Actreo

Concept art for my game.

Run cycle test for my player sprite. (The recording quality is not great, sorry.)

I drew each frame for the entire run cycle in Pixel Studio. With eight frames for four directions, that’s a 32 piece sprite sheet, which was a lot of work. I’m debating whether or not I’ll eventually want to animate diagonal running for omnidirectional movement, but that can wait. I originally put everything together in Game Maker, but I recently decided to make the switch to Unity because of its better support for 2D isometric perspective.

My current concept puts the player in a desertified environment where plant life is scarce. The player will need to search far and wide to recover the plants that survived and build new biomes. This structure is partly inspired by Humayun’s Tomb.

New dreams growing from broken dreams.

Broken aqueduct.

Older, larger trees will be less common; the survivors should be looked after with care.

Lately I’m daydreaming about making a survival sandbox game in this style, where you could scavenge blocks from the ruins of a fallen civilization to build something of your very own. Would you play it?

Experiments with Isometric 2

Floating somewhere, far away.

Imagine getting up from your job, right now, and wandering out into the wilderness. You’re finally free.