Welcome back followers of the fearsome!
Hope you’ve had a great week! This time we’ll be hopping into the world of viking squad with some of the background characters we’ve been placing through the game.
My strengths have always been in designing goofy characters so for the last bit of polish we are adding some of them to the game.
We started in our first zone, where you hit the ice floes and the dark caves. Below there’s a couple ideas along with one little guy we built on the dev stream! These guys can appear during a difficulty swing to sell you stuff, or just be there in the background offering a new light source to spruce up the levels.
As you get deeper into the caves there are crazy exploding mushrooms and shiny blue crystals. We wanted to show some reasons for the Snowclaw to be in there so we designed up a very crafty looking Snowclaw jeweler! These guys appraise the jewels harvested from the deepest caves and make sure the crystals that are brought back to the den are of the utmost quality.
Adding these characters is a quick and easy way to add some fun to the more sparse areas in our zones. once implemented we’ll have a good idea of what else we’ll need to add to the other more lonely areas, and it also gives us fun and interesting things to work on with our Dev-Stream audience!
We’d also like to give a Viking Squad shout out to our pal Tim Keenan of Misfit Attic for releasing Duskers 1.0 today! Duskers is a super cool, low-fi survival game where you control drones from your ship in a lonely, post disaster space. You explore seemingly empty space ships with your trusty drone pals, upgrade them and try and avoid traps and strange creatures. It’s mysterious, challenging and has a super cool aesthetic. So a big congratulations Tim on your release! And check out his company’s site right here!
And as always! we are back to our regular Viking Squad Dev-Stream programming! Hop on at 4pm PST-6pm PST for some searing hot art tips and fun Drawbarian times! See you there Everybody!
And that’s it for this week! Caley and I are getting the final boss touches ready to go while Nick tackles the massive beast that is Networking. Hope your weeks have been going well and until next time. Keep on Dusking!
-Jesse
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