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#18 Building Pineview

Hello!​Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve managed to finish up the remaining dialogues and scenes, and the core of the game is now essentially complete! As promised in the last devlog, I’ve since begun work on adding new areas to the town named Pineview.Here’s a glimpse of one of those new areas: Aspen Street! These areas will also be populated with NPCs to talk to, and will have observable objects that add to the lore, history and myths of Pineview.​Another couple of days and the new areas will be finished, after which I’ll begin connecting them to the rest of the game. After that, I’ll work on adding the diary/ journal mechanic and improving the UI!See you next time!-Armaan

#17 Finishing up incomplete scenes. Also, I’m moving to a new place!

Hi!Been a LONG time since the last devlog, hasn’t it? After the Indiegogo campaign ended, it took me a while to reorient myself and get back to my old daily schedule of actually developing the game.As mentioned earlier, I shall be moving in with my friends. This is actually great, as the work of game dev can often get lonely and a little maddening when working all alone – so being around should help keep my spirits up as we head into the final months of development! Expect pictures of the new work space! (if it ends up looking good, that is This isn’t my new bedroom. I don’t live in the 90s. But the game’s characters sure do! Recognize anything? 🙂​During the past weeks, after wrapping up campaign related work, I dived head first into finishing up the remaining scenes so as to bring the core of the game to a 100% completion state. I’ve been able to keep a good pace, and the 100% should be achieved in the next 4-5 days! Then it’s on to the new, exciting parts! Here’s the updated sprite for fan favorite “Grandpa”!Exciting parts include – Adding the diary mechanic, improving speech bubbles/ UI (woo!), expanding the town hub “open world” and filling it with life/ NPCs/ dialogs/ things to see, connecting the hub with all the existing scenes so that the player can play through it accordingly. I hope to have this done between Sept-Oct. (Huge trouble if I don’t, so wish me luck!)​That’s a lot of extremely important work, after which I shall get on to polishing, adding/ improving cutscenes, weather effects, and trying to bring everything together in a cinematic manner so the whole experience “flows” cohesively.That’s it for this update. Just a few more months to go. Just a little more (hah) work to do! Thanks for coming along on this journey <3 -Armaan

Physical rewards now available – Tshirts, Mugs and Posters!

Hey everyone!Exciting news – physical rewards tiers are now available for the Indiegogo campaign! These include stickers, posters, mugs and T-shirts! Check out the campaign here: https://igg.me/at/rainswept/x/19050938Want to have a chance at getting these for free? Check out this giveaway contest! https://www.destructoid.com/contest-get-swept-up-in-this-rainswept-prize-pack-515994.phtml

Indiegogo campaign is now LIVE + new trailer!

Hi everyone!I’m really excited to announce that the Indiegogo campaign for Rainswept is now live! Please consider supporting the game by following this link: https://igg.me/at/rainswept/x/19050938Also, here’s the new trailer: What do you think? Let me know!Armaan

#16 Animated faces for dramatic cutscenes

Hi!This week I’ve got something cool to show you – the process that I’ve used for creating a couple of short cutscenes so far for Rainswept. Check it out! As you can see, the scene is created by animating separate images for the eyes, nose/ eyebrows, face, body and the hands. The process is pretty simple, a lot of fun and also very satisfying!You can see the component parts here: These are the kind of cinematic and dramatic and moments I want to provide in Rainswept, and I’ll try to add a few more detailed shots of this kind to complement the simplistic style of the rest of the game.-Armaan

#14 Interrogation room art – Old v/s new

Hi!It’s been a while since the last devlog, mainly because I’ve been working on the final scenes of the game. I wouldn’t want to show anything related to the climax! Something I can show is the new artwork for the interrogation/ interview room. The original art was basically a conference room being used for interviews, but it didn’t suit the atmosphere of the game. It was too… clean, and I wasn’t satisfied with it. The perspective type view also didn’t fit very well: You might have read that the game is, in part, inspired by Korean thriller/ murder films, the biggest influence being Memories of Murders (which is also my all time favorite film) One of the things these films have influenced is the atmosphere. And I feel the new interrogation room (which is a store room being used for interviews) fits this influence, and the atmosphere of the game a lot better. The color palette is also very inspired by what is usually seen in those films, especially when it comes to scenes in police stations. I’m also happy with how damp, grungy and cluttered it looks. ​I feel this blends well with the rest of the art style of the game as well, and I’m quite satisfied with it! You can see a lot of those elements in this shot from the opening minutes of Memories of Murders: -Armaan

#13 Surreal scenes and recent progress

HiIt’s been a while since the last devlog, but development is moving along smoothly. Almost 80% of the game’s content has been created, which will then be followed by UI improvements, QA, polishing, bug fixing, localisation and admin tasks. That should give a decent idea of a possible release date! (Which could be anywhere between August this year to Feb 2019) Here’s a few shots of what’s new:​  Painterly skies from a specific scene in the game. Making this has inspired me to add cool clouds throughout the game. I might just! The motel at night. Still a work in progress, but it’s coming together well, I think. A shot of the detective from one of the cutscenes. The trees in the background had just been imported and yet to be scaled up, which made the shot look quite surreal. Wish I could show more!That’s all for this week, thanks for reading these and supporting the game!​-Armaan

#12 Experiments with physics and new systems

​Hello!The past few weeks I’ve been working on adding new locations, story bits and new systems to play with. I’ve been playing around with ideas to allow players to do a bit more gameplay wise, and this involves the ability to pick and move objects about. Here’s a preview of this using puppies as placeholders (cause, why not?) Yes the puppy(s) will feature in the game as well. As for new locations, here’s where the detective will stay for the duration of the investigation. It’s still a work in progress, and I can’t wait to get it done!  Plotting out the surrounding areas Added some color! The woods around Pineview are a major part of the town’s identity, so here’s a look at the atmosphere within them: We’re making speedy progress, let’s keep moving!See you next time-Armaan

#11 Restructuring, bug fixing and shoegazing

Hi!After taking a break for a few days, this week’s been witness to hardcore development! The first couple of days were spent on restructuring the game and creating most of the systems that will allow players to move freely between locations using the main market street as a “hub” between investigations. This mostly meant creating a lot of variables to keep in check if a player has completed a certain investigation, and how the world state of the hub/ market street should react to that (stop the player from re-doing the same investigation, open up a new scene, change time/ weather etc) Of course, there’s not much to show when it comes to that. But other than that, the next few days have been a bit more visually appealing, so here’s some screenshots!​ The first is a concept art that I made in a couple of minutes while listening to some shoegaze 🙂 The song in question is “Finland” by Vet Trip. Give it a listen, it’s as beautiful, shimmering and dreamy as you’d imagine.​I also spent some time creating lightning effects for the church interiors (the quality of the gif isn’t the greatest, but it looks fine in-game!) See you next time!-Armaan