Paraimalia (2016)

Used tools: C++, Allegro5, Godot, Aseprite

Paraimalia was meant to be many things... some sort of Cave Story + Undertale + generic Metroidvania. Never saw the daylight.

Development

Early 2016... It was a typical case of no planned development like Blindrl once again. I called it "blindshooter", following the same reasons of blindrl ("blind" when looking at the scope of it).

My only regret today is that I did'nt gave up on it earlier. Should have focused more on learning the most I could, learning the things you can't show off to your friends, specially if I wasn't using a game engine at first (started with C++/Allegro5).

I still had too much to learn of overall game development. Barely knew how the compiling+linking stages goes, just prayed every time I pressed that godamn Compile+Run button from Code::blocks.
Never spent time to make proper tools.
Never used git(☠️!).
Never used a debug breakpoint(!☠️☠️!).
I was just throwing game data into plain C++ code(!!☠️☠️☠️!!).

I have reworked on it from zero 2 times. Except for the last buildings, since I wasn't using git, couldn't recover many .zipped versions I had. Luckily I found some GIFs laying around my drive.

First prototypes

Ugh. First time trying pixel art ever.

Recycled this explosion in so many projects

First rework

Reworking from zero after a couple weeks.

This was my first time ever with Godot! I got the grasp of it very early tho! I also remade the few assets I had. I can remember being very proud of it... now I'd give it a solid 6/10. Static environment was not bad, but had problems with palettes and lazy animations.

Had some problems animating this guy

Of course I needed to try different hairs.

Had something with this big bubble gun

"What is your name, Mr. stranger?"

Of course it had... throwable shurikens... and fire shurikens...

Planned some narrative around this kind of orphanage [GIF is corrupted]

Humorous + fantasy themed scenes

Had planned a lot about a story! This scene was surprisingly funny. I was very inspired with Undertale's kind of humour and some unexpected gameplays.

Entering spooky home...

...what...

...after some whacky dialogues,"Cut tomatoes as if your life depends on it"

"I dont think you are understading me very well... I want more!! MORE!!"

that's it

Last rework

I don't remember why I wanted to rework everything once again so badly. Ugly mistake with color palettes this time. Have improved on animations though. Was very inspired by Momodora this time.

A very ugly mistake on composition.

Megaman Zero Z-saber combo?

ALL THIS BOSS SPRITES WAS MADE BY HAND! CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW BIG THIS SPRITE SHEET WAS? HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID? AND HE ONLY HAS 1 DUMB MOVE!!! JUST ANIMATE THIS BODY AND HANDS AS SEPARATED OBJECTS DAMNIT