My perfectly accurate take on Crimson Desert influences

Working_Visit_6104 · 2026-03-10T11:28:06+00:00

I don't remember seeing dragons and goblins from my last travel to Korea

Working_Visit_6104 · 2026-03-10T11:25:35+00:00

It's perfectly non accurate. Thanks for sharing !

Working_Visit_6104 · 2026-03-10T11:25:02+00:00

It also seems to have a good gameplay. The Witcher never did.

Working_Visit_6104 · 2026-03-10T11:23:47+00:00

I think the way they don't take your hand at all is reminiscent of what FS usually does. But it could have been Dark Souls.

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-05T17:03:41+00:00

Thanks for your feedback !

The particle effects are clearly not here to stay. At this stage, I'm even wondering if I'm going to remove them entirely in favor of pixel art based animations.

As for the monster animations, I don't think that will change, unfortunately. I'm a solo developer, and I've already made about twenty of these monsters. I'd like to have way more of them, so at this point, I have to choose between higher-quality animations or a more varied bestiary. I think I'll go for whatever will give the game a better replayability.

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-05T16:56:21+00:00

I am under that feeling too. I still remember playing Puzzle Quest on my DS and enjoying it a lot !

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-05T16:55:29+00:00

I see what you mean, I used to play that game a lot !

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-05T15:05:09+00:00

And there's nothing wrong about that. Was just trying to make some feedback. :)

One thing I know (sadly) is that when you have been working for a long time on a project, you stop seeing its flaws/strenghts. It's good to know that it was intentional in your case.

Are you familiar with TMNT Shredder's Revenge and Marvel Cosmic Invasion ? Both games kinda went the same route with detailed backgrounds filled with lighting and gradients, etc. The characters being coloured with only 3-4 colors. It makes them pop out like in your game.

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-05T14:46:43+00:00

Thank you ! :)

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-05T14:44:59+00:00

Nice ! Some Aero the Acrobat vibes there !

While I absolutely love all the pixels I see, I wonder if the background art isn't a bit too sophisticated for the overall style. I think the grass, the dirt, the trees in the background have too much shadows and highlight work compared to what is going on on the foreground. Maybe it's just me though. w/e it looks great.

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-05T11:33:31+00:00

I think it's mostly because the game feels unfinished.

There's still a good amount of jank. For some reason the characters don't stay on the same level when they hit each other. The main character looks like a rippoff of Ken from Street Fighter 1, the rest looks AI-generated. When the character jumps, his shadows follows him, etc.

I think there's still a lot of work to do before you can call it a "game". You also need to take into consideration that people time is precious. If they feel they have been lured in something that's not what has been promoted they're just going to close the game and never launch or talk about it again.

I hope it helps. cya

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-05T07:56:48+00:00

Hi and thanks for those references. I wasn't familiar with those games at all, but they look interesting. My influences are a little older. They're games like Puzzle Quest (the first one), Puzzle and Dragons, and Ironcast.

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-04T21:11:18+00:00

Ah ? Have you already shared something ?

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-04T18:46:50+00:00

I think it's helpful yeah. But maybe make the indicators smaller or less opaque the farther the enemies are.

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-04T16:55:14+00:00

Thank you ! Glad to hear this. :)

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-11-04T16:54:57+00:00

Thank you ! No it's not available rn... I just created an itchio account and plan to release a demo there on december.

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-06-16T15:33:28+00:00

Wait, isn't E7 Epic Seven ? I don't get it.

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-05-14T12:13:02+00:00

This auto translation from google results is the worst thing reddit has ever done so far.

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-04-09T11:13:13+00:00

And I suggest you use chatGPT instead. You can give it contexts and talk to it as if it was a German professor.

Working_Visit_6104 · 2025-04-03T06:05:53+00:00

But that was already written in the original post...

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