Posted April 12, 2025 by Nekopyun
This project is adapted from an earlier concept inspired by Creaks, Shady Part of Me, Eastward, and The Lord of the Rings. The original idea featured a magical world of elemental lands and multiple playable characters, each with unique abilities for solving puzzles and exploring. Players could switch between characters to solve mechanism-based or clue-based puzzles.
Due to using different character assets (I have no time and energy to produce a whole set of animations) and limitations in coding ablility, I simplified the design to focus on a single martial artist protagonist. The multi-character system was removed, and puzzles were replaced by clue collection leading to a final narrative-driven boss Q&A, preserving the story-focused gameplay in a more achievable form.
Here I just want to show some original character design and a more diverse level design as a record. I hope to bring the original idea to life someday.