Savage: Brutal Age (working title) is a 2D retro looking action platformer with adventure and mild RPG elements (or, insert equally clumsy genre mash-up, here) being developed for PC by some weirdo over at Planet Tobor. As the title suggests, in the spirit of Robert E. Howard's Conan and Kull The Conquerer, there will be violence, loincloths and barbarians aplenty. 'Nuff said.

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Erp - Over a month since my last update on this project, eh? Heh, whoops... Who's counting, anyway.

Since this page hasn't gotten any love for quite some time, I figured some screenshots and a bulleted list of achievements (however small) were in order.

  • Fixed a few platforming bugs
  • Tidied up a lot of animations
  • Created code to handle many different weapons and weapon types
  • Created code to draw different animations based on weapon type
  • Started work on a melee combat system
  • Added weapons!!
  • Right and Left animations (our hero now has a dominant side instead of just mirroring the sprite)

As if there wasn't enough work to do, I decided to go ahead and draw different animations for when the player character is doing something with his (or her) dominant hand to the left or the right.

  

So, now the little barbarian jerk has almost twice as many sprites!

-Matt