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Underlife (WIP)

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:15 am
by Taehl
This game is still in development. If there's much interest, I suppose I could prepare an early demo.

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Underlife is inspired by and pays homage to two sources: Alessandro Ghignola's Crystal Pixels and the "Secret Worlds" of the original Metroid. It's a simulation in entropic oppression: A microcosm of noise where you may strive to create order, but all your efforts will eventually fade as these untouchable worlds subvert and purge your creations. This game isn't meant to entertain, so much it's intended to evoke emotion.

Gameplay will consist of finding Memories scattered across hundreds of dark, frozen worlds floating forever in an empty cosmos. The player can not merely wander these dark, unfathomable caverns, but will be able to rebuild them in any way they want - whether to help them find Memories or just to try to make the world less meaningless.

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(The graphics in these screenshots aren't final, of course. The character, for instance, is just an animation test.)

Re: Underlife (WIP)

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:03 am
by Jasoco
I like it. I'd love to see a demo. Or even a video of it in action.

Re: Underlife (WIP)

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:05 am
by Geti
looks good, keen to try it out and see what's going on. Have you done much character design?

Re: Underlife (WIP)

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:07 am
by Taehl
I've got one little character sketch, but I don't think I'm going to go with it. So no, it's something I still need to work on.

Re: Underlife (WIP)

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:46 pm
by Geti
Ah well, keep us in the loop.
Poke me if you want some sketches done, but I'm sure you want to do it under your own steam.

Re: Underlife (WIP)

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:28 am
by Taehl
Just thought I'd drop a little update while I was passing through the forum. I've made a simple video of Underlife. You can watch it on YouTube, or you can download a higher-quality .avi here (11.5 MB).

Re: Underlife (WIP)

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:43 am
by Luiji
awesome

Re: Underlife (WIP)

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:48 pm
by bartbes
Nice!

Re: Underlife (WIP)

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:43 pm
by Chief
Hey! This is cool!

Re: Underlife (WIP)

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:23 pm
by Taehl
Still technically working on this. I've ended up scrapping most of it as I've gotten better with Love and programming in general. Most importantly, I ditched the Box2D physics and made my own, infinitely scaleable physics. Meaning bigger worlds. Potentially infinite.

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The game still has the dynamic shadows as shown in previous media, I just turned them off to better show how large this particular map is.