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LD33 - #1 - Concept, images

Hey, everyone!

The first LD’s day is over, as I’m risking to fall asleep right at my desk. I’ll still try to quickly cover what I’ve been through today.

NB: I believe that a lot of fun in games comes from surprise. So today and tomorrow I won’t show and tell some things I’ve thought of or made - not to spoil your discovery fun later. We’re cool with that? Good.

Name and Concept

I have to confess: “You are the monster” was not the theme I was hoping for. I liked the ideas’ embrios for the other ones much more from the design point of view. But the theme was chosen and I’ve decided I’d still go with what I have - as opposed to quit over the theme and then wait for another 3 years to participate, heh.

So I’ve sifted through the wiki’s page for “Monster”, thought about the actual meaning of the world (not the games’ one, that we all know). And then I’ve remembered a one-word concept I was thinking about long ago, conveniently connected to the “monster” subject. It’s also a wordplay - and I like those a lot.

So there - I’ve had the name and the main concept. ~3 hours went into having a breakfast and then elaborating the concept a bit so that I knew what content/functionality I was gonna need.

Images

Here comes possibly the ultimately wrong - yet equally interesting - part of today. I’ve decided to draw my assets. This defies every optimization logic as I am a poor and a slow drawer, and I know it, and the starting plan was to just use circles and squares for stuff, and get the functionality to work first. Which is what smart people do in prototyping and jamming, right? I know!

But then I stumbled: I thought about implementing the real assets later and figured I don’t know exactly how to do it - so I went onto drawing stuff to figure out how it’s gonna work. Which resulted in those fellas above. Do you like them? I do.

Did this approach work? Yes it did. By the end of the day I have:

almost all the needed assets drawn (really - all the necessary ones, and that’s a lot of drawing for me);

animations already hooked up in Unity (more on that below);

better understanding of the future gameplay and visual feedback;

mixed emotions: part of me thinks I’m bloody late already, which is understandable), but there’s another one which is cool as ice; we’ll know more about that tomorrow evening. :)

Keep reading if you don’t know how to edit sprite animations in Unity - I’ll show you.

Editing sprite animations in Unity

Ways to create sprite animations are covered in their own tutorials (like the 2D Roguelike project), and work all right. While you make them right the first time and then never change them. It goes like this:

Have the gameObject for the upcoming animation ready and preferrably in the opened scene.

Select all the anim’s frames in the Project view and drag-n-drop them onto the corresponding gameObject.

This automatically creates (in the “Sprites” folder) an animation out of those frames and also an animation controller in case this gameObject does not have one yet. If controller’s already there, animation will be created and added to the respective controller.

Now you can manage animations in the controller, yada-yada, but then one of the animations seem broken or you want to add a frame to one of them - how do I do that, roguelike tutorial?!

Last time I asked it did not answer - I had to limit the animations edits, as they were all done through re-creating the animations and the wiring them to the existing states in the controller. Put short - it’s too much effort for this kinda stuff.

Yet today I’ve learnt how to do it and the Sun shed it’s golden light upon my forehead and there was happiness all over the world for a sec or two. :)

Provided you’ve created animations and controllers as shown above, do this to edit them (it’s gonna be so simple you’re gonna giggle):

Open the Animation window (not the Animator one) via Ctrl/CMD+6 or Window menu;

Select the gameObject we were talking about this whole time in your scene’s Hierarchy window - if it has a controller and at least one animation, the Animation window will show it like below.

Now you can drag around these frames of animation, copy-paste them, and even change them completely. If the Inspector window is open, you’ll notice: when you somehow change the animation, the “Sprite” field of the “Sprite Renderer” will have a red background. That’s because the animation changes the content of that very field. So you can as well select one of the keys in the animation or create-and-select a new one, and then drag some sprite into that field - it will go into the animation now!

Now you can edit your sprite animations! Ain’t it awesome?! :D

Just always remember to hit Ctrl / Cmd + S, when you’re done with the animation’s edits - and you’ll be safe and sound.

And to finish this on smth fun(ny), here are several cool little “Day 1″ updates from the people at the Ludum Dare: one, two, three, four, five, six. That last guy - I’m so with him on that. :)

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