Dev Blog #1

Welcome! I would like to share a project that we have been working on for about a year now.

Story:

Nyx the Haijun Chameleon possess both the martial arts, strength, and finesse of the Haijun while attempting to learn the Shadow Arts under the guidance of his human partner Jazzmine. One fateful day Nyx gets captured during one of his escapades and is taken across the Syterran Desert World to a secret cave. It is here that Nyx breaks free using newfound strength and his goal is to return across the outstretched desert to return to the Haijun Dojo.

Mechanics:

-Side-Scroller Stealth/Action Game with 3D Models and Assets

-Camouflage with your surroundings to avoid Enemy Detection

-Use different strategies to avoid/eliminate different enemies ranging from a Sand Pirate to a Mongoose, to a Snake and more.

-Use your Haijun finesse to maneauver levels and avoid natural/artificial traps meant to kill Nyx

-Improve on your Shadow Abilities to increase mobility, attack, or stealth depending on your desired style of play

-Collect Crickets and sell them to improve on your Shadow Abilities and gain different outfits (skins) for Nyx

About Us:
We here at MoonRift are a group of passionate individuals dedicated to creating immersive and engaging games. We started out together as strangers a few years ago but have come a long way in learning about the game dev process. Nyx will be our first game release, but we plan on creating and releasing many more in the future.

Personally, I love all variations of games from Final Fantasy, Starcraft, ARK Survival Evolved, Left4Dead, Mario Kart, Banjoo Kazooie, Sims, Sims City, Witcher, and more. The game that impacted me the most as a child was Kingdom Hearts. Like many game devs I’ve always wanted to join the industry and now this me doing it. But enough about myself, check out our (updating) website and post if you have any questions or just want to let us know what you think so far.

We will continue to post updates so stay tune.

Link to Website: http://www.moonrift.com/#!nyx/gbkhx

Dev Blog #2

Check out Nyx!

We are currently making a lot of progress in finishing up CORE mechanics and starting to shape and fill our demo level. We will keep you posted!! Thank you all, please share if you like it.

CannonLeg Pierson!

Progress of the Reticle Design

Current Progress: Enhancing and Finishing Rigs of Characters (Mongoose, Bird, Snake, Nyx), AI patrolling and chase development, Building of Demo Level and Traps, Sneak Draft Beginning

Link to Website: http://www.moonrift.com/#!nyx/gbkhx

Dev Blog #3

Meet Tinee Wings Mercenary!!

This character will be the flying character who will attempt to defeat Nyx. From sketches to model to animations (soon to be released). Let us know what you think!

I see you! [Sauron Voice]

Final Texture and Model

Old Tinee Wings Texture Turnaround

Basic Sketches

We are continuing to build up the core of the game. Today we just finished a lot of the traps, still have some physics issues we need to resolve. Working on the AI animations. Starting to build the background wall for the demo level. Fixing up rigs, polishing textures, applying weights, and fine tuning many of our characters to be shipped into the engine. We are grinding for our Kickstarter date of the end of May!!

We will keep you posted!! Thank you all, please share if you like it.

Link to Website: http://www.moonrift.com/#!nyx/gbkhx

Dev Blog #4

There goes the Blade Tail Snake!!

This character will have a special counter against many of Nyx’s stealth and maneuverability. Let sharp steel slither across the desert. Let us know what you think!

The snake is ready!





Snake



Details on the Scales (Get it?)





The blade that says it all


Concept Art of the Snake







Current Progress.
· Preparing for Our Kickstarter and Recording Software
· Fully Rigged the Mongoose, doing some finishing touches
· Continuing to build the level within Unreal Engine, and HUD
· Working on Tail Swing Mechanic and Traps and Killboxes
· Climbable Finished! AI Selector Fix, Reticle Switch
· Finishing Up Nyx Reskinning and Texture

We will keep you posted!! Thank you all, please share if you like it.

Link to Website: http://www.moonrift.com/#!nyx/gbkhx

Dev Blog #5

Stealth/Action SideScroller of a Ninja Chameleon with Shadow Abilities

Some more images of what is to come. Random images, not even going to lie, but they are still things to show!!!

Resume, Save, Exit To Menu.

Current Progress.

· Preparing for Our Kickstarter and Recording Software

· Mongoose soon in animatino

· Continuing to build the level within Unreal Engine, and HUD

· Texture for the main character

We will keep you posted!! Thank you all, please share if you like it.

Link to Website: http://www.moonrift.com/#!nyx/gbkhx

Dev Blog #6

Nyx is close to fully polished!! (Yes we know, the feet need to be done)

We have decided that he will shift colors slightly for each area that he is in, so be ready for different variations of the Haijun chameleon.

Nyx Animation

Finalizing Nyx!

Sneak peek on our Level and how it’s coming along!

Current Progress.

· Locked down Kickstarter Rewards Ideas, Meeting for Video Production Coming Soon

· Mongoose Idle Animation in Progress

· Finishing Up Nyx Texture, Beginning of Environmental Texturing

· Level Design is Nearly Fully Completed, Lightning to be Worked On

· All Core mechanics are roughly finished, now just a touch up-refining

· Music is coming along great! You should hear the soundtrack OMG!

We will keep you posted!! Thank you all, please share if you like it.

Link to Website: http://www.moonrift.com/#!nyx/gbkhx

Dev Blog #7

KICKSTARTER June 1st

We are getting closer and closer to our date. We are pushing the date of release back by a one week to fine tune it a bit more. Be ready for it!

The level design is coming along nicely, we are going to lighten up some of the cave in order to make it feel more desert-e.

Cave Level Design

Cave Stalactite

The mongoose is now in rough draft animation phase! Check him out!!

Mugger Mongoose and Nyx Idle Animations

Current Progress.

· Working on Kickstarter Rewards and Setting up Vendors/Page

· Fixing up the Website and preparing it for thousands of views!

· Nyx is finishing up in all his CORE animations and is being fine tuned

· Mongoose is in animation phase and has first idle animation rough in progress

· Programmers have been making leaps and bounds, polishing up major mechanics such as pit fall, traps, AI, and lightning

· Level design is continuous work in progress, but we are starting to get the environmental assets textured.

· Music Soundtrack is AWESOME!

· We will keep you posted!! Thank you all, please share if you like it.

Link to Website: http://www.moonrift.com/#!nyx/gbkhx

Dev Blog #8

We are now working on the process of meshing all of our assets together. There is a learning curve as we’ve come to find out with importing into Unreal Engine but this only delays the inevitable Kickstarter!! Be ready for it!

This week we have made tremendous progress with polishing a lot of our game mechanics, polishing up a lot of the animations, as well as working on texturing the environmental assets since most of the character models/textures are complete.

A lot of our work is simply polishing things that currently exist. Polishing up for our Kickstarter

Nyx Sneak (Rough)

Mongoose Idle (Rough)

Snake Idle (Rough)

Current Progress.

· Meshing all of the assets together

· Working on Kickstarter Rewards and Setting up Vendors/Page

· Website Design

· Fixing up the Website and preparing it for thousands of views!

· Nyx, still finishing up CORE animations

· Fine tuning and tweaking coding on mechanics

· Level Design and Environmental Texture

· Music Soundtrack is AWESOME!

· We will keep you posted!! Thank you all, please share if you like it.

Link to Website: http://www.moonrift.com/#!nyx/gbkhx

Dev Blog #9

We are beginning to slow down on the amount of assets being created due to us working on polishing all of our currents works for the Kickstarter. We decided we are going to hold off a few more weeks before launching our Kickstarter simply because we want to be READY before we put ourselves out there again. So we are working on polishing up mechanics, animations, assets, level design, website, kickstarter page, etc etc.

We are running into a few issues with importing but the team is overall working 8+ hours a day each grinding to polish our works. Be ready for more updates soon on Nyx the Haijun Chameleon! [To be honest I’m nervous but of course excited]

Nyx Sneak Animation (Update) – By Kyle

Nyx’s Weapon!! (Rough Draft) – By Chris

Music of the Cavern Level (Draft) – By Kevin

Current Progress.

· Continuing to Mesh Assets Together

· Rebinding of some characters

· Working on Vendors, Kickstarter Page, Website

· Finishing Up CORE Mechanics

· Swing and Climb are finished

· Music is still awesome and getting even Awesomerrr

· Working on Kickstarter Rewards and Setting up Vendors/Page

· We will keep you posted!! Thank you all, please share if you like it.

Link to Website: http://www.moonrift.com/#!nyx/gbkhx

FYI: broken image links in the OP.