Fallen Worlds (2020)

Devlog

• Balance the elements
  May 14, 2020 by MatthewHanright#mechanic, #combat, #enemies, #weapons, #armor, #elements

  The Abyssal is a varied world, and the elements that compose it reflect this. Different enemies wield different elements, and have different weaknesses. That infected rat is probably weak to your h... Continue reading
• Loot the room
  May 14, 2020 by MatthewHanright#combat, #enemies, #loot, #mechanic

  Quests and the store are not the only source of good loot in Fallen Worlds ! All enemies have a chance to drop loot when they are defeated, and what you can get depends on the foes you face. Loot is... Continue reading

  
• Dashing
  May 14, 2020 by MatthewHanright#movement, #mechanics, #visual

  Dashing allows you to move around a bit quicker, and in combat can be used to make a quick dodge or make use of cover. In addition to dodging as a mechanic, we've added a nice little trailing shadow e... Continue reading

  
• Pre-Alpha Build Releasing Tomorrow!
  May 14, 2020 by EdSpaged

  Hey everyone! The Pre-Alpha Build of Fallen World will be launching tommorow! I just wanted to take this time to show off some of the areas you'll be seeing in this build! The Church The place where... Continue reading

  
• Broken Heart
  May 14, 2020 by DevinD1198

  Hey Guys! I have finally finished the building interiors and exteriors for the last area, the Heart Area. The buildings in the heart area have been overrun with the flesh of the heart, leaving the bui... Continue reading

  
• Parasite
  May 12, 2020 by mstorm72

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  Hello everyone! For the past week I have been working on completing the animations for the remaining enemies that can be found in various levels of Fallen Worlds. Three of these enemies are parasitic... Continue reading

  
• Final Animation Assets
  May 12, 2020 by PrestonDeMarco

  Hey guys. This will be my final post before the game launches as the Art Asset deadline was Monday night. The two images that are below are some assets that can be placed in the Heart or Residential a... Continue reading

  
• Brainstorming New Enemies
  May 12, 2020 by ashleighmiquelle

  During the process of coming up with new quests, there came a point where I had to think of unique enemies for each of the areas the player would visit. The challenge was mainly in creating an enemy t... Continue reading
• Color Theory
  May 11, 2020 by nszpiro

  The lands and beasts of the Abyssal are wide and varied, and as such, they need to be differentiated. From the dusty yellow-green of the farms, to the dark greys of the factories, each area has a dist... Continue reading

  
• Interior Level Maps Rationale (Pt. 2)
  May 11, 2020 by LiamRingwood#maps, #level, #interior, #design

  Factory Interior Maps: While four zones were initially conceived of, as shown in the District Map, time and workload changes resulted in a shift to finishing critical path areas and thus the Factory h... Continue reading

  
• Interior Level Maps Rationale (PT. 1)
  May 11, 2020 by LiamRingwood#maps, #interiors, #design

  Farm Interior Maps: There are only two interior maps for the Farm Zone that I drafted: the Caves and the Puzzle House. The Caves were straightforward, designed to provide a small contrast to the open... Continue reading

  
• Area Introduction: The Church
  May 10, 2020 by EdSpaged

  Hey everyone! Coming at you here with an update, this time regarding one of the new areas that will be released with the Pre-Alpha Version of the Game: The Church! The Church is the place where the pl... Continue reading

  
• Spare Ribs?
  May 08, 2020 by mstorm72

  Hey everyone! One of the enemies found in Fallen Worlds is the Osteoma. These grotesque monsters take the form of mutated flesh surrounding the skeletons of decomposed animals. They are large in size... Continue reading

  
• Interior Inception
  May 08, 2020 by DevinD1198

  Hey Guys! One aspect of Falling Worlds that greatly increases the exploration aspect of the world, is the fact that every building on the map also has a unique interior to go along with it. Meaning th... Continue reading

  
• Mine Assets and the Heart
  May 08, 2020 by PrestonDeMarco

  Hey guys. Since last week the final tile map has been made and is ready to implemented into the game. In addition some of the Mine/Factory area assets are ready to go as well. Below is the Heart Map... Continue reading

  
• Growing Pains
  May 07, 2020 by MatthewHanright

  Growing, growing, pop! Here's one of the enemies in Fallen Worlds: the acne! This litter critter is ruthlessly persistent, and extremely territorial. Once it has you in its sights, it quickly swoops... Continue reading

  
• Music Extended Tracks
  May 07, 2020 by JohnPMonzo

  Greetings Fallen World Community, I'm just about complete making the extended songs and implementing them into the project. I have made another sampling that is extended version of the previous sampli... Continue reading
• Music Sample
  May 07, 2020 by JohnPMonzo

  Hello all, I have been hard at work extending and editing the SFX, music and ambient noises for Fallen Worlds. Below is asample of the songs in their shortened form. I will be sure to make another up... Continue reading
• Exterior Level Maps Design Rationale
  May 06, 2020 by LiamRingwood

  I decided to make his post as a means to go into my rationale when drafting and designing the exterior sectors of level maps. The exteriors were probably the most enjoyable parts of designing, as here... Continue reading

  
• Shop Menu Design
  May 05, 2020 by LiamOllive

  Shop Menu Design The most recent redesigned interface was the shop menu, where the player will be able to purchase items. Here is a screen shot of the original shop menu, that we had for the first pla... Continue reading

  
• Questing Part 3: After Quests
  May 04, 2020 by EdSpaged

  Hey everyone, I'm here regarding another update with the questlog! In my previous post, I briefly talked about after quest events that can occur after the player completes a quest in the game. I wante... Continue reading

  
• Map Menu Design
  May 03, 2020 by LiamOllive

  Map Menu I have been working on going back and updating the map for the main menu. This is an example of what the map looked like I was designing out its features. I initially wanted to have a full wo... Continue reading

  
• New Map Drafts + A Mine
  May 02, 2020 by PrestonDeMarco

  Hey guys. Since I last updated you guys a mine map has been created and ready to be implemented into the game. Here is the mine map that will be apart of the Factory map. The only problem is that we f... Continue reading

  
• Creating a Small Church Town
  May 01, 2020 by DevinD1198

  Hey Guys! One of my favorite parts of the game is the head area, also known as the Church Town. As someone who lives in a small town recreating a small town in our game was a great experience. I took... Continue reading

  
• Story Update 4
  April 30, 2020 by Lee Russo

  Hey everyone, sorry I haven't been updating more frequently. But good news, the script for Fallen Worlds is nearly done, only needing a few more lines done for the ending and then some more proofreadi... Continue reading
• Story Update 3
  April 30, 2020 by Lee Russo

  Hey y'all, it's Lee again with another story update. So far things are moving smoothly with the script as I've moved into writing more of the game's third area. But I've also started writing more of t... Continue reading
• Level Maps Progress
  April 24, 2020 by LiamRingwood

  The map and level drafting process has been much harder than expected, but a good amount of them are fully drawn out with some already being polished up by the art team. Some of the biggest hurdles fa... Continue reading
• Maps and Placeholder buildings
  April 24, 2020 by PrestonDeMarco

  This week saw me completing more finalized versions of the Residential and Mountain area maps. I also began drafting the Heart/Church area of the game and began to make placeholder buildings for the r... Continue reading

  
• Animation Updates
  April 24, 2020 by mstorm72

  Hey everyone! For the past few weeks I have been working on updating and improving the player animations. For the walking animations, I have been working on redrawing the legs and arms for the player... Continue reading

  
• Creating the Church
  April 23, 2020 by DevinD1198

  Hey guys, One of the most recent buildings and most difficult buildings I tacked was the church. The church is a huge part of our game as it is the start of our game, but the abyssal also plays... Continue reading

  
• Animating Windmills and Church Items (4/6 Week Update)
  April 20, 2020 by PrestonDeMarco

  4/6 Week Update This week I worked on a couple different things. The first being making the Vertical Slice of our game more life like. The past couple of days I made a windmill asset and have begun an... Continue reading

  
• Finished Farm Map and Animations
  April 18, 2020 by PrestonDeMarco

  This week I completed a nearly 100% version of the farm map with updated brightness, an updated path, and cave area. I also made the animations for the windmill and tree to make the map more lifelike... Continue reading

  
• Inventory Menu Updates
  April 17, 2020 by LiamOllive

  This past week for the latest version of the game I went through and updated the Inventory menu. Here is an example of the original Inventory menu I drew up. The icons on the left side represented all... Continue reading

  
• Spelunking
  April 17, 2020 by DevinD1198##art

  Hey guys! Today I’m going to tell you about the process of creating the cave area found on the farm map. The cave area located at the south end of the farm is an area game design created... Continue reading

  
• Knockback! Or Knockforward?
  April 15, 2020 by KJCostello

  Hey guys! Just wanted to give you all a quick look at one of the mechanics we are adding to help make the combat more dynamic and fun: knockback! When starting to implement this feature, I took advant... Continue reading

  
• Questing Part 2
  April 14, 2020 by EdSpaged#Programming, #Game Design, #Questing, #Vertical Slice

  Hey Everyone! I'm here to talk about some of the new systems that have been implemented for the quest systems in Fallen Worlds! First of all... The Quest Log! The Quest Log will be a useful tool in yo... Continue reading

  
• Slash! Swing! Thrust!
  April 11, 2020 by mstorm72

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  Hey everyone! I’ve recently begun working on creating the player attack animations. Player combat is a big part of Fallen Words and we wanted to make sure our players have lots of options for how t... Continue reading

  
• Revising Art for Vertical Slice
  April 10, 2020 by DevinD1198

  Hey Guys! With our vertical slice quickly approaching, I have shifted my focus from creating new levels like the Church, and expanding other levels like the Factory, back to our fan favorite; the farm... Continue reading

  
• Perspective Changes and What Those Require
  April 10, 2020 by nszpiro#Art, #Perspective

  Our initial prototype of the game was top-down. While this was easy to make assets for, they lacked detail. As such, when the team was expanded, we switched to an oblique style. While this perspective... Continue reading
• HUD / Mini-Map
  April 07, 2020 by LiamOllive

  Dev Log for the Week of 3/30 As System Designer I have been working on various UI designs and organizations. This past week we continued to work on our first-playable version of the game, my role t... Continue reading

  
• The Creation of a GDD
  April 04, 2020 by Daniel Zale

  This is definitely the longest time I've taken to create a Game Design Document. This may sound like a gripe but in reality I'm actually very happy! Two years ago I thought making a massive document l... Continue reading
• Map backgrounds and menu assets
  April 03, 2020 by PrestonDeMarco

  For the past two weeks I have been working on both Menu UI assets and constructing the new map backgrounds for the game. Here are the first versions of the Residential, Mountain, and Heart levels. T... Continue reading

  
• Deconstructing Art
  April 03, 2020 by DevinD1198#art

  Hey Guys! One of the most time-consuming aspects when creating the environment assets for Fallen World is creating the infection/decay on all of the buildings. It takes me about an hour to make each b... Continue reading

  
• AI Pathing
  April 02, 2020 by MatthewHanright#mechanics, #programming, #enemies, #npcs

  Variety is the spice of life! Games require many different kinds of movement, and the autonomous pathing system of Fallen Worlds is starting to reflect that. Enemies that attack up-close and personal,... Continue reading

  
• Story Update 2
  April 02, 2020 by Lee Russo

  Hey guys, it's Lee, your narrative designer here with another dev log. Progress on Fallen Worlds has been going smoothly despite recent "world events" I guess we should say. We're all trying to hzve a... Continue reading
• Quest Writing!
  March 30, 2020 by ashleighmiquelle#quest, #quest writing, #quest design

  Hello! My goal when writing a side quest is to be able to highlight the tensions between The Church and The Heretics. Each quest has a backstory that clues the player into the overarching narrative t... Continue reading
• Dingy Subway Station
  March 28, 2020 by DevinD1198##art

  Hey guys! After numerous attempts, I have finally finished our subway platform. The subway platform is meant to act as a transition between levels. Players will be able to take the bloodline from area... Continue reading

  
• Fantastic Foes: Designing Fallen World's Enemies
  March 17, 2020 by nszpiro#Art, #Design

  Throughout your journey through Abyssal's body, you'll be encountering (and fighting) a variety of monstrous mutants and ghoulish goons. But what are they and why do they look the way they do? At the... Continue reading

  
• Oblique interiors
  March 17, 2020 by DevinD1198#Art

  Hey guys! Good news! Our beautiful farm builds now have impeccable interiors that complement the builds perfectly. The interiors are a big part of the farm because we want our players to not only be a... Continue reading

  
• Questing!
  March 12, 2020 by EdSpaged

  Ed Marrs-Lead Programmer Hey everyone it's Ed and I'm here to talk about the quest system! Currently the quest system is in its early beta stages, and 2 kinds of quests are able to be made in the game... Continue reading
• Story Update
  March 12, 2020 by Lee Russo

  Lee - Narrative Designer/Lead Writer Hey everyone, I’m happy to report work on Fallen Worlds’s story is going smoothly. We’ve finished writing the dialogue and chain of events in the first 2 are... Continue reading
• Tiles, Tiles, and more Tiles
  March 12, 2020 by PrestonDeMarco

  Hey guys, The past 2 weeks I have been working on the environment ground for the game. The bottom 3 tile pictures were my original drafts as I was trying to create a map for the first Farm level that... Continue reading

  
• The Sound of Fallen Worlds
  March 12, 2020 by JohnPMonzo#Sound Design, #Music, #Audio Production

  Hello Fallen World fans and devs alike! The past few weeks have been quite the adventur! I have been working on the sound design for Fallen Worlds and it has been relatively interesting. Most of the m... Continue reading
• We Have NPCs!
  March 12, 2020 by mstorm72

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  Hello everyone! All of the interactable characters of the farmland level have been completed! There were a few additions from the original level design to help add to the story and give the player mo... Continue reading

  
• Farm Buildings Finished!
  March 10, 2020 by DevinD1198#Art

  Hey all! Just an update on the art development for the farm. After a short struggle with the game's unique angle, I've finally finished producing the farm's buildings for the first playable. Next, I'm... Continue reading

  
• Welcome to Fallen Worlds!
  March 10, 2020 by Precipice Games

  Game Announcement Precipice Games is thrilled to announce the start of full-scale development on our first title, Fallen Worlds ! We are beyond excited to share with you what we are working on, and we... Continue reading