My Summer Project

[AmEv]

I love the guy. (not.... <_< >_> Not that kind of way.....)

Hey, did you know that the Predestined Fate is the first thing that plays when MT2 is installed? Not the complete song, that is; it originally was created to make sure your system was prepared for music making.

[AmEv]

I'd say your game looks very 16-bit era.

Still semi-pixelated, 2d, platformer.

[NightrainSrt4]

I was thinking of trying 4x4 pixels for the art. I really liked 2x2 but then some things looked exactly like Terraria simply because of the pixel count. 4x4 looks a lot more pixel-y. Almost like a 2d 3D Dot Game Heroes.

I'd only have to change the textures to make the change, and it wouldn't have to be permanent. Maybe I'll just try it. Can't hurt I suppose. I liked what I was seeing when I was just scribbling around, but it could look very different in game.

[NightrainSrt4]

Spent most of the day working on the walking animation. Better than before but still needs some work. The head needs to shift a pixel or two in the direction of the walk. Still need to make the animations for jumping, falling, climbing, etc. The speed the animation plays at might need to be changed a bit, but it looks far better than what was there before.

[NightrainSrt4]

Was bored and my back hurts so I was just playing around in Sketchbook Pro. Single size brush, no zooming or anything. Just sketching. I'm no artist so I figured the practice would be good. Proportions are way off the pixel art, but I didn't care too much. I'll go back and zoom in and clean up the lines and whatnot another time. Just wanted to distract myself a little bit.

[AmEv]

Put that on a poster!

It may be worth a ton later on!

[AmEv]

Let's dev this a little more, then talk to him.

And let's not pester him.

Give him some time to think about it.

[NightrainSrt4]

Yes. I haven't spoken to him yet, figured I'd wait until I had more of an idea for the ambiance of each section, get bosses drawn up at least in concept, etc.

I've been sketching out some concept art for monsters and such in my free time. That way I have a concept to draw from when I start making the pixel art.

I also wrote out the design flow for chopping down trees as a unit instead of block by block. Now, when I get a chance, it will be easy to implement in code.

[NightrainSrt4]

Apparently I should really reconsider trying a post on kickstarter. There are "games" on there that are random people just explaining their concept of a game and already hitting 10k$+ donations.

I graduate at the end of this semester. The plan was to get a job and keep working on this on the side. Based on some other opinions, I might want to think about putting a post up when this is early alpha to cover me for 6 months - 1 year development time and work on this full time. If it were to be successful, who knows what job opportunities open up after that.

I suppose it couldn't hurt to try. If I didn't make the goal then just continue chugging along as I am. Shrug, I don't know. Something to ponder anyway.

[AmEv]

Hey, maybe when you do the KickStarter thing, you could put up "This is the required goal; we reach a certain higher bar, that money goes to SoulEye"