next »

[rivon]

Yaaay, a new screenshot:


The sprites are awesome. I have just one remark - name them in this way:

elk (folder)
    idle_00.png
    idle_01.png
    idle_02.png
    run_00.png
    run_01.png
    ...

So only the directory is named after the animal. The images are "action_xx.png".

[rivon]

I didn't have much time to program today, but I at least made the weapon system.

[J. R. Hill]

Awesome, I'll use that naming from now on.  God-willing I'll do a few more animals on Tuesday because I only work morning on Tuesday.

[Daniel Eddeland]

Cute little elks, throwing ninja stars! Very nice sprites, they... they... is that...?

...

They almost look like they're dancing! This game must have dancing elk animations! 

[J. R. Hill]

I could make victory dances/poses for them lol.

[rivon]

Yeah, no problem.

Progress: just cleaned up the code a bit. The bad thing is I just found out the wonderful world of console emulation on Android phones

[Melly]

This is looking niiice.

[rivon]

How's it going with the sprites?

[J. R. Hill]

I didn't get anything done yesterday lol, I'll do some today but I only have a few hours free.

[J. R. Hill]

Just figuring out character design, I will probably have to fix all the palette at once when I'm done.  I'll do some animation for these guys later this week, next week I'm pretty much gone until Friday, but I might be able to find a computer before then, I'm not sure...  I'll likely redo the elk too, but I figure if I name it correctly all you have to do is copy the folder over it.

(Using this site and google image search for reference)

Should I make generic enemies too?

[Fluff]

I like the way the character design is going. Also, that site is awesome. In Feudal Japan shark jumps you?

[rivon]

Just figuring out character design, I will probably have to fix all the palette at once when I'm done.  I'll do some animation for these guys later this week, next week I'm pretty much gone until Friday, but I might be able to find a computer before then, I'm not sure...  I'll likely redo the elk too, but I figure if I name it correctly all you have to do is copy the folder over it.

(Using this site and google image search for reference)

Should I make generic enemies too?

Looks good. No generic enemies, the fight will be just 1v1 of players.

Also it would be good if you made just simple 2-3 frame animations of flying shuriken, throwing knife, fireball and arrow (which should have probably 3 frames as it's trajectory will be curved). The size should be fitting to the size of ninja so something like 4-6 pixels in height max.

And another thing, make the ninja sprites so that they are holding something (all the sprites/ninjas, in the same place) and make a 16x16 corresponding sprites of bow, fireball, shuriken, throwing knife which I will overlay on the ninja sprites to make it easier.

[J. R. Hill]

Ok, I'm spending today knitting kitten mittens for a friend, so I guess I'll get back to work in a week!  I guess you can do a palette swap for different players or get someone else to help with animation and/or take over my place like a pod person.

[rivon]

I think there's currently so many games in development that there won't be any spare artists. Though it isn't really a problem as I'm kind of bored by making this. Maybe I'll abandon it and make something with simple graphics which even I could draw.
The good thing is I made a functioning platformer/top-down zelda-like engine in Python + Pygame and even with quite a lot of animations going on, it's still quite fast. So if I get some great idea, I can program it quite fast.

[rivon]

Ok, so the game is abandoned, but I've started working on something new which looks very promising, though I'm not sure if it will be a versus game.