Hi everyone! Welcome to our second Devlog of Rise of the Underworld!

We’ve been very busy this week, mainly working on the knight redesign, animations, floor generation and some new abilities. We also have been focussing on social media a bit more this week. We made a twitter and reddit so don’t forget to follow us! (https://twitter.com/RocketShelter). We will be posting more gifs and screenshots over there in the future.

Art & Animations

After finishing our prototype it was time to invest some energy in redesigning the main character.

We’ve also been working on the basic attack animations:

Because we have no experience with pixel-art and animating the tutorials at the following link have been of great help:  https://blog.studiominiboss.com/pixelart

The animations are certainly not finished yet and will be re-iterated on in the future to improve the look & feel. We’ll be posting new animation GIF’s on our social media accounts next week.

Abilities

Abilities are a huge part of our game, You gain abilities every time you finish a floor and proceed to the next one. You can also find ability shards in a chest (more about that later). We focus on having a lot of different and unique abilities so everyone can choose their own playstyle. Currently we have about 40 abilities but we are hoping to increase that number up to 60 before releasing the game. Here you can see a screenshot of the WIP screen you will see at the end of each floor where you can choose your ability.

Chests

We wanted players to have a reason to explore each floor a bit so that’s why we added chests. These chests are randomly scattered around the floor and can contain some useful items. However be careful because some chests can contain some bats for you to fight instead. The items you can currently get from the chests include: Health Potion, Blade Oil, Ability shard (Free random ability) and an Attack Speed Potion.

Thank you for reading our second devlog. We still have a long road ahead but we are very happy with the progress so far!