Dianthus - The Mark of Death Demo
A downloadable game
Aaron is the newest detective for the Denton police department and has been working under Don Augustine, a senior detective preparing for retirement.
Aaron has shown a lot of promise to become a very successful detective, but his skills will be tested after word spreads of a councilors death. Local police were forbidden from entering the councilors home and suspicions begin to rise.
Aaron is sent to lead the investigate and find out what exactly happened as well as retrieve a certain "item" at the request of Mark, who is also a local councilor and Aaron's Superior.
As they investigate the seemingly abandoned town, a foul presence fills the air surrounding them.
What exactly will he find? What happened to the councilor and the town?
This project is still in development and it's possible to run into some bugs or typos.
Please leave a comment on what you think of the project.
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Development log
- The Demo is finally ready!Nov 28, 2023
- Version 0.5 is now readyMar 01, 2023
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Can I adjust The movement speed?
Movement speed? If you hold shift you can run if that's what your referring to.
Never mind that, So far I've been enjoying your game, it has an intriguing story and a great everything has gone to hell vibe that I like. However, I'm struggling with the living amour boss in the mansion it would seem that once you do enough damage it becomes so quick you can't escape it. is there something I'm missing? am I just dumb? Also keep up the good work.
PS I think non-dash base movement speed is too quick.
Glad to hear your enjoying it so far. The first boss once he reaches a third stack of adrenaline you have to avoid him until he starts rushing you then you run him into one of the broken pillars on the ground to stun him. Once stunned you can spam knife or pump shotgun into it until its HP reaches zero.
Honestly, there's a major overhaul to the game coming up which is why the next update has taken so long, there will be pop up messages to help understand what the boss does so its less of a guessing game, crafting was implemented along with armor and accessories to reduce damage and prevent status effects, status effects are being added. Won't go too much into it as I'm still putting it together.
I never thought of the base speed being too fast, I'll experiment with making the character slower. I've tried adding stamina to the run as well but that would make certain bosses unkillable so it got scraped.
You could just add a slow walk function and leave the speed as is that way the player can adjust it as they see fit.
enjoying it so far!
Hmmm... Were you inspired by the visual novel Death Mark? The doll picture and the game title gives me a huge déjà vu feeling
That was one of the inspirations yes, RE4 was one of the many others as well. It was originally going to be called "The Mark of Lust" but with how the story was going, the current name just fit better.
Ah, hence the ressemblance. Thanks
Pretty good. I enjoyed it so far.
Thanks for playing, I'm glad to hear you've enjoyed it so far.