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[alwex]

@Igor Sandman you're welcome! I hope it will be usefull for someone.
I will rework it and post it on http://tikotepadventure.com soon

@Mattie I think too. I will keep the not stretched effect in the final game

I worked on another shader today, a little bloom effect

before



after



It is subtle, but I found that the bloom effect make the scene more vibrant and alive

[Voltz.Supreme]

Everything looks fantastic!

[alwex]

As the game will need various maps/level, I worked on a pixelation effect to nicely deal with the map transition.
It allow to load the map in background so that the player won't notice the loading. This transition occures only when changing maps, not rooms (a map is made of multiple rooms).

here is the effect:

[JobLeonard]

Having a transition effect is probably a good idea.

But if I'm totally honest, I'm not a fan of it in its current form. The graphics so far have a dreamy quality to them, despite their pixelated nature. This has a very different feeling to it.

[alwex]

Yep you are right. What do you think of this transition (simple fade out/in).
The map did not take to long to load so it can do the job quite well.

[and]

I actually quite like the pixelation transition - it reminds me of SNES games. I think the fade in/out works fine though. It's a lot cleaner.

[alwex]

@and I quite like the two effect, I think I will made some more few tests with other technics. I like to the transition effect from the game environmental station alpha



maybe something in this style can match with the art/style

[alwex]

great news, Tikotep have been added to the website playfield.io

http://playfield.io/

Tikotep's adventure is on the top games of the week! 

[alwex]

worked today on a running scene where Tikotep is followed by a wolf horde.
The spirit of the white wolf decide to help him.

[Crabby]

Wow. Eye candy all around! 
That white wolf chase scene is great.

[alwex]

Still working on the wolf escape scene.
I just added some big trees (maybe sequoia, who knows).

[alwex]

Added a radial motion blur effect to accentuate speed sensation.
now the wolf spirit throw some nice little magic particles around.

[lobstersteve]

That's cool 

[Bluebutton]

The art style is great.

As to the transition, personally I'm not a fan of the pixelated version but the sidefade works. Have you considered changing the swipe fade direction dependent on the direction you're travelling to?

[alwex]

Have you considered changing the swipe fade direction dependent on the direction you're travelling to?

Sounds like a good idea, I will give it a try

[mk]

Lovely art!

I like the black fade out/in. I think it's suit the game much more than pixelation transition.
Also, the first one is way too slow.

[alwex]

Thanks guys for your feedback, I will stuck with the fade in/out and will try to make it look better.

[alwex]

The past two days was dedicated to refactoring (had some bug with collisions detection and attaching entities together).
I entirely refactor the QuadTree for collision detection improvement and it now work quite well.

As I have not found some Java QuadTree implementation accepting floating point over the net I decided to create my own version and to publish it on Github.

If someone is intersted here is the link:

https://github.com/alwex/QuadTree/

If you want the jar directly:

https://github.com/alwex/QuadTree/releases

[bauer]

Just wanted to drop by to say that this looks super radical! Great job

[alwex]

@bauer Thank you for the kind words 
After a few tests, it seems that I earn up to 10% performance with the collision detection using the new QuadTree, the last one was not to much optimised and had a lot of dead code.