#pixle2

Happy new year, folks. Lazcht tuning in!

It's first post since 2014. What's up there? In Jakarta when i live in, some places are still flooded, but luckily not my place (yet).

Been a while i'm not writing here, well we got Chel to cover us up and tell some development shits so we can slack a bit now lol, -edit- Chel is going off for certain time due to some personal problems.

So yeah i was kinda losing my ability to blog or doing networking etc since months ago. Lot of things happened IRL too as i need to adjust stuff to improve my productivity to even better than before.

Currently i'm being greedy working on multiple small projects after PIXLE II is done. some artbooks, collab game, prototype, and Montage Roux (i'll reserve my time later to post about this project, i swear this time)

Also this has been forever since the devlog~01, so maybe you want to read it again (as well myself).

Progress

It's done. Now looking for sponsor, so it might be slight change due to requests (if any). We put some stories to spice up the content, adding more achievements, and 100% completion medal. Fixing tutorials, putting up ingame hints for total newbie.

If you're a sponsor and interested with PIXLE II (and want to try the demo), please contact us right away! ;)

Trailer (oh fuck video editing!)

IT IS DONE OMG. i've been through hell editing with minimum processor and RAM, rendering and re-rendering the video, it's good i got helped by blue_mc. I had fun composing the content though, but i don't think i'll do this again until i get a better equipment.

check the result please! :D

Website for launch

Yeah, a PROPER website at last. i was very thrilled there was actually a web programmer helped us out to make a proper site (blue_mc, it's him again). I loved the result (esp. the credits section HAHA) and i hope you do too!

http://pixle2.stellar-0.com

Something else you might like to see

Developer Note

coming later on devlog ~03!

That's all for now.

Attention please~

Hello! Vichelyna's here. I'm the newest member of stellarNull ;) *cheers* What am I doing here? Emm.. Just playing around and reporting some of their work~ HAHAHAA*poke their asses*

Oooouwwkeeeyy.. Let's get into the weekly report..

What did Laz do in these 3 months? This alien doing some designing-work on Koutack with Hipon. Yknow, doing some perfection on anykind of game will never be easy, takes time and some foods *nyahaha*. Every tiles on Koutack must be bigger than before *it's for iOS if ye wanna know*. And Laz must re-touch Koutack's title screen too. The last one is doing some minor graphical enhancements & revisions for PIXLE II! Believe me, it'll be cool! Yay!!!

How 'bout Blue_mc? Ah.. He's doing good laaarr.. He's discussing all bout PIXLE II's debug with his head and computer. He doesn't event forget 'bout mute & pause implementation on PIXLE II. He's so skinny and I think he really need more sleep and more foods..

Back into the weekly report!! *ehm!* Clea's turn isn't it? He's fine. Now Clea is busy with testing & balancing and making sound effects for Koutack iOS. Just one project? No! He's composing sound effects, mixing and mastering songs for *just call it T.P*

What's T.P? Just wait for another spoil from us! Ciaoo~

Been a while like usual, folks! It's me Laz, as usual, reporting things that happens lately. ;)

Remember PIXLE? It's our game that released last year. It got lots of positive feedback, also some great inputs to fill holes in the game design and execution we thought it'd be good for a sequel.

Now we're making this project a sequel! It's more like an enhancement though. As we want to maximize PIXLE's potential without changing too much design.

We're collaborating with blue_mc, the same guy who ports PIXLE to android (port project will be continued after this if things goes as planned). What's hipon doing anyway? Ah he's doing fine in "Koutack iOS" project (not sure if its title will be changed later though), with me as theartist too.

Oh? Why PIXLE anyway?

Yeah that's one of our smallest scale (also quite casual) project we made so we thought why don't we try to make another one while we have fun and do potential collaboration with someone new XD.

The problems

As the original PIXLE was coded by hipon, making new code design/algorithm from scratch for the tunnel/seed/crystal generator is quite taking mucheffort, also the hard part is we need to make sure everything is following one game design direction, which is a new experience for us --a first collaboration also a sequel project with other coder, also new experience for blue_mc, to work with us handling a project from scratch (yet still a sequel though).

Me as an artist is currently working simultaneously with multiple game projects --PIXLE II, Koutack IOS, Montage Roux, it's a bit frustating sometimes i have to provide all the assets while directing art, and sometimes managing too, at the same time hahah and...which is why also i never write blogs lately! Urgh.

Project's progressing a bit slowly though, since almost all of us has multiple projects to work on.

What's new?

Team formation changes of course! Clea is fully in charge on game design this time, making sequence variations for the generated level design, calculations, also audio direction as usual. Me, Laz, not much difference than usual, but i'm having more control, such as menu transitions animations (which is usually hipon's task), also the ability to compile the game myself to test how my assets work in the thing. While hipon is keeping his eyes on quality control (?) like a boss.

Blue_mc is handling all the code work, his working speed and ability is quite remarkable, not to mention we were working online (now partly online). Oh note that he has a knack on aesthetical aspect (graphical mostly) so he managed to give me lot of feedback.

Trying 60FPS... we had to pump the performance up for this, as the project was lagging on some parts but now it gets even better.

Some new features of course! Expect more challenge to the game. Maybe we can reveal it on later devlog.

The progress

Almost all core feature of original PIXLE implemented i guess? Now we're in debugging and testing new features. Menu and main game flow is not yet decided tho. Here have a screenshot leaks: title screen mock up, because it hasn't fully implemented

Some testimonies from us about the project :P (clea and blue_mc gonna pay for this later! lol)

Lazcht

Well, as in graphics, i made more variation of the background, more detailed animations and effects, theme's still the same i guess, it's dreamy, nature, mystical and enchanting, and putting more blueish color theme rather than purpleish. Also as i am lately into abstract/surrealism paintings, i'm putting some abstract-ish design inside, haha, and i hope you can enjoy them as well. And i have listened to clea's draft BGM, we can't post it now but it gotta be awesome, lol!

hipon

Theart direction of this game looks pretty good in my opinion, it feels more 'dreamy' than the previous games, and the music is really good too. I think environment design and sound design of this game play a bigger role in the gaming experience than the previous game.