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Jorit

300 metres of murals on the Naples promenade

Over the past few days, as we walked along the Naples seafront, we could see a lot of activity surrounded by clouds of colour coming out of spray cans. It was ART&more, a project for which nine Neapolitan street artists were called in to create an equal number of works covering an area of 300 square metres on the Caracciolo promenade.

Jorit, Shaone, Iabo, Zeus, Tres, Yele, El Nigro, Cref and Alessandro Cocchia are the artists involved, who for three days worked incessantly to create floor murals, which, so as not to damage the asphalt, were created on a PVC sheet 300 metres long and 11 metres wide.

Shaone

IABO

Zeus

Cref

This post is about IABO’s main character, Iabo.

Here’s Iabo in full glory and form.

As you keep with this series of devlogs, you’ll see that Iabo is actually many things inside IABO: the main character, the companions (turret Iabo, laser Iabo and speed Iabo) and the collectibles (mini Iabo).

The acronym from It Ain’t BreakOut is quite euphonious for us, thus during the development it became usual to start calling the main character this name, and attributing all characters’ instances to it.

In reality, Iabo is, at the same time, one thing and many things. Like the Prinnies from “Prinny – Can I really be the hero” or like the tachikomas: many bodies, one mind. That’s why merging and absorbing companions, for Iabo, is totally okay and not hurtful at all, maybe:

During gameplay the player will get the chance to absorb many companions, and stack their abilities. The companions also keep how many lives the player had: if the player has 4 companions attached to its body, it means they can take up to 4 hits without being expelled from the stage.

These are the animation loops done so far:

Any feedback is very welcome!

@elitebohen always makes himself look pathetically desperate.