#development post

I have already spoken at length about my issues with Valentino’s season two writing during my Sympathy for the Abusers essay, but I also struggled to with how to adapt the character’s early writing. It’s no secret that Hazbin Hotel’s Valentino thinks with his genitals, but I knew very early on that porn wasn’t something I was interested in writing about for The Redemption Project.

Subsequently, I was able to figure out how to adapt Angel’s very flirtatious personality for a more dramatic show:

But the character really came together when I was discussing Angel’s plotline in season two.

@paranormal-paracosm made some really good points about how this could affect the character’s motives:

As for Angel’s design, I planned a feminine design in the early stages, with a showbiz influence.

I ended up doing various outfits for the character while playing fashion games, and came to a conclusion about the character’s design:

And with that, the character came together rather quickly.

The idea of Lilith being the mind behind Hell’s yearly Exterminations did not start with me. @paranormal-paracosm gave me the idea while I was venting about trying to untangle the mess of motivations in Hazbin Hotel.

I knew I’d wanted more complex reasons behind the Exterminations than a simple hatred of the residents of Hell, but given Lilith’s affiliation with Adam (which was a particular frustration for me at this point in time), it made sense to involve her in his work. I’d been thinking about how the then-recent reveal of Lucifer being unable to harm Sinners would have affected his relationship with Lilith, and I decided to make her the Architect of the Exterminations.

Lilith had watched Hell grow increasingly lawless as Lucifer fell deeper into his depression, unable to rule over his subjects. The Sinners in the Pride Ring no longer respected the Royal Family as they once had, but bowed to Sinners with more power than a mortal soul should have been able to hold. With her beloved unable to defend his honour, Lilith went to the last person she ever expected to return to; the First Man, with a dangerous idea in her mind; to introduce a yearly culling of the Sinners in Hell, conducted by a heavenly force led by Adam himself. Knowing that the Angels could kill Sinners, she hoped that reintroducing morality to Hell would lead to the souls in the Pride Ring revering their immortal rulers once more.

Adam presented the idea to the Seraph as his own, with Lilith’s blessing, and although they were reluctant, they accepted the proposal. Adam was made the new commander of the existing Exorcists, and with the support of their Lieutenant, was able to turn them into a force to be reckoned with. Lucifer signed the terms without protest, and Lilith, fearing that her Deal would be revealed, left the Pride Ring and her family behind. Lucifer still recognised his beloved’s work.

I have a giant Pinterest board for The Redemption Project, so I began by saving twenty pins for Charlie, spanning fanart of the character herself, as well as real life garments alongside aesthetic images, song lyrics and a lot of text posts. I then used Pinterest’s Shuffles app in order to make a single image combining the contents of the board, thinking about how I was positioning both the text and visuals.

Using this as a reference, I did a rough sketch in order to figure out Charlie’s design; at this stage, I was more focused on the character’s style, choosing not to include animalistic elements at this stage.

Having completed the sketch, I decided that I wasn’t a fan of the yellow tint to her skin, deciding to go with a more desaturated colour. I also decided to add horns and ears, leaning into her demonic heritage, although I knew she was going to be a humanoid character. My biggest problem, however, was her skirt. Although my notes put the issue down to the skirt being too short, I wasn’t happy with longer skirts either. The issue turned out to be more complicated than I expected; the blazer was too long and affected the skirt, although I did also lengthen the skirt slightly.

Finally, I decided to edit some of the colours from the first design; making the blazer and pumps red to be more similar to her Hazbin design.

Now that I was satisfied with Charlie’s design, I did a full piece; redrawing the character with the correct proportions and an appropriate pose; I chose the pose in question in order to show off both her design and her character.

I did a couple of alternate versions before coming to the one I was happy with. This one I rejected as I felt like the lighting was too red, and I feared it washed out Charlie herself.

And that brings me to the final piece! It takes a long time to develop and design a character, and The Redemption Project is no exception. I hope this gave you a chance to see what goes on behind the Hotel doors!

Hey all, it's been a very productive time over here in my corner of the web. I've finished up some of the core mechanics of the game and getting into the design of a few finishing touches, here's a sneak peak ;)

So in terms of what's been added we have the player (in red) and multiple different NPC cars being pink, green, blue and grey. I've also got the score on the screen being how far in metres the player has traveled and an explosion animation upon crashing.

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This is my development post of the racing game elevator pitch from my last post.

I have followed the tutorial provided in the IGB120 tutorial for the racing game and have the basic requirements of the top-down racing game. The initial implementation of the game which includes, forward traffic, oncoming traffic, trees, roads, scores, player collision and movement.

My Plans

Implementing a new type of movement for the player, allowing it to move up and down the playing field (speeding up and slowing down). The movement will now use up, down, left, right arrow keys instead of just left and right arrow keys.

Implementing powerups like an invincibility powerup that allows the player's car to destroy the cars it collides into, rewarding more points for each car destroyed.

In the development process, I firstly changed the colour of the car try to make it looks like Taxi and added lights effect animation.

To make the game LOOKS like a game, the main menu and fail menu have also been added

Since my screen is 1920x1080, and the original codes doesn't work well, so I changed the values into the one that fit the resolution.

Reward system