Blogs - Magnus_Nigh7mares

Hey there, good looking people!

This post will be the second and last one of the week. Our friend Rodrigo, the game developer, has been working on preventing the player from jumping from certain platforms to others, fiddling a bit with the jump force, gravity and mass and we have a small video for you guys to show you that, which we will link it in another post or you can go see it at our twitter @nigh7maresgame

We have also been working on the art side of the project, which we will show you guys next week and also the level design, which will also be shown sooner or later.

The platforms in on itself aren't one of the main mechanics but we are trying to play around with them, with the idea of using them as choices for the player.

Stay tuned for more posts.

Hey there, good looking people!

Since we had to make some changes on our concept, and overall story we ended up making a new backstory to the game and to Magnus. So, here it is.

“Nigh7mares” is going to be a 2D “vertical platformer” about Magnus, The Great, a magician who was accused of murdering his assistant and, as a way to prove his innocence, he decided to risk his life in the magic trick “The 7 Nightmares”, where he fights against several shadow-like figures in matches of a game similar to blackjack until he reaches one of the seven “bosses” and by defeating them he gains access to fragments of the real killer’s memories.

This magician was in the peak of his career, however, after a tragic night that led to the mysterious discovery of the death of this new assistant, Magnus was accused by the police of her death. So, to prove his innocence, he will try to accomplish a magic trick that has never been completely done before because. everyone else that tried it ended up dead, this trick being “The 7 Nightmares”. This magic trick happens in the space of a week, and in each day, Magnus has to go through a nightmare and find a fragment of the memory of the killer, so he can uncover his true identity. In this week he will have to face enemies and a new final boss each day.

Magnus is a magician that started gaining popularity recently and is considered a prodigy. He has had a knack for card tricks from a young age and he was even able to perform impossible achievements since he started doing magic tricks. With the growth of his fame he also acquired a team and with that he tried more dangerous and bold magic tricks. Magnus, being young, ended up falling into temptation and had many affairs with multiple women and his last assistant wasn’t an exception. All these affairs ended abruptly, with the disappearance of the women without any trace.

In that dreadful night, Magnus was informed that his assistant, that had been missing for a few days, had been found dead in her apartment. The police accused Magnus of her death, since all the other women he had been with were also missing and this last one was found dead.
Magnus, to prove his innocence, proposed that he could realize “The 7 Nightmares”. This magic trick consists of the magician grabbing a different item, that was present in the crime scene, in each day and sleep with it in his hand. He would then wake up in a dark place, where he would have to climb up to the boss level, defeat him, get to the bed behind him and sleep in it, which would make him wake up back in his bed with a part of the killer’s memory in physical format. This trick is considered pretty hard, since anyone that fails it ends up dead.

They accepted his proposal and on the first night he does all the steps for the magic trick and once he falls asleep he proceeds to wake up in front of dark figures walking around aimlessly. Magnus knew that he had to go against them in battles involving cards in a twisted form of blackjack and reach the top without dying. And that’s what happens, he continues to climb up with endless darkness always right behind him, ending up in front of the boss, a shape just like the others, however, this one has a more feminine look. He defeats the boss, goes to bed and wakes up with a new memory. He proceeds to do this six more times, ending up defeating six more bosses, all of those with feminine appearance and with outfits that make our protagonist shiver.

Magnus defeats the last boss, obtaining the last memory that he needed. Although, this one ended up connecting all the other ones between one another, showing that the genius of Magnus wasn’t always reliable, since one of his old tricks, the removal of his own darkness, ended up backfiring, creating a physical form to that evil.

This doppelganger was the real killer, giving an explanation as to why Magnus was able to go through “The 7 Nightmares”, because, in a weird way, he was accessing his own memories. Once Magnus discovered this, his evil side showed up, looking like a twisted and evil version of himself, with a crooked smile and torn clothes. Magnus is forced to defeat him, ending up gaining the last true memory. He proceeds to go to the police with all the eight memory fragments, using them as proof of his innocence.

If you want to give us some feedback about our story we would appreciate it.
Stay tuned for some game developing our friend Rodrigo has been working on.

Hey there, good looking people!

This has been a handful of a week since we had to change our concept. It went from our homossexual relationship to more of a mistery adventure with a twist, surrounding our new protagonist, Magnus.

For now we have some new sketches of our new concept to show you but in this next week we will write down the story for you guys.

We hope you guys like these sketches.
Stay tuned for more posts.

Hey there, good looking people!

Today our post will be a little bit smaller. We have some new sketches we want to show you of our protagonist, Kenny. Valeriya made these, she did some research and came up with these ideas.

We hope you guys like these sketches.
Stay tuned for more posts.

Hey there, good looking people!

My name is João Moura and I will be the Game Designer of our first project, "Nigh7mares".
Our group is composed of three members, myself, Rodrigo Pereira as the Game Developer and Valeriya Haponyuk as the Game Artist.
This is our second blog, the first being Hellevatorgame.blogspot.com, so, if you want to check out the old versions of our theme and some sketches we have those there. We also have the reason why we decided to change "home".

We will give our overall idea of the game and some backstory to justify said ideas.

Nigh7mares is going to be a 2D vertical platformer about Kenny, an homossexual teenage boy that, every time he falls asleep, he wakes up in Limbo and is forced to fight his inner demons and defeat one of his seven sins that are eating him up from the inside.
He is going to try to defeat his inner demons in a week, before asking the love of his life, Troy, on a date. Each nightmare is going to be the home of many demons and will also be ruled by one of his own seven sins, whom will try to stop him from waking up, so he must win against them in a game of cards.

Our protagonist, Kenny, is a teenager who had recently gotten into the school’s card club and, there, after a couple of weeks, a new boy also got into the club, and so, Kenny, found the only person that understood him, a boy named Troy, who was equally in love with cards and in specific, the game Blackjack. The club was already a safe place for Kenny, because there, he didn’t felt insecure about his sexuality and he didn’t suffer from bullying like he usually did in the rest of the days, but now the club was that one place where he felt love and happiness. The days had passed and the love he felt for Troy had gotten stronger and stronger, as did his insecurities, because he didn’t know if Troy loved him back or even if he would have the courage to ask him out on a date.

One day, before falling asleep, Kenny decided to dare himself to, in a week, ask Troy out in that date he wanted so badly. All his insecurities were putting him down and swallowing him whole and the only thought that was going through his head was “it can’t get any worse”.
As he fell asleep, our protagonist woke up in his school, only that it was darker and even colder than it was before. The world was colourless and empty and the only presences, beside himself, were figures wandering around aimlessly. As he approached one of this figures, he was confronted in a monologue, where the shadow said that the only way to leave this place was to win against them in matches of a twisted form of blackjack. Our protagonist realised that all of this was most likely a nightmare and a representation of his own insecurities and fragments of his memories with Troy. The only thing he couldn’t understand was the environment, his school, of all places, was where the bullying occurred more frequently and more drastically. As he defeats the figures and he keeps ascending he starts to feel an unnerving aura getting closer. Once he gets to the top, he is confronted by a small purple creature reeking of envy and hatred for everyone. The creature tells him that he is weaker than most and that he will never have someone that loves him, unlike his bullies. Kenny understands now that he has to face one of his biggest fears and sins, if you would. Behind this creature, our protagonist, sees a bed, like a beacon calling out to him, and he also understands that, when he gets to it, he will wake up from this dreadful nightmare. And so he does. He defeats the self titled Envy and he gets into the bed, waking up from his nightmare.

Kenny lives this situation six more times in six more different places where he felt extreme pain and sorrow (seven in total), each time getting harder and harder, but somehow the glimpses of hope keep getting bigger and this nightmarish world gets more colourful as he keeps battling his so called sins.

We have some more explanations and reasoning behind our choices but this will be it for our first post here. Stay tuned for next week post(s).