means that you're going to spend fricking forever down in one place. Rat tunnels are ass as well, if moderately less ass.
Did you make sure to advertise it as a Rogue-like Metroidvania Souls-like Dungeon Crawler even though it is none of those things like a good indy dev?
Okay I'm gonna try it
Already feel like I know what I'm in for
>First room is skeletons
My lifetime subscriptiont to OH FRICK, SKELETONS! is really seeing returns
you are less annoying than all of the the other devs spamming and shitting up this board so I'll try your demo
I cream'd.
WILL IT RUN on my laptop with an integrated graphics card
It looks extremely generic like all of the other games of this type
Next time consider using your new found knowledge and whatever money you make from this game into making something that looks new and interesting
>making something that looks new and interesting
That doesn't sell and devs can't work for free. You homosexuals only buy slop anyway.
How did you learn to make games, any recommendations?
Somehow get Northernlion to play it and make millions.
Looks really cool anon, Ill check it out tomorrow. As a fellow indiedev; how do you manage between actual gamedev and gathering art assets, sound, FX, UI, etc.? Im cheap and doing literally everything myself and getting nowhere
why would you make it a hectic twin stick shooter if you could just make it a vapire survivor clone combat wise
wow i love when people that usually hate your guts are so positive and welcoming trying a generic indie game number two zero zero four
so refreshing, feels like my discord server
shilling Black personbutthole and your fricking discordtrannies get the frick out of here with your generic pig shit game
I like it so far
There better be some secret doors and I'm not running my face along walls for nothing...
looks good devnon will buy when it comes out just wanted to ask if there's any chance you'll include unlockable characters even if its just palette swaps. I'm a sucker for those
wishlisted 😉