Looks awesome as usual btw, I especially like the first screen.
So your new job isn't about games, programming, and stuff? Anyhow, hope to see
Aren't those games the best selling one on App Store? :+Went back to an old gamejam game to see what I could do to polish it up. It's got too many colours and is quite high resolution so it doesn't gif well D;
I´m not sure, it may just be that we aren´t accounting for the sprite offsets in the drawing code so we aren´t drawing it correctly. To be sure, try replacing the previous code with this:
This will draw the collision boundaries of your current mask, it will work regardless of sprite offsets.Code:draw_set_alpha(1); draw_sprite_ext(sprPlayer...);//This line is the same as before draw_set_alpha(0.6); draw_set_color(c_red); draw_rectangle(bbox_left, bbox_top, bbox_right, bbox_bottom, false);//but now we draw the collision boundaries
Edit:
For reference, this are my collision masks when the player is standing and crouching:
(I have pending to make a taller crouching sprite so it can fill the whole crouching mask). Note that this mask is used for collisions against the environment, for collisions against enemies I´ll use an even smaller mask so the sprite overflows it in all directions.
Ah. Doubt I'll put it on mobile, just a little throw away thing I'm doing for PC.
Put it on "The List"! xDThat gameplay makes me want to remake joust
Mom's spaghetti lol
Nice work
Looks awesome as usual btw, I especially like the first screen.
Went back to an old gamejam game to see what I could do to polish it up. It's got too many colours and is quite high resolution so it doesn't gif well D;
Aye, Construct 2, hence why it won't be going to mobile. I exported it to iOS and it ran at about 5 FPS. Construct 2 physics on iOS aren't so hot.
I think it needs a bit more presence, and since I have only added the characters. And an actual title... the green box is for a subtitle when I can think of one. (No worries, it uses an automatically tiled UI element.)
I´m not sure, it may just be that we aren´t accounting for the sprite offsets in the drawing code so we aren´t drawing it correctly. To be sure, try replacing the previous code with this:
This will draw the collision boundaries of your current mask, it will work regardless of sprite offsets.Code:draw_set_alpha(1); draw_sprite_ext(sprPlayer...);//This line is the same as before draw_set_alpha(0.6); draw_set_color(c_red); draw_rectangle(bbox_left, bbox_top, bbox_right, bbox_bottom, false);//but now we draw the collision boundaries
Edit:
For reference, this are my collision masks when the player is standing and crouching:
(I have pending to make a taller crouching sprite so it can fill the whole crouching mask). Note that this mask is used for collisions against the environment, for collisions against enemies I´ll use an even smaller mask so the sprite overflows it in all directions.
Thanks! Glad you like it ^^!Mmm hmm...
Come to think about it, the more I see your game, the more I think the main character is too adorable to resist.
*winces as he tries to pixel art a few main characters for use in the title screen for his game*
Sometimes it does feel easier to operate on greyscale and then colour things in later. Anyone else?
I think the 2 characters in the left, specially the girl, have their heads displaced to the left compared with their respective bodies, it looks a bit weird. The eyes also look a bit strange, though maybe coloring will fix it. Anyway I´d try to make them a bit different in each character to distinguish them better and try not to mix dithering and sharp shadows, either use one or the other because the mix looks a bit off. But I´m no expert, so if anything I said sound like bs, it probably isNow that I've got my own Imgur account and worked a bit more on stuff... just felt like sharing a bunch of things here now, if only to say that I'm doing some work... at least graphics and UI-wise.
Some of the characters, used in the title screen:
I think it looks sorta OK, if a bit lumpy... any tips on smoothing out pixel art?
The title screen itself, still a WIP
Very empty
Stage Presence which I showed some WIP work on the last page is a VR game. Rift and Vive
I've got a few other VR titles I've been kicking about but they'll need to wait until Stage Presence is shipped. VR dev really is super, super fun - so many unknowns, it's awesome figuring everything out
Thanks! Glad you like it ^^!
I use the greyscale approach when doing animations, but when doing "normal" sprites I just use the definitive colors from the start. I start by "painting" the outline in free hand, then cleaning it up to make it 1px wide in all points, then paint the base colors and last add lighting and shadows. It´s easier for me this way and you can correct many mistakes that would be harder to get right with the image finished. Check this pixel art tutorial if you already haven´t, I learnt this approach from it, it´s pure gold:
http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/42648699708/pixel-art-tutorial
For reference, these are my walking frames after clearing the border and before adding color and lighting:
The final frames:
And the animation:
I think the 2 characters in the left, specially the girl, have their heads displaced to the left compared with their respective bodies, it looks a bit weird. The eyes also look a bit strange, though maybe coloring will fix it. Anyway I´d try to make them a bit different in each character to distinguish them better and try not to mix dithering and sharp shadows, either use one or the other because the mix looks a bit off. But I´m no expert, so if anything I said sound like bs, it probably is
I really like the visuals of this. The sort of "snowy" effect adds a lot to the look.Went back to an old gamejam game to see what I could do to polish it up. It's got too many colours and is quite high resolution so it doesn't gif well D;
Here are some early impressions:
Here are some early impressions:
- Game looks great, GIFs, don´t do it justice.
- Gameplay is solid, it reminds me of Super Hexagon.
- I miss a sensibility option for the controls, maybe I just need time to get used to them but it would be nice to be able to tweak them. Also, an option to invert the Y-Axis would be great, my brain always made me tilt the phone in the opposite direction when I wanted to move vertically.
- The "physical" back button doesn´t do anything and I couldn´t find any option to exit the game. It would be nice to allow for it to take you back to the main menu and then exit the game. I had to press the phone´s home button to minimize the app and then kill it with the task administrator.
- Once, my "dot" got stuck between the 2 outside circles and wouldn´t move at all; going back to the main menu and pressing the recenter button fixed it, but for a moment I thought the app had frozen.
- I would also love to be able to play this with buttons instead of the gyro, maybe with a virtual circle pad placed in the bottom-right or bottom-left.
- Ads are super intrusive, I´m guessing most people will turn them off after a couple of games.
I like the game concept, visually it looks great and all presentation elements are really polished, but I think the controls work against the game a lot of times. I´ll be playing it more.
Current record: 30 seconds in easy
Where is the light coming from? For the character in the left it seems to be coming completely from his left or front-left, but for the other 2 it seems to be coming from above. for the upper body and from the front for the legs. You should also paint shadows on the faces, them being in a single plain color stands out.Did a bit of a quickie, and coloured in the skin of everyone and mostly finished Character 1 (from the left side).
Hmm... the legs seem to should have been in a different colour. I probably should make push the shading on the chest lower by a lot, too...
And the more I look at Character 3, the more I realize that his outfit is at odds with everyone else. Heh. Perhaps some tweaks are in order...
Thanks! I tried exporting to iOS last night... it ran like total shit, like sub 20fps
Construct 2 doesn't like physics or alpha...
I'm just kidding godddddddd
Why is that? Did you expect to fail because almost everyone does, or because you got tired of looking for issues yourself?
