I Hated My Game's Pixel Art, So I Remade It!
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- čas přidán 30. 01. 2023
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In this Indie Game Devlog, I started to overhaul my game's pixel art and animations. This will be a long learning process, as I don't know that much about pixel art, but I hope to learn! I also made the 2nd enemy for the game in this devlog, the dapper snapper.
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For the destructable objects, making them a bit bouncier and moving more will make the look much nicer. Also sound effects play a huge role in it and them having unique sound effects would be nice. (And a breakable sand castle damn)
Your sprites look really good! You may want to try making the destructible objects collision animation instead of using particles, it might help with the effect you're going for!
Ooh, for the breaking animation, you could add a really big dust particle to cover up the item itself and switch to a broken version while the dust is going on and have the dust stretch and fade!!
Wow the new player looks amazing!
Great improvements to the art! Can't wait to see how far you can take this.
Keep up the great work the project is looking great :)
Congrats on finishing that 8-direction animation, that looks like a freaking monumental amount of work. Do you think you're going to hand draw all the other characters too?
I’ll probably use the one I’ve already made as a base, although sight changes could characterize them a bit. The 3 player characters will be the only ones with 8 directional movement, so hopefully it won’t be too much of a time sink
You could make your character psychic so that it would explain how he can telekinetically control the sword (just add some purple sparkly outline around the sword à la mob psycho 100)
I've been planning on doing something like that, like making the sword magical or something, so thanks for bringing it up, I need to get onto it eventually
6:12 a time pause effect would make a big difference
Cool! Subbed :) Killing the crab could make him drop the hat!
Bro, good job!
There seems to be a gap between your tiles. The solution to this problem is to create a sprite atlas, and adding all of your tilemap sprite sheets under the "Objects for packing" list. Don't know why it works, but it generally works.
That’s the thing, I did that. All of the tiles are in a sprite atlas, which fixed some but not all of the gaps
i think you can make the tilemaps tiles overlap by setting their scaling X and Y to expand 0.01 and -0.01
I think the reason your destructibles feel unsatisfying is that they break immediately upon contact. This is fine, but you want to add variation. In games like enter the gungeon, things don't generally break until you interact with them, with some exceptions. If you add rigid bodies and physics to some of them and maybe give them a small hp bar so you have to damage them a bit before they break would help. I'm sure there are some animation tricks as well, but I can't help with that part lol.
me like dapper snapper ^.^
Subscribed looking good
6:10 Make them move in the direction the player is moving, also sounds help
For the different clothes I would look into astortion devlog 26
Yeah I’ve seen that and will look into if it could work for me, it seems interesting
What if you make the terrain destructible? Might add something to the combat.
Something cool could be a stamina system where when you sprint you lose some stamina. This could prevent players spamming sprint and add a challenge
Yeah I'll definitely have to find a way to balance dashing, although I think that I will just put it on a longer cooldown, because when I'm playing a game like Archvale or Tiny Rogues, I find it hard to keep track of the amount of dashes I have left when I'm dodging bullets and shooting at the boss, so I end up pressing the button to dash and then not going anywhere. Its a skill issue on my part, but I personally want to try and find a different solution
Do you think at any time that you might hire people for the project to do music and art while you do the programming,
Your sprites aren't at all terrible, they are quite fine for a beginner, the essential stuff is to look up references, other games like stardew valley and terraria could be a great reference point in making your characters, especially stardew valley that has a general style to making people close to what you're going for, and of course studying the basics of light and shadow and colors to make better pixel-art
And i think your destructible objects look kinda wrong because they lack the bounce that the other games have, like in enter the gungeon you dodge roll intro a crate and pieces of it go flying before hitting the ground and the little pieces are scattered across a small area but still giving distance to one thing to another, again seeing references while making this sort of stuff is essential to get a good result.
damn the game looks so great
Thanks!
you should add shadows under the player character and the enemies thatd look nice
That’s a good idea, I’ll get to that soon!
@@ButWhyLevin Np! also for the breakable objects i think if you made the little smoke clouds poofier it could look nice!
Colored lines for the objects could look cool too, i think it would make it fit the environnement and not clash as much
Awesome.. me to struggling with arts🥺
leaving a comment for the algorithm gods
I think you should unlock one person and then unlock the other's maybe by defeating a boss or something it does not have to be a boss PS: this game looks awesome
Thanks for the suggestion and compliment, I think it’s a good idea to make you unlock characters one by one for tutorial purposes, but I’d rather you have all of them by 30 minutes into the game or so, I plan on jobs and weapons being the main unlockables
Hey, i was wondering what program do you use for pixel arts
It’s called aseprite, it’s great!
Oof, didnt know its not free, thanks tho
Well it is open source, so if you’re willing to put in a bit of time, you can legally compile it for free if you follow a tutorial like this. czcams.com/video/WKeNJh_gIJU/video.html
The 20 dollars is just to support the project
i didnt know that also, ill try it thank you
Very noice
yeah
I'm questionning the idea of after learning 3D why going to pixel art style and not use your knowledge about 3D. Or maybe if you really want a pixelart vib, finding a compromise : turn 3D into pixel art with shaders or something like that ?
It’s just because I want to do pixel art, I’m not on a tight deadline or anything so I want to learn a new skill while making this game
Art style is similar to dev duck
this feels like when that one guy shaves his beard
I would work for you
MF DOOM
Firsties!!!
first is the worst
@@Aidanryry Said the second :)
@@BruceOnder more like the fifth 😂
I hate sand
Sorry, but your CPU is made with sand.
@@maxmuster7003 no mine is made from poor african children
Your mother