Incline OFFICIAL "STONES OF ARNHEM" DEVELOPMENT THREAD

[Viata]

Should go back to bugchasing, Baxander.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

This guy are very gay.

 

[BATTLEMODE]

Great news. I'm interested to see how this one improves on Grimoire despite it's shorter play-length.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

I will fight until my dying breath to keep this game from being released.
And if it does, I will get all my tranny friends to review bomb the shit out of it.

I feel certain that in the coming year you are going to be institutionalized again, Reachbaxhander.

 

[Ladonna]

Will a Max Phipps character make a cameo appearance?

 

[Lady Error]

The Penisaurus needs to be a well-hidden Eldritch abomination Easter Egg, maybe in some alternate dimension of insanity.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I will fight until my dying breath to keep this game from being released.

Oh yeah, that worked so well last time. Nigger you couldn't stop a ship from going on the road.

 

[Daemongar]

I will fight until my dying breath to keep this game from being released.
And if it does, I will get all my tranny friends to review bomb the shit out of it.

I don't think the trannie "Suicide Squad" works the way you think it does.

 

[somerandomdude]

Hey, Grimoire is great, I paid full price for the game when it launched (it was $39.99 or $34.99, I forget), and I got 140 hours out of it. I can't complain at all. I don't have a problem paying full price for Stones of Arnhem either. Grimoire beats the hell out of trash games like Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and Final Fantasy XV.

 

[Darth Canoli]

I will fight until my dying breath to keep this game from being released.
And if it does, I will get all my tranny friends to review bomb the shit out of it.

You should do something more productive with your time like eating cockroaches...

 

[GandGolf]

Will there be an option to import the party from Grimoire?

 

[Comte_II]

Game of the year, when its released

 

[Contagium]

I get excited whenever I get the notification that this thread has a new post, hoping it's Cleve with news. Alas.

 

[somerandomdude]

I will fight until my dying breath to keep this game from being released.
And if it does, I will get all my tranny friends to review bomb the shit out of it.

There's LGBTQTXHFOASP+ (forgot the rest, it's honestly as long as the pie # at this point, and new ones added too frequently for me to keep up) representation in Grimoire, you just have to be observant enough to see it.

For example, when you go into the equip menu, it becomes obvious that sirs are actually xyrs. Xyrs could have at least had a loincloth or some long underpants to cover up that bush. It's even well trimmed too, has a crescent moon trim facing upwards, so it's clear that Cleve put some effort into this. The only thing Grimoire is guilty of is incorrect usage of pronouns. So, people need to put this into context and realize that all the seething butthurt about Grimoire is about xyrs being called sirs.

 

[Stilgars]

Hello Cleve,

Obviously, the crowfuning campaigns played a huge role into motivating you to cross the finish line regarding Grimoire. I believe that it was a huge accomplishment to release such a complex game for a one man team, by the way.

Do you on plan on reiterating in order to get enough motivation to get SOA out before you hit your eighties /Australia turns to a barren wasteland?
Thanks

 

[Brozef]

Great news!
Since I haven't been keeping up on the codex, will Stones of Arnhem be the next game? What happened to the Lovecraftian Horror Blobber and the Armageddon Empires inspired one? Will they be put on the back burner? Or did you ditch them completely, Cleve?

 

[Alex]

Yeah, Cleve game threads always attract them.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Great news!
Since I haven't been keeping up on the codex, will Stones of Arnhem be the next game? What happened to the Lovecraftian Horror Blobber and the Armageddon Empires inspired one? Will they be put on the back burner? Or did you ditch them completely, Cleve?

Working on them right now. Post-Atomic is coming along nicely now that I have fiddled sufficiently with the stylization of the appearance using unity shaders.

Check out some of the magic realism portraits from the Lovecraft blobber.



Left-to-right ... Clergyman, Psychic, Investigator, Occultist portraits. Still experimenting but these are almost perfect for what I was aiming for.

This is the style I was talking about I wanted for the graphic comic book HEAVY METAL style garish appearance of the Lovecraft Blobber. These would be available in character creation. I even have a very creepy looking Lovecraft style portrait plate for the character and their stat bars, icons and info with tentacles etc.

Believe it or not, I have spent many hours experimenting with rimlighting in Unity to simulate the lurid appearance I want for the 3D to match the most colorful horror comics.



Sorry this stuff can take a while with everything else going on but as an Indie I am entitled to have very high standards and not just throw out whatever crap I can finish. I want to craft each blobber I make with this engine to be a completely different genre and radically different from the previous one. I take a lot of influence from the Elvira blobbers on the Amiga which were really good horror games in a crawler format.

 

[Skinwalker]

You're developing the gay Wizardry sequel with anus monsters?

 

[Acrux]

I feel certain that in the coming year you are going to be institutionalized again, Reachbaxhander.

Baxander​

Savant · From Brisbane, Australia
Joined Jul 9, 2012
Last seen Aug 14, 2022

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

I feel certain that in the coming year you are going to be institutionalized again, Reachbaxhander.

Baxander​

Savant · From Brisbane, Australia
Joined Jul 9, 2012
Last seen Aug 14, 2022

Holy cow, Baxander moved to Australia as I was moving out? I would tell you to go to hell Baxander but now that you live in Australia it is kind of redundant.

I think it was a smart move, now you're in a nation of babbling, drunken cretins talking gibberish. You're going to fit right in.

 

[Junmarko]

And if it does, I will get all my tranny friends to review bomb the shit out of it.

Just make sure they review bomb it BEFORE they drink 2L of bleach.

 

[infidel]

Check out some of the magic realism portraits from the Lovecraft blobber.



Left-to-right ... Clergyman, Psychic, Investigator, Occultist portraits. Still experimenting but these are almost perfect for what I was aiming for.

Those look lovely. BTW, are you in need of a composer for the project? Also, I'm interested in what music direction are you thinking about for that?

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Check out some of the magic realism portraits from the Lovecraft blobber.



Left-to-right ... Clergyman, Psychic, Investigator, Occultist portraits. Still experimenting but these are almost perfect for what I was aiming for.

Those look lovely. BTW, are you in need of a composer for the project? Also, I'm interested in what music direction are you thinking about for that?

That's a very timely question because I spent yesterday looking through my library of music and could not find something that seems right for it.

Was looking for convergence of heroic epic/dark drama and searing horror surrealism and most of my music I own falls somewhere between those categories but none falls right on top of it.

I have tried some things for just wandering around in the blobber and somehow it doesn't quite all gel in terms of theme. The ambient music should be horror but also needs a bit of that detective noir to fit.

 

[infidel]

That's a very timely question because I spent yesterday looking through my library of music and could not find something that seems right for it.

Was looking for convergence of heroic epic/dark drama and searing horror surrealism and most of my music I own falls somewhere between those categories but none falls right on top of it.

I have tried some things for just wandering around in the blobber and somehow it doesn't quite all gel in terms of theme. The ambient music should be horror but also needs a bit of that detective noir to fit.

That sounds to me like you need some dark ambient with hints of classic detective noir instruments like the vibraphone, solo trumpet, horn, saxophone, some piano and traces of jazzy rhythms here and there.

I'm going to go full-on shameless shill mode:

Spoiler

Here are some relevant examples of my work. I can do cosmic dark ambient:


Dreamy but not too dark ambient:


Detective noir themes:


Bluesy themes (disregard the YM2612 instrumentation):


I'm interested in producing music for a Lovecraftian project like this. If you're willing to give me a chance, we could continue the discussion in private. My music-related email is maxstack@gmail.com. If not, best of luck with your projects.