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[Scott]

Yeah but why are these short artificial structures there? Is that something alluded to or directly spelled out in the game?

[caddeo]

I've been reading the devlog over the past four days. Really inspiring, and I can't wait to see more updates!!

[barneycumming]

i don't mind the look of him against 4 units doors- looks pretty natural to me, but i also think the ducking is cool- kinda quirky and a little cute/creepy squeezing through things everywhere- i would imagine the main decider would be which makes a more appropriate height to jump up onto- the 3 or 4- and if you do or don't often want characters jumping up on top of minimum height structures with doors... anyway, looking forward to more

i think the idea of a few spark particles when you drag a helmet along the ceiling is quite good also and could cover up any visual quirks with the ducking and the way things line up

[_bm]

If I make the doors and structures accommodate 4 vertical units then MM now seems small again.

A vicious, never-ending cycle has begun.
MM and doors will just keep growing and growing, until...

[Armitage1982]

If I make the doors and structures accommodate 4 vertical units then MM now seems small again.

I don't find MM that small but I see what you mean.
If you're crazy enough to add a state for ducking (which is an excellent idea btw ) then why not trying to make it crawl ? It would certainly give you more work but may strengthen the sense of narrowness.

I guess it's a bit too late to split the size unit in 2 to keep both of the idea ?

I also love the magic staff burning effect !

In any cases the MM verse seems quite rich and graphically very interesting to me. Chapeau mate

[eigenbom]

Thanks guys, the ducking stays but I adjusted the params so the head always goes low enough. The doors are all 4 units now, so most of the time you'll only be ducking into tighter passage ways when mining, or maybe when in a goblin house or something. The sparks idea is totally rad, I'll have to remember it when I add some more polish later.

@caddeo - I'm glad this is inspiring! I was inspired 2 years ago by reading The Archer devlog to make my own, and here I am, all this time later.

@Lemoncreme - you jester you

@Armi - hey, good to see you again mate! thx for dropping in!

Update: Big week of work and I just submitted a build to PAX Australia Indie Showcase. Exciting, would be a big boon to exhibit the game in front of thousands of people. But I also know I'm up against a lot of great games, so I won't get too hopeful. Still ... it forced me to crunch and put together a little demo. Here's the little starting area, there's a shovel in the chest, and you have to use it to dig out of the cave through the dirt on the right. My goal was to force the player to understand the fundamentals before going out into the world and facing the aggressive nomads and demons.

[Eigen]

But how did he get in the cave without any entrances...?! Because of these glaring omissions I give this 10/10.

[Rusk]

But how did he get in the cave without any entrances...?! Because of these glaring omissions I give this 10/10.

Perhaps that's not a chest over there. Maybe it's a coffin where count moonman was slumbering when the villagers sealed the cave in a futile attempt to stop his terrifying reign!

[sakuyo]

just read through the devlog from page one - it was really cool to see a sort of timelapse of the development, the changes in the art are especially impressive

good luck with pax!

[rek]

It'll be hard to see Moonman's design change, but I think it's necessary. He was designed for a time when the game was basically ANSI, but it isn't like that anymore so he needs to change to suit.

[Slader16]

I'm actually really digging the new Moonman, good luck at PAX!

[eigenbom]

@Eigen shhhhhhhh
@Saukyo Great, thanks for reading!
@Rek Yeah it was hard, but I think keeping his face is enough of a link to the past for me.
@Slader Thanks!

Update: Started to consolidate, commiserate, condense, and coalesce all my tasks for the next chunk of work. I also started playing around with some image scaling filters (for the funsies). Applied to a static screenshot, you can see below how XBRZ modifies the low res pixel art of MM. I like it quite a lot but will be sticking with the current style for this game. I also made a little paint program (windows:bp.io/XBRZPXL.ZIP) that lets you paint in XBRZ-style.

[SafetySnail]

Are we able to see these moving? I actually really like the look of those.
Still prefer the actual look of the game though, just curious!

[eigenbom]

Yep here's a basic test https://twitter.com/eigenbom/status/486313865131470850/photo/1

[gimymblert]

It'll be hard to see Moonman's design change, but I think it's necessary. He was designed for a time when the game was basically ANSI, but it isn't like that anymore so he needs to change to suit.

Can't till it is 3D with the division like shading 

[kruxus]

That actually looks pretty nice. I usually find those filters aren't much good, but it seems to work well with Moonmans art. Maybe you can keep it as an optional feature?

[happymonster]

Maybe you should scrap all the art and do it all at full HD resolution.. 

[Noogai03]

i think the filter looks awesome personally but it MUST be optional because many will hate it

[jctwood]

This game is looking better and better every time I visit. Created this strange piece of somewhat christmasey art with the program. Really lovely piece of software. Would be nice to have an extended set of palettes to choose from.

[Harridrone]

I tried out the XBRZ painting program as well, it's a pretty wild scaling algorithm! Painting with it is kind of mesmerizing, especially watching the colours sort of cling and merge to each other haha!