Project Y Games - Dev Blog

That’s right we’re finally retiring this old blog (hence the new title of theoldpixelhero) as we look to the future of QuestQuest and beyond! Give us a follow if you want to stay up to date, otherwise thank you all for all the follows and support over the years!

(We recommend the downloadable version as the browser based version has some loading issues among a few other bugs- Also the accidental timing of this release is by no means lost on us...)

From  quiet mountains, to barren plains, from the deepest dungeons to expansive cities, QuestQuest will take players to a variety of lively locations. Here’s a concept for the battle screen on the Imperial Road.

Messing around with different looks for abilities. What do you guys think? Does it work better the way it used to be with no lines or background? Or is there one here that looks especially awesome and over the top?

And lastly, but certainly not least, here’s Ripley, Captain of the Fire Bugs (Who is a re-imagining of Ridley from the Metroid series). I didn’t want to make him an actual dragon, bu I wanted to keep the dragon motif and his sinister smile. As you can tell his fully armored form bears much more resemblance to his original inspiration.

The third faction from the now abandoned PHI was to be the Infestation (taking heavy influence from the Flood from Halo and the Necromorphs from Dead Space). Here’s some of their grotesque forms that they take and the miniature infectors who spread the disease.

More lost content! This time ancient Prozo spirits called the Atma! (Based off StarCraft’s Archons). Discovering their ancient ruins would come at great reward and great cost, and a lot of the concepts for how their optional dungeons were going to work and their general future-ghost aesthetic is something I’d greatly like to revisit, possibly in QuestQuest.

These were going to be the Fire Bugs for Pixel Hero: Isolation (They’re essentially a re-imagining of the Space Pirates from Metroid). As we continue to work on the demo for QuestQuest it’s nice to share some of this lost content with all of you and who knows, some of this might get recycled into something one day.

Here’s a full sprite sheet for you to feast your eyes on...

Here’s a throw back to a sprite sheet for Sarah I threw together back when we were making Isolation. In retrospect, it’s good we decided to go with a more original IP, but she was still a blast to animate and (hopefully) we may even see these sprites get used in some bonus content, who knows?

Working on some sprites for QuestQuest, this one is of the Player character in the short tutorial which is separate from the game and completely optional. More to come of this character and their companions as we start getting the Engine up and running. Most animations will probably only be about 3 frames (running at a whopping 2 frames per second!) as it cuts down on animation time, and given the characters’ already limited mobility they can still express a lot of what needs to get across. 

More UI stuff for QuestQuest, as you can tell this looks a lot different from VR Missions. Tried to go for a less cluttered design that was (Dare I say) pleasant to look at. I might move the Talent boxes a bit more but I like the look generally speaking. What do you guys think?

Here’s some early looks at the UI concepting for combat in QuestQuest, also you can tell it takes a lot of cues from what we did with VR Missions, only now that we’re trying to work in a 16:9 ratio we’ve had to mix things up a bit. We may end up going back to 4:3 though, what do you guys think?

Exciting news to come in the next few days... But in the mean time enjoy the spruced up everything on all our websites!