It’s time for the Raji weekly news blast, bringing you up to date with all of the latest from the team!
IndieDB is looking for the best Indie Game of 2019 Let’s start with something interesting! We have had a long and proud history with IndieDB with many people originally finding out about us when we were featured on the site.
IndieDB is currently looking for the best Indie Game of 2019, how does this relate to us, as we have not yet released? Well, by the rules of the competition active, as of yet unreleased indie games (like Raji: An Ancient Epic) are eligible to win in the “best upcoming” categories!
So, is Raji the game that you are looking forward to the most, the game that you feel is the best upcoming game? If so, please do vote for us over on our IndieDB page
Get Indie Gaming - Top 10 Upcoming Games
If you have not already seen this video, then we highly recommend that you watch it now!
Get Indie Gaming, a very popular YouTube channel for indie games has identified Raji: An Ancient Epic as one of their top 10 upcoming games for 2020!
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Be sure to check the video out as they also talk about a host of other games that are extremely interesting!
Vayusra Combat
You may have seen the flying Vayusra demon a few times now, but have you seen it in combat?
While testing out one of the future levels that we’re currently working on, we had to fight our way through these flying terrors. Check out how that went in this week’s work-in-progress video.
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That’s it for this news blast, we hope that you’re just as excited for the game as we are!
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What Indie Games are you looking forward to in 2020?
The Indie Scene is currently a great place to be, especially if you're a gamer! Not only do you have an abundance of high-quality games, but more likely than not, buying them will not harm your bank account!
As 2019 comes to a close, it is clear that the Indie Gaming scene continues to grow at an ever-increasing rate, and 2020 looks like it will be another great year for everyone involved.
2020 will be a special year for us as we will finally launch our game, so we were really excited to hear that Raji: An Ancient Epic managed to get into ‘Get Indie Gaming’s’ top 10 best new upcoming Indie Games of 2020.
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Not only is it a huge honor for us to make it to this list, but we highly recommend that all of our readers, fans, and community members check out the video as well.
Why's that you ask? Well, since you are already here, you have already heard about, or know about Raji: An Ancient Epic (no surprise), but Get Indie Gaming has listed many other games and we are sure that you’ll find some of them very interesting as well!
Raji News Blast - Photos from IGDC
We promised you more photos last week, so here they are.
There is something special about seeing a game that you’ve poured your heart and soul into get such a good reception by everyone that stopped by.
What’s more, we also were part of the many talks that took place at the event. During these talks our team explained the various techniques that we used to help us in the development of the game.
In these talks, we had Shruti, Anirudh, and Shreyas who covered the art side of things, and Paras who spoke about some of the techs that are used in Raji - including the semi-dynamic camera system, effective usage of animation montages, audio system using FMOD, and the system for destructible environment.
For those that are interested, we’ll have some videos from the talks to share with you soon.
That’s it for this news blast, we hope that you’re just as excited for the game as we are!
If you want more Raji related news and content, do check out our social media channels:
Hello and welcome to this week’s special news blast, with a special focus on the team working on Raji: An Ancient Epic!
IGDC Special
This post comes to you hot on the heels of a great IGDC event. Stay tuned this week as we'll be sharing a lot of photos, videos, and awesome stories from the event!
Work in Progress Snapshot
If you’ve played our demo, you’ll have noticed that we’re quite big fans of really big and grand views, so it’s no surprise to find the same in our upcoming levels.
Take this, for example, though it’s still in the block test phase, we’re sure that you can see what we’ve got in mind!
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The Team
Have you ever wanted to know what the Nodding Heads team is like, both at work and relaxing?
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That’s it for this news blast, we hope that you’re just as excited for the game as we are! If you want more Raji related news and content, do check out our social media channels:
Raji: An Ancient Epic at the Indian Game Developers Conference (IGDC)
Fans of Raji: An Ancient Epic!
Are you in India and would you like to meet the people working on the game?
If so, we've got some great news for you.
We are going to take part in the Indian Game Developers Conference (IGDC) this week from Friday 22 - Saturday 23 November. The doors open at 9am IST and the event closes at 6pm IST on both days.
The event itself will be held in the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) in Hyderbad, India.
Attending this event we have Two of our founders Avichal and Shruti Anirudh, our concept artist Shreyas, our 3d Artist Jalay, our Tech artist Paras, our lead programmer
Do note that tickets are needed for this event. You can either get them at a discount online, or buy them at the door on the day.
If you want more information about the event, or if you want to buy tickers, please check out their homepage here.
We look forward to meeting as many of you as possible!
Raji News Blast - Winning Awards at Dev Play 2019!
Hello and welcome to this week’s special news blast!
Dev Play 2019
We’ve got some fantastic news coming from Bucharest, Romania!
Last week, between November 7th - 8th, the Game Dev Conference for Eastern Europe, aka Dev Play, was held. During this event, our game (Raji: An Ancient Epic) won awards for:
The Best Game Design
The Best Game of the Show
The Best Visuals
To win these three awards is a feeling that is hard to describe, but needless to say that we are ecstatic to see our game get this sort of recognition!
Throwback Thursday
From time to time, we like to look back at our journey so far, after all, it has been an incredibly exciting one, filled with ups and downs (as all good journeys have) and it helps see how far we’ve come.
For this throwback Thursday, we’re looking at the time our musical composer, Linos, jammed with a local maestro. The outcome was bliss for our ears and a good time for anyone nearby!
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The Pillar Attack
Special attacks are a major part of combat in our game, so we’re dedicating this week to the Pillar attack.
We’ve put together a short special video to show you how we first tested the attack in our test environment, and then what it looks like in the game now.
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That’s it for this news blast, we hope that you’re just as excited for the game as we are!
If you want more Raji related news and content, do check out our social media channels:
This week we’re focusing on new content, from new demons to a first look at an all-new level, all while saying a fond farewell to Blocktober.
New Level and the end of Blocktober
October has come to an end, bringing our fun Blocktober coverage to an end with it, but we’re ending things with a bang as this is a great opportunity to tease an upcoming level that we recently tested in the block phase.
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This new level is set in the capital city, and our heroine Raji has to fight her way through new types of demons to get to her goal.
Speaking about new demons, let us properly introduce...
The Jalsura
In our teaser video, you may have noticed some new enemies that fight in very different ways, a giant eyeball, and a flying demon. The giant eyeball is called the Jalsura and you can see it in action here.
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That’s it for this update, though it is short, we hope that you can agree that it is packed with a lot of new things.
We’re aiming to release the game sometime in Q1 of 2020 and until then we will be hard at work developing our game.
In the meantime, you can get a feeling for our game by trying our demo, available here on steam. What’s more, we will update the demo before the full game’s release as we’ve made a lot of changes to the game since the demo was first created.
Be sure to follow us on our main social media channels for all the latest Raji news.
Raji Weekly News Blast - Introducing the team dogs!
Hello and welcome everyone!
The weekly Raji news blast is back, and this week we are continuing with our theme of Blocktober, and (maybe more exciting for our community) we are also introducing the Raji team dogs!
Blocktober Continues
In our last news blast, we introduced Blocktober to you, telling you what it was, and why we're taking part as well. If you haven't read the post yet, we do recommend that you check it out first.
So for this news blast, we have two Blocktober videos to share with you.
Bloctober - Wall Run
The first looks at the before and after of the first Wall Run that Raji is forced to perform.
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Blocktober - Combat
The second video looks at combat. Notice how in the blocking phase, we had already planned for the tutorial by making notes on the ground itself. Also, some of the block encounters were found to be a bit too hard (like fighting three Gadasura demons) so we toned it down a little bit to two.
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Raji Team Dogs
Meet the Raji team dogs! These dogs are one of the main reasons why we've managed to maintain our sanity while developing Raji: An Ancient Epic!
All of them were taken in from the streets and are now vital members of the team!
From the mouth of the Raji team, the dogs in the photo are: Killer is in the mix three times... cheeky chappy. From top left, we have Benji, little Patch, Killer, Left middle row, Hailey [the Alpha], Zia [Killers sister] and Peter, Bottom left, Killer, Killer again and then we finish with Nimi.
We're missing Mr G. Goldie. Each one has their own story, Nimi was only meant to stay with us until her leg healed - she was hit by a car, we'll spare you the details. Once she was fit and well, it was I who said, I can't let her go, Normally it's Shru.
Shru organized a Rabies vaccination drive a while ago in the local area with a couple of dog groups where they would go out and vaccinate as many of the dogs over a weekend. Before releasing they'll be rewarded with nice reflective collars and a few treats.
Work In Progress
We're ending this week's post by taking a look at a WIP video, taken from an upcoming level that we are working on for the game.
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The peaceful scene is quite different from the regular war-torn scenery that we've shared from Raj: An Ancient Epic so far.
We hope that you've enjoyed this news blast and we'll be back next week with more awesome videos and photos from the world of the Raji developers!
Raji News Blast - Introducing Blocktober!
Hello and welcome everyone.
If you follow game development in general, you may have heard about Blocktober. This event takes place in October, and is a small celebration of the art of level design.
If you want more information about Blocktober, we recommend that you check out Gamasutra's article on the event!
If you follow our Social Media channels, you would have seen that we have shared quite a few videos that show the game in its block format.
Videos such as these proved to be very popular:
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However, in most cases, the in-game implementation of the feature ended up being slightly different. This gave us a unique opportunity to create new before-and-after videos that line up with Blocktober, and also show you the progress that we've made in the game's development.
So, without further ado, here is the first of this year's Blocktober videos:
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A fun fact about this video, the developers were not really aware of the progress on the game, even though they're the one's doing the work. However, after seeing this video, they had a big 'omg that's awesome' moment.
We hope that you enjoy these videos as well, we'll be sharing a new Blocktober before-and-after video each week, so be sure to keep your eyes on us!
Raji: An Ancient Epic - Looking at Events Part 1
If you’ve been following us, you may remember that in our last news blast we told you that we’ll be doing a write up of the events that we’ve been at.
The time has come and this week we’re looking at Gamescom and EGX Rezzed!
EGX Rezzed
Earlier this year in April, thanks to ID@Xbox, Raji: An Ancient Epictraveledd over to London, UK, to be a part of EGX Rezzed!
The event was a great success, with everyone from players to the other event hosts noticing Raji and the amount of attention that it attracted!
Gamescom 2019
Gamescom, held annually in Koln, Germany, is the biggest gaming expo in Europe, so it is only natural that we really wanted to be a part of it. Once again, our great friends at ID@Xbox picked us up and brought Raji to Germany!
The Raji team themselves were not able to attend this event in person as they were extremely hard at work on the game’s development, but here is a quick video of what the event looked like:
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A Look at the Game
This particular news blast has been rather short, so we’ve got an extra video of the game to share.
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What is special about this video clip? Well, it shows two very important parts of the game. Firstly, this video is taken from our upcoming new demo so it will be new for most of you. Here you can see that we’ve given Raji a new way to cross over broken paths. At the same time, we’ve worked on improving the art and visuals of the game, from the fantasticly detailed background to smaller more subtle additions such as hidden art that you can only really notice if you slow down and look closely at the game!
That’s it for now, we hope that you’ve enjoyed this! We’ll be back next week with a round-up of our final two events - ID@Xbox Open House and PAX - MIX!
