Bloodless

Devlog

• Release
  June 05, 2022 by argoms

  Finally. Thanks to Matthew Clother for putting together this short trailer (the video is under his channel, click on it to see more)! This project was more intended as a series of technical experiment... Continue reading
• The Not-Quite-Release Preview
  March 27, 2022 by argoms

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  Ah, yes, devlogs. Well anyway, the project's almost done, and here's a not-quite-trailer. Only showcases half of the bosses and isn't really edited. Most of the remaining stuff to do is visual cleanup... Continue reading
• Update 16- ​So it's ​that​ kind of bi-monthly after all
  May 01, 2021 by argoms

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  To be fair, I got very little done for the past month due to recovering from vaccine side effects, so not much got done in April. Boss #2 finally has wings. It's always had wings in my old concept doo... Continue reading
• Progress update- 2020 in review
  February 15, 2021 by argoms

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  I have now moved 5 times since starting this project, including once since the last devlog (overall including crossing the Atlantic twice). Let's see if I can keep a monthly update schedule from now o... Continue reading

  
• Progress update: June (barely)
  June 30, 2020 by argoms

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  So, it's been quite a while since the last devpost, but things have been done. I'm not even going to bother saying anything about release date because we all know nobody has actually shipped a complet... Continue reading

  
• First public release
  March 26, 2020 by argoms

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  Alright, finally got something publicly available, and it is super incomplete. Purely a basic mechanics test- none of the numbers have been remotely tuned (no, you're not going to have to hit the fir... Continue reading
• Progress update (mid-March)
  March 16, 2020 by argoms

  A July release still seems possible , but really, it'll be done when it's done. Honestly, I might be better off taking longer to finish it so I don't have to compete with (i.e. get drowned by) Elden R... Continue reading
• Bits on bosses, and player mechanics
  February 08, 2020 by argoms

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  I was originally planning to have the entire barebones of the game done by the end of January, but looks like it's going to be mid-February instead. I'm going to start looking for a composer around th... Continue reading
• Last year in review (AKA- Oh right, there's a devlog!)
  January 10, 2020 by argoms

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  I don't think the weekly update experiment really worked out. Going to be trying out something else this year, but more on that later. For now, let's see what's actually been done since the last time... Continue reading
• Update 10
  November 21, 2019 by argoms

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  Should be back to weekly now. So, I ended up re-writing how the worm works to use bezier curves to more easily define smooth movement paths. This took a lot longer than I thought it would, and still... Continue reading

  
• Update 9- What's October?
  October 31, 2019 by argoms

  So, a lot of things happened. I got sick, then better; then really sick and on anbiotics, then better; then sick again. Fun times. Some work on chapter 2's boss animations. And the city. Second pictur... Continue reading

  
• Update 8- Menu Stuff
  September 26, 2019 by argoms

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  In which I spend several hours figuring out why all the classes that deal with text in my project suddenly won't compile. If using TMPro works, but doesn't actually allow you to use the TextMeshPro cl... Continue reading

  
• Update 7- small one
  September 20, 2019 by argoms

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  Not much this week, unfortunately. Anyway, I finally got around to actually blocking out the critical path of chapter 2's ruined city rather than building it as I go. Red is critical, blue is side-are... Continue reading

  
• Update 6- worms pt. 2
  September 12, 2019 by argoms

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  So. The wormy boss now has a model. Had to fix quite a bit of code to get this all functional. Did you know that in the last devpost's worm, the underlying blocks that worm segments moved towards had... Continue reading

  
• Update 5- um, worms
  September 05, 2019 by argoms

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  So, I got the basics of how I want the ch1 stonewyrm (centipede) boss to act. This took *way* longer than I expected it to. You know, this guy: Just the basic wormy-ness with infinitely scaling length... Continue reading

  
• Update 4- It's been a while!
  August 27, 2019 by argoms

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  In my defense, I've moved three times in the past few months, and now I'm living in England for the foreseeable future. Remember when these things were meant to be weekly? Anyway. New stuff is in the... Continue reading

  
• Update 3- No Longer Faceless
  April 18, 2019 by argoms

  Lot of back-end stuff and experimenting with features, not much to show visually. Not quite nothing to show, though. So, we've got faces now. This actually also includes a facial animation system (tho... Continue reading

  
• Update 2- Environment mockups
  April 03, 2019 by argoms

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  #art, #environment

  Mostly spent time on making rough drafts of the game environments in blender, and throwing a mesh collider on them in unity. I'm not really putting any care into optimization or good mesh topology rig... Continue reading

  
• Update 1- It's alive!
  March 27, 2019 by argoms

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  Going to try and make regular dev posts- aiming for weekly. Anyway, here's what the game looks like now: Obviously, there's screenshake now. The closer you are to the attacker, the more the screen sha... Continue reading
• The Project so Far
  March 06, 2019 by argoms

  Mostly an art/background info dump, first time using itch.io. The game is planned to be a boss rush with intermissions of environmental storytelling between fights, with gameplay approximating a cross... Continue reading