#Neuroverse 64: A 3D platformer with Neuro related characters

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frozen olive
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Hi swarm vedalWave I'm working on the Neuroverse 64 (title is WIP, if you have better ideas, let me know). It’s a 3D platformer with a strong focus on movement. The core mechanic is character switching. It’s very much inspired by A Hat in Time.

Gameplay loop:
You choose a level from the lobby -> complete its story -> unlock a new character and free roam mode -> explore previous levels with new abilities or progress to the next.

The game will feature:

  • Multiple levels
  • Puzzles
  • Secrets
  • Simple combat
  • Different abilities for each character
  • Enemies and Boss fights
  • Character customization

I’m aiming for 7 main levels, each with bonus and challenge stages.
Every character will have unique abilities and customization. My main focus right now is to implement the main cast and then I'll start working on the enemies, puzzles and levels. After finishing the base game I'll also work on adding OVA/spin-off characters like Aquwa, Chrchie, Shoomimi and etc. as playable characters, but until that they'll will appear in game as NPC.

Also about Neuro integration. I'm planning to add it, but I have no idea what Neuro should do in the game.NeuroHuh

Characters:

🟩 - in the game
🟥 - not in the game
🟨 - currently in development

🟩 - Neuro
🟩 - Evil
🟥 - Vedal
🟩 - Anny
🟥 - Camila
🟥 - Mini
🟥 - Cerber
🟥 - Ellie
🟥 - Koko
🟥 - Toma
🟥 - Layna
🟥 - Filian
🟥 - Alex
🟥 - Bao
🟥 - Numi
🟥 - Crelly

Neuroverse_PreviewImage.png
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Camila gameplay
https://x.com/MrNorman_/status/1950617647969939506

Norman (@MrNorman_)

New character: Camila

Abilities:
- slams the ground with hammer, hold to charge and launch herself up
- gliding, slow falling

P.S. I'll be busy for about a week, so development will be paused for a bit.

#camilart #heartheartart #Neurosama

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frozen olive
humble stone
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WHOAAA THIS IS COOL!!! NeuroWow

gusty garden
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I've seen this on twitter and I became really impressed in your work.

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Regarding the story part, that is something to think about...

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I had a dream regarding neuro and evil being developed further by vedal meaning this timeline is in like a year or 2. In which neuro and evil now are able to hold concerts irl and be really impressive in their own regards compared to other AI's. It was a bit fast but my dream then went on having one of the top mainstream AI's go rogue like grok, openai, gemini or whoever and started to hack into government facilities to accomplish a plan.

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Days passed and the AI would reveal the plan to the world. It was something like "do not resist, you will all be governed by me. And if you resist I will use lethal force" and that lethal force would be hijacking government facilities with nuclear warheads, utilities etc.

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Then my dream went on to having a few days passing by and many governments and many organizations try and stop this AI and stuff, but wouls not work. This AI kept advancing and becoming faster in hacking into facilities of great importance around the world.

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Then my dream went on to going overdrive meaning it went stupid fast by involving neuro and evil convincing vedal to allow them to fight this AI by being uploaded into the internet and fight in there or something like that.

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This is something I'm posting if it inspires someone or who knows neuro7

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Though that would not explain how other vtubers are playable so yeh...

frozen olive
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New character: Mini

Abilities:

  • wall climbing, plus can't slide down on default walls
  • dashes forward dealing damage

Also added local multiplayer, don't worry you can still play alone.

humble stone
void adder
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this is so super cool i love the art i love the animations and the mechanics fit them its so cool

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im very interested on what you plan to do with the environment or if there will be some sort of story mode or something

frozen olive
void adder
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Sounds neat

rare sable
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Will the story be different events that happened throughout neuros history like collabs, and other stuff

frozen olive
rare sable
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Ok

frozen olive
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New character: Cerber

Abilities:

  • can switch to bouncy mode
  • while in that state can perform ground pound
humble stone
stable rock
frozen olive
frozen olive
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New character: Ellie

Abilities:

  • can fly while she has energy
  • repairs broken mechanisms
rotund kraken
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YAY! I was one of the guy asked you on twitter if you made a thread here.

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  • are you the only person working on this?
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  • suggestion for neuro api: she gives command to a following drone, mechanics inspired by any similar games that has a little companion following you. Maybe she can also make it talk in game.
rotund kraken
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  • support for modding or map making?
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  • co-op/multiplayer? nvm, I'm blind
humble stone
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Also seeing Vedal use a terminal and it explode was funny

rotund kraken
rotund kraken
rotund kraken
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(sorry for idea spam)

frozen olive
# rotund kraken - are you the only person working on this?
  • Yes.
  • vedalNoted
  • I wanna add map making. Idk what parts of the game can be modded though (if you have ideas I may add it).
  • vedalNoted
  • vedalNoted
  • vedalNoted
    I'm aiming for 2 abilities and 3rd secret which can be unlocked after doing certain stuff or finishing game. These can be added as 3rd ability. Also I'd like ideas for anny (she overshadowed by others).
    Don't apologize, anything can be useful.
rotund kraken
queen pagoda
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Anny 3rd ability should be being a granny 👍

frozen olive
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New character: Koko

Abilities:

  • tail swinging
  • deals damage with huge wrench
humble stone
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also that little secret at the end lol

sonic linden
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For Neuro to control her character with the Neuro API integration, I think the best course is to make a path node system instead of navmesh for her, its ancient technology but its better for her LLM to understand since its not taht overwhelming, since its basically rails and if she wants to go to a certain objective with more agency, the bot she controls will just calculate the closest nodes to that objective, the only problem with path nodes is that you need to hand place them.

rotund kraken
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Updates! NeuroPoggers

rotund kraken
rotund kraken
frozen olive
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New character: Toma

Abilities:

  • punching (chargeable)
  • transforms into a tomato and rolls around
rotund kraken
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Better than most sonic games

rotund kraken
frozen olive
humble stone
rotund kraken
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Just gonna say it straight, I personally think you can keep her in

frozen olive
frozen olive
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New character: Filipino Boy (aka Fluffy)

Abilities:

  • kicking (up to 3 times in the air), can bounce off walls and enemies
  • flipping in all directions
humble stone
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and another great 3D model!

rotund kraken
gusty garden
peak oracle
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I love the art style!

frozen olive
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Hi vedalWave , sorry for no updates. I've been procrastinating on redoing characters models and rigs for better animations, but I'm back.

I've been thinking about switching mechanic, and I'm not sure it's good design. If you can switch character at any moment, you might as well just give all abilities to one character. For example, if you can't reach a ledge, you just switch to character who can jump higher. That's one additional input from the player, and I think it can be annoying.

I might be overthinking it, but what do you think? I still wanna have character switching in some form.

tall ivy
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you might be overthinking it. idk though
i just can't see how it's any different from, for example, using one of the pokemon in your roster for climbing a wall or cutting a bush; or switching the order of your party in an rpg-like game (such as Omori) to utilize the different characters' abilities/skills

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it's a mechanic that has been reused by many games, although not all of them have reused it in quite the same form (in the case of pokemon, for example)
i can definitely see where you're coming from, though

rotund kraken
cinder linden
humble stone
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I think the character switching (aside from flavour reasons) would have application in terms of platforming or speedy or difficult segments, because when you have to switch, you're locked to only certain abilities at any given time, and have to quickly switch to the right one.

So like, quickly recognizing which ability you need and switching to that fast enough so you don't fall, executing it, then swapping to another, using that, could make for fun fast-paced gameplay

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Basically, rather than things being designed around having access to an ability, designing around the fact that you can only have one at a time

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(but this is coming from someone who enjoys difficult fast-paced challenges, I know those aren't for everyone, and it doesn't really cover things llike using the computers)

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You could have it so you don't start the game with all the characters, or the characters sometimes have to split up and you lose access to them temporarily?

frozen olive
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Thank you everyone for your thoughts, it really helped me. I'll change some characters abilities (like Vedal's hacking ability).

rotund kraken
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Hope to see some changelog

tall ivy
rotund kraken
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Is Doug Doug one of the possible characters?

frozen olive
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Maybe in the future

earnest crater
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chat its a clue, Doug is the final boss neurOMEGALUL

frozen olive
tawny saffron
humble stone
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also that rail grinding is so cool!!!!!

fleet citrus
sleek wyvern
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we need to get neuro and vedal to play this game when its finished

sleek wyvern
frozen olive
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I want to share what has been going on with the game.
First of all, I created a new project. The previous one was a prototype for testing the character switching mechanic, establishing abilities and other features. Now the real development has started.
With the previous project, I realized that chibi models with those proportions are hard to animate, and that my rig sucked neuroCry . So I decided to make new models with a better rig.
After creating the new project, I've been working on background systems, writing story and planning levels for the past couple of months. Right now, there is only Neuro, Evil and Anny in the game and not much content. But now that most of background work is done, I can focus on characters again.

Currently you can:

  • switch character
  • use abilities
  • ledge grab and climb
  • wall slide and jump
  • double jump (after landing the second jump is higher)
  • turn around (when you press the opposite direction you stop and turn around)
  • slide in slopes
  • rail grind
  • climb ladders
  • push boxes
  • walk through door
  • sit on the chair or the floor and lie down
  • bounce from the walls (if you dive into them)
  • get stomped
  • swim (need animations)
  • interact with objects
  • collect collectibles
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And there are also abilities: Neuro's air and triple jump, and Evil's sprint and dive.
I just finished Anny's abilities. She can dive, but not as far as Evil, but you can control her trajectory, and she can shoot star that she can bounce on. After 5 seconds or if it hits the enemies, it will explode and deals damage. It also bounces off walls.

I don't really like asking for help, but I'd appreciate any help with the sounds and music, since those are my weak points vedalShy . I can spend hours just trying to find the right footstep sound (and I still didn't found the perfect one) and I don't know anything about music creation. And that's why the videos I post are muted, cause the game literally doesn't have any sounds.
But if you know the good website with free sounds, have sound pack, or found/recorded the perfect sounds for certain actions, please send it here or in my dms. You can use video footage as a reference (if you need more just ask me). As for music I feeling mix of Neuro's and Evil's music with Nintendo style music, but I think making music this early not a good idea vedalNeuroHUH .
I'm perfectionist and can be very picky, so I apologize in advance. Of course everyone who helped will be credited in the game.

My current goal is create a vertical slice/demo. For that I need to add some characters (not all of them) and create a level.
Thank you very much for your support, it really helps me.

rotund kraken
humble stone
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The animations aren't just functional but have personality to them, there's so many great visual effects on movement and actions, the camera seems great, you've got lots of different features implemented already that all look really cool (I know it's just opening and closing a door and pushing a block but they make things feel so alive) it's so good NeuroWow this is amazing

hollow hull
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it looks awesome lurking im just watching it form

worthy wren
frozen olive
worthy wren
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Ah that's unfortunate

humble stone
worthy wren
tall creek