#early game development

The main goals with Mobject Paradise are simple when it comes to the pets itself. The two goals are to A. Use as little layers/files as possible and B. Have a good system that allows for more genes to be implemented without having to hand recolor. This is a diagram as to how layering will work, as shown on a generic leafbeast.

Genes depending on if they’re for limbs or the body will go on their associated layers. For example, if layer 2 has Piebald, above layer 2 the file for piebald will show. Layers 1 and 3 are grouped, meaning if a body gene is used, it will technically go on Layer 1 instead of two files for Layer 3. Layer 5 is simply for facial features such as eye/nose shape and eye color. Layer 4 may also be grouped with Layer 2 in the case we decide to add some genes that change the coloration of the horns, although we don’t have any planned right now. For now it remains its own layer, doing its own layering things.

The goal with colors is simply to have its own hue, saturation, and brightness system. There will be a pure red (#FF0000) base for each file that uses colors which can change colors based on the colors coded for it, determined by a unique H/B/S code. For example, I have a simple circle in Kleki I’m using to make this example.

To make a raspberry color, brightness would be at 50 (default), hue -21 and saturation 34. It would mean less files would have to be made for each color and gene combo, meaning more colors could be added on as needed. The goal is to have 100 colors when the pets are finally coded. This is in a very early stage though and I still need to take the time to figure out the logistics of code that I need to make this before I can do things, but this should hopefully create a decent system.