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After The Bright Red Skies, the world of Claraeth was left in ruin. Explore this destroyed world and discover its many unique locales, in this tactical turn-based post apocalyptic JRPG.

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1 Nov, 2021

Hey there,

Kinda hard to say this but going to go on an indefinite hiatus. This month I got hit with sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) which is when you suddenly and rapidly lose hearing. For the vast majority of cases, the cause for this is unknown, so you'll just wake up one day with no hearing in one ear. Fortunately, it only happened to my left ear, so I can still with my right and have a regular conversation with people. Unfortunately, the loss in my left ear is classified as "severe" for low frequencies and most likely I'll have at least some permanent hearing loss, and that's even if the treatments are successful.

I will say, I was really lucky to have a great ENT doctor that's giving me every chance to recover whatever hearing I can. From the moment the hearing loss occurs, you're basically on a time limit to try and recover and heal. There does seem to be some good improvement in my hearing especially in the higher frequencies, but I'm still "severe" for the low frequencies.

Before:

Test 5 days later with improvements:

So something that's going to be taking a lot of my free time now is to do hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which may help me recover. The treatment needs to be done continuously every weekday for 4-5 weeks, for 2-hour sessions. Including the travel, this will pretty much take up all of my free time over the weekdays. I spoke with my boss and I can have a much more flexible schedule since we're work-from-home, but will most likely be working noon - 8 pm. Don't be too worried about my health though, since even if there's no further improvement from today, I can still live normally just with some inconveniences.

Even if I didn't get this health problem, I was probably going to step away. I feel like there are a couple of people who read these monthly devlogs since I get the occasional comments and thumbs up, so sorry for letting you guys down. I really just want to focus on my health and other general aspects of my life. Over a long period of time, it does get pretty stressful since I always put pressure on myself to spend time outside of working hours to do more game development so that I can get closer to my goal. I think a proper break is something that I need right now.

I have to say, I'm really glad I even started making Bright Red Skies. I don't think I've ever worked on anything as diligently as I have in the development of BRS. I definitely learned a lot in a technical sense, and I feel like I gained some discipline that helps me in my general day-to-day. I'm also, grateful for game development since I have a dream that I want to achieve now. I may not be any time soon, but at least there's a target I can always try to reach.

I don't want to make any promises, so I won't say I'm going to start posting after a certain period of time. But maybe one day, months or years from now you might see a new BRS devlog. It's been fun, thanks for all you guys that have been following along! :)

Bright Red Skies

Is it dead?

ゲ-で

3 Sep, 2024 @ 2:18pm

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Monthly Devlog (September 2021)

1 Oct, 2021

Hey there!

For September the weapon drop/pick up is completed, the weapon shop UI was updated to increase readability, and a new room type was added to help mask the loading between floors.

Weapon drops were added to the game, which is pretty standard for any FPS haha. So as you get closer to the drop the stats and their difference to your current weapon will display so you can make a quick decision on if you want to swap for it or not. The size of the info UI shrinks as you get closer to it too, so you can see the info no matter how close you are.

As mentioned in the previous devlog, I noticed that the weapon shop UI needed so way to compare the stats with your current weapons so you don't have to memorize if the weapon in the shop is better or not. So made the update and you can switch between which of your current weapons you want to compare with now, and the stats difference will appear next to the store weapon stats.

The last thing I added was a new room to try and mask the loading between floors. Took some inspiration from the Halo 2 section where you're in an elevator while the rest of the scene loads. So after you beat a floor, there's going to be a room with an elevator that will only stop after all the necessary loading is done for the next floor. I want the game to feel more seamless and having a generic loading splash screen I feel would take you away from the game but having everything continuous I feel should keep you more engaged.

I think that was a pretty decent amount of work to be done for September. Managed to get part of the core systems like the weapon drop and loading room completed, as well as some visual updates in the new weapon shop UI. Need to work towards getting the core loop implemented and tested.

So, for October what I want to do is:

Add and test room and enemy layouts
Design and implement ideas for room rewards with some roguelike element

Thanks for following along you guys, mean a lot! I'll see you next month for the next one! :D

Bright Red Skies

Monthly Devlog (August 2021)

1 Sep, 2021

Hey there!

For August felt like there needed to be some more variety in the combat so I created the first melee enemy. I also implemented the weapon shop UI.

So previously, this FPS game only had ranged units which is the walker mech and the bullet & rocket turrets. But since they were ranged units, making them fast would probably make them too difficult especially for enemies on the first floor. But I wanted there to be some kind of pressure to make you want to move around so that's why this melee enemy was created!

The idea with this enemy is that it will chase you and move faster than you can. When you come into range it'll lock onto a position a bit farther back than your current position, wait a bit to give you some visual indication that it's doing an attack, then charge the point. It's not meant to be a hard enemy when alone, but when there's a lot of them and when dealing with ranged enemies they can get pretty difficult.

Also, if they hit anything, they'll do a little knockback like this:

I also worked on creating the weapon shop UI. I personally think it looks pretty good, but in retrospect, I'm thinking that it should probably show some stats comparisons to the weapons you currently have. I also think from a quality of life perspective, you should be able to select which gun you want to replace after you buy the new gun. Additionally, there's nothing implemented right now for dropped weapons and I feel like you should still be able to pick your old gun up if you made a mistake with the purchase, so that's something that needs to get made.

Going to be honest here, but I feel like this month was OK but pretty light on my side project work. I got really into a game called Battle Brothers and I've been playing it sooo much haha. Might need to pull the trigger and hit it with the uninstall, but still on the fence about that. :P

Anyways, for September what I want to do is:

Dropped weapons pickup and equip
Elevator to hide level generation and loading
Continue to work on game feel

And that's all I have for this devlog, thanks you guys for following along! Cya next month with some more updates! :D

Bright Red Skies

Questions.

I hope the dev read this, firstly wow it's quiet here, this game need much better exposure, it seems interesting... first of all I have questions 1. does this game has fantasy elements like magic, monsters, mutants etc? 2. is this game open world open ending or linear? 3. any ETA?...

Napoleonic S

23 Aug, 2019 @ 5:29pm

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Bright Red Skies and other turn-based games

Hello, If it's alright with Mark, I'd like to introduce you to our group Turn-Based Tactics since we've recently featured BRS in our community news: http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/tbtactics#announcements We review dozens of games of the genre on our Curation page , we share weekly news on Steam and Twitter regarding games in development, and we maintain a release schedule of upcoming turn-based tit...

Saint Scylla

2 Nov, 2019 @ 8:28am

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Projected Price-point?

This game looks like it has potential. And if priced right, I think will do well (15h for complete edition may or may not be justified based on pricepoint), then I assume you will part out the remaining stories as DLC. Cheers.

DRUNK_CANADIAN

4 Sep, 2019 @ 5:15pm

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This game remind me of wild arms franchise.

But since wild arms is dead, this look like a great alternative and definitely look forward to it.

Pyromaniac

18 Mar, 2021 @ 3:19am

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