Son of a Witch: Devlog and general discussion

[Jubal]

Altars sound a good plan (I remember the ones in PD where you had to tempt/kite enemies onto the altar then kill them in combat, those were fun but unpleasant).

[bigosaur]

Here's a video of some co-op gameplay. You can see how we robbed the shop 

[Jubal]

What's the magical life-giving fairy triggered by?

[bigosaur]

What's the magical life-giving fairy triggered by?

It comes when at least one player is dead and at least one player is alive and there are no monsters.

Here's a trailer video, this time with proper cuts, so it's much more interesting and dynamic:

[Jubal]

Nice! Are you going to have any cutscenes/voice acting etc as the plot advances, btw?

[bigosaur]

Nice! Are you going to have any cutscenes/voice acting etc as the plot advances, btw?

Cut-scenes are planned. I currently only have a couple of still screens with characters and dialog boxes (will share those soon).

I don't think there will be voice acting, as that's hard to do right and better no voice acting than bad voice acting. I might add a narrator to the story in the end.

[Jubal]

OK, cool

[bigosaur]

I  have some cut-scenes planned for the final game, but currently a couple of placeholder images will do the job of showing the game plot:

[Jubal]

Nicely done

Only one thing which struck me - the brothers if anything look older than their mother. Which may make sense given, you know, witchcraft, but I guess I'd expected her to look older.

[DeepCandle Games]

Could be a vampire?

[bigosaur]

Only one thing which struck me - the brothers if anything look older than their mother.

I never looked at it that way. Perhaps I should make the "grown up" sprites a little bit taller... Or maybe just plug in the "youth magic" idea somewhere in the story. Thanks.

Potion shop

Sometimes a special kind of room will be created in the maze: a potion shop, pet shop or a quest room. More on quest rooms later, but here's the potion room:

[Jubal]

Does this have the same bodyguard system as the merchants?

[bigosaur]

Does this have the same bodyguard system as the merchants?

Yes. But this NPC is a healer, so she can even heal the bodyguard while you fight.

[Jubal]

Owch, fair enough!

[Phoenixguard09]

This looks awesome. Very keen to give it a crack!