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[Rebusmind]

Love the vibe of this, although a part of me wishes you would've gone with the Shenmue-like experience.

[kraed]

Love the look, mechanics and how everything is neatly put into place. Really amazed on how it looks cohesive.

I come back to this thread from time to time and feel i'm learning important dev/creativity essentials somehow.

[Kyle O]

Love the look, mechanics and how everything is neatly put into place. Really amazed on how it looks cohesive.

I come back to this thread from time to time and feel i'm learning important dev/creativity essentials somehow.

Thank you! I think the most essential of dev/creativity essentials is to do everything slowly. Slow and steady.

Love the vibe of this, although a part of me wishes you would've gone with the Shenmue-like experience.

Part of me also wishes that. Early on in development I was just adding random features and things that I thought would be cool. It was a good way to start off because I am not limited by time or money-- only my own will to complete this game. So ultimately I've cut out the more time consuming parts (e.g. building a living/persistent world that serves merely as the backdrop for the game itself) in order to finish this game before I die. A lofty goal in itself. So maybe next game...

Haha i was just joking.  But if you feel like spoiling something -- do the humans become little dumplings in the future, or is this an alternate little dumpling universe?

I just can't draw very well.

[MereMonkey]

Dropping in just to say that this continues to amaze me, keep up the awesome work Kyle!

[Kyle O]

Hey thanks!

Been working on this game but not being very productive. I'm going to hit my stride eventually I bet. I feel like I should post something here. So...

[Kyle O]

This devlog has been on hiatus. Though I never really stopped working on this game for more than a couple weeks to work on another smaller game. I got addicted to the tweeter.

Let me tell you about how things are going on this project. Things started slowing down the more level design I did. I think my main issue was the fact that my levels aren't laid out on any sort of recognizable grid. It took me around 2 weeks to be satisfied with this level...



It is really slow going. Even on other fronts doing any graphic assets is a pain. Its just a slow process for me-- the whole level design process. Also a lot of people kept commenting on how they thought the main character was a little skull. That isn't really what I intended and I don't like that. Also I want to reinvigorate myself and the project. So I'm redoing all the art... it's basically pixel art-- but I'm basically still drawing with a wacom so maybe it's more like lo-fi art. At any rate smaller sprites and a grid based level design... hopefully making it all more manageable... I guess time will tell...





It's going pretty quick though. I'm aiming for having everything redone in a month.

[Kyle O]

Pretty much done redoing all the art. I'm really happy with how it all turned out. Now it's time to plow ahead and see if I can get something playable.

[Bluebutton]

There's a great tone and atmosphere to this game, with some audio I bet it feels alive. Keep going, it's looking great.

[SolarLune]

The art is different, but still pretty good. The character looks pretty clean - I think his animation could be smoother. Instead of doing a [1,2,3,2] kind of animation, a [1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2] kind of animation with a bit faster speed might be smoother.

As for level design, I also found it a bit difficult to design levels. I think designing levels in multiples of screen sizes would be helpful - laying them out on a grid helps to make it feel more cohesive and "locked in". If I just designed "willy nilly", it was more difficult to make it all work out.

[Kyle O]

Thanks for the input solarlune. I keep tweaking the run now. For a long time it was a 2 frame run because I lacked artistic ability. Still sort of do. It takes a long time to get something looking nice.



Happy notes is level design goes so quickly now! Much happiness.

[Vakey Rujevic]

Really love the art style! Loved the way it looked before, but I like the new art style even better. I applaud you for redesigning it, mainly because it seems like (from your comments) that it is saving you a lot of time.

[chariospirale]

hyper cool. really good mood.