epiclust

Intro update - February release

Added 2022-01-25 20:24:18 +0000 UTC

The intro is now almost finished and I will therefore release it in early February to all patrons, irrespective of their tier. It will be exclusive to patrons and I ask of you not to publish it elsewhere please, because it's only introductory and well, it's for your eyes only at this stage for feedback. It does however introduce all the main characters quite nicely I think, as well as essential game mechanics and the world of Cockham (a mixture of Marvels, DC, manga, video games by the way...). And I'm happy with the music score, I hope you will be too. There is quite a bit of "fourth wall" breaking, but it's only for the intro, it will be toned down later.

You will also hopefully find that renders are of higher quality than in "Apocalypse" (crisper notably) and this while all the images have been heavily compressed with a new compression method I found out. They are some funky effects I am quite proud of too (like sprites that look like the character is "breathing", or blinking effects with randomized times between blinks). Also, ANIMATED sprites which I managed to pull off by converting series of sprites into webm files with an alpha-mask that allow for an animated sprites to move around the screen quite easily (see the strip scene with the Black Widow and Emma Frost for an example of that - followed by a DOUBLE-TITFUCK!)

Here are some more intro previews to keep you waiting, and also a few tentative v0.1 previews.