chimp games

sorry for all the delays the past weeks ITS DONE PLEASE SHARE ty to everyone whos been following the project!

kid named 18 months in development:

been working through the bosses. got 6 out of 13 complete, this guy is the 2nd boss in the game. pretend the test level is the deck of a cool space galleon

game is coming along nicely. over half of the 25 ish levels are near enough complete at this point. scariest thing ahead is all the writing for the book-scenes, since ive left most of that for last. to get the release date i want i might have to write basically an entire novel in a few weeks

new poster for twilight epoch. was picking away at this on-and-off for months.

gonna update steam store assets soonish, probably with new screenshots and a trailer

boss fight, Ourgon and his brudda Gorgo. arena is placeholder.

i was worried before that for major bosses id have to make these crazy movelists and phases and DMs. but im relieved now that they can be raw as fuck with like 4 moves and still be fun and challenging.

i was tweaking air physics for combat balancing, and added honest to god quake air-strafing by complete accident. which means that, after i added a buffer on landing, bhopping is now possible.

the window is 2 frames, but i increased it to 6 here for demonstration (and still missed some).

combined with the slope jumps while sprinting, on top of all the other stuff already there (explosive jumping, damage surfing, weapon-specific mobility), the movement is now certified fucking insane.

screenies. lighting is mostly placeholder

since most of the gameplay content (equipment, enemies, mechanics, etc) is complete now, the focus is on getting the levels done. its a bigger task than i anticipated but it'll be worth it

theres a lot of stuff added to the gameplay that i could show, but its at the point now where its just better to wait and let you experience it yourselves.

also scrap what i said in the last post about nextfest. i don't wanna rush out a demo, its not conducive to how i work. im aiming to have the game out by june 2025, but it could be earlier than that and hopefully not later. expect only a handful more posts until then.

i've been focused getting through the games content, ready to start making the levels and actual progression through the campaign (though some good progress on that is made too, the level shown above is about 50% of the way to being fully complete)

right now, every weapon type is complete, around 60/100 weapons are done, all but 4 armour sets complete, around 30/50 enemies done (with the spritesheets almost completely finished), and about 15/50 abilities. status effects are also complete on the player side, and a bunch of other shit like NPCs, vendors, the book scene, pause menu, etc.

heres the equipment in the test level to give you an idea of how much shit is in this game

also twilight epoch will be likely be at steam nextfest

lizardmen. these guys are a brutal late-game duellist enemy

also displayed is the blunderbuss weapon type for copper, and 3 abilities, 'leap', 'multi-strike', and 'backstep slash'.

music is Helloween - Murderer

chests and enemy areas. chests can have any amount of any object inside of them, which is possible thanks to godots node system. also finally added the hurt sounds and portrait expressions.