General Information
INTRODUCTION:
Veredilia: The Sacred Forest is a 2D platforming game that takes inspiration from classic platformers such as Sonic, and fighting games like Mortal Kombat. The game aims to be a combination of classic 2D platforming with 1v1 fighting whilst also exploring the large forest of Veredilia across various locales with a wide range of characters, technical movesets, and flashy combos. You can take control of one of 3 characters, each with their own special moves, combos, and super moves. Solve puzzles, uncover secrets, and kick, punch and slash your way to victory, before it's too late. Do you have what it takes?
This is the SAGE 2023 Build which contains 4 fully completed stages, 1 WIP stage, a boss fight, 3 playable characters, a hub world to explore in, and a watchable cutscene complete with voice acting.
SYNOPSIS:
Over 50 thousand years ago, a dark overlord has plotted a dark plan to invade and control the magical forest of Veredilia and its people. Across those thousands of years, he and his army have consistently attempted invasion but have failed due to the incredible diligence, bravery and courage of the Veredilian Resistance, lead by the almighty Caribou King, and thanks to a sacred artefact which keeps the Forest together and protected from the forces of evil. Many generations and thousands of years later into the present day, the dark overlord and his forces have this time located the sacred artefact and once again attempt invasion and fought to the death with the current Caribou King. As a failsafe to make sure this would never happen, he had shattered the artefact into multiple pieces, sacrificing his own life in the process. Now it's up to his two sons, Rein and Toronto the Caribou, as well as a young female Kitsune named Vancouver, to find the artefacts, defeat the dark overlord and his henchmen, and save Veredilia, the Sacred Forest, from eternal domination.
A BIT OF BACKSTORY:
This game had began in roughly April-May 2019 and has undergone many changes and additions, being currently developed in Game Maker Studio 2.3. This was originally developed alongside another Sonic fan game at the same time but due to conflicts with work and social activities in real life, this project has become my main priority. Nonetheless, it takes many inspirations from many of my past fan games, which have been huge learning experiences for me.
This game has become my first original project and game which I plan of commercially selling, after developing a total of nine Sonic fan games, many of which have remained incomplete. Many elements of this game you see will have references to some of those games, most notably my two more recent fan games which were developed in the back end of the 2010s. Also being a hardcore classic Mortal Kombat fan (my favourite in the franchise is Ultimate MK3) fan and also a sucker for combat oriented games like Ninja Gaiden 2, you will see many elements of those games present here as well, such as dial-in combos, MK styled Special Moves, similar looking animations, and even the presence of blood effects. The game is also planned for a Steam release at a future point in development.
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