Palegrave
A downloadable game for Windows
Deep in the recesses of a land entombed in ice and blight, you, a lone traveler, are seeking remedy. Long before, hordes of the wretched and afflicted were sent away, imprisoned to perish in excruciating agony. The curse from their withered bodies permeated the ground and gave life to statues and idols of worship, which once were symbols of hope, rebirth, and salvation.
Descend into the ancient ruins, fend off against the devils that lurk in the chilling mist and survive to uproot the evil within.
May time be on your side...
Palegrave is a fast-paced arena survival shooter inspired by the chaos of Devil Daggers. Shoot and blast through relentless waves of enemies or rely on your movement to stay alive. Collect gems to manipulate time and push your score higher, fighting for your place among the top.
This project was developed by a group of 12 first-year AGM Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) students over the course of 6 weeks. The goal was to deliver a game demo that reinterpreted the core loop of a selected reference game (Devil Daggers) through cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Design and Production
Alexandra Roditaki - Production, UI Design
Duccio Carnicelli - Encounter Design, Additional Tech Design
Kong Dexuan - Tech Design, Enemy Behavior and Enemy Feedback
Wouter Ujvari - Character, Controls and Camera Design
Programming
Ana Ciobanu - Rewind Ability System
Hesam Ghadimi - Boid System, Online Leaderboard
Max Predusca - Fog, Enemy Spawning System
Visual Art
Aether Brand - 3D Character Art, Animation, Rigging
Antoni Blajda - Environment Art, Concept Art
Julia de Veld - Environment Art, UI Art
Kristian Todorov - Visual Development, Prop Art, VFX
Marios Emmanouil Maximos Karageorgis - 3D Character Art, VFX, Texturing
To play, unzip the latest downloaded folder and open ProjectHyrax.exe.
No known issues at this time.
Gabriel A. Burlea - Audio Design
Phoebus Andronikos Katsalis Marketos - Soundtrack, SFX and Sound Design
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Install instructions
Extract and run .exe file.
Comments
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I love the fact that it's compatible with way more than just Xbox controllers, but... trying to survive longer than 40 seconds is a serious challenge.
Hi, I'm one of the developers. I looked at your comment history and you seem to know quite a bit about playing games with a controller. Is there anything we can add to make Palegrave more accessible to controller players such as yourself? Btw thank you for playing and leaving a comment :)
I don't know that I want to write my whole answer here. If you could send me an email at dioramstudio@gmail.com, I'd be happy to give you a detailed answer that way. If you're okay with a long reply here, let me know.
This game is extremely unoptimized and cant even get passed the title screen.
this is disappointing because the game looks really good.
Thank you. We will try to work on that and add graphics options in future updates, at the very least.
Get bad kid
How :o
Intended to play it for 5 minutes just to see what it was like and ended up playing for an hour. The game play is fun and fluid, the visuals easy to read and the game play loop is very captivating. The ways the game increases in difficulty is great too.
If I could offer some advice it would maybe be a health bar? It was hard for me to know how far away I was from death as some enemies would kill me and others wouldn't.
I look forward to where you go next with this. I think something like small buffs or perks that drop from enemies could be fun.
Hi, the player actually has 1 health, but the effects of the screen that indicate enemy proximity, can sometimes be confused for actual damage. Was that also the case with you? If so, other people might get confused too, so we gotta look into that. Thanks for the kind words btw :)
Wow very cool game, I like!
Very fun game! I am very impressed by the amount of polish!
Thank you! The team cooked!