City of Abominations (2021)

Devlog

• KM Devlog 2
  May 28, 2021 by xYukoNx

  Well I’m going to be in charge of the Evil Path, so much for being a hero. Anti-Hero is a cooler theme anyways. Look at Deadpool, coolest hero ever and he kills people on a daily basis. So the other... Continue reading
• KM Devlog 3
  May 28, 2021 by xYukoNx

  So it's confirmed now so I can speak on it, the bad path will involve learning about a mysterious event referred to by the cities denizens as “The Bloodmoon” and it's gonna have some serious story... Continue reading
• KM Devlog 7
  May 28, 2021 by xYukoNx

  Back to the log, good ole loggity log meister. So what’s up folks, Mr. McLester here with the Narrative Departments finests updates. In today's news: The time for the storylines to diverge has come!... Continue reading
• KM Devlog 4
  May 28, 2021 by xYukoNx

  So I’m starting to have some mild concerns with development. At the beginning everyone seemed to have the same impression that narrative would take a bit of a back seat and that the main focus of th... Continue reading
• KM Devlog 5
  May 28, 2021 by xYukoNx

  Being the amazing, fantastical, and mildly over dramatic author that I so pridefully am, my path was the one we chose to show off the first district the slums in. So hyped that I’m the one who is go... Continue reading
• KM Devlog 1
  May 28, 2021 by xYukoNx

  So I got put on Narrative design! Pretty happy about that. So far we’ve discussed a l;ot of cool ideas like different moral story paths. I feel like I could make the best hero character around. The... Continue reading
• KM Devlog 6
  May 28, 2021 by xYukoNx

  Update Time! We’ve been writing up the dialogue for the Marketplace district, by the way we changed the name and theme of the district from Industrial to Marketplace (not my call). The Demo went dow... Continue reading
• Slum Woman NPC variant
  May 27, 2021 by Yijun Lu

  This Devlog will show you examples of the animations I made for the slum female NPC. Here are the walk animations: Here are the panic animations: Here are the sleep and sleep transition animations:... Continue reading

  
• Vampire Variants
  May 27, 2021 by Yijun Lu

  In this Devlog, I will show you the new animations that I made for the Vampire monster. I will only show one idle animation for each of them. The other animations were uploaded to the Drive under the... Continue reading

  
• A Look Back on Development - Dillon Lane
  May 26, 2021 by DLaneGames#Dillon Lane, #City of Abominations

  Howdy everyone. It's been a journey since my first development log. I've had a lot of fun writing these, as I enjoy explaining and analyzing the design process of video games, especially games I have... Continue reading
• QA Process: Reporting - Dillon Lane
  May 26, 2021 by DLaneGames#Quality Assurance, #Dillon Lane, #City of Abominations

  Hi folks! It's the second to last dev log you'll see from me, QA Manager Dillon Lane! Today we'll talk about the reporting process for Quality Assurance, going through the steps taken to report and fi... Continue reading
• QA Methodology - Dillon Lane
  May 26, 2021 by DLaneGames#Quality Assurance, #Dillon Lane, #City of Abominations

  Welcome back to another post from Dillon Lane, your QA Manager here in the City of Abominations team! In this post I've prepared a summary of the methodology we use for playtesting the game. Identify... Continue reading
• The QA Process - Dillon Lane
  May 26, 2021 by DLaneGames#Quality Assurance, #Dillon Lane, #City of Abominations

  Hello everyone! QA Manager Dillon Lane here! System Design? Huh? No idea what you're talking about. Must be someone else. Anyway, this post will be the first in a series, going into the QA process and... Continue reading
• An Inside Look at Development - Dillon Lane
  May 26, 2021 by DLaneGames#Level Design, #Dillon Lane, #City of Abominations

  Hello Everyone! System Designer Dillon here. Kept you waiting, huh? It HAS been a while, though, so this post and my remaining posts will be concerning what I've been up to in the past few weeks. For... Continue reading
• The Revising Phase
  May 26, 2021 by schindlerhailey

  Hello, all! The narrative team has reached the end of the story, and with all three morality paths completed, it's time to go back and edit what was written roughly a month ago. Despite that being a s... Continue reading
• Elite NPCs
  May 26, 2021 by melissachodz

  With some tag-teaming, Danielle and I got elite NPCs done in a day. A lot of grinding and communication made it all done and ready to go, except for when Danielle pointed out that I had missed some va... Continue reading
• Clothesline
  May 26, 2021 by melissachodz

  Per request of our executive producer, I animated the clothesline for the Slums district. ~wavy~... Continue reading

  
• Bringing Life to the City
  May 25, 2021 by Christopher Ravosa#artificial intelligence, #engineering

  As you explore the City of Abominations you'll undoubtedly notice civilians who look something like the woman in the picture below. The artists on this game have done a great job giving us sprites to... Continue reading

  
• Succubus Animations (Danielle)
  May 25, 2021 by Danderson12

  Here is another animation update: the succubus boss enemy! Her front facing idle... Continue reading

  
• Moving Our Player with "sqrMagnitude"
  May 25, 2021 by Christopher Ravosa#engineering, #vectors, #movement

  Early in the process of developing CoA we noticed a slight issue with the way the player travels. For starters, the player moved rather quickly. Additionally, somebody pointed out that holding down th... Continue reading
• Bloodlust and You
  May 25, 2021 by Christopher Ravosa#engineering, #timer, #art

  Hey everyone! It came to my attention that I never did a devlog about one of my favorite mechanics to have implemented. When you play City of Abominations, you'll notice a werewolf decal and a red cir... Continue reading

  
• New animations for NPCs
  May 24, 2021 by Yijun Lu

  In this Devlog, I will show you the new animations that I made for the Elite NPCs. I will only show one idle animation for each NPC. The other animations were uploaded to the Drive under the Elite NPC... Continue reading

  
• World Design Area Updates
  May 16, 2021 by DanD0415

  Hello everyone as we come to a close for the game development and design starts to slow down I would like to speak about the reasoning for some of the design aspects of the elite and some of the build... Continue reading

  
• Churches and Pubs (Amy)
  May 07, 2021 by Amy-V-M

  Hi, everyone! This is Amy, here with another update from the Engineering Department. The last two features I've implemented into the game are the ability to reset your bloodlust by visiting churches,... Continue reading

  
• Footsteps Audio
  May 07, 2021 by amangreen123

  Hello All, For I fixed the audio footsteps and now different audio sounds play when stepping into a new room for now until new rooms are finished and the scripts can be properly applied to the correct... Continue reading
• Level Design Update - Eric Cho
  May 06, 2021 by ericcho1

  Greetings everyone! It is Eric from the Design Team with another update on world/level design today. Notice we even have replaced some of the houses to be 2.5-D. There are new level variations with ne... Continue reading

  
• Music Update - Chris N.
  May 06, 2021 by Chris Nosowitz

  Hello again. I am currently in the process of arranging the music for each of the bosses of the districts. I already have a track for the Vampire of the Elite district. I am currently working on the T... Continue reading
• World Design- Dan Degen
  May 06, 2021 by DanD0415

  Finally!!! The marketplace sketches have been finished we are ALMOST there. The marketplace will have a very important role in the game that the player will see. The sketches have vital importance to... Continue reading
• Help Improve The Game!
  May 06, 2021 by DLaneGames#System Design, #Dillon Lane, #City of Abominations, #Survey

  Greetings, folks! Hope you all are doing well and staying safe. System Designer Dillon Lane here with a special opportunity for those following City of Abominations ! We're currently in a crucial part... Continue reading
• Market District Update (Alex D.)
  May 06, 2021 by RosyKitsune39

  Hello everyone! Just a quick little update to share with you guys. Here are a few more Market District sketches that myself and the rest of the designers have completed. We are hard at work implementi... Continue reading

  
• Creating an Online Presence
  May 06, 2021 by schindlerhailey

  Hello! As you may know, the City of Abominations has entered the social realm. While our social media is young, I'd still like to share the experiences of working on it with you to give you some insig... Continue reading
• Full District Generation Demo
  May 03, 2021 by Christopher Ravosa#engineering, #procedural generation, #level design

  What's up everyone? I've got great news! The procedural generation script for generating an entire district is finished and ready to be thrown into CoA. I'll be continuing to make tweaks to the script... Continue reading

  
• Gargoyle animations (Danielle)
  April 30, 2021 by Danderson12

  Moving to the elite district... we have the gargoyles! They're a flying enemy that circles the player and attempts to ground pound them. Here's how they'll look: Normal flying animation. Ground pound... Continue reading

  
• Male NPC animations (Yijun Lu)
  April 30, 2021 by Yijun Lu

  This Devlog will show you examples of the animations I made for the slum male NPC. Here are the walk animations: Here are the panic animations: Here are the sleep and sleep transition animations: I wi... Continue reading

  
• Goblin Animations (Yijun)
  April 30, 2021 by Yijun Lu

  This Devlog will show you examples of the animations I made for the Goblin monster. Here are the idle animations: Here are the walk animations: Here are the attack animations: After the Goblin animati... Continue reading

  
• Audio - Updating GitHub Repo
  April 30, 2021 by amangreen123

  Hello All, I carefully uploaded the audio changes necessary to give the enemies and player sound after the big reorganizations of Github and of course updating the code to make sure the audio plays at... Continue reading
• Changeling
  April 30, 2021 by melissachodz

  Changeling has been an interesting one to animate. They don't have any real left vs right animations, but they have front-right, front-left, back-right, and back-left, which made things a little weird... Continue reading
• Market Houses
  April 30, 2021 by melissachodz

  Given the online assets we've found, I felt that the houses needed to take on a more simulated 3d look rather than a face-on 2d look. I did this by just adding a side to the houses to give them dimens... Continue reading

  
• NPC Prefabs and Boss Dialogue (Amy)
  April 30, 2021 by Amy-V-M

  Hello, everyone! This is Amy, here with an update from the engineering side of development. For much of the past two weeks, I've been working on creating NPC prefabs for the narrative team, since I wa... Continue reading

  
• Audio
  April 30, 2021 by amangreen123

  Hello Everyone, For this sprint, I contributed mainly to implementing the audio for the troll and player. Thankfully it wasn't too difficult as Unity audio functions allow seamless integration. The is... Continue reading
• Market District Frameworks (Alex D.)
  April 23, 2021 by RosyKitsune39

  Hi everyone. As of right now, myself and the other level/world designers are hard at work at starting to build out the second main district of the game which is the Market district. Here are a few pre... Continue reading

  
• Slums Boss Reveal! - Eric
  April 23, 2021 by ericcho1

  Hello everyone, it is Eric again from the Design Team for City of Abominations to reveal the Slums Boss! The slums boss is an even meaner and a more menacing Troll. Similar to the Troll, as seen in th... Continue reading
• World Design Frameworks Market
  April 22, 2021 by DanD0415

  Hello everyone as we move on from the slums to the market district I would like to give a brief summary for the market district below. The middle-class level of society. Very populated but not as much... Continue reading
• Elite district frameworks - Chris N.
  April 22, 2021 by Chris Nosowitz

  Hello again. Over this past week, I along with Dillon created the level frameworks for the Elite District. Some are shown below with the key for the frameworks. In the coming week, these frameworks, a... Continue reading
• Variations for world design
  April 19, 2021 by DanD0415

  Hello Everyone, As we come to the upcoming end of our sprint and the release of the updated demo, the world and level design has been working to add in different variations to buildings and new buildi... Continue reading
• Three Storylines Merged to One
  April 19, 2021 by schindlerhailey#Narrative

  Hello all! A change has been made in regards to our narrative structure: rather than offering three different story playthroughs, we will be combining the story paths into one great storyline. This on... Continue reading
• More Level Variations (Alex D.)
  April 19, 2021 by RosyKitsune39

  Hello everyone! This sprint is coming to a close and myself and the other world/level designers are all hard at work creating several level variations with some new buildings in each of them. Here's a... Continue reading

  
• Slimey wimey
  April 18, 2021 by melissachodz

  Slimes move around and attack you now. Kinda fun if you ask me. The only noteworthy thing is that the animation is too fast so I had to add an exit time of 1 second so that the animation actually play... Continue reading
• Locked NPC Interactions (Amy)
  April 18, 2021 by Amy-V-M

  Hello! It's Amy, and I'm here with another update from the engineering side of development. Lately, I've been working on modifying the dialogue system to make it easier for the narrative designers to... Continue reading

  
• Vertical Slice Review - Chris N.
  April 18, 2021 by Chris Nosowitz

  Hello again. Today is the last day of this sprint and I just wanted to give a brief overview of what I did over the week and a half. First, I fixed and updated the preexisting prefabs in the Slums dis... Continue reading

  
• World and Level Design
  April 18, 2021 by DanD0415

  Hello everyone just an update to follow up with the design process for City Of Abominations the demo is coming along very well and even though we are in crunch mode to make sure we deliver everything... Continue reading
• More Monster Animations (Danielle)
  April 18, 2021 by Danderson12

  Each monster will have a unique attack the player must avoid, so here's a look into what to watch out for. The troll gets two attacks and two sets of animations. From the left to right is the troll po... Continue reading

  
• Enemy Animations (Danielle)
  April 18, 2021 by Danderson12

  We're getting into enemy animations! Right now we're starting off with the enemies found in the slum district... the troll and slime! Here are some examples of both: Slime idle and movement. Troll fro... Continue reading

  
• NPC animations
  April 15, 2021 by Yijun Lu

  Here are some IDLE animations for the male and female NPCs. I will post more animations for the NPCs when I finish them. IDLE animations for male NPC: IDLE animation for female NPC:... Continue reading

  
• Panic! At the Slums District!
  April 15, 2021 by DLaneGames#System Design, #Dillon Lane, #City of Abominations

  Howdy folks! System Designer Dillon here with another look at the inner working of our upcoming title City of Abominations ! Today we're taking a look at the NPCs of the game, specifically, how they i... Continue reading
• Game Over Screen
  April 15, 2021 by amangreen123

  Hello Everyone, I managed to develop a game over screen that transitions after the player dies. There was some difficulty due to the previous script implementing it. With the help of the other develop... Continue reading

  
• First Playable Build
  April 15, 2021 by Galaxias AEon

  For the end of Sprint 4, the 1st playable build has been dropped here on Itch.io for the April Games Testing event. What's included in the build are: Player and NPC animations Transform into a werewol... Continue reading
• GitHub Reorganization
  April 15, 2021 by Galaxias AEon

  As of the last Sprint (4), the GitHub has been reorganized. Branches are now split by Feature - (feature for the game) Bug - (bug in one of the current systems) Dev - (intermediary coagulation of code... Continue reading
• Player Attacks and Animations (Amy)
  April 15, 2021 by Amy-V-M

  Hello! This is Amy, back with another update from the engineering team. Recently, I've been focusing on implementing the ability to attack while in werewolf form, and integrating some of the animation... Continue reading

  
• Troll Animations
  April 15, 2021 by melissachodz

  The troll was much trickier to set up an animations to actually work than the player was. You can't just 'get input axis raw' like you could for player- I had to get the current position of where the... Continue reading
• First NPC Animation Controller
  April 15, 2021 by melissachodz

  After a lot of playing around, we have the first NPC's animation controller done. Shifting from art to engineering was an adjustment, but enough persistence I was able to get the animator working prop... Continue reading

  
• Troll Enemy AI (Amy)
  April 15, 2021 by Amy-V-M

  Hello, everyone! It's Amy, and today I want to share a brief update about enemy AI. I've been working largely on developing the troll enemies, programming the behavior as specified by the designers. T... Continue reading

  
• Enemy Projectile
  April 15, 2021 by amangreen123

  Hello Everyone I just developed a projectile system that allows the enemy to shoot projectiles at the player it is given force Vector2movetowards it can also be charged to track enemies so we easily s... Continue reading
• Main Menu
  April 15, 2021 by amangreen123

  Hello Everyone, The Main Menu for this sprint is done developing this thankfully wasn't too much trouble. Developing this involved using an event system to give the functionality of the buttons and mo... Continue reading

  
• Pub
  April 15, 2021 by melissachodz

  The last building for the demo is the pub- run down, but makes enough to keep afloat. And when there isn't much to do after work, they get enough business... Continue reading

  
• Narrative Writing update (Kevin M)
  April 14, 2021 by xYukoNx

  Kevin McLester 3/7/2021 Ive been working on writing the base narrative for the game path where the player starts in the Slums and progresses to Industrial second and Fancy third. This path revolves ar... Continue reading
• Procedural Generation Demo
  April 13, 2021 by Christopher Ravosa#engineering, #procedural generation

  What's up everyone! This week I've got a great demo of 1/4 of a district being generated randomly a bunch of times. This is just a taste of what the final districts are going to look like. For those o... Continue reading

  
• The Karma System - A Brief Breakdown
  April 07, 2021 by DLaneGames#System Design, #Dillon Lane, #City of Abominations

  Hey Everybody! System Designer Dillon here to give you some insight into the karma system in place in City of Abominations ! To start off, you'll have two sides of the scale. One side embraces your mo... Continue reading
• Enemy Analysis: Slime 2: Electric Boogaloo
  April 07, 2021 by DLaneGames#City of Abominations, #Dillon Lane, #System Design

  Howdy folks, system designer Dillon Lane here with another look into the enemies of City of Abominations! Today we're gonna revisit a previous guest on our showcase: the Slime! The slime has been fles... Continue reading
• An Evolving City -
  April 07, 2021 by DLaneGames#City of Abominations, #Dillon Lane, #System Design

  Hello readers! Dillon here again with another dev log for City of Abominations! During the development process of a game, there are many things that happen behind the scenes that, when the game is rel... Continue reading
• World Design- Dan Degen
  April 06, 2021 by DanD0415

  Hello as we come onto the day of the demo is coming out just as an update this will be a list of what we changed for the demo and what to expect. we have currently changed the industrial district to t... Continue reading
• NPC Animations (Danielle)
  April 06, 2021 by Danderson12

  Here some animations for an NPC woman in the slum district. These NPCs are interactable and will affect the player's karma system, so they require a few animations to fully immerse the player. Here is... Continue reading

  
• Procedurally Generated Levels (Alex D.)
  April 06, 2021 by RosyKitsune39

  Hi again everyone! This is just going to be a quick little update on how the procedurally generated level squares that we're hard at work finishing up are going to play out. Here are a couple of them... Continue reading

  
• Another Level Design Update (Alex D.)
  April 06, 2021 by RosyKitsune39

  Hello again everyone, As the world designer Dan Degen recently said in his Devlog post, myself and the other World/Level designers are all hard at work making the levels for our demo build. Our deadli... Continue reading
• Werewolf Update! (Eric)
  April 06, 2021 by ericcho1

  Greetings everyone, it is Eric again from the Design Team at Precipice Games, and I am here to update you all on the Werewolf Form ! Last time, I did not speak about the attacks themselves, nor did I... Continue reading
• First Playable Demo player-story interaction/Demo Layout- Chris N
  April 06, 2021 by Chris Nosowitz

  Hello again. For the first playable demo, the player will be placed in the Slums District and in the "Blood Moon" story path. The demo itself will be linear, going from one part of the Slums district... Continue reading
• Prelimary Health System
  April 06, 2021 by GAnthon

  Anthony from engineering here to bring you another update! I am here to show off some UI work. Take a look at the health meter created for the player character below: This design borrows from Chris' b... Continue reading

  
• Enemy Movement
  April 06, 2021 by amangreen123

  I managed to create an enemy movement this enemy primarily pursues it through its tag function and uses vector 2d to aggressively pursue its targets based on range. The enemy's speed can also be adjus... Continue reading
• Main Character Animations (Yijun Lu)
  April 06, 2021 by Yijun Lu

  In this Dev Log, I will show you the animations I created for the main character. These animations include IDLE animations in three directions and WALK animations in three directions. Here are the IDL... Continue reading

  
• More Werewolf animations (Danielle)
  April 06, 2021 by Danderson12

  Here we have even more animations for our werewolf form for the main character! Featured below are two versions of the attack sprite (front and side). The color changes are an experiment meant to conv... Continue reading

  
• Demo Level (Prefabs) - Chris N
  April 06, 2021 by Chris Nosowitz

  Hello again. I finished creating the corner prefabs that will be used in the demo level. Since the level will be in the Slums district, the art and overall look of the level will be reflected by the p... Continue reading

  
• Buildings for First Playable
  April 06, 2021 by melissachodz

  Lots of art and not enough time- a classic situation many artists find themselves in. I focused on getting at least one of each building type done rather than multiple of each building. Amy took my ch... Continue reading

  
• Werewolf Animations (Danielle)
  April 05, 2021 by Danderson12

  Here we have our first animations for the werewolf form of the main character! Animations for the werewolf will include idle, walking and attack frames. Below is the front facing idle and the side wal... Continue reading

  
• Integrating Action into NPC Interaction (Amy)
  April 03, 2021 by Amy-V-M

  Hello again! This is Amy, and today I'd like to talk more about what I've been working on with the narrative team. Another feature they wanted to incorporate was the ability to kill NPCs after interac... Continue reading
• Shadow Sleep
  April 03, 2021 by GAnthon

  Anthony here to discuss the shadow sleep mechanic. When the protagonist's shadow is cast over a human NPCs, the player can put them to sleep in order to prevent them from panicking and getting caught... Continue reading

  
• Intro Level - Chris N
  April 03, 2021 by Chris Nosowitz

  Hello again! The intro level for City of Abominations will be a bit different than others. The player will be taught the basic movement and battle controls. In addition, the player will be introduced... Continue reading
• Shadow Teleportation
  April 01, 2021 by GAnthon

  UPDATE: After speaking to design team we've reworked how the shadow mechanic works. The shadow will now only appear and allow teleporting when the player character is outside of a light source. I've p... Continue reading

  
• Interacting With Items (Amy)
  April 01, 2021 by Amy-V-M

  Hello everyone! It's Amy, back with another update from the engineering side of development. Since last time, I've been working closely with the narrative design team to make sure the dialogue system... Continue reading

  
• More Shadows - Eric
  April 01, 2021 by ericcho1

  Hello everyone, it is Eric here again with another update from the design team for City of Abominations . I am here to speak about the design updates on Shadow Abilities , which was formerly known as... Continue reading
• Level Framwork
  April 01, 2021 by DanD0415

  Hey everyone we are in full work mode over here at the design department. We have been focused on making the level frameworks for the demo of the City of Abominations. The key below will guide the des... Continue reading

  
• South End Slums Level Frameworks (Alex D.)
  March 31, 2021 by RosyKitsune39

  Hi everyone! Myself and the other level designers are all working around the clock to create some level frameworks for the Slums district in our first playable build. Here are a few that I've complete... Continue reading
• Gate system World Design
  March 31, 2021 by DanD0415

  Hey everyone just a small update below is the picture World and Level Design made and the Black boxes are the positions where the gates will be on the map. the way how the world will work out is that... Continue reading

  
• What an Abomination!! Two New Enemies!
  March 31, 2021 by Bailey Villipart

  The title says it all, folks! Hello again, from your friendly neighborhood producer Bailey, here to tell you about two enemies you can expect to see in City of Abominations. For this post, we're going... Continue reading
• Slums level layout - Chris N
  March 31, 2021 by Chris Nosowitz

  Hello again. Together with Dan and Alex, we created descriptions of the three districts based on the layout of the world map (See Dan's post "World Design UI Framework for the Elite" post for the map... Continue reading
• Level Framework (Industrial) - Alex D.
  March 31, 2021 by RosyKitsune39

  Hi all! This is a sense for how the Industrial district is going to be laid out for the cardinal directions and if you take a look at the world designer Dan Degan's latest Devlog, you can see the over... Continue reading
• World Design UI Framework For The Elite
  March 31, 2021 by DanD0415#World Design, #Level Design

  The Elite- The lines dividing each area is the NWES gates that allow passage throughout the city so you can back and forth between the districts. North-West district this is this is the living area fo... Continue reading
• Gates
  March 24, 2021 by melissachodz

  Gates are a vital part of the game as they're what divide the different districts. We went for a stone look to the gates and the style is rather simplistic, and possibly too bright for the era, so the... Continue reading

  
• More assorted non-buildings
  March 23, 2021 by melissachodz

  This week has been spent making my way through the list of decorations you would find in the town. I'm not too thrilled with the way some of these turned out (luckily they're still works in progress s... Continue reading

  
• Character Design Dev Log 3 (Yijun)
  March 23, 2021 by Yijun Lu

  Hello everyone, thank you for reading my art development log for City of Abominations . I will discuss the concept art and concept pixel art I am creating for the main character now. I created the fir... Continue reading

  
• Character Pixel Art (Yijun)
  March 21, 2021 by Yijun Lu

  Thanks for reading my third Dev Log, which is about the concept pixel art for Vampire and Goblin. All the concept pixel sprites are created as a front-facing version. Here are the Vampire sprites: And... Continue reading

  
• Character Pixel Art 2 (Danielle)
  March 19, 2021 by Danderson12

  Hey everyone! Here's more pixel art of our wonderful monsters! These are the designs for the troll and changeling monsters for the industrial/slum areas... Continue reading

  
• Bloodlust Update
  March 18, 2021 by amangreen123

  Hello Everyone I'm providing another update on the bloodlust which now has a fully working prototype thanks to thanks to fellow engineer Chris Ravosa. It thanks to him that we have a working prototype... Continue reading
• Finishing Up the Dialogue System (Amy)
  March 18, 2021 by Amy-V-M

  Hello, everyone! This is Amy, and I'm back with another update from the technical side of development. I'm happy to announce that the dialogue system I've been developing is now complete! The last ste... Continue reading

  
• Trolls and Goblins Design Post! (Eric)
  March 17, 2021 by ericcho1

  Greetings again gamers! It is Eric here to present two more enemies that are in City of Abominations. These two enemies are Trolls and Goblins. These two enemies are both in the Industrial District ,... Continue reading

  
• Another Assets Update (Elite) - Alex D.
  March 17, 2021 by RosyKitsune39

  Hello again! This is another update that goes more in detail on what locals might be present in the Elite district as well as the landmarks that will be present there. The North, South, East, and West... Continue reading
• Enemy Analysis: Changelings
  March 17, 2021 by DLaneGames#System Design, #City of Abominations, #Dillon Lane, #Enemy Analysis

  Hi again! System dev Dillon here, with another look at an enemy you'll find prowling the streets in City of Abominations ! Today's enemy is the Changeling, a deformed being commonly found in the slums... Continue reading

  
• Enemy Analysis: Slimes
  March 17, 2021 by DLaneGames#System Design, #Dillon Lane, #City of Abominations, #Enemy Analysis

  Hello everyone! System Designer Dillon here, back again to showcase one of the enemies you'll be dealing with in City of Abominations ! Today's enemy we're going to look at is the slime: a pesky ambus... Continue reading

  
• Fun with Flowcharts- Hailey Schindler
  March 17, 2021 by schindlerhailey#Narrative design, #Story

  Welcome to a glance at the narrative structure of City of Abominations . As mentioned before, there are three distinct storylines to the game, though all will follow the structure provided by the flow... Continue reading

  
• How the lights work (Marin)
  March 16, 2021 by Galaxias AEon

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  Hello and welcome to another tutorial for how to set things up in Unity. Lighting is always tough, but since we're dealing with a 2D, top-down game, lighting is a bit stranger to implement. To start,... Continue reading

  
• Shadow system (Marin)
  March 16, 2021 by Galaxias AEon

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  Hello, and welcome to another mechanic implementation. The Shadow Mechanic has finally been implemented. The way that it works is that if the player enters the collider of the light source and has the... Continue reading
• Bloodlust/Karma Script Update
  March 16, 2021 by amangreen123

  After some suggestions from the team, I condensed the script into one file so that it will be that easy to change and most importantly add comments that will the programmers to use my Ui code to compl... Continue reading
• Werewolf Conversion and Movement
  March 16, 2021 by GAnthon

  Anthony here with a minor update. I've spent some time cleaning up the player controller and collaborated with Amy to integrate the AOE script when converting into a werewolf into the player controlle... Continue reading

  
• Character Design Dev Log 2 (Yijun)
  March 16, 2021 by Yijun Lu#Art

  Hello everyone, thank you for reading my second art development log for City of Abominations . I will discuss the concept art I am creating for some of the characters in this game. The first thing I a... Continue reading

  
• Ravosa Report - Procedural Generation Update
  March 15, 2021 by Christopher Ravosa

  I'm thrilled to say that the procedural generation prototype is 100% complete in time to be shown at our Tuesday 3/16 demo. The algorithm now takes in a number, which developers can specify in Unity's... Continue reading

  
• Ravosa Report - Map Module Prefab Update
  March 15, 2021 by Christopher Ravosa#procedural generation, #engineering, #art

  Hello again! I'm sure you recall the horrible, bland prefabs that were previously being used to represent the map. Those prefabs contained a white background and arrows pointing in the directions of t... Continue reading

  
• Assorted non-buildings
  March 15, 2021 by melissachodz

  This sprint I've been shifted from doing buildings to just things you find in an environment of the cities we'll be building, items like wagons, wells, lamp posts, etc. I knocked a few out early this... Continue reading

  
• Character Pixel Art (Danielle)
  March 15, 2021 by Danderson12

  For this sprint, I am taking the concept art for the monster characters and creating a pixelated front-facing version of each. These versions will be more indicative of what will appear in-game. Here... Continue reading

  
• Church (Melissa)
  March 15, 2021 by melissachodz

  A very short update just to show the beginnings of what the church is going to look like. The church is going to be 2x6 instead of the standard 2x2, so it'll be taller to reflect the churches of the t... Continue reading

  
• Buffs and Bloodlust Update - A Design Post by Eric
  March 14, 2021 by ericcho1

  Hello again! It is Eric from the City of Abominations System Design team, and I am here to explain some of the new buffs that the player has while having low karma. When the player has lower karma, th... Continue reading
• World Design Layout Update
  March 14, 2021 by DanD0415#world design, #level design

  As an update from my post earlier on world design updates there has been a major change to the way the layout the map is. The map will no longer be circular but instead be squares. So the outer mist l... Continue reading
• World Design- Dan Degen
  March 14, 2021 by DanD0415#World Design, #Level Design

  Hey guys it’s Dan Degen the world designer and here is just an overall layout of what we will be doing for the overall world layout and how each area will blend into one another. For the idea of the... Continue reading
• Brief Level Design Update - Alex D.
  March 14, 2021 by RosyKitsune39

  Hello again! Just a quick little update on our plans for the overall level design for the game. This is just another glimpse of what you guys can expect the general format of our game to be like. All... Continue reading
• Level Design (Assets and Textures) - Alex D.
  March 14, 2021 by RosyKitsune39

  Hello again! I just want to share with you some plans on some of the assets and textures that will enhance the scenery of all the districts plus some miscellaneous places in the world that myself and... Continue reading
• Music Update - (Chris N)
  March 13, 2021 by Chris Nosowitz

  Hello again. Through the feedback the I received from the team, there were a few spots in the track were there were some balancing issues. I fixed those issues today. Look forward to some new tracks c... Continue reading
• Refining the Dialogue System (Amy)
  March 13, 2021 by Amy-V-M

  Hello, everyone! It's Amy, and today I'd like to show you a new update on the dialogue system I've been making. Last time, I had a simple demonstration of the way NPC dialogue will be displayed on the... Continue reading

  
• World Design Area Updates
  March 11, 2021 by DanD0415#World Design, #Level Design

  Hey guys its Dan again the world designer and I am just here to post some objects and other buildings you can be seeing in the game none of these are set and stone but these are just some options we c... Continue reading
• Karma System
  March 09, 2021 by amangreen123

  Hello Everyone, Aaron Green UI programmer at Precipice Games my job involves the implementation of UI from displays, HUDs, menu, and other game elements. As part of the production, I'm solely focusing... Continue reading

  
• Bloodlust
  March 09, 2021 by amangreen123

  Hello Everyone For the Blood Lust system, I experimented with Unity IEnumerator to give it seamless recharge time and show if your ability to transform into your werewolf transformation. But this is t... Continue reading

  
• Basic AOE System (Amy)
  March 09, 2021 by Amy-V-M

  Hello again! This is Amy, back with another demonstration from the engineering side of development. This time I want to show you the basic area of effect (AOE) system I've been working on. Eric has wr... Continue reading

  
• Ravosa Report - GitHub Branches: Why We Use Them & Why We Nuke Them
  March 09, 2021 by Christopher Ravosa#GitHub, #Engineering

  You know it, you love it, you love to hate it! That's right, it's GitHub. This past week the engineering department had the privilege of setting up the GitHub repository for our game. If you want spec... Continue reading

  
• Team of Determination - Lead Designer Bailey
  March 09, 2021 by Bailey Villipart#Design

  Hello future City of Abominations players, and welcome! My name is Bailey, and I have the honor of working on this Precipice Games title as its Producer/Lead Designer. Over the course of the last week... Continue reading

  
• Werewolf Form - Design Post (Eric)
  March 09, 2021 by ericcho1

  Greetings again from Eric and the System Design Team at Precipice Games. We are here to briefly present the Werewolf Form in City of Abominations . The Protagonist, Skylar, is able to transform into W... Continue reading
• Ravosa Report - Procedural Generation Prototype
  March 09, 2021 by Christopher Ravosa#Engineering, #Procedural Generation

  Hello Precipice Games and welcome to the first ever Ravosa Report ! As your resident Engine/AI engineer, I can't wait to share all of my game-breaking logic, syntax, compiler, and runtime errors with... Continue reading

  
• Camera (Anthony)
  March 09, 2021 by GAnthon

  Anthony Griggs here, scripting engineer for City of Abominations! As a member of the engineering department here at Precipice Games, it is my duty to take the ideas of the design team and collaborate... Continue reading

  
• Movement (Anthony)
  March 09, 2021 by GAnthon

  Hello, Anthony here with another engineering update! Today, I bring you: basic movement ! Incredible... Continue reading

  
• Developing the Dialogue System (Amy)
  March 09, 2021 by Amy-V-M

  Hi, everyone! I'm Amy Moczydlowski, an engineer on the City of Abominations team. Today I'd like to talk a bit about the dialogue system I've been developing for the game. I've spent the last week cre... Continue reading

  
• Beginning stages of buildings (Melissa)
  March 09, 2021 by melissachodz

  Yay for the first dev log post! The idea for buildings right now is to have (on average) 256x256 buildings that can be split into 4 quadrants and have some reusability, my goal is to build bases of bu... Continue reading

  
• Music - First Post (Chris N)
  March 09, 2021 by Chris Nosowitz

  Hello! My name is Chris Nosowitz and I am a Level Designer and the Music/Sound Designer for our game, City of Abominations. Yesterday, I finished my first take of the title track for the game. Since t... Continue reading
• Design Post - Shadow Mechanic Part Two (Eric)
  March 08, 2021 by ericcho1#System Design, #City of Abominations

  Greetings! Eric Cho reporting here, alongside my teammate and partner system designer Dillon Lane with another design update from the City of Abominations Design Team! We are here to present the shado... Continue reading
• Design Post - A Look at the Karma System
  March 08, 2021 by DLaneGames#System Design, #Dillon Lane, #City of Abominations

  Hello again! System Designer Dillon here, with another look into the various systems implemented in Precipice Games's City of Abominations . Today, I'll reveal a little bit of information on the karma... Continue reading
• Alternate Storylines- Hailey Schindler
  March 08, 2021 by schindlerhailey#narrative design, #hailey schindler, #story

  What’s better than one storyline? Three storylines. Hello, I’m the creative director and narrative lead, Hailey Schindler. I work with narrative designers and the art department to oversee the cre... Continue reading
• Character Concept Art-2 (Danielle)
  March 08, 2021 by Danderson12

  Here is a second concept art post of another potential boss. This boss is a changeling, which is a type of shapeshifter. The first one is a more monster-like approach with some bug-inspiration (this b... Continue reading

  
• World Design- Dan Degen
  March 08, 2021 by DanD0415#World Design, #Level Design

  Hello My name is Daniel Degen and I am the world designer for the game City of Abominations . Throughout the semester me and the level designers Chris N and Alex D will be updating the community about... Continue reading
• Level Design (Tutorial Stage) - Alex D.
  March 08, 2021 by RosyKitsune39

  Hi everyone! My name is Alex DuBois and I am one of the Level Designers working on City of Abominations . What I'm going to share with you guys right now is a taste of what Chris N, Dan D, and myself... Continue reading
• Systems and mechaincs for Sprint 1 (Marin)
  March 08, 2021 by Galaxias AEon

  Hello, this is another post by the Technical Director, Marin. Most of this first sprint has been dedicated to making sure that the GitHub works and that the engineers have started creating the basis f... Continue reading
• How to set up GitHub for Unity (Marin)
  March 08, 2021 by Galaxias AEon

  Hello, I'm Marinel Tinnirello (Galaxias Æon), the Technical Director for City of Abominations. In this dev log, we'll be going over how we set up GitHub for Unity. Since Unity is source control-agnos... Continue reading

  
• Character Concept Art (Danielle)
  March 06, 2021 by Danderson12#Art

  Hello all, I'm Danielle Anderson, the second concept artist. Here we have some first sketches/coloring for potential bosses for the game. The first picture is the sketch of a slime boss. I added some... Continue reading

  
• Character Design Dev Log (Yijun)
  March 06, 2021 by Yijun Lu#Art

  Hello everyone, thank you for reading the first art development log for City of Abominations . I'm Yijun Lu, one of the two character designers in this studio. I will discuss the concept art I am crea... Continue reading

  
• Design Post - Shadow Mechanic Part One
  March 05, 2021 by DLaneGames#System Design, #Dillon Lane, #City of Abominations

  Hello, and thank you for reading the first system design post for City of Abominations ! I'm Dillon Lane, and along with my colleague and fellow system designer Eric Cho, we'll be discussing various m... Continue reading

  
• Game Announcement
  March 01, 2021 by Precipice Games

  Announcement: City of Abominations Coming Q2 2021! Precipice Games is thrilled to announce the start of development on our next major title: City of Abominations . In the coming days and weeks, we'll... Continue reading