#crunchypixels

It’s not a very good quality video, but here’s a little look at the project so far!

After a VERY busy month, not much progress has been made, but it is starting to shape up I think. My goal design-wise is to create the “bones” of the level design, then fill the gamespace with detail.

I’ve leart that the two main ways to make an environment feel alive are sound design and movement, so I’ve worked to add these elements in three key ways:

-Water that moves/has sound effects

-A day/night cycle

-Movement sounds/animation

After my first year of making little games, I feel I’ve learnt quite a bit! This year though, (inbetween the busyness of life!) I would like to make a game that fulfills three main criteria:

Has an engaging narrative with interacteble characters

Is hella cute/cosy

Has a playtime of at least 15 minutes

To that end, I’m very excited to share the first images of my new project (which I still don’t have a name for). I am expanding on some of the skills learnt from my last projects (3d platforming, probuilder, full animations), and plan to expand on those by having collectables, an inventory system, narrative objectives, and possibly even a music minigame? I also want to make more of my own assets, like the water texture, and general sound effects. 

Well, amid the chaos and busyness of life, I somehow found the time to finish my game! I’m quite proud of this short little experience, I’ve managed to accomplish a few things I haven’t done before, such as;

-multiple levels.

-controller support.

-PC and Mac releases.

-moving textures.

All in all, whilst I certainly could keep working and adding to it, I’m quite happy where the game is at, and I’m ready to move onto other things. Given how challenging it was to find the time to finish this game, I’ll need to find ways to iterate ideas more efficiently.

Lessons I’ve learnt from this project:

-probuilder is great for creating very precise custom terrain, but it is a VERY slow process.

-future games need to have more points of interaction.

You bitch. 

1. The first character I first fell in love with

This is a complicated answer if we’re not counting Kingdom Hearts because I fell in love with Leon and that by proxy made me love Squall before I’d ever played FF8. I actually still haven’t played FF8. 

2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now

Seifer :-) 

3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t

Um….I don’t think I can answer this. Nope. 

4. The character I love that everyone else hates

Tidus. Let’s be real.

5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer

Uhmmmm….Kadaj….I guess? I used to think he was hot but now I…yeah, Kadaj.

6. The character I would totally smooch

WAKKA. 6 FOOT 8 GINGER. 

7. The character I’d want to be like

The answer remains Yuffie.

8. The character I’d slap

Tidus. Like right in the mouth. Then I’d hug him.

9. A pairing that I love

I went through a very serious Rikku/Gippal faze.

10. A pairing that I despise

*PANTS HEAVILY*

THIS GAME MAKES ME SO FUCKING EMOTIONAL AND VIOLENT WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME LADJALKSJDKL.

1. The first character I first fell in love with

THIS BITCH

No seriously he is literally the first character EVER. 

2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now

THIS EMO BITCH.

3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t

NOT FUCKING APPLICABLE.

4. The character I love that everyone else hates

THIS ADORABLE BITCH

5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer

NOT FUCKING APPLICABLE.

6. The character I would totally smooch

THIS SMARTASS BITCH

7. The character I’d want to be like

8. The character I’d slap

ALL OF THE ABOVE.

9. A pairing that I love

SQUFFIE AND YURIKU AND SORIKU AND SOKAIRI AND RIKAIRI AND CLAERITH AND LEARITH AND CLEON BASICALLY EVERYONE CAN DO IT I’M FINE WITH THAT. 

10. A pairing that I despise.

 HI HI HI!

Oh man. I never shut up about the anti-DE. So much so that my IRL best friends who also follow me on tumblr make fun of me (and know more about TVD than they ever wanted to).