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Improving Shaders!

hello guys! we have been working about improving shaders, not only for the player, rather the whole the game! doing some different versions of the base shader for another objects and polish the existing shaders, one of the reasons that we had to polish those is because some errors were presented, for instance, they do not project shadows if the light was a point or a spot.

Foliage Interaction!

Hey guys, we’ve been working more about environment interactivity :)

Some Shaders!

Hey guys, we have been working about illumination and shaders!

This entry is more about the shader for the player, we wanted a shader that work as toon style!

Project Cinder is the provisional name of our first project, a videogame of the action/adventure genre with RPG elements, top down view and a fast paced combat that rewards rhythmic combinations of attacks and combines magical spells with melee combat. Our heaviest influences are Dark Souls, Ninja Gaiden, Prince of Persia and Zelda.

The World

The game is set in a world that has been devastated by a mysterious mist that is everywhere and corrupts everything that has a prolonged exposure to it. The only way to stay safe is to be close to the eternal flame, the lifeforce of the planet that is extracted in a similar way in which we extract oil, and has the power to repel the mist, but attracts the fallen, creatures that have been transformed by the aforementioned mist. 

Varanasi is the last city that remains in the known world, and it's the only place left with it's own flame source. This is why the Devas were created, a group of warriors whose objetive is to bring the flame to the nearby villages that don’t have a natural source of flame and depend on keeping bonfires lit.

The Game

Project Cinder combat is inspired by games like Dark Souls, Ninja Gaiden and The Witcher, but we want to emphasize that even though your character is a heavily trained and capable fighter, the world is ruthless and fights should be approached intelligently and skillfully.

Our combat is the biggest difference that we have with our inspirations in which you mostly only have to worry about 2 buttons to attack and perform a predetermined combo, in Project Cinder the melee combat has to be properly timed and directed in order to take advantange of the inertia that each attack has, so the player has to think which attack is going to be next so it can be executed fluidly and create combos that best suit each scenario.

The magic system in the game is also very different from most games. Since magic is a very powerful thing in this world, the character has to enter a cast stance in which the player has to “draw” the symbol of the spell that is going to be used. So it’s a high risk, high reward kinda thing that may not be fit for every situation. 

In short, while this will be a fast paced game, it also requires you to think about what to do and not just mash buttons in the fastest way you can. This way you can feel a little of the ruthlessness of this world.

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