Celestial Tear: Demon's Revenge live on Steam

[HyperVoiceActing]

That battle theme is really excellent. Complements to the composer 

[trexrell44]

Quick update: Being Indie can be frustrating.

We have made small progress over the last couple of months due to a bunch of stuff but we still push forward, Having our battle system delayed is not something that really inspires us. So we have a minor set back for our Demo but Yin and I still work and here is an example of our recent battle sprites of early game enemies.



If you've been following us we have talked about the Ridders and their position in the world. These guys would be a frequent enemy. They hunt demons and anyone who chooses to protect them.



This would be the fighter class of the Ridders she is indeed a different class of Ridder. Rather than swords or magic she focuses on using melee abilities and is very agile.


 
And since the begging of the game takes place deep in a forest we have creatures like this worm to fight.

We have a bunch more we want to show but we would rather make sure its presentable. Let us know what you think we look forward to showing more.

[HyperVoiceActing]

Her hands look too small and I think there's too much jiggle on her breasts

[Superjoker]

This is really cool!

I hope you guys can make some return income on this bcos it looks very interesting!

good luckers! 

[trexrell44]

This is really cool!

I hope you guys can make some return income on this bcos it looks very interesting!

good luckers! 

Thanks Super Joker we are always looking to improve. Like on our battle sprites. I took the time to go over some of them and I got a much better result using new colors.

[HyperVoiceActing]

Yeah that new shading and pick of colors make the character look MUCH better

[trexrell44]

Thanks hyper we have not really seen too much feedback except from you .

Here is a really quick preview of a particular part of the beginning of the game. We have learned much from our previous demo.We hope what we did with this particular part gives the mood that we were going for. Hopefully it has good enough production value in this short video. Our weather effect and shadows are missing. I turned them off because my recording program sucks. Also why the video is so short.



If you do not know who the Ridders are. They are a military force that hunts down Jehts(mostly refereed to as Demons). And this is the point where you get good incite in who Jagen is. I hope you enjoy this. Any and every bit of feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[DEMONKAI]

looks great

[Enso]

Great work, guys!

[trexrell44]

Thanks a lot! We have been considering changing the name. As we have been told "Demon's Revenge" is too generic for this genre.  I love the name but if that is what it takes I'm willing to consider it. This actually takes a lot of work to get this the way we want it and I'm giving myself 90 days to put some real work into it for a real demo. I'm glad you guys took the time to look at the small bit that I showed. I look forward to showing you more. 

[trexrell44]

We have a pretty cool update for you guys today. We want to show you guys a very important city which is located in a sandy region of Hasphal called Annox.
 

We have varied types of sidequests in Demon's Revenge and one of the more complex ones is in Annox which is diplomacy. It's nothing too crazy but it will have minor effects on how the different towns operate. It could change prices of items or alter the way some people in the towns react to you. Since we have a more complex NPC system, that could effect some individuals more than others.
 
If you ever heard our theme song from the original demo you will notice our melody. Its something that we hold dear as its been around since the beginning and in a lot of ways inspires us. It has been upgraded significantly by Quigon. He did a fantastic job and we love it. I think it represents every bit of our game with mystery and suspense as well as adventure and discovery. This video not only showcases the song, but also everyone who is making Demon's Revenge come to life.
 

Another thing I wanted to talk about is archetypes and races in Demon's Revenge. This is something I touched on before but I want to elaborate on. As you play, you will notice that most characters have distinct stats based on both their skills and race. The one character who may seem to have varied abilities is Sen, but every one else falls into these categories:
Jehts:
Jehts are the most varied of all the races. They live off the land and being on Hasphal for so long they adapted to their individual environments. They are brash and rely on their high speed and frontal blitz strategies since the ridders have hunted them for years. They have been known to fight hard or die fast. So in essence jehts all have varied abilities and come in a variety of different sizes and shapes, depending on where they are from on Hasphal.
 
Humans:
Then we have the humans. They may be the more crafty and adaptable beings. Having to adapt to the varied harsh world of Hasphal. They are able to take any situation and use it to their advantage. Being the physically weakest of the races they have a high dexterity and are able to adapt to more classes.
 
There are more races in Demon's Revenge but the conflict between the humans and jehts is the most prevalent. As you probably could imagine, humans function as an industrial race but some cultures may be more advanced than others. Jehts on the other hand do not get such luxuries as humans have proclaimed them unfit for society, and in some rare cases, slaves. Most humans find jehts to be grotesque. They banish, hunt, and kill them. There are places where they try to live together but the prejudice and ignorance still lingers. It's only a matter of time before the jehts do something. Whether it will be diplomatic or aggressive, only time will tell. Jehts claim the world belongs to them and humans proclaim it thier birth right. Who will have the last word?
 

This chart shows (from left to right):

Humans, Jehts, Kelt, and Gaddok

The chart is missing:
Remergio, Druff, and Turrenz. Of course there will also be other little critters throughout the game.
 
We have a new concept based on doing the different areas and coming up with more complex and varied mission. There will be elemental creatures around Hasphal. These beings will look like the environment and element that they represent. Which makes these types of quests unique is that it will be somewhat of a mystery on how to get them to communicate. They will only speak to you if you can determine what the underlying task is. We feel it will increase the variety of quest types and also reward the player for exploration.
 

[HyperVoiceActing]

I swear, the more I see of this the more blown away I am by you guys

[DEMONKAI]

Very cool footage

[trexrell44]

Thanks guys we were going to show the updated motion comic also. But Yin does not think its worth to show show a small amount of it. Its really some great high quality stuff. But I guess we will show it when its ready. But I'm really glad you guys like what you see.

[DEMONKAI]

I shared your team forum page on my DTC network so you can get even more buzz there on what you guys are doing. good luck!

[trexrell44]

I shared your team forum page on my DTC network so you can get even more buzz there on what you guys are doing. good luck!

  Awesome thanks a lot!

[trexrell44]

Updated 1st post with more info.

[trexrell44]

I was messing around with some of Battler sprites again. And I was experimenting with some colors and animation. Here is Jagen.

[O Ilusionista]

There is something wrong with his staff. It moves like its broken, pay attention to the area near at his shoulder

[Rage]

There is something wrong with his staff. It moves like its broken, pay attention to the area near at his shoulder

indeed, needs some attention.

[trexrell44]

Awesome my wife was telling me about the Scythe but I was like forget that I'm posting . She was right though ill get to it.

[verz36]

nice work dude...

[Tha Lando ( Le CROM )]

yo this is looking better and better Trex my friend! 

[trexrell44]

Thanks guys I'm working to improve on those things and probably later increase the amount of frames. But I really appreciate the feedback.

[trexrell44]

For those who played our previous demo you may had noticed that we had used sprited backgrounds. With the help of our artist Ricky we were able to upgrade them to a more painted look. It makes things more dynamic and the scale of it allows us to do different things with the battle system.



One of the more Dynamic things that we plan to do with the battle system is using it to zoom in and out and pan depending on what is happening in the fight. Our new battle backgrounds are layered and built for animation so that is exiting for us. This is a new but similar system to what we had used in our previous build on the older engine.  But it is a battle system that is being built from the ground up. Action is as big as a thing in and out of battle but I would love to show it before I say too much about it and let the system speak for itself as it is nearly complete.



With that there are some minor updates and pal changes to some of the battlers and animations. I have redone Jagens colors and sprites so that it would match with the backgrounds much better. The wolves from the demo has also received a much needed upgrade. We have also added some more monsters in the area to give it more diversity. Most of the enemies from Jagens intro would be more forest like creature. While the next part would be consisting of more humanoid ones.



We hope to show off some of these features soon. And let people know how hard we have been working on this. I say this a lot but we would love to do more updates and if time permits I will definitely try. For more info you can check us out at:

Demonsrevenge.com
facebook.com/DemonsRevenge
twitter.com/_DemonsRevenge_

Thanks for taking a look.