I am writing articles about my game on IndieDB

But why not to share them here too? So everything will be in one place and anyone can read them if interested.

Let's start then!


My name is Roman, I am a solo indie-developer and working on this project something about a year and a half after my main work.

In overall, my goal is to give people awesome top-down shooter with good gunplay, nice graphics and weapon feeling in which you can play half an hour in the evening after a hard day.


Minigun for CQC? I think that's probably fine...


Film "John Wick" (This is pretty obvious from the description of the game =)
I wanted dynamic CQC experience like you can see in the original film. When you are always on the move and need to think fast about your next steps. But I didn't want to make it another Hotline Miami style of game.

When enemies are all around you, you have to think faster.

Old PS2 game "Black"
I wanted to let people have fun of shooting guns in the game. So I designed every weapon in game to be powerful and helpful. So it’s up to you what weapon to use. With large Arsenal you have pretty large choice in this.

Assault shotgun is really good around here...

Call of Duty Spec Ops Survival
I really loved this mode =) So at first I started to make all my game around it. So Survival is not just an addition to story. It’s more like a main dish after you complete story mode and have some general skills.

Weapon Printer works like Mystery Box from CoD Zombies mode.

Uncharted 4 Survival
Love this one too. I took idea of changing locations after several waves and special waves from this.

One of special waves - Siege, where you need to eliminate enemies from marked location.


When I started this project I thought about military style shooter with a B class story plot. Like in old action movies.

You will blow things up from that thing too

I want to create an action game without overcomplicated story and focusing on gloominess and drama. We have pretty enough of this in our life, so something lite and positive will be good for lifting player spirits.

Although, some characters have some kind of serious themes in their stories, but it's just additional information for player to find out more about each character.

True shooting story can't exist without miniguns.

At first, I started to think in a way of "Battlefield: Bad Company" style of story, but pretty soon I had an idea to make game about airsoft combat.

This setting greatly expands the boundaries of what is allowed for me to use in game. Pink LAVs, extravagant characters, comedy situations without any drop of blood...

Soon after that I thought, what if I will put this all in standard Anime or Manga like place as school? And then I was carried away...

Maybe I was carried away too much...

I like weapons and other military stuff, and also I have anime style academy. So how about to combine these things? Girls in uniform and military equipment with rifles on a training in Academy. Sounds good, am I right?

It was easy to find enough of art and cosplay to have inspiration for everything about the visual part and I start working on this.


Big thanks to creators for pices of art like these

The main problem was that I wanted to make weapons as fun as possible. For this reason, I came with idea of AR glasses and combat training with the use of special weapons. So it allows me to add fire, bullets, shells and other stuff so it wouldn't look out of place.

The whole story was gathered around this setting and these elements. So player end up in a Military Academy on a distant island in his dorm room and preparing for his first study day.

He doesn't know what's coming...

The main plot takes place in just one school week. So I need to connect all the events in a short period of time, and do it so that everything looked logical and without particularly obvious stupidity.

I don't want to make player do routine tasks, while he has a very important and urgent business. We know how important it is to find your son, not collect tons of garbage along the way, right?

Because of this problem, as well as my personal abilities, I had to give up part of the planned levels and the pink LAV. But even without it, you will find a large number of other things. And also you will find something that will replace the LAV...

It doesn't look so dangerous, but it's older brother will do the job...


Oh, and don't forget to check out my Twitter and Tumblr for latest news:
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Fixed one occasionally happened level transition problem. Thanks community for reporting problem

Hey guys! The 1.2 update for Parabolus has now been released.


New Game Mode
Treasure Hunt, Search the maze for treasure chests left behind from the golden age of spacetravel.

New features

You can now hold down fire button to keep firing.
The right thumbstick now controls the camera.
There is now an option to show the direction arrow permanently.
Bullers are now bigger and faster.

NOTE: This is trooper design is still under development, there might be changes by the time it is fully implemented on the game.

https://discord.gg/minimaxtinyverse

• Fixed win10 can not load the chapter 2
  
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• Added option to load chapter 3
  
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• Remake the chapter 2 process
  
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• Main screen effect update

Hi all,

I've managed to implement some of your feedback this update.

Bugfixes/Changes:

• I've added squads into the game. When you select a platoon, you can now view the men in each individual squad.
  
  
  
  
• Following on, the numbers in each unit have been lowered. Part of this is to reduce numbers in HQ and support platoons to more realistic levels, but also to make the numbers divisible by 4.
  
  
• If any of you have encountered the event in which your ability to recall reserves is temporarily disabled, you might have noticed it takes a very long time to regain this ability. I've reduced the effect to about 3-4 weeks rather than the 6-8 it previously took.
  
  
• Camera scrolling has been reworked to be smoother. Widening the map broke the horizontal scrolling due to the way I had set up the camera.
  
  
• You can now use the middle mouse button/mouse wheel button to click and drag the screen to scroll.
  
  
• Fixed bug which prevented underground construction.

Thanks for playing!

Dear Adventurers,

Welcome to the latest official patch notes for Ring of Elysium’s Early Access phase. Here are the full details:

• Optimized the client to fix stutters and the unstable FPS issue

Thanks for playing,
ROE DEV Team

Due to enthusiastic player feedback, we now have a long Brachiosaurus-sized to-do list filled with player suggestions and issues to work on.
Over the next few weeks, we'll be clearing up that list so that future apprentices can continue to thrive in a clean, safe and harmonious working environment.

Version 0.1.17.3 Changelog

• Corrected English typos/errors.
  
• Two spears no longer have the exact same attack stats.
  
• Spears attacks no longer ignore Coco Powder and Robust Watermelon Stew effects.
  
• Lickspittle's name now appears every time he talks.

The beautiful illustration was made by SGFreemanwho also happens to be one of our early game testers! There's a familiar face somewhere among the buildings...

Thank you for supporting us on our launch week and keep cooking!

Hello!
The moonlight thief developed for 3 years was released in late April.
It is a game of infiltrating the mansions of the nobles and the steal goods from them to return it common people, and finding clues about the enemy who killed his parents.

Both games and OST are on sale at the steam store.
Please enjoy the game! :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1006830/Moonlight_thief

Hello!
The moonlight thief developed for 3 years was released in late April.
It is a game of infiltrating the mansions of the nobles and the steal goods from them to return it common people, and finding clues about the enemy who killed his parents.

Both games and OST are on sale at the steam store.
Please enjoy the game! :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1006830/Moonlight_thief