Overseer - Metroidvania - devlog

Originally wasn't sure how much I wanted to promote this little project but I thought it'd be fun to share it around at least a little more!

I've been working on this for a few months now. Overseer is a little metroidvania game I'm aiming to keep in a relatively small scope and polish as much as I can. Something that's well achievable for a solo dev. Hoping for maybe a 2 or 3 hour experience.

I'll be sure to update the gifs and images from time to time and I hope y'all enjoy seeing the progress :slight_smile:

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LOVE THE ART! Can't wait to see more!!

Thanks! More coming soon :smiley:

I will be updating the main post with core gifs and images but I'll continue the thread for general smaller updates! Been building out a city area

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Well I'm glad you decided to promote this. The game looks pretty slick.

Thanks! Glad ya like how it's lookin so far!

That looks amazing! It's giving me strong Dark Castle vibes, a really good game on the OG Macintosh.

I should check that out!

Been working on adding a map system! I plan to only show rooms you've been in and have an icon showing where you are and maybe where save points are

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a little more map work! A bit worried about perf but I'll test it soon and see how that goes. Big concern is how many loops I have to do to draw. Especially things like looping through all entities to find save points. We'll see haha

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Realized I never posted the announcement here! Game's out now! Hope anyone who's been following development and is interested in it enjoys the release!

Game Page: https://www.thestoff.itch.io/overseer
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-eOptGleME