Hi everyone,
Recently, we've released a new game demo, "Lost", a 2.5D puzzle-platformer adventure, adapted from the comic book titled with the same name. It will feature the same story but will have gameplay in-betweens that will definitely further the experience from the original comic book.

This game is a collaboration project involving my alma mater, Ateneo de Naga University - Department of Digital Arts and Computer Animation, Polysplit Games, and the illustrator/comics creator Mr. Rob Cham.

The collaboration was initiated by the Game Developers Association of the Philippines, SIKAP, and Komiket to "Adapt Comics into Games". Then from a selection of great and intriguing comic titles, we selected "Lost" as we feel it will embody one of the University's thrusts;
"Build Faith-Based Hope and Resiliency". From there we met with the comics creators for our first meet-up and then proceed with planning the game.

Mainly, we took inspirations from these games, but was also inspired by the puzzles and aesthetics of Limbo, plus the atmospheric and relaxing ambience of Journey and Abzu.

We definitely knew the best way to portray the comics was to make it a side-scroller. But in order to complete the demo in a short amount of time and given our expertise, we decided to use 3D characters instead of 2D. However, we wanted to stick with 2D environment backgrounds so Rob Cham can do his magic and preserve his art-style for the game. He managed to complete them within a day. In total we allocated two weeks for all assets. While the programming, level layout, testing and polish were all done within three weeks.

After the demo was completed, it was first shown on Philippine International Comics Festival 2021 last September 25, 2021 where we shared our experiences, challenges, and tips to fellow artists, game developers and also to aspiring ones who were present during the event.

Here are some prototype previews we'll be showing for the first time:

I believe that's all we have for now. Thank you for making it this far with the devlog!

In the future, we plan on having more unique gameplay encounters, challenges, new characters and probably have more people join the team. So please check out our game and enjoy the demo. Feel free to share, or you can simply follow to keep updated with our development.

As for Polysplit, I'm taking part on another game jam this October as I am hyped to create another spooky experience. 👻
There I will collaborate with a promising young composer who I met through my younger brother. So really excited what we come up with. 

Anyway, thanks so much! I'll surely be back for more games and updates. I hope you have a good day! 👋😄