G O D H O O D

Hey guys! I realize that it’s rather indecent of me to have posted absolutely nothing here following the kickstarter campaign so I thought it might be prudent to post what’s been going on and what will be going on down the road.

First of all, I do want to quickly say hi! I got a decent influx of followers from the Kickstarter campaign so I’d just like to thank all of you for your support of GODHOOD, even in it’s very very small beginnings!

Now, as we’ve all probably established by now, the campaign was not a success.

Before anything, I do want to quickly establish that this is exactly what I was expecting to happen basically from the beginning. That said, you might be wondering why I even did the kickstarter campaign in the first place, which is fair. Really, a more accurate way to put it is that I was 99% sure it was going to fail, and of course, the 1% of me that was secretly hoping for something magical to happen is a little disappointed, but that 1% was what drove me to do this whole thing in the first place. Also, I thought having a kickstarter campaign (success OR failure) would be a great thing to put on a resume, but honestly, so far it hasn’t done much. Still, at least now I have an awesome poster and a plush that I ABSOLUTELY ADORE!

Now, as to the future of this project, therein lies the reason that I’ve been apprehensive to post here. The truth is I am flat broke so for the past few months, I’ve basically been on the job hunt. During that time, in all truth, I haven’t really done anything with GODHOOD because I fear that the stress of looking for work would negatively impact the project were I to keep working on it. In summary, I want to get settled in somewhere before I start working on GODHOOD again (which should hopefully will be sooner than later).

As for what I’m going to be doing with GODHOOD, that all depends on what kind of job I get lined up. If I do get a job as a programmer, it’d be pretty hard to program 8 hours a day, then go home and program even more. If I happen to get a job as a game developer then I potentially have non compete clauses that could throw a wrench into plans. Either way, the bottom line here is: I’m not done with GODHOOD yet. Here are a few things I want to look into:

Creating a GODHOOD webcomic! This would be a great opportunity to give my art skills the boost they really need, it would help in growing the game’s audience and it would help me flesh out the story a little more too!

Redoing the grand majority of the game’s art. The game’s animations are already below my current standards and I might still wait a while yet so that I can be an even better artist later on.

Redesigning a lot of the game’s outer mechanics. I like how the rhythm and the explosions work, but the movement and basic attacks need a lot of work and the AI needs to be much more interesting as well.

A few shots of the new practice mode!

Tired of being relentlessly assaulted? Don’t know the music very well? Try out practice mode, where you can get a feel for the rhythm of the music with no risk! You can even turn the music off and listen to just the rhythms by themselves which are generated programmatically.

More plans for it later on, such as:

Turn it into a training mode sort of thing. Allow movement, spawning more Ways and enabling/disabling their AI.

For the isolated rhythms, let the player pick a specific instrument

Thanks!

I’ve released a new version of the GODHOOD Alpha! Here’s the change list:

Added practice mode

Added a quick info prompt that shows up the first time the player starts a gameplay section

Added the ability to go back to main menu during a cutscene or gameplay

Added the ability to fast forward through cutscenes! (Hold F)

Instead of constantly having 6 ways active at all times, Avadra will start by keeping 1 way active and then increment that number every 30 seconds up to a maximum of 8 Ways

Decreased the amount of damage the ways do (you can take 3 consecutive hits now instead of 2

Increased Riff's health regen

Fixed inputs sometimes getting completely eaten

IGNITION Pages 6-12!

IGNITION

The GODHOOD Public Available is now available!

Short Version:

After a year of development, it's finally time to see if other people find this game fun or find out that I'm crazy! I want to find out if A) you can launch the game, (B) you think the game is fun and (C) you think the game is too hard.

Download is below, instructions and controls are in game!

The Game:

GODHOOD is a 2D Rhythm Hack'n'Slash where the player must attack to the rhythm of the music. Build up flow by keeping your rhythm and unleash devastating explosive attacks on the down beat to deal massive damage to multiple foes.

System Requirements:

An OpenGL 3.2 compatible graphics card

The Visual Studio 2013 C++ Redistributable. Download here

Instructions and Controls:

All how to play stuff can be found in the game in the form of the (temporary) Instructions menu! The slightly modifiable controls are also available in game in the Controls menu.

There WAS controller support but I just tested it now and it appears to have died at some point. I'll look into fixing it later

Quick alpha thing: there currently is no win condition, so it's essentially survival mode right now!

Download:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21521620/GODHOOD%20Alpha.zip

Description:

After a good year of development, I've decided that the game is finally ready to be publicly tested! From this alpha, I'm primarily wondering about these things:

1) This is going to sound a bit silly, but does the game launch!? GODHOOD, game engine AND graphics engine, are hand coded from scratch! I've had much better luck with this as of lately but I'm no Unity.

2) Is the game fun?

3) Is the game too hard? Were you able to understand the rhythm and follow it?

4) I am aware that the alpha still has loads of bugs in it, but feel free to let me know of any that you find!

Thanks!

I’ve got a few references to post tonight actually but since all of these characters are people I haven’t shown the references for yet, I’ll do them all out in separate posts, with a little bit of a bio!

Now, the thing about Avadra is, as much as she loves watching her newly discovered fan entertain her, she wants to be much more involved then just standing on the sidelines.