Design
Why I locked the entire design before producing a single screen
253 monsters, 22 dungeons, 110 weapons and 51 script events exist on paper before the game does. Here is the reasoning, and what it cost me.
In development · Godot 4
A 2D action RPG about the price of ascending
Ascension is a top-down 2D action RPG: three world layers, five heroes, 22 dungeons and a chained god. Follow development from the inside.
The bond that holds you is the same one that chains you
The design, in numbers
Measured against the project data codex, not estimated.
- 253
- monsters in the bestiary
- 70
- character sheets
- 22
- designed dungeons
- 110
- balanced weapons
- 51
- map points of interest
- 3
- world layers
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Art
How Leo came to look like Leo
Three months, five designs and two rejected turnaround sheets. The full story of Ascension's protagonist, including the versions that did not survive.
Narrative
The chronicler's book: when a screen transition rewrites the game
I decided that changing screens should mean turning a page. That single decision ended up defining pausing, saving, chapters and the voice narrating the whole game.
Enter Aethelgard
Explore the world →Where we are
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2026 · Q3-Q4
Character laboratory
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2026 · Q4
Playable vertical slice
Underway
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2027 · Q1
Content production
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