Mikado
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It seems odd that the "blood" particles bounce. I think that's why they're looking like sparks.
Ok. Stepping through frame-by-frame they're not bounces, they're secondary splats from the gibs hitting the ground.
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It seems odd that the "blood" particles bounce. I think that's why they're looking like sparks.
Ok. Stepping through frame-by-frame they're not bounces, they're secondary splats from the gibs hitting the ground.
I'm not loving it. It looks overly bombastic, like a firework. It probably doesn't help that the effects which stay on the screen the longest (the oval sparks and the new blood) have basically the same pattern. I would probably tone down the blood drops and let the smoke/mist linger a bit longer.
As is, it reminds me the newer Killer Instinct
edit: damn, didn't mean to add onto the train of replies. There was only one when I started typing this out.
thanks guys. I didn't actually notice them bouncing -- they're basically copy paste of my sparks with red blobs instead of yellow sparks as graphics. XD
I've tried different motion patterns and it's hard to make them look a lot like blood as is. I think different graphics all together are needed.
I've tried different motion patterns and it's hard to make them look a lot like blood as is. I think different graphics all together are needed.
imo the bombastic explosion looks a bit off. It works with the second guy because the death is instant, but I personally don't like how the first one just normally takes damage without reacting too much and then spontaneously bursts into pieces when the health hits zero.
Maybe keep it for instant deaths and tone it down otherwise? Just an idea.
OldmanAndroid
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I'm getting massive framerate drops when I use fraps, any tips? Normally I can run in highest settings at 60fps. With fraps, I get around 20 - 30 fps, running on lowest settings.
Really need a new computer.
Really need a new computer.
I think Open Broadcast Software was a bit faster for me, but I guess recording will always use processing power.
Dead Prince
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i was going to make the Lost Magic magic system in Construct2 until it involves doodling and not just hitting one of the 8 elements lol.
i'm sure it's doable if i add more lines so it can go over and figure out how much it hits it. we'll see.
i'm sure it's doable if i add more lines so it can go over and figure out how much it hits it. we'll see.
OldmanAndroid
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oh awesome, thanks, will check that out.
a new attempt at the blood stuff. changed it up a bit and darkened the color.
http://gfycat.com/RemorsefulInconsequentialBlackfly
http://gfycat.com/TepidMildBunting
http://gfycat.com/RemorsefulInconsequentialBlackfly
http://gfycat.com/TepidMildBunting
Lord_Balkan
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Already looks a lot better I think! One more thing though, is it possible to maybe increase the gravity on them or something? The fact that it has similar movement to the sparks seems off, and maybe trying to make the blood 'heavier' by increasing their gravity or making them lose more energy when coming on contact with other geometry.
I'm with him, the blood should feel like it's heavier. It looks a little bit like confetti.
Which sprite or shape are you using for the blood particle? I can't tell it propperly but it looks like the same you use for the sparks. I think a more "splashy" sprite would look better.
(Also I'm sorry if splashy isn't a word)
Congrats to Davision and mantrakid for your games being on Steam. It's great to see games from here show up on "Popular New Releases"
It's a little late, but I want to say it anyways since I just came across Davision's game today, and mantrakid's a few days ago.
spazchicken
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Couple things I worked on today *WIP and still have to get rid of texture seams. Starting to look ok though?
Letterbomb
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What tools/engines would be best to use if I wanted to go about making a 2D fighter? I currently know JavaScript and C#, so I was thinking Unity would be a good bet, but I've been told that Unity is really only used for 3D games, even though they have some options for 2D. Was also told XNA... I don't know. Need your advice GAF!
Damn... This is beautiful.
That looks great, I love the depth effect you have with the layers and effect of large scale battle it creates.Couple things I worked on today *WIP and still have to get rid of texture seams. Starting to look ok though?
Couple things I worked on today *WIP and still have to get rid of texture seams. Starting to look ok though?
Oh boy, that's looking amazing. The layers on the 2nd gif are a nice touch too!
Jacksinthe
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I have no qualms with Unity's 2D toolset if you are going 100% sprite based. If you plan on using some sort of skeletal animation, you can do this with Unity, to an extent, but there are tools like Spine which help for rigging and animating sprites. I'm going out on a limb and guessing you are sticking with static frames vs keyframes for a fighter so you won't have to worry about skeletal animation of sprites. Its incredibly easy to import sprite sheets and create animations. Mecanim can be a headache at times but is very usable once you adjust to the learning curve.
MrNyarlathotep
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XNA is basically officially discontinued, and is lurching along in a community reverse-engineered monodevelop zombie state, so it would be hard to recommend it to someone who isn't already pretty heavily invested in using it.
HassanJamal
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I've just started to make one of my games. A very long way off from completion.
Game is basically a 2D fighter/possible platformer but with the idea of precision attack points.
Wanna ask this part of gaf, which of the models is much more preferred and if so, why?
The colors and design is not final, just wanna see which is much 'nicer' looking. Also, some pixel art tips would be grand.
Game is basically a 2D fighter/possible platformer but with the idea of precision attack points.
Wanna ask this part of gaf, which of the models is much more preferred and if so, why?
The colors and design is not final, just wanna see which is much 'nicer' looking. Also, some pixel art tips would be grand.
Pasta_Soup
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I like the simplified style of the top one - but the shapes/proportions seem off. One foot is much larger, the pose is a bit awkward, and the face shape is a bit weird. It's also a little strange that the hair has no black outline, but you use the black outline for pretty much every other line in the character. The second one seems more consistent within itself.
All in all though, a solid first go at it. For pixel art tips - I'd recommend doing a TON of research on pixel art and sprites that really inspire you. Download sprite sheets and animation gifs, study them, try copying them a bit for practice, and apply the techniques you learn from them to your own work. I keep an inspiration/research folder on my computer at all times, that I'm constantly updating and studying. From there, it's just lots of practice! There's also plenty of tutorials online to help you get a solid base.
Oh, and practicing regular drawing is also invaluable. Pixel art is its own medium, of course, but learning how to draw people, animals, objects, etc regularly without pixel art will really help you with your pixel work. Don't have to be amazing at it, but understand form, line, and value will help greatly contribute to the quality of your pixel renders.
Dead Prince
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Demo submitted to Nintendo! Hopefully no issues found. Once released, will help give me some extra views, since so few demos on eShop.
congrats and good luck!
Letterbomb
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Well great! How about 2D physics? Will Unity work out well for a simple fighter? I reviewed their 2D system quickly and it seems they have some pretty useful tools. I just wonder if using Unity is overboard for what I'm planning to design? And if it IS overboard, if that's even a negative thing? (Like will game size be much larger than needed after the fact, etc.).
Thanks. I'll steer clear.
HassanJamal
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Yeah, the first one does look odd and quite rough but currently, seems to be the more popular one compared to the second one. To be honest, drawing aint my thing cause I suck at it. My concept artist is much more better at it than me. Digital art is more my streamline.
Oh and thanks for the input and advice. Been doing the updating my folder part and its quickly getting full of pics and tuts now. I'm currently looking at the Megaman Z games on GBA for pixel art reference. If it aint too much, could you post some pixel art tutorials? Hopefully there are some I've missed that could be very useful.
SeanNoonan
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Pasta_Soup
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I don't know any specific tutorials off the top of my head. I'd just try googling for them, I'm sure you'll find plenty of good ones.
I love the colors in this - and that parallax looks great!
Wyndstryker
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Simple title screens are always nice.
spazchicken
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Thanks everyone for the compliments ^ ^
nice, I like!worked on the title screen this morning:
Like the simplicity, but I've personally always preferred the "cursor/pointer/whatever" to be implemented within the options rather than that classic on left of the options like X shooting the text in Megaman X. I don't really know why though, maybe I don't like asymmetrical layout of it or something.worked on the title screen this morning:
It's been a rather exhausting day since in 8hrs of work I've not achieved anything substantial with the trailer and I couldn't get the software to work on my home computer and when you add weeks of work, work, work I can certainly sense that my productivity is lowering so I'm gonna try to get some more rest.
I'd be interested to hear how you guys manage the feel of overloading yourself?
I personally feel like reading and listening to music, reminiscing about old gaming experiences and exercise usually charges me up and motivates me to do my best again.
BlastProcessing
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Couple things I worked on today *WIP and still have to get rid of texture seams. Starting to look ok though?
I just want to say that I love of much depth and scale your stuff always has.
Still prototyping. Working on a fast door animation.
Smoother WebM here.
SeanNoonan
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Thanks!
Awesome - you may have got to the second or third verse of the song ;D
spazchicken
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@blastprocessing thank you! And your game looks interesting!
We talked about that last week on our podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-2Z1yTD9NM or http://indieteamup.podbean.com/e/6-i-just-want-to-jump-off-my-hoverbike-and-stare-at-the-bushes/ if you're bored!
I have to make a list of what needs to be done, or else I get overwhelmed and and everything is just foggy .
We talked about that last week on our podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-2Z1yTD9NM or http://indieteamup.podbean.com/e/6-i-just-want-to-jump-off-my-hoverbike-and-stare-at-the-bushes/ if you're bored!
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Jacksinthe
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Well, Unity's physics feel like physics. If that makes sense. If you want your character to be driven by physics, use physics. If you want a more 2D "feel" to controls that are sharp and crisp it is best to roll your own physics and controller. At least in my experience. Nothing wrong with physics but if you do go that route, by gosh edit the physics settings globally and not just in a Rigidbody2D component
I managed a pretty decent platforming controller using Unity's physics and our own controller but we chose a more flexible route for STRAFE and rolled our own physics and controller due to it being a combat platformer. Needed that extra precision and predictability.
OldmanAndroid
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That sucks, so easy to burn yourself out.
I personally just have to force myself to take a day or two off every once in a while. No turning on my computer. Usually those are the days where I get the biggest creative breakthroughs. I'll go for a bike ride/snowboard (depending on season), or noodle on my guitar, or just play a ps4 game.
I also sort of have milestones. I might add in more content, but then can't relax until all the new bugs are completely gone...can't even watch a tv show without obsessing over a bug. This might last a week or more. Once the milestone is hit, greatest feeling ever.
SeanNoonan
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I know how you feel. Not sure how many other people there are doing this, but I'm working on AAA stuff during 9-5 and my iOS indie efforts in the evenings and weekends. It's hard staying motivated to sit in front of a computer and do "more of the same" when I get home - having a night off every so often to do something else (or play games) really helps.
Now that I've finished Far Cry 4 and Jack B. Nimble I'm taking a month off to go back home and relax - gonna still get the Halloween patch released, but I've got the bulk of that done. Getting away from it all is needed sometimes
...it was also really taking a toll on my health too. This break is gonna be good!
Stay healthy
BlazeHedgehog
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Not sure if this is 100% the right thread given this is mostly about currently-in-development indie games, but...
For Halloween I'm uploading videos of me playing through some really old games I made when I was a teenager. First one went up today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLraJsC84lE
The rest will post every three days, up to October 16th.
For Halloween I'm uploading videos of me playing through some really old games I made when I was a teenager. First one went up today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLraJsC84lE
The rest will post every three days, up to October 16th.
I actually just turned down 3 freelance design projects because I've been overwhelmed for about 3 months now. Working 9 to 5 and then coming home to 5 more hours of work was incredibly exhausting. A shame because I love the work, but I've been putting off creating a new shwip trailer for too long now, gotta get back into the swing of things.
Was this Unity - Windows offer posted?
http://unity3d.com/pages/windows/offer
http://unity3d.com/pages/windows/offer
I know how you're feeling; there have a been a few great opportunities right there for the taking but I know that I'm already having more work than I can do properly so I have no choice but to turn them down. It does suck because they all felt interesting and something I wanted to learn. They even immediately excited me despite already being quite exhausted with the work I have going.
Luckily though, today we actually got some work done on the trailer. It won't be the best ever because we simply lack the experience to pull it off perfectly in what little time we have. But still, it feels like we have something that could be decent.
I'm actually putting the user experience type things into the game (namely the ones that relate to how power ups work) and am sorta struggling with how much to explain how it works and how much not to. it's defnitely a tricky thing to approach, because I want there to be an element of mystery, but I also don't want it to be so unexplained that it feels somehow annoying or unfair.
my overall goal is to feel like some of it is just try things and pay attention and learn, and it can be hard to thread that needle especially when game systems start to have acouple layers of depth.
my overall goal is to feel like some of it is just try things and pay attention and learn, and it can be hard to thread that needle especially when game systems start to have acouple layers of depth.
Looks great, love the colors!
I've decided to concentrate all my online output of Chopper Mike 2 into a tigsource devlog, which can be found here: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=43796.0
I'll still be checking back here from time to time as there's tons of interesting stuff going on!
Also, I'm pretty active on Twitter, so follow me there if you like: @jamielowesdev
Take care!!
I'll still be checking back here from time to time as there's tons of interesting stuff going on!
Also, I'm pretty active on Twitter, so follow me there if you like: @jamielowesdev
Take care!!
Cross posting from the screenshot saturday thread, just because!
I don't know if this is the place for art critiques but your game sooo close to animating really nicely.
I made a few changes to your idle animation. A single "wrong" frame/inbetween can break the illusion of form and shape, like the bottom of the thighs sort flopping around because it changes it's shape from convex to concave from one frame to the next. Try to avoid that (if you're using Photoshop that's a lot more difficult).
It's really tough to stay on-model when it's fighting game because are so many frames of animation but I feel like it's important. Fighting games are all about characters so they need to be as believable possible. Having a model sheet for each character can be very helpful. Another approach is to constantly compare new animations with frames you're particularly satisfied with (for example the idle animation). Lastly, be careful about still properly conveying mass when there's a lot of foreshortening.
I do hope this helps at least little bit.
edit: Goddamnit, top of the page.
TheGreatDirector
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New screenshot, this time of a jungle,
This location is gonna be a major part of character's background. Almost Vietnam-esque in a way.
This location is gonna be a major part of character's background. Almost Vietnam-esque in a way.
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