Art
How Leo came to look like Leo
Three months, five designs, two rejected turnaround sheets and one last animation pass. Every attempt Ascension's protagonist went through, including the ones that did not survive.
In development · Godot 4
A 2D action RPG about the price of ascending
Ascension is a top-down 2D action RPG: five heroes, three world layers and 22 dungeons across a continent that has been broken for generations. Follow development from the inside.
Five roads, a world split in three, and one night that crosses them
The design, in numbers
Measured against the project data codex, not estimated.
- 253
- monsters in the bestiary
- 70
- character sheets
- 22
- designed dungeons
- 110
- balanced weapons
- 51
- map points of interest
- 3
- world layers
Latest devlog entries
See the whole devlog → Design
Why I locked the entire design before producing a single screen
253 monsters, 22 dungeons, 110 weapons and 51 script events exist on paper before the game does. Here is the reasoning, and what it cost me.
Narrative
The chronicler's book: when a screen transition rewrites the game
I decided that changing screens should mean turning a page. That single decision ended up defining pausing, saving, chapters and the voice narrating the whole game.
Enter Aethelgard
Explore the world →Where we are
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2026 · Q3-Q4
Character laboratory
Underway
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2026 · Q4
Playable vertical slice
Underway
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2027 · Q1
Content production
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