Crimson Keep is a first person Hack n'slash roguelite. The player descends into a hellish subterranean labyrinth full of monsters, traps, and treasure. Find the sunken remains of the Crimson Keep and cleanse it. The great power within could be your only hope for escape.

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This week Ian talks about the new monster type, some new props, and demos some other player abilities. Also: BIGGER CAVE!

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Hey everyone, Ian here, game designer and artist for Crimson Keep. This week we've had some exciting advancements, mainly the new enemy type, the Bone Mage. Ben now has it set up so we can assign projectiles to fire out of any one of a character's bones, which is what allows the mage to shoot the fireball out of his hand. Here was my initial design brief on the enemy, and if you take a look at the video, you can see that we're getting pretty close.

Bone Mage

A benevolent magician in life, the Bone Mage pursues the darker arts in death. Compelled to protect The Keep like their skeletal brethren, they make every effort to fling fireballs from range, or produce a deadly flame wave up close. Their mastery of the arcane arts means they never try and create distance between them and their target. When they get low on health, they may try and blow themselves up, taking their attacker with them.

bonemage



As always we also have some new environmental props to show off. I feel like I'm almost done making props that I'll use to populate the cave tileset. I would like to do a couple more mushrooms and some kind of tribal monster encampment, and then that will probably wrap it up. There are going to be about 7 tilesets in total, with some crossover. And if the game is a success I'm sure that number will increase. Here are some examples of props from this week:

minepick


stool


table


Thanks for your continued interest in the game. Please feel free to leave a comment, or critique! For more information about the game you can follow me @neckbeardninjas have a great weekend and Global Game Jam if you're participating!

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Sph!nx
Sph!nx

This looks like a very cool project. Tracking. Good luck!

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IanAtherton

Thanks so much for your interest in the project!

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taintedpyro813
taintedpyro813

nice update!

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IanAtherton

Thanks!

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Raikoh_Undead
Raikoh_Undead

Looks great! can't wait to play it!

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Thanks for your interest in our project!

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