Edac-sac!

Edac-sac is an unfinished third-person hand-drawn (?) hack-and-slash prototype loosely based off of The Legend of Zelda.

Through it's extensive (and non-productive) year in development, it underwent its own meta-narrative as each build evolved.

You only get to see the final iteration of this self-referential chain. The rest will only be fragmented through the development logs.

This project might be remade. Many mechanics were thought, brought, broken and fixed. Now that I have a better idea on what this kind of game as a whole would need, I think a complete rework would help push it to greater heights.

As for now, the (slightly buggy) project serves as a timepiece and a show of what we were able to get done in the time. That being:
-A proof of concept for a game genre.
-A good experience for UI, interacting systems, level geometry, and feel.
-A display of art (where the polished ones are done primarily by Steg1118).
-(An attempt at having) a good display of cooperative work between multiple people.

I, McMarkusMcMiller or nitsujturtle, have to personally thank Steg1118 for the inspiration, creative direction, and contributed art for the project. For now, though, this tale of Edac-sac will end...

Working Credits:

[nitsujturtle / mcmarkusmcmiller]
All the coding for movement, enemy behaviors, dialogue.
Placeholder art for any black-and-white bugs, the "bite," and the portal.
Official art for the flies and Mienster's death.
"Modeling" for various 3D non-important assets.
Map design.
Placeholder written dialogue.
Personally made the recreation of the Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap track heard in the first zone. (This was a test to see what style of music Steg1118 would approve of.)
Made that one GIF.
Managing the page.

[Steg1118]
Official art for the player, sword, page art.
The father of Fried Mienster.
Non-official pixel sprites for ground textures, placeholder npcs, and the cave.
Primary reference for placeholder music choices.
Primary creative lead.
Personal art and animations randomly slapped around the page as inside jokes.

[Other]

Friend of a friend: Inspired a bush.
Cousin of that friend of a friend: Maker of a music track that I took without permission for a zone in the game you can't access anymore.
Various friends and family: Gave random feedback and playtested.

Narakeet.com: Used for the synthetic voice of Fried Mienster.
Pixabay.com: (Un)Used for sound effects.
BFXR: Various placeholder sounds.

Legend of Zelda The Minish Cap: Used for the direct copy of the melody of Minish Woods.
Sonic Rush: Outright used track, Ethno Circus, as a placeholder.
Various Sonic the Hedgehog characters are used as placeholder characters.
A royalty free image of "living sign guy clip art" is shown in-game. I forgot where I got it from, beyond a Google search.
An image of Megamind is used on the page.
Some AI upscaling site was used as a joke for the page, but I don't remember which one it was.

Made with Unity.
.Gif made with OBS.

(also check the devlogs down there for actual info)