I improved the game's skilltree!
In Vindica's world, hematokinesis is the art of controling one's blood. To tap into this strength, you will have to sacrifice health by redirecting your blood flow into powerful hematokinetic abilities, ranging from key abilities to useful skills and upgrades.

I cleaned the new axe swings animations, and while i was at it, also improved the 2 axe swings i already got (and their charged variants), cause they weren't as cool as the new ones.

Still, recency bias or not, my favorite is the swing up anim, with the downward pogo close second!

The game got directional attacks and a pogo downward swing now!
A bit reminiscent of Hollow Knight but I like it a lot! I aimed for a different feel for the attacks at the start with a swing charge system that can be chained with a whirl attack, but after many iterations I ended up somewhat close!

I've finally found a workflow that I like with enemy AIs so I'm working on combat again!
What do you think?

Can't wait to animate more stuff and try the implement the first boss fight using the new tools I did!

Entering the unsupervised Crabbles zone to get power back in (they messed up their cable management job)

Enemy reveal: the Cablecrabs! 🦀
These little crabs are electrician worker robots who repair cables in factories, but beware of electric shock if you find yourself in their path!! ⚡️
Also our revolutionary heroine can now blink and I reworked the sawmill music with an infiltration vibe!

Game visuals have improved so much since last year, here have a look at the Sawmill, one of the first factories to sabotage in Vindica Secrets of Blood, that I want to feature in a demo this year!

I'm very proud of this elevator btw 😌

I've been redesigning the main character lately (100 frames to redo was soooo long ;o;) and I'm working on the sawmill, one of the first areas of the game that I want to make a little demo of this year!

TITLE REVEAL: My metroidvania about a revolutionary butch in an underground industrial dystopia is called Vindica Secrets of Blood and it's releasing right NOW!
(Yeah, before Silksong)
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Found this 11 months old perflectly normal gameplay video of my game in some folder

Love my level design tools :)

(The next features I'm working in are hidden in the video somewhere but I still want to do mork work on them before revealing it :3)

Today was my last day of freelance work for this year!
This means I'm gonna start working full-time on my game for a few months!
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(After taking a well deserved break of a week or so)

Hi Bluesky, it's been a while, are you good? I've heard we can FINALLY post videos now????
So here is my game!!

It's been a tough year but in december and next year I should have way more free time to work on it and show stuff, you will see me around here :)