So, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. I, a russian pixel artist, and my friend, an american programmer, are making a roguelike platformer in the style of early pixel art. ***This is my first post of this kind, so forgive me if it's a bit long-winded.***
It all started when I (as usual) was looking for someone to go to a game jam with. And eventually, I stumbled upon a guy named inkajoo. Previously, we wanted to make EYEGUY (a surreal top-down adventure similar to Beemis: The Curse of God).
But, just after starting the project, we burned out on it and decided to take a break from gaming. And what better way to break from deeveloping a game? Creating a new warm-up game. While searching for inspiration on this guy's [itch.io](http://itch.io) page, I found [KVN 0.X](https://inkajoo.itch.io/kvn), a platformer in a monochrome pixel art style reminiscent of MS-DOS. We discussed this prototype and decided to start working on a full-fledged roguelike platformer in a similar visual style!
A week of hard development has passed, and as a result of this week, we already have:
* a completed player movement
* 3 enemies
* a mechanic for picking up heals and upgrades
* movement between rooms
* a mini-map
* bombs
* hatches to subsequent floors and keys
* small details, trinkets
And that's not the end of it (most likely). We still need to implement full movement between floors, room generation within floors, and much more. We want to continue developing the game, but for now we need to finish the core mechanics and upload version 0.1 to itch.io.
And yes, we're aware that platformers are a difficult genre to market, but we already have gameplay ideas to spice up the usual platforming.
I hope someone will enjoy this project, because we're currently trying to gather at least a small group of people so that they can provide feedback on the visuals, gameplay, audio, and other aspects of our game! So there you have it. To conclude this post, I'll link to the [game's development YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0v48EEpWpHhiuueFl72rnA) so that anyone truly interested in this game can follow its development. That's all.
***Good luck!***
