Estate of the Damned

Devlog

• [In Engine Clip] - Playing with light
  January 23, 2021 by Bimbam

  Spent a bit more time tidying up some lighting oddities and finally beginning to nail a few aspects of it (not many, but floorboard reflection lights make me happy). Saying that, literally just notice... Continue reading
• [In Engine Clip] - Playing with fire
  January 16, 2021 by Bimbam#godot, #indie, #gamedev, #horror, #fire

  Been tinkering with trying to get a semi-realistic fire going using AnimatedSprite3D planes (that use a looping fire sim animation I made in Blender) combined with a few particles for the Lounge. I'll... Continue reading
• [In Engine Clip] - Forest of fog
  December 25, 2020 by Bimbam#Godot, #Godot Engine, #Survival Horror, #Design, #Fog

  Cliche though it may be, no indie horror game is complete without a forest thick with fog. Here's a snippet of me trying to get particle fog to look ominous. Still WIP. Apologies for huge gap between... Continue reading

  
• [In Engine Clip] - Halloween Updates
  October 31, 2020 by Bimbam

  As this is a horror game, I had to do SOMETHING for Halloween, even if it is absolutely miles away from any kind of release :( So here's a new vid showcasing some fairly small changes that make a fair... Continue reading
• [In Engine Clip] - Doors and Interactions
  October 28, 2020 by Bimbam

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  Microphone worked this time so I'll let my talking do the.... talking. Feel free to comment/like/hate/etc. Thanks... Continue reading
• [In Engine Clip] - Exploring new rooms
  October 22, 2020 by Bimbam

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  Finally have a room loop allowing the player a chance to evade any enemies I may decide to spawn, so figured it was as good a time as any todo another video walkabout. Do NOT turn it up too loud, I ne... Continue reading

  
• [Design Update ] - Music Room
  October 18, 2020 by Bimbam

  I should apologise for the long delay between updates, I've ended up getting some paying work again so have had to cut back on time spent working on this :( That said, I also just haven't been updatin... Continue reading

  
• [Design Update ] - Hallway Arches
  October 01, 2020 by Bimbam

  Just a quick breeze through the ground floor hallway in Blender. The aim of the game is to get the aesthetic of how I like it and wherever possible detract the eye from hard corners/edges. For that re... Continue reading

  
• [Design] - Back to Blender, More Housework!
  September 30, 2020 by Bimbam

  To keep the game dev process fresh I decided to stop the programming side for a bit and go back to Blender to try and round out the Loftly Estate, as I need at the bare minimum a closed loop single le... Continue reading

  
• [Mechanics] - Sound, Performance, and death
  September 24, 2020 by Bimbam

  Fair amount of bug fixes and enhancements last few days: Slow Loading This turned out to be due to TSCNs, Godot's native scene format, being woefully inefficient at loading anything remotely large. As... Continue reading
• [Design & Mechanics ] - Main Menu & Loading
  September 19, 2020 by Bimbam

  Another walkabout video, this time showing a rudimentary loading screen/Main Menu as well as adding some background music for ambience. I have a lot of work re. sound design ahead of me, but have alre... Continue reading
• [Design & Mechanics] - The Demon : Look & AI basics
  September 17, 2020 by Bimbam

  Been a few days since an update. Generally I don't like posting things unless I am happy with the progress/output but realise this leads to long gaps between updates so need to stop it. As such, this... Continue reading

  
• [Design] - The Kitchen, second cut and walkabout in Godot
  September 10, 2020 by Bimbam#Horror, #Loftly, #PT, #P.T, #Survival-Horror, #Godot

  Strange day today, mostly spent tinkering in the kitchen unhappy with the results. But then the simple addition of Ivy to the window dramatically changed the nature of the scene and it all came togeth... Continue reading

  
• [Design] - The Billiard room
  September 08, 2020 by Bimbam

  Fleshed out the Billiard room, screenshots below from Eevee NOT in game yet: Found out the Met Museum public domained some 35k pieces of art, so I can fill the house with period/demonic artwork which... Continue reading

  
• [Design] - More complete feeling lounge runthrough
  September 06, 2020 by Bimbam

  Hadn't done much the last few days but spent a few hours today fixing up the lounge into a near satisfactory state, as well as putting windows, skirting, carpet and wallpaper into the hallway, with al... Continue reading
• [Design] - More Lounge work & Bookshelf
  September 02, 2020 by Bimbam

  I know I said literally yesterday that I wouldn't be making many of my own models at this point, but I really couldn't find a half decent bookshelf so had a bit of fun making my own: Makes me a little... Continue reading

  
• [Design] - The Lounge, Still cooking
  September 01, 2020 by Bimbam#Lounge

  As mentioned in the previous post, currently fleshing out a few rooms in Blender, not only to get some ideas flowing, but also to then use as the foundation for prototyping the rest of the game mechan... Continue reading

  
• It begins..
  September 01, 2020 by Bimbam

  Hi Anyone, As an opener I probably should give a more in depth breakdown of 'the plan', but it's late so I'm going to jump straight into clips. SO, the idea is a survival-horror in the style of PS2 ga... Continue reading