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MCM - House preview

Last preview was the asylum, so here's the house. Going to do a video once I finish this area.

Like the gothic feel. I think it matches the game pretty well. Even talking it in more of a Psycho direction.

http://imgur.com/a/TnjmT

MCM - Asylum tests

Trying some art test for the asylum. It's actually coming out better than I expected.

http://imgur.com/a/GnrcA

MCM update - decals, models, prefabs

I'm actually been working on fixing models and setting thing ups so I can redesign (or at least improve) the environments. Not too exciting, but some things I've done

Fixed the pivot and hierarchy on over 100 models. Very tedious and time consuming, but it's going to speed things up later when I'm decorating the scenes. I want to basically paint all the furniture into the environment.

Set up decal pallets so I have a ton of decals to choose from. Mostly cracks, damage, dirt that I can pa...

MCM Level concept

Trying a few different looks for the game. Guess I'll call this the murder house version. Sightly Argento inspired (Inferno, Phenomena), maybe some Clock Tower & House of the Devil. Figure I'll have the windows get darker as you play or maybe change red towards the end.

Also tried doing an asylum look to the game but I think I underestimated the amount of work it would take to look good. A hospital requires an insane amount of detail.

As far as setup goes, I could have a few ideas in...

Hotel Game update

I showed this game off a bit last year and then it kind of disappeared. Starting and stopping things is a problem I'm working on correcting.

I put it  on hold for a while because it's so complicated to develop. The stealth + inventory + puzzles + cutscenes and voiceovers just became too much for me to handle by myself at the moment.

Basically it came down to either working on this for 2 more years or putting it aside to do a simpler game first (which is Meat Cleaver Mutilator).

PDM Remake death

Forgot about this. From the PDM remake. I may work on the remake again after I finish the full version of PDM.

Pre-orders for $10 patrons

Thanks a lot for your pre-orders! So how I'll basically be handling them:

Pre-order goes towards one full game plus any shorter games I make in the mean time. Power Drill Massacre (full version) and Meat Cleaver Mutilator are shorter games, while something like Texas Butcher is a full length.

When I release a game I'll email you guys keys for whatever platform it's released on that I can send keys for. Itch.io is guaranteed. Hopefully steam, psn, xbox live, assuming my games aren't banne...

Meat Cleaver Mutilator - Plans for next version

Pulling MCM out again since I'm kind of making it public and want to make some updates. Here's what I have in mind

New Features:

• New main character (current character went into the hotel game)
• Menus (no gamepad support yet) 
• New video shader formats: Shot on video, 16mm, VHS, B/W 
• Some new or changed music 
• More notes 
• Improvements to the environment
• BUG FIXES. Especially lag. 2017-05-11 04:54:37 +0000 UTC View Post

MEAT CLEAVER MUTILATOR

MEAT CLEAVER MUTILATOR    

Gameplay:

https://youtu.be/jZGvt95j1SA

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This is a prototype I finished back in  March. It's no where near polished enough for a public release but I think some of y...

Early Access Forum Password for May

password: bloodbath

Forum: http://puppetcombo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9

Relaunch

Tried this out last year. Now I think I can make it work better.

Comfy screenshot time

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Updates

  I finished the inventory last week. Ended up refactoring it so the code is       much easier to work with down the line.  

      I've decided to rebuild the hotel level into a map closer to MCM.       The hotel map I previously showed just doesn't feel right to me. I  originally envisioned the setting to feel like a dollhouse, or an       ol...

Still working on input

This probably isn't the most exciting update but the tiny, mundane details can be the most time consuming. 

I've been working on Inventory interaction for the past few days. It's much more involved than I actually expected. Implementing controller support on the menus was no problem but the inventory is totally different.

Because the items can be rotated and sorted in unlimited ways, I needed to come up with a method to determine each item's neighbors in the grid. Havin...

Menu

I've been working on re-implementing the menus. It looks pretty similar to what I had before but I rewrote the code and reduced it by at least a 1000 lines. Less code = less bugs

I'm refactoring a lot of the behind the scenes stuff - managing progress, input and stuff like that. Implementing controller support actually takes a ton of work. This menu supports controller input (at 0:16 I change from using the mouse to using a controller. The settings adjust automatically) but ...

Black and white

Playing around with a camera filter for Meat Cleaver Mutilator. Looks way more gothic. I've been considering going with a satanic / witchcraft angle for the story

Nursery Rhyme Puzzles

I've been basing the new puzzles on nursey rhymes. This is little boy blue

New Puzzles

 I've been working on a few new puzzles because I didn't think the game would be long enough. 

Music box

Some more work on the music box

Music Box Puzzle

This is an old puzzle I originally designed for Minotaur. I've been waiting for a chance to bring it back. You need to arrange the pins in the correct configuration to play the song

The hard part is done. I just need to texture it.

Supporting cast

80's hair

Working on some new hair styles

Level Preview

Fraps was running really slow but here's a preview of the first two stories of the Hotel. It's 6 stories total with the basement. Lighting and furniture placement is unfinished

Pistol

Gonna do a level run through  video soon. In the mean time here's another old one of the pistol.

Transitioning between first and third person is really seamless

New Screenshots

Some new screenshots of the Hotel. 

The level is mostly built so I've started texturing everything. I still need to place most of the props. Some of the hotel rooms are done but most of them are empty

Gallery

PDM prototype

Not much news today. Just trying to figure out what I should work on.

In the mean time, I figure I'd post some old unreleased videos. Here's an old version of PDM. Never finished the prototype or trailer.

New MCM character

Working on a final updated version of Meat Cleaver Mutilator. I wanted to change the player model, since I'm using the other one in the hotel game.

Rigging a dress for animation is a real pain in the ass. But it's working pretty well now

Power Drill Massacre Update

I don't think it's a secret that I haven't worked on PDM in a long time. I'm trying to refocus and reorganize things with a new direction for the final game

http://www.indiedb.com/games/power-drill-massacre/news/update-366

Alternate Box Art

I love making cover art. Thought I'd do a few more

2016-11-03 10:16:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Look 2

My next game will take place in a motel. Trying out different textures for the hotel rooms.

I'll probably end up going with look 1. This one is a bit too close to the RE remake