August 29th Update
Updated User Interface, character expressions and music.
Been hard at work on my game and I have a couple more tidbits to talk about!
Updates to the UI/game design:
New title screen (finalized)
Custom branch buttons done!
I haven’t spoken at any length about character expressions or how I go about handling them, but I think I found a pretty neat way of doing it!
Due to time constraints, I’m trying to be efficient in my assets since I’m making them all from scratch. That means that unless I get time towards the end to do more art, I’ll only be adjusting minor things about the character’s expression.
Take the .gif up there. Looks simple. It is.
I’ll probably write in length about my process for creating character art if there’s any interest later, but I’m guessing it’s not a new trick by any means.
Each ‘part’ of the expression is on it’s own layer. As I hide or show the layers, I can quickly come up with a mixture of expressions without having to re-draw anything. I prefer nuanced expressions though, so it’s more to my selfish taste. Either way, it really helps cut down on asset creation time!
This is definitely my weak point. I’m not even at the level of amateur, but I wanted to make everything myself as a personal challenge-- so here I am!
You’re welcome to take a listen to a couple of tracks over at my soundcloud, but the specifically linked one is going to be used in CE-5. I really enjoy wide ambient tracks and it’ll show, but I’m trying to branch out and make some neat things for the game!
To listen, click here: “Thoughts at 3AM”
I’ll have more updates soon once I get a couple more scenes banged out. I don’t want to show -too- much of the story right away and there are still almost three weeks!
Please look forward to it!
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