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[Braffolk]

Woah, that looks super pretty.
But don't you have to draw a lot of different animations for every single item now, because weapons can obviously have different animations you would have to animate every single armour piece?

[eigenbom]

Woah, that looks super pretty.
But don't you have to draw a lot of different animations for every single item now, because weapons can obviously have different animations you would have to animate every single armour piece?

Yep. There's going to be about 9 armour templates (3 light, 3 med, 3 heavy). And each will need about 10 or so sets of animations (run, attack w light weapon, attack w heavy weapon, climb ladder, etc). So it's a lot of animation, but still is only a few weeks of work. Luckily I have a great animator for that.

And we'll be doing it in stages, so maybe half of the armour templates will be in the early access build.

[YaW]

Laughed a little when I saw the sword going outside the square, haha. At first I thought it was my monday state of mind, but nope.

The game looks awesome, as always.

[eigenbom]

Thx Yaw

Update:

We've changed focus to the new humanoid animations and system. This week we managed to get the pipeline set up and the first test animations into the game.

The set-up for the humanoid animations is similar to the creature animations: we use Aseprite for the animation work and then process that with some tools. The humanoids present a bigger challenge because they are decomposed into lots of parts (arms, legs, torso, and head), each with their own animations and anchor points. We use layers for the different parts with animation tags for their modes. Pivots and anchors are represented as single pixels on layers with custom names. A script I wrote then takes all this info and converts it into something the game can use.



In terms of game design, we decided to create 9 armour templates: 3 light ones, 3 medium ones, and 3 heavy ones. Each template will then have colour mapped variations. For instance the heavy metallic armour might be mapped to iron armour, gold armour, and dungeon armour. The colour maps also apply to the base models: the only difference between a human, moonman, and goblin is the colour map and head sprite.





Here's some in-game screenshots of one of the new armour templates. The basic animations now work for this heavy armour set, and over the next month or two we'll continue working on the other sets and animations.



A cave goblin has also appeared. This guy will likely appear as a playable character.



The new focus on the animation system means that the mesa build will take a while longer, but it'll have all new animations and sprites, so it'll be worth the wait. :Some other work done this week:

• Updates to base weapon sprites (see below)
• Knights in Mesa are now serialised/persisted
• King appears in Mesa:Castle
• Moonstone spawned in Mesa:Castle
• Internal: Colour map supports up to 16 colours
• Internal: Event queue is now double buffered

[Kurt]

I'm still in love with moonman

[happymonster]

So much work has gone into the game, you are really trying to Reach for the Moon.

(I'm sorry...  )

[eigenbom]

I'm still in love with moonman

He's still the main character He just has more friends now.

So much work has gone into the game, you are really trying to Reach for the Moon.

(I'm sorry...  )

Ooh, another good title

[Eneko Egiluz]

Hi!
Wow, this looks amazing! It is definitely one of the games I most want to see finished. Keep up with the work, I´m sure you´ll surprise us again!

[and]

I'm still in love with moonman

He's still the main character He just has more friends now.

Moonman & Friends?

[eigenbom]

Thanks Eneko!

Moonman & Friends?

It's definitely on the list!

Update:  I've cleaned up and started updating the animation system. This includes:

an eating animation,
a little bounce when landing,
a slight pause when you're in the air,
a delay and slight anim when turning,
a better ladder climbing animation (and the shield now goes on your back),
the hotbar goes inactive when you attack, and
quite a few tweaks to improve the movement and control.

This coming week we'll be fine-tuning these more, implementing a proper shield blocking system, and dropping in some more armours.

[kleiba]

Nice leg metamorphosis while walking!

[eigenbom]

Nice leg metamorphosis while walking!

Oop, don't look at those

[happymonster]

Shouldn't he go in front of the platforms when climbing the ladder?

I know either way is OK, just that going in front of the platforms seems more traditional..

[oldblood]

My bi-monthly comment to remind you that you're building art and that this game keeps getting more badass...

[eigenbom]

Shouldn't he go in front of the platforms when climbing the ladder?

I know either way is OK, just that going in front of the platforms seems more traditional..

He goes in front of non-collidable blocks, but those are collidable (they just have an extra sticky-outy bit). Would be too much work to fix that one case, but thanks for the observation

My bi-monthly comment to remind you that you're building art and that this game keeps getting more badass...

Haha, thankyou! See you in a few months.

Update: Hey! This is the last devlog for two weeks, while I take a little time off over xmas. It looks like the mesa build won't be out until mid-January, mainly because we've been doing major overhauls of the human movement, clothing, and animation system. It's going to be a fun build to test though, so I hope to see some of you alpha-testers around then.

This week we've finalised most of the animations and now have around 15 different sets of clothing. Melee now incorporates blocking, which happens automatically if you are not swinging your weapon. We've fixed and refined a lot of small things, for example: when running up a slope you no longer launch into the air at the end; jumping up onto a block is easier (as I've attached little invisible platforms to the edges); and, the hit-boxes for melee now depend on the size of armour and shield you have (for superior combat feelies).



In terms of the new armour sets, we now have full animations for two light armour templates and one heavy armour template. These have been built in a flexible way to support a lot of variety when colour mapping, and we'll get at least 10 sets from each template. Overall, there will be about 12 different templates, and so maybe 100 different sets.

Here are two of the light armour sets and some colour mappings:



I've also implemented some updates to the crossbow system. It now feels better to use and the sprites are different. I decided to change the crossbows into "bows on guns", so I could draw the bow side-on.



I hope you all have a great holiday break. I'll be taking a week off between xmas and new year, but then I'll be back and sprinting to get the mesa build out! The first few months of next year will be super busy and we'll finally start to see huge amounts of content being dropped into the game. We'll need all alpha-testers on deck to help tweak enemy difficulty, AI behaviour, block strength, crafting recipes, level structure, and so on.

See you soon.

[gimymblert]

I can't unsee dangling bit as flesh dildo because my eyes landed on the third one on the third line, then being confuse as why all dildos where of different color or even split
 

[eigenbom]

@jimym - It will now forever be in your mind.

[eigenbom]

Happy holidays everyone, see you all in 2016.

[gimymblert]

It's only fitting he is making moonwalk in that gif

[RujiK]

What happened to his face?! Hes just a smile now!! Where did his eyes go?!?!


MOOONMAN NOOOOOOOooooo. your eyes.