Entry 002 - Nerd Migration

Hey there good looking people!

We are going to do a bird nerd migration of our own and we will be changing our home to IndieDB.
The reason being, we need more visits and to do so, we need to change to a place for indie creators.
We are also going to change our name and theme all around, it has changed already four times and Hellevator wasn't even the first one we came up with.
The new theme will be explained in https://www.indiedb.com/members/nigh7mares as soon as possible.
The overall game mechanics that we had to offer are going to stay the same and maybe improve a little, so don't worry.
Stay tuned for that new post at our new "home".

Entry 001 - Sketching and stretching

Hey there good looking people!

Our second post is going to be about some sketches our dear friend Rodrigo made, which are the overall design of the game.

Our first image has the design pattern we are going to try to follow. Something more hellish but never fleeing from the Hotel design we are going after.

This next sketch has less detail but shows the evolution of the idea, as in, it shows multiple paths that the player can choose.

For example, the player can choose the left path and only defeat one enemy (the top one) and go on to the next area.

Or the right path and defeat either one or two enemies and get one or two chests.

And the last sketch, where we have a bigger view of one of the Hotel levels in full scale.

We will most likely post again in the next few days because our narrative and theme has changed a bit and we want to share it with you.
Stay tuned for that.

Entry 000 - Hello World!

Hello people!
My name is João Moura and I will be the Game Designer of our first project, "Hellevator".
Our group is composed of three members, myself, Rodrigo Pereira as the Game Developer and Valeriya Haponyuk as the Game Artist.

Hellevator is going to be a 2D platformer about a little girl who was in Purgatory and was wrongfully accused, just because she decided to do some gambling with a few of her classmates, so she ended up being thrown in the wrong elevator, which sent her to Hell.
There, she is going to try to escape the seven rectangles of Hell, which resemble the looks of an Hotel, get back to Purgatory and be sent to Heaven. Each rectangle is going to be the home of many demons and will also be ruled by one of the seven deadly sins, whom will try to stop her ascent, so she must win against them in a game of cards.

We took some inspiration from, well, the Seven Deadly Sins, which we based on the well known list that the Pope Gregory I revised; Death Parade, an anime that depicts an interesting form of how Purgatory could look like; some well-known 2D platformers, like Shovel Knight, Fez and Braid and last but not least the card game Blackjack, which is, somehow, going to be our main fight mechanic.

For now we don't have that much more information to give you but we will keep you good looking people updated, with at least one weekly post, so stay tuned for those.