Solkitte

The Echo Pit Mine - Location from Eldervale remake
#gamedesign #horrorgame #indiegame

Upgrading "What am I looking at?" to "What am I looking at (RTX ON)". Sometimes it's easier to make weird stuff rely on your low-poly modeling skills, making it more detailed raises more questions. #gamedesign #horrorgame #indiegame

Haven't been posting recently because I'm deep in thought with creating new environments. The remake and sequel working to benefit each other nicely here. It wouldn't be possible to prototype the remake like this without years of refining the sequel. #gamedesign #horrorgame

The Remake puts the vale into Eldervale. New enemy types encountered here will need to be burned using matches to kill them permanently.

#horrorgame #gamedevelopment

It's-a-me, Samantha! Even though you probably thought I was just a statue or an enemy. I'm in fact your childhood best friend who has just the charming amount of cultish tendencies.

Character lineup for the Remake (WIP)

#Eldervale #VRoid #gamedesign

Excuse me, sir! Can you point me in the direction of the nearest vending machine? Sure you're okay? You look kind of under the weather, sir.

#EldervaleRemake #horrorgame #indiegame #gamedev #IndieDev

YouTube video by Jack Off Jill - Topic Love Song

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If you recognize this, you are a hella cool person. The remake some people have been waiting years for...

I'm eternally grateful for your patience, be content in the knowledge that the wait hurt me even more :3

ps. We are so back!

#Eldervale #horrorgame #indiegame

My unannounced project about befriending/investigating a quirky music band by entering their subconscious and hanging out day after day in sleazy bar. It's gonna get weird.

Inspirations: Persona, Alice Madness Returns, Psychonauts, Lollipop Chainsaw.

#gamedev #indiegame

If you thought the Delaney Institution from the first game was bad, after being abandoned for a decade... It's predecessor, the Freesia Conservatory kept it's secrets since the 19th century. Lore galore...

#Eldervale2 #gamedev #horrorgame

私は十分に賢くない T.T

先生が必要です wwwww

"An interesting story is a like a good puzzle,
a good puzzle tells an interesting story."

Quote attribution: Someone smart, probably.
Maybe I heard this somewhere, or just came to mind.

(A good puzzle challenges you to understand it, but is never unfair.)

#gamedevelopment #gamedev #gamedesign

YouTube video by Solkitte Eldervale: Deep Reserves - Free DLC Gameplay

Eldervale received a free expansion pack in late 2020, called Deep Reserves. It's a replayable mode with it's own progression system, seperate from the main campaign. You can take multiple paths and set your goals each run, earning rewards. #horrorgame #indiedev
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These made me become a lifelong dev, 10/10 would play again!

So cool to see the to-do list! I'm jealous, always wanted a whiteboard for gamedev, been using exercise books.

Progressing my graphic design skills from "Eww" to "Meh", and finally "Okay" in 8 short years.

If you are doing everything solo, it takes a long time to improve in each aspect of making a game. Never give up, no one can take away the expertise you gain along the way!
#gamedev #indiegame

Blue sky to forever
The green grass blows in the wind, dancing

Nothing like coming to terms with your tragic past during a car ride with a stranger.

#Eldervale2 #HorrorGame #SilentHill

Shizu: Curse of Silence is a stealth-action adventure game, set in a dark fantasy version of late Edo period Japan.

Developed in: 2022, 2023 (Unfinished)

Inspirations: Tenchu, Zelda/Okami, Dark Souls, Metal Gear Solid #indiegame #gamedev #shinobi

Yup, that's all. You can do all the filtering you need in the shader. The popular engines nowadays have tools to design shaders without writing code.

I'm glad you like the artstyle, thanks! The shader on the mirror does the costly full-scale reflection (like a second camera render), then I filter the layers I want it to update in real-time.

Thanks! Getting it to work in itself is not that hard, I use a simple plane to set the angle and a shader does the reflection. The difficulty is optimization, and for that people usually filter objects based on what needs to be updated in the mirror eg. moving.

I took 4-5 years to like what you see reflecting in (and around) the mirror. Not even that bad considering most of us never get there. #Eldervale2, #gamedev, #horrorgame

How could these be screenshots of an upcoming game? If you think a surreal adventure game about entering the subconscious of a music band and solving mysteries in the style of Persona and Twin Peaks, then you are just silly.
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Year 1 vs. Year 5 of designing anime/cartoony characters for game development. I like how it shows both an increase in skill level and my declining mental state. Love you #vroid #vroidstudio!

YouTube video by SolKitte Eldervale (Official Trailer)

Eldervale Official Trailer (for v1.2.3, Includes DLC)
#solodev #horrorgame #indiegame

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- Outdated trailer for my game reaching 10k views. 🥹👍

- 97% of traffic from torrent sites. 🔪😂

Not even mad, just wish they'd keep it updated. I don't want bad publicity!

Eldervale (2019) vs. Eldervale 2 (2025)

Making a third person survival horror game as solodev is not as much time consuming as it is life consuming. Still, one of the better circles of hell.

During development of the first game, had so much fun with cultish symbols that I decided to invent a numbering system. It does have a logic to it. The final puzzle on Hard difficulty expects the player to figure this out. Yes, I touch grass very often, why do you ask. #Eldervale #GameDev #Horror

Posted some thoughts on horror games and the concept of fear vs safety in the genre. (Also, maybe I just needed an excuse to mention Haunting Ground.) Give it a read!

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#survivalhorror #horror #horrorgame #gamedev