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[oyog]

Ha ha ha, but really, what are the faces?

This is how moonbabies are made.

[eigenbom]

Yeh i tried some stronger hue changes, but it made the blockiness stand out too much. Oh and the faces are nothing, just a miscellaneous block type. Thx for the comments as usual.

the hue changes are quite visible on the island because orange is quite saturated. but not visible on big gray zone because... it has no saturation !
Maybe you could change lightness a bit in addition to the hue...

oh, i lied, it's not really a hue change, just multiplying by a random bright colour, i think the effect on the rocks looks less visible because they have a pattern on them. still i'll look at ramping the colour changes up a little bit.. thx

[eigenbom]

Update: See the latest mm changes in a video I made. Watch in 1080p for maximum pixelly goodness.


click to video

[SolarLune]

Watched the whole 7 minutes, ragtime and all. Sweet work so far!

[eigenbom]

thx solar, see your cat/s made another appearance?

[Franklin's Ghost]

Great new video and love how open and massive the world feels.

[SolarLune]

thx solar, see your cat/s made another appearance?

Yeah, I did, and I see they continue to be horribly maltreated.     Ha ha ha

Thanks for using them, though.

[eigenbom]

@solar no worries, thx for drawing it!
@fg cheers, yeh it's definitely feeling more vibrant these days, but there's still a LONG way to go before I'll be happy.

And yay, now over 30,000 views since I started the devlog, eight or so months ago. Can't believe in 4 months a whole year would have passed... :S

[Pixelulsar]

Game looks cool, do you think there will be a playable beta or something like that?

[eigenbom]

@pixelulsar yeh there will be a playable alpha in a couple of months. I'll change the topic title when it's ready. after that it'll have a rolling release, with the latest available to those who purchase the beta. that's the plan, anyway .. who knows how it'll actually turn out.

update: i got a dislike on my video! aw no! My game is an affront to someone's sensibilities ...

[peous]

Screenshot also shows a little problem with the block hues, the 2d hash is not performing as well as I need it to, but it'll have to go way down on the todo list.

In the end I feel hue changes closer to a "jpeg compression artefact" than a really nice effect. Maybe lightness variation could be better. Or nothing. Or variation just around caves borders. But there random hue variation doesn't looks that good

[eigenbom]

thx for your input, it's actually growing on me though .. i'll take another look in a few weeks once it's settled in :D

[mokesmoe]

I liked them in the dirt in the first picture, but they look bad in the stone at the beginning of your video. I think if they were actual hue changes in that grey things aren't affected that might look better.

[eigenbom]

Thanks dude. The tinting can actually be specified on a per-block basis in the resource files, and I've got the rock tinting to a fairly strong blue, but I'll reduce that now I've got some feedback.

[oyog]

i got a dislike on my video! aw no! My game is an affront to someone's sensibilities ...

Someone's probably allergic to cats.

[Ninja Dodo]

I was watching your latest video and one thing I thought was a bit confusing at first was that I didn't initially make the connection between moonman's chopping and the blocks falling because they were so far out of range. Was going to suggest giving the character some different poses for chopping depending on where you're clicking and started drawing some in Photoshop, but... I don't think they really fit with the style.

I also realize I really don't know how to do pixel art. Anyway:



Don't know if you plan on doing any animation for more specific actions, and even if you are I'm not sure these are especially helpful suggestions, but there you go.



Good luck with the project!

[Geeze]

To me it looks a bit odd in 2d if moonman can hit blocks without touching them. Maybe he has telescopic tools that extend on demand? That could look sweet.

[eigenbom]

Yeh, currently moonman can chop anywhere, but limiting the chopping radius is definitely in my TODO list.

@ninjadodo thx, those poses are great! I've really got to spend some time on all the animations, they are really quite sucky at the moment.

[namragog]

I never know what to say about moonman, so I don't post. But it looks like a moonman.

[jmcmorris]

Yeh, currently moonman can chop anywhere, but limiting the chopping radius is definitely in my TODO list.

@ninjadodo thx, those poses are great! I've really got to spend some time on all the animations, they are really quite sucky at the moment.

I implemented this in my game. It is really easy. Just calculate the difference between the position clicked and the character call it xd and yd.

Code:

distance = sqrt(xd * xd + yd * yd)

Then you can limit the distance to whatever you want.

Code:

if distance > 100 then return