The Forgotten Castle
The Forgotten Castle
The Forgotten Castle demo played by its creator
Come join me while I play the demo of The Forgotten Castle while I explain some funny and interesting things about it's development!
Dev Update #10: New zones coming! Steam Next Fest!
After finishing the latest version of the demo, this week I finally could work on the new zones. Right now I have 3 zones fully designed and now I am implementing them and working on the enemies of each zone. Each zone will have a different theme and different aesthetics, the one I am working on right now is the main hall and entrance of the castle. You will see images of each zone very soon but right now I will show you this image:
You will have to wait to discover what that character on the right is.
On the other hand I finished a "cinematic" I was working on. You will have to play the game to see the scene but I will leave heare a screenshot so you can see something in advance.
I would like to remind you that this week is the Steam Next Fest and if you haven't wishlisted the game on Steam yet it would be a great way to help me! It yould also be a great way to help me if you could download the demo and leave a rating here on itch.io.
Stay tunned for more news and images!
New Discord server!
I created a new Discord server so we can be in touch. In the server I will publish all the updates and all the important information about the game so if you don't want to miss anything run and join the server!
Discord server: discord.gg/ancJkrUw5V
Dev Update #9: Game state and things to come (Steam Next Fest)
This last weeks I haven't been as active as I would have liked. I was focused on finishing the demo and the core mechanics of the game, and for personal reasons I couldn't be more active on the social media. From now on I expect to continue with my media acounts and the development of The Forgotten Castle as always.
As I told in older posts, I will be participating in the Stem Next Fest with the last demo of The Forgotten Castle (I HOPE YOU ALL ALREADY WISHLISTED THE GAME ON STEAM). For the development of the last demo I implemented all the core mechanics of the game, so I hope that the development will be faster now. I will only have to design new zones and enemies, and create all the cutescenes. Even though things will be easier and faster now, it will take me time to complete the game development.
This week, the game also got a new art that will be used for promotional actions. I really like this one, it gives a darker approach to the game.
For the participation on the Steam Next Fest I plan to organaze a few surprises, so You will have to stay tunned to know more about it.
Remember that you can download and play the demo on Steam!
New demo of The Forgotten Castle published!
As the Steam Next Fest is near and The Forgotten Castle is going to participate I have developed a new and improved version of the demo. This version includes a test scene where you will be able to try all of the powers that the character will unlock.
Feel free to leave any feedback and comments! It would be also great if you want to make Let's Play videos!
Don't forget to wishlist The Forgotten Castle!
Dev Update #8: The hook is here!
This week I did not have much time to work in the game, but I managed to do some things. I implemented the hook mechanic, the hook will alow to get close to enemies fast, but it will also allow to reach some zones that can't be reached with the basic dash.
I have also worked on the pixel art animation for the last power up, I will only tell you the name for the moment. It will be called DragonFire.
Stay tunned for more info, remember that soon I will publish a new enhanced demo for the Steam Demo Fest!
Dev Update #7: New abilities under development
As I explained last week, I am working on a special level for the demo where you will be able to try all the abilities of the game. I can show you the actual state of some of them.
The first one is cure, this will let the player recover his full health, but it will only have one use until the next checkpoint.
The second one is a crossbow. It will be anice way to attack from safety, but it will deal less damage. The crossbow will also be important for some puzzles.
This is everything I can show for the moment. Stay tunned for more progress soon!
Dev Update #6: New news about the game and some cool stuff
This week I took some decisions that you will see reflected in the game and in the game marketing very soon. Most of this decisions are related to the way that I want to market the game, but I also decided to include a new feature to the demo that I think you will like. Soon I will release a new version of the demo that will include a kind of playtest area where you will be able to try all the abilities and power ups that will be available in the final game. Right now the demo covers the first 30/60 mins of the game and there are almost no power ups in these first minutes, I would like you to experience and feel how the game will be in a more advanced part of the game. I hope you will like it.
But that is not everything I did, I have been working on some pixel art fort the game and I have also been working in new enemies and some scenes of the game that will have an important impact for the story. You can see a little spoiler in the following pictures.
Soon there will be more cool news and stuff, stay tunned!