Games Thousands Layered Edge (千層の剣)

Title : Thousands Layered Edge (Sen-sō no ken)
Platform : Android
Genre : Action/Fighting

Now that I'm satisfied with the ink painting shader (I'll just call it Enso shader ) now it's the time to step to the gameplay... The core is basically from my other unfinished game Timun Mas : The Giant Huntress but with everything stripped out except for the fighting section. Instead of just duplicating the project and removing unnecessary files, I decided to build the project up from empty project while reusing any necessary assets and codes...

The circle is actually a sphere




Basic attack and parry gameplay video

 

Very cool Ookami shader. Does this fully support mobile?
Try to test inside mobile device and see.

 

It's target platform is Android and running quite smooth on my mid-lo android phone

 

Nice. I wonder how the game-play would be.
Gesture / Gyroscope / Accelerometer?

 

The game core is swipe based fighting like stormblade or infinity blade.
Swipe to attack or parry and double tap to evade. double tap position decides which direction she will dodge...

 

I see. I just imagine using my phone VR on with this calligraphy art style...
Should be quite cool and unique. Don't know if that is possible.

 

Oh I really like the look of this! It feels 2D while being 3D

 

It should be possible, although the shader doesnt work well with hard edges (like cube etc)

BTW, added lifebars, still not as I expected (Id like to change the built in fill behaviour) but it will do for now..

 

Hi Would you be willing to sell / share your ink painting shader, I have a bike game for android that might suite this.

 

Unfortunately the shader is not a magic elixir that work out of the box on every situation, but I do plan to release a post mortem about how to achieve that 2D painting feel later after the game released..
but basically the shader is based on this old article
https://www.researchgate.net/public...re-Accelerated_Sumi-e_Painting_for_3D_Objects

 

decided to discard the terrain mesh and use simple plane and tree sprites billboards

 

Added enemy's hit animation, river scene, victory menu...
Not sure with current font though :\ ...

 

Agreed - the font is a bit hokey. But ALL faux-japanese fonts are a bit hokey. There is a free* one out there called Fujimaru which might be closer to the theme of sumi-e. As with many decorative fonts, uppercase only.

*edit: free for non-commercial, cheap license for commercial

 

Just realized that when looking at her face, the detail went missing because of the brush-stroke-imperfection shader, so I have to modify the shader a little bit...

Here's before and after :

 

Added 2 skin sets(hats, face, upper clothing, and pants are interchangeable)

 

Hey Man,

Looks great, I love it.

You might check out this vendor, I think their stuff would look great in your game.

https://3dexport.com/xiaoq2?page=15

For Example:





Cheers!

Brian

 

Well, except for those vendor's characters representing old China and not old Japan, sure. : )

 

Oh Damn!

I should stick to Camelot!

Brian

 

Some models actually can represent old japanese culture
But for right now, I aim for interchangeable clothings and parts so I can randomize the clothings...

But, I bookmarked the site for future reference ...

 

Added ingame "break" animation

 

Indeed the font is very hard to read. You can take font ref. from 大神 English version...
Fonts that looks natural and handwritten which are easy to read is perfect.



Hence maybe this one : https://www.dafont.com/japestyle.font?text=Sen-so+no+Ken

About the title, you directly translated from English to 千層の剣 right I guess?
千層 sounds like layered cakes, you can try to search in Google and see...
Maybe just use 千 ("Sen"), hence 千の剣舞. Sounds more elegant and artistic.
Or can use 閃 ("Sen"), hence 閃の剣舞. Sounds more epic and fast paced.
I added 舞 behind. 舞 means dance, hence sword dance.

Looks very interesting so far, keep it up.

 

That's perfect thanks... But the license is unknown though, I might just have to contact the author directly...

Actually I was referring the method of creating a katana which consists of thousands of layers of steel by folding the steel several times on forging process... I didnt expect it to have something to do with cake
閃の剣舞 sounds cool btw, the characters special move will be named on the dance of flowers

 

Working on Title Screen...

 

Title screen video

 

When you've become overpowered from all the testing sessions

 

My first trailer

 

Working on second minigame...
Still not sure if the view would be full side view, or slightly forward angled sideview like this one. Or maybe from behind like usual endless runner... If it's sideview then the minigame would be tap to jump avoiding pits and obstacles, while the view from behind would be swipe left/right to avoid games

 

Another view of cutscene WIP. This should be cutscene for the end of chapter 9

 

Looks great. Great progress!

 

2nd Trailer

 

Decided to change title's main text to japanese

 

Wavy grass particles

 

Final Trailer