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[nekromantikko]

Made some promo art for a change. I updated the first post with this as well.


I've been working on audio related things for the last couple of days, so I obviously can't show any progress, but here's an older gif I made for a friend to demonstrate how powerful my component based entities are. It's pretty much possible to combine everything with anything, for instance, laser beams on a spinning track that follows the player:

[naezith]

I am happy to see games similar to mine, mechanics look very smooth. I will be following, good luck! 

(in promo art she looks super ugly at the same time trying to look sexy, has she got a story?)

[nekromantikko]

@naezith Thanks man. As for the protagonist, well, I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Her name is Alpha. She doesn't really have a story yet, I'm not too concerned with it atm. Right now I'm more focused on getting the actual game to a playable state

[lobstersteve]

Thanks man. As for the protagonist, well, I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder Undecided

Her face does look ugly 
And not in some kind of "not girly - therefore ugly" way, it's kinda just a typical ugly girl face from cartoons. Like bob's burgers or something, pretty clear that they resemble not - so attractive people^^

[FK in the Coffee]

Wow! Between this and Naezith, there are some seriously promising-looking speedrunnable games in development right now. Really astonished that you managed to whip this up completely from scratch! What (if any) libraries are you using?

[nekromantikko]

Her face does look ugly 
And not in some kind of "not girly - therefore ugly" way, it's kinda just a typical ugly girl face from cartoons. Like bob's burgers or something, pretty clear that they resemble not - so attractive people^^

It's really not supposed to, though :0 I mean she's not a typical pretty girl but I wouldn't call her ugly. I suppose the pesrpective is less than flattering. Here, I drew a quick sketch of her from a more normal angle:

Wow! Between this and Naezith, there are some seriously promising-looking speedrunnable games in development right now. Really astonished that you managed to whip this up completely from scratch! What (if any) libraries are you using?

Thanks! I use SDL 2 for audio and input, openGL for rendering (does that count?), and that's about it.

[nekromantikko]

Just dropping by to make a quick post on lighting progress. I've kinda been going back and forth trying to decide whether I want 2d or 3d-lighting, and finally settled on 3d. And it's looking pretty sweet! Took a while to wrap my head around all the tangent space stuff, but there it is, with normal maps and realistic decay:




School will be over soon for the summer, so that means more time for game dev! I do have a job, but it's not going to take all of my time. I'm still aiming to release a demo this year! 

[nekromantikko]

Particle systems now support multiple emitters. I'm also reading them from a file, to prevent having to hard code them. This is still pretty bare bones and currently only supports scale, rotation, and sprite animations pretty much, but I'll add more features as I need them.

[nekromantikko]

Even though this is a 2D game, I'm going to have some 3D props because, well, I can, and also because it makes the lighting look more realistic. Still trying to figure out how to texture these, what the perfect balance of real and fake lighting is etc.

[maruki]

Alpha is pretty cute in the pixel art! I think she's okay in the promo art, except for one part: her abs. I think if you remove just one of the shadows around the belly button, it'll look better (sometimes I look at it, and it resembles a pillow).

[nekromantikko]

Thanks! I'll probably completely redraw the promo art later