Back for Devlog 3 !

Hi there ! It seems no time has passed since the last devlog, but in reality it has been almost one or two month.
So, there is a lot to show :)

General Information

So like last time here is an overview of what we'll see here :

• Level design
• Monster changes
• Game feel and Audio
• First Game loop
• Last Game loop
• Trailer

Level Design

What is more important than a level in a game built around its controller ? We made some iterations and ended up with this :

As you can see, we used archs, ropes, wooden rod and stone pillars to populate the level and provide the player with a valid playground to move around.

Monster Changes

Lots and lots of changes happened here ! 
After we made the first monster, we chose to make a v2. Why ? Because the old one had some design flaws we wanted to erase :

• First it was too human-like and boss-like. 
• As it gave a sense of dread and uniqueness, it was a bit weird to see multiple copies of it.
• Considering the way it climbed, the position of the head and the structure of the body was facing the walls too much.
• We wanted more flexibility with it, especially with the tentacles. Because the old one was one whole mesh.

So we made a new one ! Without a head, with separated tentacles so that we can change them appart from the rest, and globally smaller.

Here's the result !

Here's the artist's Deviant Art's link for more illustrations : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g0Z4Xx

With it came some procedural animations changes (and some tentacles tests we had to give up) :

This was scraped :

Here is the new enemy animated (you can see the body waving and tentacle wiggling) :

Game Feel and Audio

In terms of game feel we added : 

• Screen shakes
• Controller vibrations
• Audio feedbacks for attacks, speed, grapple and monsters
• Speed visual effects
• Attack visual effects  and shader
• All to emphasize the speed and impact of the attacks.

All this can be witnessed in the game loops records that come right now.

Game Loops record !

Old game loops record :