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[ANtY]

We've got new illustrations for the Interactive Objects as well as a new UI & appear effect. They'll be added in the upcoming 0.5 Update for Glorious Companions. Thoughts?

[ANtY]

We've reworked the textures on our Trapper unit. Do you think it's worth to do the same for the rest of the army?

[Jo-o]

it's been ages since I last posted here...

(...I was away from internet...)
(it'´s great to see awesome stuff here)
now I'm back ^^
this is a game thing I'm currently working ...

[Thaumaturge]

The (possibly work-in-progress) first scene to the level-five cutscene of A Door to the Mists:

[gujhack]

[Ordnas]

Testing the cinematic on the new third shooter prototype:

[micatrix]

We've got new illustrations for the Interactive Objects as well as a new UI & appear effect. They'll be added in the upcoming 0.5 Update for Glorious Companions. Thoughts?

I really like the effect. What software do you use to create gifs of such quality?

[Ordnas]

[nabbo]

Zango's Shark Adventure Boss Fight:

[mcoorlim]

[Tobers]

Breakneck City - Going down to the club

Man I've been seeing alot of these like PS1 style graphics and I love em! Alec this looks so cool!

I rendered out a sprite sheet from blender. I just need to add the sails and upgrades. And z-sorting. And water animation. THERE'S SO MUCH TO DO.

[JobLeonard]

That has a really cool look to it too, what's the game in question about?

[Manuel Magalhães]

Seconded, I really like the look of that.

[muki]

modeled a quick snail this evening so I could see how well I can integrate pre-rendered 3D with pixeled tiles...

[Suttebun]

modeled a quick snail this evening so I could see how well I can integrate pre-rendered 3D with pixeled tiles...

Dude!
https://zackbellgames.com/2014/11/11/sprite-skewing-for-procedural-animation/

this is beautiful!

[muki]

Dude!
https://zackbellgames.com/2014/11/11/sprite-skewing-for-procedural-animation/

this is beautiful!

Thanks!

Yeah the movement/physics are pretty stiff. I need to pretty much re-do all of that. I'm still in the planning/documentation phase of whatever game this'll eventually end up being. The current demo in the meantime is just a test bed for art, scripts, shaders, techniques, ideas...

I'm a fan of zack bell's demos! Already had a look at some of them. But I'm unlikely to stretch and squash the sprites dynamically in the same way. I'm more inclined to make custom animation frames for landing, hitting walls, etc, that have the 'impact' already in them.

[Suttebun]

or sorry man, I just meant that you should add squish to your sprite and it will polish out the rest of it for you so you can make the game

[Tobers]

Those of you using LiceCap, is there a way to scale a pixel art gif down to 1to1 resolution? My GIFs are huge and I guess it's because each pixel is like 3x3 pixels!



Thanks!

[JobLeonard]

GIMP can open animated gifs, you could try downscaling in there.

From the looks of it you don't fully respect the pixel resolution though, since you have "big" pixels moving at "actual" pixel resolution:


Here's a quick thing you can do: open GIMP, "open as layers", import the gif, then export. GIMP is more aggresive in its (lossless) compression so that shaves a few KiB. A slightly more aggressive approach is to also do "Filters > Animation > Unoptimize", then "Image > Mode > Indexed", picking an appropriate amount of max colors (I went with 255, to minimize loss), then switch back "Image > Mode > RGB" (the only purpose of this transformation was to reduce the palette), then "Filters > Animation > Optimize (for GIF)". Then finally exporting the result. That takes off a full megabyte. Then there's the downscale option - I would suggest doing that in the paletted phase, so you don't re-introduce new colors that complicate your gif palette.



For the record: the downscaled and downscaled-then-upscaled versions (with reduced palette)

[Tobers]

Awesome thank you! I'll try that out today.

Yea it's gonna be a big overhaul changing all those position floats to ints. Hopefully it will be worth it.