Nevendia (prototype)

mario maker meets castlevania

Put your own or favorite characters into the game by creating mods. Create your own enemies, items and finally whole a world with the ingame editor.

Download mods from the internet and play games other made. You can play any world with any character you like.

The game will feature 4 player splitscreen co-op.

Current State:

• Character mods are possible
  • basic movement and stats are already loaded
  • attacks including combos are moddable
  • todo: skills, equipment, leveling
• Enemy mods are possible
  • yet very restricted: currently only zombie-type enemies are possible
  • todo: more versatile enemy modding, loot
• Level editor exists
  • place blocks and tiles on a grid into chunks
  • save/load level
  • saved into chunks, so enormous maps are possible
  • todo: more layers, placing items, creating story
• Game modes
  • currently only 1 player game is possible
  • todo: 4 player
• Quality of life todos
  • map/minimap
  • menu to choose items
  • character mod creator

For some todos there are already are proof-of-concepts so they are already more realized than you might think!

How to play the prototype

• Download both the game and the example mods - you can't really do anything without mods
• Press 3 when starting up the game and then select the example_mods.nevendia.zip file
• With mods installed, you can give the tiny example stage a try:
  • Press 1 on the title screen and type the name of the stage listed below
  • You can walk and jump using the arrow keys
  • [A] does a normal attack (example char punches)
  • [S] does an alt attack (example char kicks)
• Or you can build a level:
  • Press 2 on the title screen and type the name of the level you want to edit OR create
  • scroll using WASD
  • The left bar is to select the editing category (like placing tiles you will see or placing blocks you will touch but not see)
  • Click the icon to the top right to choose an enemy or tile (depends on the context) and add them to the top bar
  • scroll in a context using WASD
  • Choose something from the top bar with left click and place it with left click in the world
  • Right click deletes something from the world
  • Right click on an element of the top bar to remove it
  • When you are happy click the book to the top left to save and then go back to the title screen using the arrow above the book