#isometic

Artfight is done for the year!

But I wanted to share the piece I'm most proud of this year. After my friend suggested some group isometric art, I wanted to do the same, and combined all the Legend of the 5 rings characters listed together - inviting them over to my Scorpion's home base on Teardrop Island.

I did this really early on, and I'm super happy with how many new friends I've made over there! Thank you all for your kind words and revenge portraits of my character Reiji.

This was my first time drawing people in an isometric piece, and I'm super happy with how it turned out!

The sewing room. Its tender and warm. I’m here with you.

June 3, 2018 (154/365) Blue Falcon (F-Zero)

So I've been doing some thinking about how moving between room spaces is an important part of Nascent's DNA. Being able to move between spaces on the X & Z horizontal plane is standard and straight forward, but what if you could open up the play space into height? Being able to move between the rooms vertically and from a game design perspective add layers of rooms? I set to work a few evenings ago thinking it was a straight forward dev task, but it ballooned into all kinds of technical issues.

After a lot of work this feature is finally in place. Finally! Players will now be able to navigate up through layers of rooms which opens up all kinds of possibilities.

Crafting

Thinking more about the player inventory and how items work intertwined with puzzles I've decided to change 'Skills' to 'Tools'. Instead of collecting these, it now relays on the players doing some very light crafting - mainly combining two items to create a tool. I'm keen not to over burden the player in this new element so for now it's quite reductive.

design for a house after the story of the mole by Franz Kafka