BIG Bad Game Dev

Interior Spanish Bar Scene

The above scene is a test made in Affinity just to block in all the needed elements and composition but looking at it now its almost usable.

The big ham leg and the fridge thing on the counter are essential...now I need to add lottery tickets and notes hanging from the shelves.

Thats a cheesy slot machine in the background, every Spanish bar has at least one. Maybe we’ll add a few blinking lights on it.

Clickable test of arguing couple

Game Backgrounds - Spanish Village.

All of these pics were taken within 10 minutes from where I live. Some of them are perfect and ready to go for backgrounds in the game.

I lived directly beside this yellow house for about 1 year...annoying small dog.

This is beside the yellow building

Another abandoned building project. This has been like this for at least 8 years.

Shut up you! 

Abban suggested this: a couple where the wife won’t let the husband speak.

Wow that shows you how old I am...¨clickable¨ is now an official word...years ago that would be underlined by a red squiggle.

Here is a new test https://marvelapp.com/1jb1fi3/screen/15028441

I´ve gone back to the drawing board (an actual drawing board) to make these rough scene tests in pencil. Using Layer Comps in Photoshop is a really quick way to make animatics.

Like all digital stuff the sheer choice of options can actually be an impediment...it’s like everyday there is a new tool or service to try.

When starting with game development I really knew nothing about creating sprites. And everybody suggests different workflows! For now we are using a mix of sprite sheets made in After Effects for Benji and testing using Spine for the opponents. 

A Benji test using good old fashioned pencils. I’ll tween it all in After Effects.

This is a Spine test created by Abban (he of course spent a happy few minutes recording himself chuckling to capture this motion) Ideally we can make three different body types and work off a template to quickly create new dudes.

“Wrong number” scene animatic. I think we may get away without using sprites for this and just switch flat images.

I need another wrong number to call...a silly sex dungeon springs to mind but we’re trying to keep it suitable for high school students.

The “hijo?’ woman will be coloured like the ‘gross out’ Ren and Stimpy scenes with a huge hairy mole and ‘tache.

A UI test using Material. Another brilliant solution from Mr. Dunne; instead of wrestling with it in Unity we´ll work out it with this instead. The amount of text needed on screen has been a massive concern for me but now I know it´ll work.

Here´s one of my UI clickthroughs using Marvel