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[Matt Thorson]

Dang, wish I'd noticed this earlier.

If anyone gets cold feet, I'll take your game!

[FrankieSmileShow]

Made a pretty big tileset, its done for now! Putting together a couple levels now.

Its a bit dark but in the games context it looks fine

I took lots of inspiration from a bunch of NES games, especially Castlevania 3.

[Arne]

Progress on the set of smaller Megalonia native ships. The idea with the second frame is that they become floating wrecks briefly if the damage situation is right. It's easy to paint these kind of damage frames because I can just paint some random junk over the intact ship line art.

There'll be generic gib pieces that explode outward with speed depending on size. The larger ships on the previous image have some special gib pieces. Hopefully the gibs don't get in the way of reading the action/bullet situation. Enemy bullets should probably be rotating, flashing and color coded to attract the most attention.

For some ships I want to to some animations, be it moving parts or Vic-Viper rolling. Rolling is a pain though since details have to be consistent in perspective.

I varied their size a bit.. to create... variation. The right ones could come in swarms, maybe rolling/spinning because it's a small image and less work to animate.




Edit: Some test animations.

[sergiocornaga]

If anyone gets cold feet, I'll take your game!

Any interest in collaboration? I'm really busy until quite close to the deadline, and I wouldn't mind switching to a graphics-only role or something.

[Triplefox]

I'm gradually teasing out environment collision by building up a tremendous debugging suite, fixing the problems that surface as obvious, and then going back to add more debug info. Progress is good - and not stressful, which is so rare when I work on collision. I might actually have it working by tomorrow! After that I'll still have a collision editing tool to do(I opted to untie it from the art tiles), entity spawn placement, entity-entity collision, and then animation...and then I think I'll start to have a game!

[PaleFox]

Scene from lvl 2 (subject to change w/o notice)

More progress; only got one enemy to make now and the boss, of course. Most of the tiles are done although some could use a remake. Working on finishing up the levels and so on!

[Melly]

Spent the better part of the day today trying to make the snake enemy works as I envisioned, with unsatisfactory results. I may have to redesign it, though that's for later. Right now I wanna do something that doesn't take ages to get right.

[Triplefox]

A first playable build. Stayed up working the last seven hours or so to get the environment collision going.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/254701/blog/action52/5_10_7am.swf

All you can do is jump around(X key) and try to break the collision by going into the solid area. I think it's (mostly) stable now.

Code for this system is here for your reviewing pleasure:
http://bitbucket.org/triplefox/fireball/src/tip/fireball/collision/BeatDown.hx

[The Monster King]

triplefox i don't know if it's my machine but that doesn't link to something i'd qualify as playable, it looks like some collision debug thing where a courageous rectangle can flyyyy

[Nate Kling]

here's the Mashman sprite from me and HandCraftedRadio's entry.

[SeanEBlog]

Just being curios, but is anyone considering doing any of the Genesis A52 games? I would love to see a remake of Sketch.

[deathtotheweird]

There is nothing stopping anyone who would want to remake any of the Genesis games if they wanted to, but for this it is strictly the NES version.

[Melly]

I've decided that instead of using a game in 320x240 resolution upscaled 2x, I'm doing a fully 640x480 game with 2x upscalled sprites.

Cactus, eat your heart out.

It's really just because rotated sprites look like piles of ass in such low res.

[Arne]

Melly> You can make the graphics at 1x (320*240) and then scale up and do something similar to Font hinting (in the case of pixel art, you smooth out curves and slopes but don't add detail). Basically, you provide better sample points and reduce flicker this way.

You then rotate, then scale down, then scale up again... :O

Yeah, too much work perhaps. I did some tests years ago and it does make slopes and curves look a lot better since the source image has finer staircases.


Anyways. I got some code done today. It went really smooth thanks to OOP. I haven't put any gfx in yet, but I have a simple little physics system with explosion shockwaves that pushes everything around. It's neat to see the debris (boxes) fly off the hulls (boxes).

Now I need to make an editor where I can place the debris parts (panels etc) onto the hulls so it looks complete before it breaks.

[MaloEspada]

I think I'm going to quit.

Free Bubblegum Rossie!

[JaJitsu]

  I forbid Ein to quit.

[MaloEspada]

hahah sorry bro, maybe next time!

[godsavant]

I think I'm going to quit.

Free Bubblegum Rossie!

What?!? After you tease us with all those screenshots of a game nearly finished you're going to quit? What the hell?

[ArmchairArmada]

I'm making pretty good progress, but there's still a lot to do in these few short days.  Fortunately, I believe I have already taken care of most of the more difficult tasks.  This is still going to be a quite a challenge to complete this in time.

[Hangedman]

I think it's the time limit that is causing people to quit...