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[ChevyRay]

SKULLBOY: The Granford Academy Guardian

• ChevyRay ~ programming, graphics, design
• Battlerager ~ music, design
• Metaknightmaregirl ~ artwork

New Title Screen


We have an undead-pig problem... whose idea was it to put the pig pens next to the cemetary?


You can attack, uppercut, trip, smash, slam, jump on, and even pick up & toss enemies.


Sometimes I sit for half an hour just throwing pigs into eachother and watching them explode into a delightful mess of bones. Here I am whacking one with my bone club.


Skullboy can long-jump, wall-kick, grab onto ledges and flip himself up... He can even roll around, and perform quick-dashes to quickly avoid dangers from above. So if you're really good with the controls, you can get to all sorts of places (and OUT OF).


Uh-oh. He saw me. Time for plan B.


Some other tidbits...




And there will also be a whole myriad of game options. You'll be able to completely customize the controls, the music and sound, and you'll even have a bunch of graphics options. Here's Scanlines on a 2x scaled screen (i cropped the shot).


And here's a taste of what you'll be listening to while playing!

CERBERUS
ROOFTOPS


Concept Art (linked, due to their size, but make sure to check them all out!)

Skullboy Poses
Fishbone Grapple
Li'l Devil
Undead Twins
Don't Fear the Reaper
Original game mockup
Vampire
Cerberus
Graveyard
Monster 1 - sketch
Monster 2 - sketch
Pumpkin-Man (updated)
Scarecrow
Mummy
Mage
Bat
Pumpkid Boss Fight Concept
Evil Tree

[Knightmare]

Did somebody say concept art?  Well these are more or less doodles but oh well...



Please excuse the sloppy work.  My boyfriend just bought me a tablet and I am trying to adjust to using it.  I've had it about a day, and I think I'm getting pretty good.   

And yes, that is a vampire pig.

Oh, and Chev, LOVE the title pixel art there.   

[ChevyRay]

The bird and the pig are my favorites :D awesome stuff! I'll get to pixelling them right now...

How about the new avatar?

[Knightmare]

Yes, I absolutely love the pig.   :D

And your new avatar is freakin' awesome.   

[Inane]

Yes, I absolutely love the pig.   

And your new avatar is freakin' awesome.    :D

[ChevyRay]

Pixell'd da pig.



EDIT: And sig :D

EDIT2:

[increpare]

Pixell'd da pig.

:D

wait: vampire pig? 

[PowRTocH]

Really great art guys. Awesome jorb on the bird.

Looking forward to this.

[muku]

EDIT: And sig :D

That new sig is awesomeness distilled.

Would be even better if the skull guy lashed out with his bone every now and then  :D

[siiseli]

Good job so far, but I think the tileset on that pic there needs a bit more variety, if you know what I mean. Details, different kind of ground and stuffs.

[Gainsworthy]

Skullboy gets a game! Yay!

...Will there be fish?

[Knightmare]

Awesome new pixels, Chev!  Love your sig!   :D

I'll try and get some more artwork up sometime today.  More characters and environments, you know.   


And Gainsworthy, yes, there will be fish.  There is an item called the Fish Grapple that works kinda like the Hookshot in Zelda.  Maybe I'll draw a fish character as well.   

Thanks for your support everyone!

[ChevyRay]

Good job so far, but I think the tileset on that pic there needs a bit more variety, if you know what I mean. Details, different kind of ground and stuffs.

For sure. Right now I'm busy programming, though, so I'm just going to pixel the bare minimum and work on the detail-work later.

Pixels + programming is a lot of work Which is why I'm looking for an assistant pixel artist.


!!

Musician, and good pal of mine, Cornandbeans, is currently getting started on the soundtrack for the game. The conversation was great:

ME: So would you be interested in doing music for my project?
CAB: Music? Hell yeah!
CAB: Just give me a list and descriptions and I'll get on it.
ME: *shitting myself*

"Give me a list" he says. This guy writes music like some people make toast. Quoted from his LastFM page:

Ian Slider (cornandbeans) is a young electronic music artist from Louisville, KY (USA). His main styles are Drum n Bass and Trance, but he also produces Techno, Classical, and Ambient music. He uses his guitar, cello, keyboard, bass along with Reason 3 and FL Studio 7 to produce his music.

[battlerager]

Musician, and good pal of mine, Cornandbeans, is currently getting started on the soundtrack for the game. The conversation was great:

Noooooooooooo I was too slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww


Haha, this looks incredibly awesome already.
I love the art, and I love platformers. And vampire-pigs. Or something.


 

[ChevyRay]

And vampire-pigs. Or something.

There will be winged ones too!

Oh, and the proper name is "Vampigs".

Noooooooooooo I was too slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Man, there are a lot of music composers on these forums. What kinds/filetypes of songs do you write?

[dmoonfire]

And vampire-pigs. Or something.

There will be winged ones too!

Oh, and the proper name is "Vampigs".

I prefer pigires.

[battlerager]

Noooooooooooo I was too slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Man, there are a lot of music composers on these forums. What kinds/filetypes of songs do you write?

Yes, yes, there are.

Because music is simmmple to do.   

Well, filetype would probably be .ogg as I just recently started using ModPlug (= .it), and style ... I am mostly inspired by Metal, Video Game Music (duh!) and Celtic Music, and when it comes to a platformer, one could expect something between Plok and Kirby with some celtic flavour and Iron Maiden-type harmonized leads tossed in for good measure.  (That does not imply distorted guitars, by the way!  )

I know that music only comes into play kinda late in the developement process, but yeah, I would love doing something for this.

If not, that's all fine, too.
I'd probably just write an alternate soundtrack for the game and replace all the files afterwards, hahahah  :D

Also, I listened to some of Cornandbeans' stuff. Very well done, and/but I am really curious what he will come up with for the game.
Music sets the mood in a game like nothing else. Here's hoping for an awesome soundtrack, no matter who will end up doing it! 

[ChevyRay]

Well, keep in touch because if I'm not comfortable with CAB's stuff, then I'll definitely be ringing your bell.

Cornandbeans does a lot of metal, d&b, and trance stuff on his newgrounds, but we've worked together before, and he's excellent at capturing themes and emotions in his songs when he's got boundaries to work within. But we'll see

EDIT: Hey man, anything you can show me? I'd like to hear some of your stuff and whenever you've got the time to write some tunes, just let me know and I can give you some specs. I'd like the game to have a very lively and abundant soundtrack.

[battlerager]

Fair enough, good sir 

I'll be watching this game.

[Knightmare]

Winged vampig, you say?



I know the wings are terrible, but hey, getting used to this tablet is serious business.   :D  But, a better look at the wing...



I have more on the way.