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
Measured against the project data codex, not estimated.
The Frost Wyrm is the first boss in Ascension with its full repertoire: six attacks, each with its own wind-up and recovery. There are seventeen versions between the first test and the video, and most of them fell over details nobody should ever notice.
In September I wrote that if the slime ever needed a new body, we'd change the body. Three weeks later it needed one. This is the second life of the game's first enemy, and what it cost to make a gel move like a gel.
A wolf doesn't run by speeding up its walk. Walking, trotting and galloping are different coordinations, and all three are animated separately. A hundred and twenty-eight animations later, the howl calls the pack — but only when it's alone and wounded.
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