Hi there,
Today weāll share more about the project (as promised on the last post!)
You remember the 3 points about Orikami ?
There is Origami, Plateform and Lost Level. But thatās not all.
Orikami is about folding a paper. But we decided that we will make a thing a little more challeging for you : you can only take the four corner of the paper.
Because itās fun.
You have two types of fold during the game. Valley fold, and Letter fold, as we named it. The valley fold is a classic one, you all know what it is. See the illustration below. You canāt do a mountain fold muhahaha
However, the Letter fold is about taking the corner you just made to do another fold. See the illustration below.
The camera is fix, he doesnāt move while youāre playing the game. It is a 2D game.
CharacterĀ
As we said, it is a 2D game. You see your characterās profil, in a piece of paper, like this :
Controls
Classic one are programmed for the prototype alpha and beta of Orikami.
For the gold version, we tend to research how to do a pathfinding system. The main idea is to draw a line that Kami could interprete and execute in-game.
For now, as students, we do not have much time for this research yet. So basically, we have arrows left and right and a jump button.
The orikami were animal lifeform made from paper. They lived happily.
But one day, the God of paper lost his control : that causes the orikami to lost their hearts. A big disaster for the God of paper, that create a new lifeform : Kami, the new race of the Guardian of paper. A sort of assistant if you want. Ā
In Kamiās world, thereās only left lifeless orikami. If they donāt live, they will disappear through space and time, in every world, even ours. It is the duty of Kami to bring them back to life.
Well... we are making the game in real origami. What possibly go wrong ?
Well now, we have the answer. In short, photoshoped paper was not the answer. It was our first attempt to make a game about paper. So we made mistakes, and we understood this : āif you want to make a game about origami, do the origami then.Ā You see, you tried, it doesnāt work. It is too fake.ā Ā
Paper has a special texture that is not easy to make in 3D or 2D. The shadows was the main problem. Origami are really difficult to make on computer. It is a volume paper that has a thousand of shadows. So it easier to take pictures and then work on those photos.
So yes, we made real origami.