Topic: Castlevania: Spirit of Lords

[zangetsu468]

Cold violence never sounded so sexy.

[AuraTeam]

Added a lot of new things to game , We are developing our character once again as the current character contains some minor bugs and complicated programming. The new character gonna be more like actual Game character

The main update for today Brand new Monster's Encyclopedia menu

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[AuraTeam]

Hey there , we are still alive
Updates   
-Re-programming of character complete , fixed a lot of bugs and now Alucard is more like actual game without any glitch
-added a new trail effect behind Alucard
-updated/fixed many sub-weapons
-Imparted a item drop system.
-Updated the equipping menu , now equipments/items are stackable( upto 9 items )
-Added options for equipping or destroying items and you can have only 24 equipments at a time.
-Enemy name would appear bottom-left corner on contact.
-Imparted a Minotaur, he would appear as a boss for forest stage

Bunch of Screenshots

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[AuraTeam]

Hey Guys check this out
Spirit of Lord's gameplay preview


We are looking for artist for dialog portrait and some other stuff if there is any please contact us 

[AuraTeam]

Is nobody is interested in our game ?  

[Dark Nemesis]

I am, nice and smooth gameplay you have there, but what really i like is the stages design. Keep up the great work, i hope to see more.

[zangetsu468]

It looks really good, but I personally am not a fan of the "floating" enemies as their presence and movement seems pasted in.
Sorry if that offends anyone, it's just my opinion. The level of polish to the environments is awesome though.

[ProjectDread]

Here are some of my thoughts and observations after watching the video.

Things I liked:
The engine is solid. All of the features such as player animations, inventory, movement, and fluidity of control are all well programmed. More often than not the thing that beaks most fangames is an engine that doesn't perform well. You guys clearly have a good foundation built and that's quite an accomplishment. Backgrounds and parallax effects are well implemented. In terms of Metroidvania engines, this is certainly one of the best ones I've played in a while.

Things that can use improvement:
As Zangetsu468 pointed out, the floating enemies seem really out of place. Aesthetically they just don't fit in with the rest of the Castlevania sprites you have, and their animations are lacking as well. For example, the floating troll only seems to have 2 frames of animation: floating and scythe swing. The beam that comes out from the scythe isn't animated very well at all, it just sort of appears and moves towards the players position at a consistent speed. Maybe adding some acceleration and onion-skinning to the beam would make it more convincing. Also, I'd highly suggest adding more frames to the enemy as well.

The floating knight enemy, same as the troll, does not aesthetically fit in with the rest of the graphics. His movement seems very stiff as he floats up and down, and he only has 1 frame of animation. You should consider using Spriter or something to animate the knight, make him breath, move his sword a bit occasionally. This would make it feel more alive, rather than being a single image that floats awkwardly towards the player. The slight up and downward movement of the knight could have some acceleration / deceleration  added to give it more of a ghostly appearance rather than the sharp, abrupt up and down movement it currently has.

Since the game is 720p, be sure to make use of all of that extra screen space as in my opinion some of the rooms shown lack a lot of content for their size. You should take a look at Valdis Story: Abyssal City. It's a Metroidvania that has a larger resolution and aspect ratio like your game, and I think they did a great job constructing the levels. Almost all of the rooms have platforms to navigate, puzzle elements, and modest enemy placement to keep the player entertained.


Besides the things I mentioned above you've definitely got something good going on here. 
Can you share any information about what kind of story this game is going to have? It looks like it takes place during the same time period as Order of Ecclesia which is really cool.

[darkmanx_429]

Please also include the ability to zoom in as seen in HOD.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

I can't really pretend to be an expert here on the technical stuff, but I can at least say that this looks like it's shaping up well and I'm eager to give it a try once my Windows rig is built.

At this rate, what would you estimate the time to to functional completion is?

[AuraTeam]

thank you all for commenting 
@ Dark Nemesis thanks i really appreciate what you say

@ zangetsu468 i got your point man as ProjectDread explained it  , i will try to figure it out

@ ProjectDread thanks for those great words  and i will see what i can with those enemy you told me to improve
about the screen, yea i also thinks that its kinda empty as our screen resolution is high it surely need something more, i have played Valdis Story and i have also seen it's beautiful environment. but the problem in my project is lack of sprite resources for environment but i'll try to manage something for it , thanks for pointing this thing out

The story part is written at top of 1st page you can read it from there

@ darkmanx_429 i will try to add it

@ The Sterling Archer thanks, mmm.. at this rate i cant say what time would it take but if everything goes fine i hopefully release it in 2017 maybe    

[VampireKillerX]

Your game is lookin good. Keep up the great work   

[Castle34hk]

No updates for a while now is the project dead?

[BLOOD MONKEY]

Dont' be necropostin like that. If you're concerned, I'd recommend you PM AuraTeam. He'd post an update if he had one.

[theplottwist]

Hello! I'm coming on behalf of AuraTeam (who are unable to answer at this moment) to respond.

The Castlevania: Spirit of Lords project is no longer in development. No progress has been for a very long time, and the involved parties no longer have interest in continuing.