Hello guys,

we are the stupid chicken team! 4 guys (2x 3d artists, 1x musician and 1x programmer). we are working on a little hack n slay game for this ludum dare.

the main idea is the following:

Your cult is in the process of finally summoning the great Cthulhu! But your enemies have tracked you down and are trying to prevent you from reaching your goal and killing you all. Keep the cult alive!.

today we have done the most level stuff from the artist side

the dummy main char can walk and fight aggainst the longnose dummy enemies.

our musician have written a great main menu track: (little preview)

https://www.tom3d.de/Public/cultTheme_preview.mp3

and some random graphic stuff:

we love the ludum dare so far .. its hard work but also so much fun ..

cheers to all

Udo, Jeremie, Andrè and Tom

we are back alive and my next step is to texturing, rigging and animating the main char

live on https://www.twitch.tv/turritom/

hi all

today the graphic artists work most on the chars, animation and udo try to implementing there in the game. animation are very time consuming to make.

but some results

our musician work on ingame soundtrack and also on soundfx

hope we will finish this project in time :)

cheers from the stupid chicken team

Wow, what three intense, hard and great days and nights! We survived with lots of coffee and pizza and were able to release our game by 3 am. unfortunately still with a lot of bugs, but hopefully we can fix them the next days.

Our Game:

Your cult is in the process of finally summoning the great Cthulhu! But your enemies have tracked you down and are trying to prevent you from reaching your goal and killing you all. Keep the cult alive!!

READ BEFORE PLAYING! How to play: The cultists must survive long enough to summon the dark lord. As long as any cultist survives, you included, you can win. Left mouse button to move, right mouse button for attack. Perform combos by waiting for the cursor to turn red for a follow up attack. If enough combos are chained, you will perform a high powered attack that damages all enemies around you. Miss the combo and you will abort the attack.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

have Fun!!

@toxicon has made all the high poly 3d meshes from our game in 2 days, the last day he had to work. some impressions.

with the high-poly versions i had the job to made the low poly version, texturing and some rigging and animating. but that is another story.

play our game:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

We have uploaded next to the HTML5 version, the windows, linux and mac version.

Our Game:

Your cult is in the process of finally summoning the great Cthulhu! But your enemies have tracked you down and are trying to prevent you from reaching your goal and killing you all. Keep the cult alive!!

READ BEFORE PLAYING! How to play: The cultists must survive long enough to summon the dark lord. As long as any cultist survives, you included, you can win. Left mouse button to move, right mouse button for attack. Perform combos by waiting for the cursor to turn red for a follow up attack. If enough combos are chained, you will perform a high powered attack that damages all enemies around you. Miss the combo and you will abort the attack.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

have Fun!!

have a nice weekend

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

In this article i would like to show in summary how it is possible to create high-quality 3D graphics in a very short time.

We use automation for the respective parts of the work. Of course a little manual work and a lot of know-how is still necessary.

i took our main character the cultist as an example.

It starts with scuplting the characters. @toxicon use the program Zbrush for this. It took him about 3 hours to finish the high-poly mesh.

then I also used Zbrush to automatically create the low-poly mesh. Zbrush offers many different possibilities. I used the additional plugin: "SoMuchZbrush".

It's not perfect and of course you could make it much lower in the number of polygons, but for the fast one it was enough.

then I used the program RizomUV to automatically create a UV map. (You can tell I'm a nerd by the fact that I spend all my money on software I find cool)

then I used Substance Painter to transfer the high details via various maps (normal, AO etc.) to the low poly mesh and then textured the model in PBR.

then I used the auto-rigger on mixamo.com to rig the character. Then I used Maya to improve the skinning and animate the character. That was it. And in the end the effort for the little male was maybe even a bit too much.

here you can see for yourself:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

thanks and if you have any questions, you're always welcome.

good morning to all,

we have released a new version with some bugfixes:

1.02

Fixed bug where game would crash after 8 waves

Fixed bug where enemy aggro was determined wrong

Fixed bug where player would heal completely on any amount of souls sacrificed

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

have a nice day

Hi there

The combat in our Game is hard to understand at the moment. In the current version you are not allowed to click several times with the right mouse button, because it will stop the attack again and again. only if the mouse cursor turns red, you can click again and the combo mode starts. it gets stronger the more often you get the red cursor and click correctly.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

i know it is not really user friendly at the moment. for this there will be the post-jam version later with improved combat system and many other stuff.

thank you for playing our game. we have learned a lot from your feedback.

thanks a lot for taking the time to play and rate our game. At the moment we are working on the post jam version after our normal job. I hope we can make it before the rating time expires.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

It's a holiday here. This weather sucks. So plenty of time to play. Write your game in the comments and I will play and rate it.

and if you're up for it, try our game.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

yesterday I played and rated the games you posted in the comments. That was really fun. So I'll just do it again today. Leave a comment with the link to your game and I will play and rate it.

and of course if you want, you are welcome to play our game.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

and i will play it :-)

Third round for me. Until now it was very interesting to see the different game ideas for the theme. Really quite a lot of cool games.

and if you're up for it, try our game.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

thanks for playing our game.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

thanks for playing our game.

its sunday and i want to play and rate some games :)

and if you're up for it, try our game.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

i will test and rate your game :)

and if you're up for it, try our game.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

it was a great time with the ludum dare 47 and we are already hot for the next LD Jam.

cheers