Hi everyone welcome to our 4th and final devlog for now. We will be releasing the demo of the game for free on itch.io next week on the 8th of August. Please give it a try and let us know what you think! We had a lot of fun working on this demo and we hope we can continue working on this game in the future if people want us to. Since we want to release the demo next week we spent a lot of time on polishing this week.

This week we added more animations and sprites and reiterated on some existing ones.

We did some minor tweaking on the run animation by applying some feedback we received on reddit.

We also tweaked the basic attack

We added a death animation for our protagonist to make his death look a little bit more interesting.

We’re not entirely satisfied yet, so we’ll be improving it next week.

We also tried to enhance the overall game feel. We added some blood particles and decals when attacking enemies. We also added some screenshake when damaging things and a heartbeat effect when you are close to death. We took a lot of inspiration from these talks from Vlambeer and Move or Die (https://youtu.be/AJdEqssNZ-U, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmSAG51BybY)

Gameplay footage:

We have also been working on a soundtrack for the game.

Follow this link for a sneak peek:

https://soundcloud.com/rocket-shelter/rise-of-the-underworld-sneak-peak/s-E03Xz2...

Thank you for reading, As always you can follow our progress on our twitter as well!