So... after Pit, I've decided to start work on one of my pet projects: Swamplands. A strange cross between survival horror, survival simulator, exploration, and stealth, with a little combat thrown in for good measure. It's easily double the size of anything else I've ever done, so it's also the first game that I'm developing with other people (my brother and I are collaborating on a lot of the design and he's writing the story, and I have someone else doing the sprite work and texturing).

http://swampgame.blogspot.com/

Here's the development blog, fresh off the internet presses. Although we've been working on the game for about 2 months now, I didn't want to start trying to get people interested until the project was well underway. I have my doubts that anyone is going to be very interested anyway (the visuals don't have the flashy shininess of most indie titles, and the gameplay is decidedly niche), but hey... might as well try, right? At the moment, there's only one screenshot, but there will be more (of course) once there's more to show.

Here's some more information about the game:

http://swampgame.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-is-swamplands.html

If you're at all interested, check back every so often for development updates, screenshots, and anything else I feel like throwing up there.

/me follows. I'm curious :-)

Looks great and keep updating this thread as you update your blog!

Do I sense another Kickstarter coming up? ;)

The screenshot reminds of upcoming Driftmoon (which is not a bad thing). I'l be following. Considering getting it on Desura?

heh. I would love to do that, since we have 0 overhead. All the funds could go to my new gaming computer!

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...that would be immoral, of course... I hadn't actually. Thanks for the suggestion! Will do.

Interesting.

It's like an AWWW before they made a platformer out of it. And I like the idea.

Desura is nice, i don't use indievania or something, because desura already covered that. Maybe there is also place for the Pit ;)

Hmm.... well, it's worth a shot! I need money for my gaming computer.

New post. A little rambling discussion of the various issues I'm facing in coding AI. Next post will show more screenshots and talk a little about the simple graphical effects we're using (per-pixel 2d lighting, colored halos, fog, and possibly a quirky little engine I did that makes water look like it's reflecting the sky)

http://swampgame.blogspot.com/2012/03/ai-fun-times.html

Following for now :D

Some new screenshots! These show the lighting engine and the HUD.

http://swampgame.blogspot.com/2012/03/some-more-screenshots.html

Definitely following this thread and your progress.

I'm really liking this, bro.

Thanks!

Definitely interesting. Any gameplay videos up yet jef? Just curious.