#tornup

Wow I’m already halfway into this month and I haven’t recapped the last one yet. Sorry! I’ll be honest, Tumblr’s not been all the same with everyone gone to twitter. I appreciate you guys still sticking around though.

With that said, let’s get things ROLLING...

Funny joke. Anyway I spent the whole month working on the boss. I’m just gonna show various phases of their completion.

I like to focus first on making the attacks, phases, and timing feel right, so I start with sketches of the frames and focus on programming with those in mind before going into details. Poor guy doesn’t even have a mouth.

There we are.

Tornup can hop, spit out seeds, lash out his tongue, or spawn more smaller turnips. As the fight goes on he’ll switch out to hovering in the air, burrowing underground, and going faster all-around.

He can also slam straight down, creating shockwaves! I’m also giving bosses a health bar, since they can go on for quite a while.

Once finished, he ends up being a meal for our fat-feathered friend from last month.

And that’s about it! I hope you all enjoyed. Right now I’ve been working on stuff for an unrelated chapter, and pecking away slowly at the final story part of chapter 1. I’m hoping to have a cute cutscene by then.

See you next time

I depixelated tornup from the demo for Poppin & Jupa: Pocket Adventure (which you should really check out if you haven’t, its loads of fun.)

here’s the original sprite: