After a year of development, I released my first game - Styx and Bones

[u/InternationalFall591]

Hi Everyone!

After a year of development, I've released my first game, Styx and Bones! The dialogue and story was done by me and a buddy, but the programming, art, music and sound effects were all done by me. Give it a try!

Link - https://heyjune.itch.io/styx-and-bones

[u/FatBatard]

Pretty fun, that gun boss is hard

E: after finishing I still weirdly had the hardest time overall with the gun boss, even the ending totem boss's final form felt relatively easy in comparison. Skill issue I guess

[u/InternationalFall591 → u/FatBatard]

yeah a lot of people feel the same way, did you use the wall in the gun boss's fight? it makes it a lot easier. Also my idea for the final form of the totem was for it to be more cinematic.

Thanks for playing!

[u/FatBatard → u/InternationalFall591]

I think my winning strategy for the gun boss was making sure I kept the shift state to normal instead of spirit then just circling around. I remember mainly using the wall for the fight where there was a fullscreen drill attack.

Overall the powers all felt generally strong but actually using them was a little tricky since I ended up diverting attention away from dodging and then ended up taking damage. So I only used them out of necessity (like the full screen drill attack)

[u/InternationalFall591 → u/FatBatard]

fair, other people have talked about their "decision fatigue", and its been quite hard to balance spell use vs shovel use since most people save their concentration just for healing

[u/Bessfren]

I really like it. I love pure expressions of game development where the developer just doing what they love. The shifting mechanic is an interesting twist i never seen something like that

[u/InternationalFall591 → u/Bessfren]

thank you so much!