Become a tester! Our Mountain Playtest will be available soon on Steam! Everyone can sign up for free on the store page! You will get a full game on the launch date for free by just playing the game and completing the survey! All the tester names will be shown on the game credit. The full game will be launched on September 27th, 2022. @ 8:00PM PDT. Get ready for an adventure with Charles and Buddy!
Hi everyone! Today we are proudly announcing Our Mountain launch date! Our Mountain will be launched on September 27th, 2022. @ 8:00PM PDT. Get ready for an adventure with Charles and Buddy!
Hi everyone! Welcome back to the devlog series! So let's look at our second devlog of Our Mountain!
Our Mountain is a narrative adventure game, therefore telling a story is one of the important things in the game. However, our character can't speak or express a facial expression. As a result, telling a story is much harder in this situation.
Telling a story when your characters can’t speak or have a facial expression is a bit challenging, and this is the challenge we have to deal with in the process of making Our Mountain.
When the character can not speak or show their facial expressions, it’s hard to show what the character is thinking or feeling at that moment. This is a massive problem for a story game. Therefore, we have to use the music, SFX, camera angle, and level to help express the character’s feelings. Each level was designed to match the character's feelings and is still also relevant to the main story.
Let's look at some of our processes for making in-game level! The first thing was creating the most beautiful concept art ever.
Process #1: Then we started to create a prototype of the level
Process #2: After creating a prototype, we started to add some grasses, trees, and mountains.
Final: Finally, after placing all foliage, we then added a post-process effect and light to make the level looks more attractive.
Because we don't want all levels to look the same, each level has its own color theme; for example, Purple-Yellow, Orange-Yellow, or Teal-Yellow. With these different color themes in each level, players will not feel bored and always want to explore the scene.
There are many objects that can be inspected at each level. Inspecting them will make the player understand more about the story. Players are not required to inspect them all, it's optional.
That's all for today, and the game is almost ready to launch! Thank you for reading this article.
Hello everyone! We have been working on this project for a long time but we have never had any devlog yet. So here we go! This is our first devlog of Our Mountain!
Today, we are going to talk about Buddy the dog. Buddy is a dog that Charles’ dad gave him as a birthday present. Now Buddy is his cute little companion that will travel with him everywhere. When Charles goes fishing, working, running, or pooping, he is always with him!
When you feel lost, depress, or get bored, you are always allowed to pet Buddy. Buddy who always tries to look cute will let you pet him without biting you. You can pet different parts of his body including both legs, head, and back. Each part will display a different animation. You will get pure joy from petting Buddy, making him feel annoying.
His life needs Apple! There are 5 apples on each level. Collect all of them and bring them to Buddy. He will eat all those apples and become a very happy handsome dog. With this awesome feeling, Buddy will let you control him and do whatever you want as Buddy. You can freely control Buddy, running around the level.
Playing as Buddy, you can get into a place that Charles can’t. You will understand the story more from those places. Collectables can also be found in those places too. Moreover, Buddy loves searching and tracking! When he grows up he wants to be an investigator! In the investigation mode, Buddy can clearly see the way that the player has to go. All items, doors, and notes, will be highlighted. Finally, one last important feature ever! Buddy can bark! Playing as a Buddy, you can bark as many times as you want. You can bark at the air, water, boars, bunnies, rock, poor fish, you can bark at everything!
Making Buddy is a bit challenging. This is the first time making this kind of AI so we have to do a lot of homework. Switching between two characters on the same level also causes a lot of bugs and troubles, especially on the AI controller system but we won’t give up on that!
That’s all for today! I hope you guys like it. We will keep updating our work every week. This is our first narrative adventure game so wish us luck. If you guys have any questions or suggestions, feel free to comment or contact us. Thank you.
