Whispering Abyss (2022)

Devlog

• Matt McL - Dev Log #8 - 6/03/2022
  June 04, 2022 by MattMcL1221#Game Design, #implementation, #Level Design

  As we continue to polish the game, I focused my attention on creating more rooms to generate within the abyss. After the previous issues and setbacks, while constructing the levels during the alpha-be... Continue reading

  
• Paul Harden DevLog #9 - 4/26/22
  May 19, 2022 by Phardware

  This has been a super busy week after presenting first Alpha builds and prepping them for release! We've been toiling away in our caves squashing bugs left and right while we put the last touches on o... Continue reading

  
• CarlIsaac Nicolas - Devlog #9
  May 16, 2022 by Wanderof

  I believe at this point I was trying to get the lightsources and other models in the game and done with and placed before the presentation and placed however I wasn't able to in time. I believe I reco... Continue reading
• CarlIsaac Nicolas - Devlog #8
  May 16, 2022 by Wanderof

  I believe a this point I decided to not focus on the death animation and just push the animations I thought would work. I later found out there were a few bugs that I didn't see with the animations on... Continue reading
• CarlIsaac Nicolas - Devlog #7
  May 16, 2022 by Wanderof

  I believe around this time I had the new grace rig working with the shooting and run cycles. There was a want for a different longer grace death animation then just her kneeling and so I worked on it... Continue reading
• CarlIsaac Nicolas - Devlog #6
  May 16, 2022 by Wanderof

  Worked on modeling and UVing some models and lightsources still had yet to texture and import them . Grace was annoying to deal with as the the reload animation to get it the way I wanted would requir... Continue reading
• CarlIsaac Nicolas - Devlog #5
  May 16, 2022 by Wanderof

  I worked on animating the reload dodge shooting, and death animations. I had trouble getting them into the project as programming each one into the game to work correctly along with blend animations w... Continue reading
• CarlIsaac Nicolas - Devlog #4 - 3/8/2022
  May 16, 2022 by Wanderof

  Learned how animation controller works in unity. Textured and modeled some more objects. Found more animations for the protagonist. I learned the character animation controller for the protag in unity... Continue reading
• CarlIsaac Nicolas - Devlog #3 - 3/1/2022
  May 16, 2022 by Wanderof

  I was somewhat busy this week but managed to do some things in the time I had. I made some changes to Graces model and learned more about how animation works and importing Mixamo animations, adding th... Continue reading
• Hunter Best - Devlog #8&9 - 4/27/2022
  April 27, 2022 by MiLordBeaste

  I'm combining the last couple of sprints into one primarily because we've had Easter break as well as the fact that I've had some health difficulties that have made working on the game a bit more diff... Continue reading

  
• Paul Harden DevLog #8 - 4/5/2022
  April 23, 2022 by Phardware

  As we're nearing our final deadlines before the release of our Alpha version, we have been hard at work adding in the final art pieces for mechanics and really polishing things up. The artists spent s... Continue reading

  
• Nate's Devlog 9- Journals are done!
  April 21, 2022 by Nathan Raia

  This week has been so ridiculously hectic. Even so, the journals have been completed! I have to say I really enjoy the way they came out and I will definitely be looking them over myself for extra det... Continue reading

  
• Sam Levine Devlog #8 and 9
  April 20, 2022 by Green187

  Overview/Featured Work Over these past few sprints, I have worked primarily on Audio tasks in order to prepare for and work on the final push to finish the Alpha. The first thing I did was a recording... Continue reading

  
• Katerina 04/19/22 Devlog 7
  April 19, 2022 by K-Tzortzis

  All portraits are done~... Continue reading

  
• Nate's Devlog 8- Phase 1- Implementation
  April 15, 2022 by Nathan Raia

  This past week was sort of the setup for the phase implementations I'll be getting into for this sprint. The past sprint was all about polishing and further implementing more item descriptions and jou... Continue reading

  
• Katerina 04/14/22 Devlog 6
  April 14, 2022 by K-Tzortzis

  Shopkeeper is officially done~... Continue reading
• Matt McL - Dev Log #7 - 4/05/21
  April 12, 2022 by MattMcL1221

  This previous week, I finalized a lot of the level design updates that I had. These were the same ones I had worked on previously but needed to be redone as my Github was not updated to the correct ve... Continue reading

  
• Hunter Best - Devlog #7 - 4/7/2022
  April 07, 2022 by MiLordBeaste

  I have worked this past week on fixing up the theme I was working on the previous week. I still need to work on the bass part, but the melody is more of a melody now. It doesn't quite have a "panic" s... Continue reading

  
• Paul Harden DevLog #7 - 3/29/2022
  April 07, 2022 by Phardware

  During this last week, I focused a little more on the polish of core systems and mechanics. New additions were fewer, but much more impactful in my eyes. Probably the most obvious new addition, and so... Continue reading

  
• Paul Harden DevLog #6 - 3/22/2022
  April 07, 2022 by Phardware

  This has been a pretty busy week for us as we've been constructing some of the systems that the player can interact with outside of the Abyss. These systems include the Shop and Journal menus the play... Continue reading

  
• Anthony DelPonte Dev Log 3/4/5
  April 06, 2022 by Anthony DelPonte

  For the last few weeks, My group to figure out some new and cool item concepts for our game. Here are some of the items we came up with, Corrupted Laser-Player stands in place and fires a laser in the... Continue reading
• Nate's Devlog 7- We're in the Abyss now!
  April 06, 2022 by Nathan Raia

  This week I worked a ton on journals and item descriptions. I tasked my writers to draft up some dialogue between the shopkeeper and Grace while I got to work on the author's first accounts of the aby... Continue reading

  
• Sam Levine Devlog #7 4/5/22
  April 06, 2022 by Green187

  Featured Work (note, the above is a conceptual image that is not representative of what the final product will look like. Is only a placeholder) During this sprint, I worked with Hunter on a design fo... Continue reading

  
• Tyler Pranger - Devlog Post #7
  April 06, 2022 by CipherStilleto#Art, #Concept Art, #Game Design, #items, #icons, #2D, #Pixel Art

  For this past week, I continued work on the items that our design and programming teams plan to implement. The two icons that I created this time were for an item called ‘Ritual’, and an icon call... Continue reading

  
• Matt McL - Dev Log #6
  April 02, 2022 by MattMcL1221

  This week was a bit slow for me due to my creative writing class having a project due on Sunday. I decided to focus on some smaller tasks I felt could get done a lot quicker than what I would normally... Continue reading

  
• Sam Levine Devlog #6 3/30/22
  March 30, 2022 by Green187

  Featured Work This past sprint I worked on responding to feedback on the two enemies I designed, as well as mixing the theme for Grace. Paul, the lead artist had given his feedback from an artist and... Continue reading

  
• Nate's Devlog 6- Making The Lore Hit Home.
  March 30, 2022 by Nathan Raia

  This week I worked on a bunch of journal entries and continued the story where I left off last time. After these next three journal entries, I'm finally going to be able to start talking about the aby... Continue reading

  
• Tyler's Devlog #6
  March 30, 2022 by CipherStilleto#art, #2D art, #pixel art, #Concept Art, #Abilities, #Icons, #Assets

  As per usual, I have been working on creating more icons and items for Whispering Abyss. As the game has gotten further along in progress, the design team has been able to crank out more ideas for pot... Continue reading

  
• Hunter Best - Devlog #6 - 3/29/2022
  March 29, 2022 by MiLordBeaste

  I was very busy this past week with other projects and familial obligations, which I did let the rest of the team know about. So, I was only asked to add a section to the menu theme. I'm not 100% sure... Continue reading

  
• Tyler Pranger - DevLog #5
  March 24, 2022 by CipherStilleto#art, #concept art, #pixel art, #items, #abilities, #icons, #2D

  Throughout these past two weeks, I continued to work on more item implementation for our game. For this sprint, we were working to try and present a playable demo of our game. I worked together with o... Continue reading

  
• Matt McL - Dev Log #5
  March 24, 2022 by MattMcL1221

  Over Spring Break I didn't get much done in terms of progression for design due to my wifi not working along with a head injury that limited my screen time. However, I did get a chance to playtest the... Continue reading

  
• Matt McL - Dev Log #4 - 3/08/21
  March 24, 2022 by MattMcL1221

  My progress this week was halted due to other class assignments. However, I did create quite a few item descriptions for the Narrative Team this week. The task was to create alternate descriptions for... Continue reading
• Paul Harden DevLog #5 - 3/15/22
  March 23, 2022 by Phardware

  We're just a week away from having our first playable prototype and we're super excited by the way it's shaping up! Similarly to my last post, this might be shorter or more general, but the content co... Continue reading

  
• Paul Harden DevLog #4 - 3/8/22
  March 23, 2022 by Phardware

  As we enter the early production phase of this project some of the core features and mechanics are starting to feel really solid. This post might be a shorter one but the assets and functionality comp... Continue reading

  
• Dylan Twomley Dev Log 3/23/22
  March 23, 2022 by DylanTwomley

  For the first playable prototype, my goal was to have music for all the levels and SFX for the enemies and player mechanics. I am proud to say that my department was hard at work and met these goals f... Continue reading
• Joshua Haberzettl Devlog #5 - Effect Items
  March 23, 2022 by SirPrincePerson

  Effect Items For this week I implemented the framework for effect items, as well as two working effect items. We already had simple items that would affect the player's stats in various ways, but the... Continue reading
• Joshua Haberzettl Devlog #4 - Minimap
  March 23, 2022 by SirPrincePerson

  Since last time I added a minimap that displays a view around the area the player is in. It works by having a camera follow the player from a top-down view, and rendering its view to a texture that is... Continue reading

  
• Sam Levine Devlog #5 3/22/22
  March 23, 2022 by Green187

  Overview/Featured Work These past two sprints in preparation and production of the First Playable Prototype, I started by writing up Github posts of my two current Enemy Designs, the Cosmic Bull and t... Continue reading

  
• Nate's Devlog 5- More and More Journals!
  March 23, 2022 by Nathan Raia

  With the success of the first playable prototype in the rearview mirror, the narrative department can get back to stuff the abyss with lore! Some great points were raised in today's presentation and i... Continue reading

  
• Hunter Best - Devlog #5 - 3/22/2022
  March 22, 2022 by MiLordBeaste

  So, we had spring break last week, though I know that a good portion of the team was working on testing and debugging for the first playable demo, I found myself essentially unavailable until yesterda... Continue reading

  
• Nate's Devlog 4- Journal Accounts
  March 22, 2022 by Nathan Raia

  Unfortunately I was incredibly busy this week with all sorts of unavoibable things but I'm back and have already been very hard at work at getting all the lore and narrative goodies into our beautiful... Continue reading

  
• Syriah's DevLog #4
  March 16, 2022 by NightsEyes

  For this sprint I made a few objects to be placed in the environment, and some textures for them as well... Continue reading
• Katerina 03/15/22 Devlog 4
  March 15, 2022 by K-Tzortzis

  After many sketches and scratches here are 2 rough drafts of what Tim, the shopkeeper, would look like inside and outside the Abyss. Number 6 and 7 are the masks we decided on for Tim to wear while he... Continue reading

  
• Tyler Pranger DevLog #4
  March 09, 2022 by CipherStilleto#conceptart, #art, #pixelart, #2Dart, #items, #assets

  For this next sprint, I continued on my tasks with developing more sprites for items. Since last time, I have increased my communication with the design and programming teams, allowing us to incorpora... Continue reading

  
• Sam Levine - Devlog #4 3/8/22
  March 09, 2022 by Green187

  Overview/Featured Work This past week I once again worked on finding SFX, designed an enemy, but also helped conceptualize the aesthetic of a character for Whispering Abyss. One of the major things I... Continue reading

  
• Hunter Best - Devlog #4 - 3/8/2022
  March 08, 2022 by MiLordBeaste

  Recently, I've been switched from narrative to just general game design. I'm still in the music department, but I figured that while I wasn't exactly given a design task, I was encouraged to attempt t... Continue reading
• Paul Harden DevLog #3 - 2/28/2022
  March 06, 2022 by Phardware

  This has been another exciting and busy week now that we've entered the early production phase of development! The art department has been busy toiling away creating all types of visual goodies to sta... Continue reading

  
• Anthony Giaimo Dev Log#3
  March 04, 2022 by Cobragto

  For this sprint I worked together with other Anthony to create some item designs with unique effects. Examples: Corpse Frag- Killing an enemy causes a circle of bullets to emit from the corpse. Fan th... Continue reading
• Devlog March 1st
  March 03, 2022 by ryanjw34

  Over the past week for our last sprint, I tweaked our playerMovement code so that the player's rotation appears more natural. I then ensured that the new additions caused no other bugs to be formed. I... Continue reading
• Anthony DelPonte Dev Log 2
  March 02, 2022 by Anthony DelPonte

  For the last week few, I've been assigned to be the team's item designer. I worked with my group to figure out some new and cool item concepts for our game Here are some of the items I've designed, Sn... Continue reading
• Tyler Pranger = Devlog #3
  March 02, 2022 by CipherStilleto#art, #concept art, #implementation, #items, #sheet, #chicken, #journal, #plate

  For this past week, I worked on some more additions to our array of items. For my last batch of item designs, I was provided with some feedback regarding outlines. In this collection of items, I decid... Continue reading

  
• Hunter Best - Devlog #3 - 3/1/2022
  March 02, 2022 by MiLordBeaste

  I recently added a few more item options for the corrupted shop based on potential items that could be found in Eldritch-based media as well as based on some of the power sets of Eldritch Abominations... Continue reading

  
• Andrew Mallach Devlog #3 - 3/1/2022
  March 02, 2022 by AndrewMallach

  Hey guys, week 3 for design is running smoothly so far! The design team got to work on creating concepts for enemy types to appear throughout the game. The enemies I designed are based off the Lovecra... Continue reading

  
• Sam Levine - Devlog #3 3/1/22
  March 02, 2022 by Green187

  Overview Since last Tuesday, I again worked with the design and audio department. For design, I refined and fleshed out one of the enemy designs in preparation to present them to the programming and a... Continue reading

  
• Joshua Haberzettl Devlog #3 - Magazines and Reloading
  March 02, 2022 by SirPrincePerson

  This week's devlog should be short and sweet. This week I worked with the current shooting script so that instead of just shooting infinitely, there is a finite magazine that needs to be reloaded upon... Continue reading
• Nate's Devlog 3- Lore, lore, and more lore!
  March 02, 2022 by Nathan Raia

  This week was a bit of a strange week with the restructuring of the narrative department, however, the narrative department still got a lot done! After the proof of concept presentation to the stakeho... Continue reading

  
• Katerina 03/01/22 Devlog 2
  March 01, 2022 by K-Tzortzis

  I pushed on Gracie's face more and a pose were she actually holds both guns... Continue reading

  
• Syriah's DevLog #3
  March 01, 2022 by NightsEyes

  Update on what I have worked on for sprint 3. I was tasked with making objects for the environment. So far I have made a stone archway for the dungeon and a pickaxe for the cave. Images below. For now... Continue reading

  
• Matt McL - Dev Log #3
  March 01, 2022 by MattMcL1221

  For this week's sprint I focused primarily on Level Design, I designed a variety of levels in an attempt to make more diverse levels. Originally most of the shapes were boxes or diamond shapes. I crea... Continue reading

  
• Matt McL - Dev Log #2
  March 01, 2022 by MattMcL1221

  For this sprint, I was given feedback based on the initial main menu design and created a few more iterations of the main menu these iterations can be seen in the links below: Choice 1: Initial Concep... Continue reading

  
• Paul Harden DevLog #2 - 2/20/2022
  February 28, 2022 by Phardware

  For this week, we played with a lot of exciting features and mechanics to get them into a good shape for our Proof of Concept demo. For the pillar of art, this meant making sure whatever was going to... Continue reading

  
• Anthony Giaimo Dev Log#2
  February 23, 2022 by Cobragto

  For this week I got familiar with ProBuilder and created a room for basic combat. Currently, I plan on having enemies on the high ground... Continue reading

  
• Katerina 2/23/22 Devlog 1
  February 23, 2022 by K-Tzortzis

  For unknown reasons, it doesn't let me upload Grace's prototype after receiving a description from the writers about who Grace is what she has gone through... Continue reading
• Programming Devlog 2/22/2022
  February 23, 2022 by ryanjw34

  Over the week, I assisted with the initial prototypings of the different instances of scene transitioning within our game, in addition to drafting up a miniboss concept (a snake that would compliment... Continue reading
• Nate's Devlog 2- It's heating up!
  February 23, 2022 by Nathan Raia

  Hi! Nate back with another exciting update! After the success of our Proof of Concept presentation for the investors and stockholders, I'm feeling very energized about this project! This week I worked... Continue reading

  
• Syriah's DevLog #2
  February 23, 2022 by NightsEyes

  Hello, this is Syriah from the art department here to give an update on what I have done so far. For sprint 3, I created three textures for the hotel: red velvet, gold, and wood. Below is an image of... Continue reading

  
• Joshua Haberzettl - Devlog #2 - Items and Chest Inventories
  February 23, 2022 by SirPrincePerson

  Items For this sprint, the first thing I did was create items. I made an item class that extended ScriptableObject so that implementing new items will be a breeze -- all you have to do is create a bla... Continue reading
• AJ Kuras Devlog #2 - 2/22/22
  February 22, 2022 by Randomain

  Hi everyone, this is AJ with the Art team back to give a quick update on our first enemy, who we are calling the Eye Spring for the time being. So far, the Eye Spring has been roughly animated to boun... Continue reading

  
• Hunter Best - Devlog #2 - 2/22/2022
  February 22, 2022 by MiLordBeaste

  Hunter here, again. This past week I edited "He Approaches," so that it utilizes some voice-leading techniques. Although, despite the fact that it's using better constraints for general music theory,... Continue reading

  
• CarlIsaac Nicolas - Devlog #2 - 2/22/2022
  February 22, 2022 by Wanderof

  Modeling and rigging This week I edited a model that was made by Jackson. Some of its topology was an issue for decent bending of the mesh so I edited topology to fix the issue. Then I used rigify in... Continue reading

  
• Sam Levine - Devlog #2 2/22/22
  February 22, 2022 by Green187

  Sprint Work Overview This sprint for working towards the Proof of Concept I mainly worked in the Audio department with Dylan and Jerry. I was tasked with finding and mixing the rest of the SFX, mixing... Continue reading

  
• Andrew Mallach Devlog #2- 2/22/22
  February 22, 2022 by AndrewMallach

  For this sprint, I made 2 rooms to use for our game with the ProBuilder tool in Unity. One of the rooms would act as a generic combat room, while the other room would be used as a hidden item room... Continue reading

  
• Basic Enemy and Preliminary Audio Implementation
  February 22, 2022 by Gerald_M

  Hello, this is Gerald Monnecka this week my priorities were to implement a basic enemy with health that could be defeated by the player and begin implementing audio for use in the proof of concept. Wh... Continue reading
• Dev Log #2 - Prototype Presentation
  February 22, 2022 by CipherStilleto#art, #concept art, #items, #pixelart

  For this week, I created some sprites for our game's items. I had worked with both the programming and designer team to look at some concepts that I thought up. For our prototype's presentation, the m... Continue reading

  
• Random Dungeon Generation
  February 20, 2022 by ericklatshaw

  Introduction Hello! I am Erick Latshaw and I am the Technical Director for Precipice Games' Whispering Abyss. This post should serve as an introduction to our project following the pre-production phas... Continue reading

  
• CarlIsaac Nicolas - Devlog #1 - 2/15/2022
  February 19, 2022 by Wanderof

  Introduction Hey I'm Isaac of the art team. In this initial devlog I'll discuss what I accomplished in the 2/15/2020 week. Shaders I mainly tried to implement a shader in a way as it wasn't working as... Continue reading
• AJ Kuras Devlog - 2/15/22
  February 19, 2022 by Randomain#Devlog, #Enemy

  Hey, I'm AJ Kuras and I'm a part of the Art team and was tasked with creating some enemy designs. I like to focus on animation as well as modeling, and this is something that I modeled. For Thursday,... Continue reading

  
• Matt McL - Dev Log #1
  February 18, 2022 by MattMcL1221

  For this sprint, I focused primarily on the Menu UI and Unity Implementation of said menu. I felt it would be best to get the main menu out of the way relatively quickly as we only have about 12 weeks... Continue reading

  
• Devlog
  February 16, 2022 by NightsEyes

  Hello, my name is Syriah Harris and I am one of the artists at Precipice Games. The next upcoming game that we are working on is called: Whispering Abyss. For this week's sprint, I have made a few tex... Continue reading
• Hunter Best - Devlog #1 - 2/15/2022
  February 16, 2022 by MiLordBeaste

  I'm Hunter Best, I'm a member of the audio section of the art team and the writing section of the design team. I focus primarily on musical composition for the audio section and for the writing sectio... Continue reading

  
• Sam Levine Devlog - 2/15/2022
  February 16, 2022 by Green187##devlogstart

  Introduction: Hi, I'm Sam, and I have been working as a Game Designer and Sound Engineer on the game Whispering Abyss (2022). So far, during our pre-production cycle, I have worked with my fellow Desi... Continue reading

  
• Paul Harden DevLog #1 - 2/15/22
  February 16, 2022 by Phardware

  Introduction My name is Paul Harden and I'm the Art Lead on this project! This writing is meant to be a general introductory post about the formation of some of the design and aesthetic ideas for Whis... Continue reading

  
• Anthony DelPonte Dev Log 1
  February 16, 2022 by Anthony DelPonte

  During the first two weeks of sprints, I did research by playing Binding of Isaac and entering the gungeon, and thought of new items to add to our game. I wanted to focus on researching more on item s... Continue reading
• Nate's Devlog 1- The start of something great!
  February 16, 2022 by Nathan Raia

  Hi! My name is Nathan Raia and I'm the Lead Writer on the new game Whispering Abyss! I bring lots of creativity and outside-the-box thinking to the team. Being super adaptable paired with some of the... Continue reading

  
• Shooting Mechanic Implementation
  February 16, 2022 by SirPrincePerson

  Hey all, my name is Joshua Haberzettl and I'm an engineer here at Precipice Games. For this week's sprint I worked on getting our character to shoot projectiles. I started off by expanding from the lo... Continue reading

  
• Anthony Giaimo Dev Log#1
  February 16, 2022 by Cobragto

  For this sprint I touched up the stats list and worked on the Potential Items list. I focused on creating item ideas that would encourage the player to play a different way when obtained. Examples inc... Continue reading
• Andrew Mallach Devlog #1
  February 16, 2022 by AndrewMallach

  Over this past week, our design team has been hard at work to build a fleshed out foundation for our new game, Whispering Abyss. We started up our Game Design Document, which will be frequently update... Continue reading
• Devlog 2/15/22 Joe.T
  February 15, 2022 by JoeSchmo29

  Hey guys! My name is Joe Thomaselli and I am a developer for one of the next upcoming Action/Adventure and Rogue-lite games, Whispering Abyss! I recently joined the studio of Precipice Games and joine... Continue reading
• 3D Audio Testing, Sprint, and Gravity Implementations
  February 15, 2022 by Gerald_M

  Hello, my name is Gerald Monnecka and this week I worked on testing 3D audio as well as implementing sprinting and gravity for the player character. This week started with creating a scene to showcase... Continue reading

  
• New Game Title Announced
  February 15, 2022 by Nezuyaki

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  After the launch of Fallen Worlds and City of Abominations in years 2020 and 2021, Precipice Games is proud to announce the next major title in development: Whispering Abyss Currently, we project our... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log #1 - Tyler Pranger
  February 15, 2022 by CipherStilleto#art, #concept art, #pixel art

  For our current sprint, I worked on some concept designs for our main character, in order to help nail down her appearance in line with our Writing Team's view of the character . I had settled on one... Continue reading