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G'day all,

We added 5 #steam keys of Myth of Mist：Legacy to our member giveaways section. I would like to thank Interwise Multimedia Corp.for this great opportunity!

5 fortnightly draws. Draws start on 05-01-2023

Here is the link:

Myth of Mist: Legacy Zeepond Giveaway

Feel free to read our Myth of Mist：Legacy #review on the following link:

Myth of Mist: Legacy Zeepond Review

Good luck all.

Fish Glutton Game to be first released for Android @ Google Play Store

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I love doing character portraits.

It reminds me of why I started this project. I wanted to tell stories about the people I’ve met in my life that I never see represented realistically in movies, games, TV and novels.

I went to film school to tell these stories, but found it too hard to find the resources to find actors, money, time and energy to create the stories I wanted to tell.

I’m a bit of a control freak with the work I make, and making a videogame gives me the type of precision I need that filmmaking can’t without a big budget.

This year has been a nightmare in so many ways but at least I can control this thing. Looking at the improvements in my art and programming skills I have tangible results of my hard work.

Look at this portrait I made at the beginning of this year...

...and compare it to the latest ones above. What a huge difference.

This week I finally implemented the animation system for dialogue!

It’s a really basic system but I think it works pretty smoothly. I have a few little tricks I’m going to consistently use in the animations so that they flow together nicely and don’t look too repetitive. 

I want to do some text animation too sometime, like jumping and wobbly text for comedic or dramatic effect. I’m not sure how flexible the text plugin I’m using is but I know I can at least have a few different effects. Nothing too fancy but enough to add character.

I also made the first Cole portrait this week:

I think I’m going to use it whenever the player is presented with dialogue options to really try to emphasize Cole as his own character slightly separated from the player, and make them associate the words with him to flesh out his personality.

If I’m feeling really ambitious I’ll have different stock animations that will change when you hover over choices to show how he feels about them. That’s not high priority though! I’m trying to avoid scope creep wherever I can without sacrificing the quality of the game.

I’ve been building up the bowling UI a bit this week and this is where I’m at so far!

It’s still a work in progress; I’m not super happy with the TV screens, and I haven’t created the look of the Accuracy, Power, and Spin meters or the final character sprites yet.

The monitor on the right will show the current character’s score for the previous frame, current frame, and their score total so that the player won’t have to constantly switch between this screen and the score screen if they want to know who’s winning.

Another thing I’m really looking forward to doing with the right monitor is animations for strikes, splits, spares, and gutterballs. They’re going to be really cartoony, super low-resolution pixel animations with goofy humor like the CGI cartoons you sometimes get at old bowling alleys like AMF.

Lyla is starting to look pretty good!

Here’s her “model sheet” I guess you could call it. On the left is what she’ll look like in her idle animation while bowling (with a nice lucky bowling shirt she only wears in the bowling alley), on the upper-right is her face while engaged in dialogue with her, and on the bottom-right is her over-world model you’ll see in town.

Her style has really changed a lot since I first drew her, I’m almost afraid of even posting it here but have a look:

Seven-ish months of drawing pixel art has really improved my skills, and it feels so good to see that progress visually!