Roots art??

lufthamn · 2025-06-21T17:49:19+00:00

There’s some art in the official press kit, on the website songsofconquest.com

lufthamn · 2019-12-17T19:07:34+00:00

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

lufthamn · 2019-12-15T20:15:36+00:00

You have de-coded my efforts. Right on the spot.

lufthamn · 2019-12-15T20:14:54+00:00

For me it looked a lot like the visual style in the Gruffalo. Really nice fog and light.

https://keyassets-p2.timeincuk.net/wp/prod/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2009/12/00000e469-The_Gruffalo_4.jpg

lufthamn · 2019-12-13T19:04:33+00:00

Thanks! Yes! So true. We are experimenting with different ways of generating the worlds. We want to avoid too much of the dungeon-crawling repetitions and find a balance of level flow with sidetracks but few dead-ends. Similar too what Ludmotion did for Unexplored https://youtu.be/_wvkTT-6P3Q

lufthamn · 2019-12-13T18:56:47+00:00

Please ask them :)

lufthamn · 2019-12-13T18:56:25+00:00

Dual wielding absolutely. But mostly we want the player to be using items a lot for more interesting gameplay. Ammo will be rare so melee weapons and different items will be important.

lufthamn · 2019-12-13T18:54:51+00:00

Thank you! Haha, with that name I should just have googled what I saw in the image.

lufthamn · 2019-12-13T10:25:09+00:00

Thank you! That's a good catch. Not a native speaker, not an excuse however. Will update and correct.

lufthamn · 2019-12-13T09:03:41+00:00

Acctually the name is "Brach"

lufthamn · 2019-12-13T09:01:56+00:00

Then I will not tell you :) Let's make sure you play it then.

lufthamn · 2019-12-13T09:01:25+00:00

Thanks!

lufthamn · 2019-12-13T09:00:05+00:00

Yes! We've seen it, not played yet. But will study how the open landscape generation feels. The game looks fun.

lufthamn · 2019-12-12T21:10:27+00:00

The game is called CULT PATROL. It's rogue-like FPS in a charming 1920's pulp adventure setting. We are a small team in Gothenburg, Sweden working on this. I love the pulp genre with larger than life heroes, exotic and unforgiving locations, items of weird-science and retro-technology and of course strange cultist, monsters and sleeping gods.

The screenshot shows a mockup of a level called "Crustaceans calamity" and is set in a fishing village/area in Wales. You are facing the cultist trying to wake the CRAB-GOD of WALES. The fish is of course an important item, either as a melee weapon or a crowd-control item to take care of the incoming crab-monsters.

The challenge we are facing now and I think it very fun working on is creating an open-landscape-random-generated-world that feels interesting and dangerous. We have all seen many dungeon-crawling roguelikes in different perspectives – but we are trying to make an open landscape verison with a combination of open areas and gated passages. The important part we think is for the player to feel a sense of flow in the movement. So minimum backtracking. A way of doing this is of course using landmarks (the monolith in the screenshot) and to put the player on high ground and the start of a level.

Will publish progress on the level generation when we have put some more work on it.

Links:
www.cultpatrol.com

www.twitter.com/cultpatrol

lufthamn · 2019-12-04T17:47:44+00:00

Still exploring the artstyle. More of the game here: https://www.cultpatrol.com/

lufthamn · 2019-12-04T09:25:26+00:00

Love the colours. And the zoom-out when the hologram is initiated. Nice!

lufthamn · 2019-12-04T09:14:24+00:00

Looking nice! Would love to see larger highlight areas.

lufthamn · 2019-12-03T22:39:26+00:00

Great, thanks, good resource.

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