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[eigenbom]

Hey you! My #cyberpunkjam game is up: http://eigenbom.itch.io/crash Go play it! (And maybe rate it if you jammed also.)
The OST is also available at: http://timshiel.bandcamp.com/album/crash

It's a hack/typing game! AWesomeN2ss!

[pluckyporcupine]

Hey you! My #cyberpunkjam game is up: http://eigenbom.itch.io/crash Go play it!

Haha that's a pretty awesome idea. Pretty tough too.

[eigenbom]

Update: I spent the last couple of days working on mockups and decomposing designs into usable building blocks. The biggest change is that some blocks now break out of the tile boundary (which has been a long time coming) and so I've got to consider how to code this all appropriately. I also spent a while on a new bark design which seems to work well with different tree morphologies. Here's a mockup showing some of the elements together - the leaves are still WIP.

[c023-DeV]

While you're here, might as well do everything in high-poly 3D with 4096x4096 textures and photon lighting. 

That's my job! 

Anyhow great to see another long time project coming along. Hope you are having such a good time making this game as I am...

[Thecoolestnerdguy]

@tcng - Oh that MM character was a joke. :D

Oh, thanks God!

[kleiba]

Update: I spent the last couple of days working on mockups and decomposing designs into usable building blocks. The biggest change is that some blocks now break out of the tile boundary (which has been a long time coming) and so I've got to consider how to code this all appropriately. I also spent a while on a new bark design which seems to work well with different tree morphologies. Here's a mockup showing some of the elements together - the leaves are still WIP.

Since you decided a while ago to leave the original ASCII art inspired visual style behind, I think this newer art style is only consequential. It looks awesome. As long as you manage to keep it consistent...

The bark works really well. Great job! (The tree crown looks a bit whimpsical and small for such a huge tree, but I guess you wouldn't know because all you have there down under is red deserts, right?)

Leaving tile boundaries sounds good, too -- don't let them damn boundaries stop you!!

[happymonster]

It does look very good. But I'm a bit sad the old style is gone. 

[Noogai03]

i liked the old style but the new style

[eigenbom]

Haha, oh yes HappyMonster, I'm sad too. Working on a game for 2 years really does your head in, and sometimes I feel that this'll never end. Changing the style prolongs the end but also revitalises my moonmojo. I'm 90% confident that these new tiles will be the last style update.

Update: Added first bit of code to render new blocks. Here's some in-game screenshots.

[kleiba]

Rad!

[mirrorfish]

While I also liked the old style a lot the new style looks great too. This looks amazing! Keep going!

M.

[Kurt]

holy crap that looks amazing

[happymonster]

The purple rock looks good with that shading.

[knifeySpoonie]

Really nice purple rocks! looking really nice, love the paper bag with holes in look for the helmet

[barneycumming]

damn this is looking awesome!

[happymonster]

If you are going to go down the shading route, I would try adding a few more shades to the brick tiles. It looks a bit like shading with a reduced colour palette (i.e. 16 colours) right now.

[TheIndieForge]

I love everything about this.

[eigenbom]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. HM - I took your advice and added an extra shade to the stone, looks much better now I think, thanks.

Update: Updated stone and wood materials. I also implemented block "decorations" which are extra little pieces that get blitted randomly over blocks, like the cracks in the stone bricks below.

[dek]

Looks tasty. I'd try reducing the contrast on the background tiles colors a bit. That could separate them from the foreground stuff.

[_bm]

Looks tasty. I'd try reducing the contrast on the background tiles colors a bit. That could separate them from the foreground stuff.

That's what I do with background tiles in my game.