NetherWorld is a pixel art action narrative experience, and also a dark and decadent land full of filthy creatures.
After being abandoned by his wife, Medoo faces his disgrace going to the nearest bar to drown his sorrows in vodka. What started as a marriage crisis will soon become an unexpected, surreal and twisted journey surrounded by quirky fellow travelers.
Dialogues and relationships between characters will be key for story progression. That’s why all the fights will be against final bosses.
Get along with cokehead mages, prostitutes, mobsters, sociopath kids, old perverts and more to fix the pieces of your broken life, or at least to try it.
· Deep and surreal story
· Dark and twisted world
· Lots of characters and scenarios
· Epic battles against grotesque bosses
Hey guys!
Maybe it's too late for an April's Fools joke, but it never is for posting our January 2024 forgotten-to-post-because-reasons update NOW! (Creepy Santa approves)
In a couple of weeks you'll read a brand new update without waiting 3 months, so LET'S GO!!
Almost 100% of them are finished or, at least, with all buildings and assets in place for cinematics and going for a walk.
We’re talking about:
That’s regarding to walkable scenarios playing as Medoo, but it's not all: We’ve also finished the 8th Tick Joe minigame scenario (keep reading)!
[No new scenario footage because spoilers, sorry. But wait for the Tick Joe one!]
A smelly, weirdly charming and quite talkative Industrialist who knows more than what he thinks, but less than what he says.
NetherWorld has tons of NPCs. We mean, there’s more than 200 NPCs in the game. During these last months our talented artist Alex Fariña has been sketching most of their faces to later make the HD illustration for the dialogue portraits. That’s A LOT of work and certainly not a priority in terms of production right now, so we’ve decided to put them in stand by and prioritize other assets directly related to gameplay and cinematics.
As a small 4 people team we’d like to thank and praise the hard work of our main (and only) artist Alex for everything he’s doing for the game, dammit everything looks amazing!!
Here’s some of the pixel art idles of Gazhova NPCs…
…And here’s Dimitri running from their portrait sketches in our last Halloween video!
Oh, and talking about NPCs…
As you may remember from our last devblog, we started the process to fulfill the long-awaited Kickstarter "Dark Soul" backer tier reward: Making their own NetherWorld NPC. Here’s the current design status:
We’ll show you the results once Phase 2 is completed! :)
Our boss programmer Xavi has been working hard on the final boss, which has… several phases lol. Alex has done a great work on the different attack animations too, and they’re nearly finished!
Here’s a first gameplay of Tick Joe’s Pinksburg scenario:
You already knew you'll be able to order a wide range of drinks depending on the bar you visit, and they will be a part of the Drinking Tournament minigame too.
But you didn't knew we'd show you a sneak peek of some of the ~50 pixel art drink designs you’ll get drunk/high/sick with!
They’ll all have an HD illustration image for the ordering UI.
We’ve had very interesting conversations recently, and hope we can give you good news about it soon! ;)
Okay, technically it's April but this was supposed to be read on the first week of 2024, so... Hope you had an amazing New Year celebration!
Wait, you haven't yet?
While your "Amazing year" wishlist reward is being processed, every time you feel 2024 is shitty, remember: The life of the weird jellyfish you see below will be always worse.
If you have any questions or insults, please comment below or send us a mail to info@netherworldgame.com.
Thanks so much for your support and see you in the next devblog... In less than you expect! ;)
NetherWorld team
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Time to talk about how was our IndieDevDay 2023 event experience, and aaaaall the improvements and demos we’ve been doing while getting closer to the...
We’re happy to show you our organic cyberpunk designs for NetherWorld capital, mabs (not mobs), and the current state of: music, bosses, EVERYTHING!
2023 first months arrived with unexpected bosses, reward system and big places! Did we survive? (Now you have to click here to find out)
Seems like Santa had some extra GIF(t)s for you to celebrate the New Year! Let’s unwrap our experience at IDD22, a new trailer, recent upgrades and...
Looks like some original work being done here ,looking forward to seeing the end result, should be good.
Thank you :)
Que buen trabajo hermano simplemente hermoso
Muchas gracias :)
Looks neat! Good job guys
Thank you :)
Man, I'm so glad I found this gem, the pixel art in this game is a masterpiece! Looking forward to this one.
Thank you AoiJack, for your extremely kind words.
Great particle effects. Stunningly creepy bosses.
Thanks guys.