Crawlyard

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• Announcements·23 Jun 2023Official

  Crawling with developers 🔴 Side B

  Hey again! We welcome all to a Next Fest stream where the Pigeon Eye studio members will present an updated demo and will try to pass the unsurmountable game tutorial. And we hope the next stream will go smoothly (not like the last one, ha)! So, jump in, say Hi and let's crawl together!
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• Announcements·18 Jun 2023Official

  Crawlyard Crawling with developers 🔴 Side A

  Hey! We welcome all to a Next Fest stream where the game's team will present an updated demo. So, jump in, say Hi and let's crawl together!
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• Announcements·9 Sept 2022Official

  More focused battle encounters - Devlog #7

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40852172/6ee54a8b59208bb9e96834ef01f9e1d5053371c1.gif How could this broken shell of a man, barely able to carry the weight of his own sword, be the Burning Terror which drove me to hide here? He seemed to have Demons of his own, that he struggled to contain... and he was losing. Changes to the battle system We’ve made a complete overhaul of Crawlyard's battle encounters. Before, it felt like a hybrid of Vampire Survivors and Loop Hero, but now it’s more like Hadean Tactics. What I mean by that is that each encounter now has its own battle zone, borders and enemies, all happening within the stage of your chosen performance. Basically, we aimed to arrive at a seamless transition between exploration and skirmish like you'd see in modern JRPGs. Each battle is a pretty much consistent experience and enemies won’t spawn totally randomly (well, there's still a hint of randomness within specific conditions). Here, a fancy gif where I'm using battle brushes to create a zone for the next battle encounter. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40852172/77d27085b7ef5cbe69a773e03473a130378af6ed.gif Mapping out a death zone in sleepy dorms Encounter system So I was talking about randomness, right? Well, our encounters aren’t exactly fixed - each time you visit a stage and engage in one of its battles, there's a tiny invisible counter that goes up by one. The higher the value of that counter is, the more new random enemies we add to this encounter's list, until it reaches a pretty round number like 10 or 100, and then you’ll have such a wide roster of enemies that it might indeed seem random (but not totally random still). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40852172/fc11693250dd4636c83009a1cad7120b7e2111d7.png Better yet, each encounter adapts to your class, level and build. Even if you make a Knight build that's really good for dueling single foes, I will make sure that at some point a hoard of lesser enemies with a poison attribute will spawn at once, and you’ll have to improvise, adapt and ov...
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• Announcements·10 Jun 2022Official

  Devlog #6 - Going fully Isometric

  Today I received the following message "I came across your game on Twitter and it looks VERY different from what I played in the previous build. Did you do a massive overhaul?" So people are starting to notice the change and it's time to tell about it properly. Yes, we changed the visual look of the game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40852172/f7b89d8a6f1419e89f42701ab3c0d062bfe265ac.gif I know a lot of people like Crawlyard for its cartoony and simplistic graphics. But the truth is, most of it were graphical assets from the Unity store, which is not really our level - we can do so much more. There's also always not enough assets there either way, we need a lot of out custom graphics to use it as an element of environmental storytelling. I guess now you can say that 70% of visuals is fully made by our 3D modellers. After the October's demo we also wanted to make the visuals more theatrical. What I mean by this is that all of the objects on scenes would be made out of cardboard or paper, clouds would hang on the threads from the ceiling, and the floor would always be made of wood. But when we tried it out, we quickly understood that this style of visuals will always be perceived by players as a very "niche" game, and that's not really the direction we want to undertake. While our first priority is to make a deckbuilder that would surprise the fans of the genre, we also want to make this game as approachable as it could be. That means going with safe, but solid directions in terms of visual style. We also changed camera perspective to isometric as it allows for more depth and more space covered by the camera, so battle arenas become larger and thus open more possibilities during combat. The Break Distance card, that every one of you hated in the demo, now works way better with this camera view. Really curious to hear what people that tried the demo think and feel about the new game's visuals. Cheers, I'm out. See ya in the next one. -- Always yours, Crawlyard's game designer.
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• Announcements·28 May 2022Official

  Devlog #5 - Sinister Laboratory

  This morning, when I was out on the porch, I saw clouds forming these ominous words: "Write a devlog, or else…" Oh my, this seems to be a sign, and who am I to oppose the higher power? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40852172/0fd97d7414dbffd167b016126cba7910fb5f6f86.png Fleshing out the game We are currently focusing on polishing our new "dungeon" system, performances, and revamping card and progression mechanics. Performance production actually consists of several steps going in strict order: first, we have the general structure and lore background suggested by the writer, and then our game design team develops interesting mechanics to go along with it. Graphics, music and sound come next, and the levels are brought together by proper lighting and asset placement. Although we're still running regular playtests to make sure the levels stay engaging from start to finish. Check out Sinister Laboratory (Mad Lab for short), the Victorian-themed performance we completed first! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40852172/bf1c0c8333059b23e0f2b08b13940c1d40bf43ce.png Style and substance Our 3D team has recently finished making original assets for Crumbling Temple, one of our "ancient" performances that refer to an older period in the game world's history. This adventure is styled around tomb raiding, and you will have to evaluate your risks carefully while you're trying to escape the decaying ruins. The more treasures you decide to carry with you, the trickier it becomes to leave the temple alive. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40852172/ae15d67bd3fcc132ee4bf19ca9209af88e3681f2.png Design works And our concepters are gradually moving further, preparing initial 2D art for a story set in a completely different "biome": Abyssal Train will make you fight your way through several carts filled with cultists and technodemons. The train has no breaks but neither do we, so get your tickets and hop on board! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40852172/9fb08b3d2b90ca4caee9926c7f32744aff1ee59a.jpg Afterword That’d be all. The mansion and its ...
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