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Devblog for the making of Espectro. A deep sea survival pixel game from the point of view of a shark looking creachure. Follow for more news!

[espectro-game]

ITS MAY update

Hello everyone! Apologies for the late update was busy back on April launching my kofi and with other personal things happening. Things have calmed down a bit so I can wrote this post!

As I said before I managed to figure out how to connect the controls of the keyboard to the code so now I can move the player sprite without it bugging out on me. BIG W

Now if I’ll be honest that’s all I’ve done or have planned for this month too. I have another project I want to dedicate my time atm (my fantasy one) to apply for a few things before summer ends. Do not fret though once that is dealt with I’ll keep working on this.

On another news the musician is now working on the last song for the game and its coming out epically.

Next time I get back to it I need to figure out is how to: -Resize the tile sets for the game engine -code in mob behavior -Do a real test level

[psyduckraidsagain]

Izu-Ogasawara snailfish tribute

[catnoli]

labradorite black tip reef shark 🦈🌈 had a rough few weeks but im back ^_^ this shark is for the scorpios!! ♏️🦂

[mothsprout]

✷ Intertwined, Sewn Together ✷

[espectro-game]

I almost have the player code cracked you all!! Finally found a code that works now gotta see how to flip the sprites but I can move the sprite!

WITH

MY

KEYBOARD

[herpsandbirds]

Deep Sea Octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica) mothers with eggs at a communal nursery, family Megaleledonidae, 1,558 meters (5,112 feet) deep, in Noyes Canyon, off the coast of Alaska

The baby in the video is another species.

video via: oceanexplorergov

[espectro-game]

Test #1

Did my first test today for the interaction between the player and the assets. It was a disaster but good enough I can see what I need to work on. Humbled me so much, made me remember how little I know of coding lol Got a few things to figure out:

-Tile map resizing -Background parallax form for the levels - I HAVE YET TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO FREE FORM THE PLAYER MOVEMENTS WITHOUT BUGGING THE SCRIPT I am relieved I did this bc I would have turned to dust if I did all the art and had to scrap half of it or resize it last second. On another hand it was cool seeing my sprite move with arrow keys for a few mins :')

[montereybayaquarium]

We get pretty excited about the common siphonophore. What’s not to love?

We’re thrilled to be the first public aquarium in the world to culture and raise these delightful drifters. While these animals are incredibly fragile and difficult to see, they’re abundant and can be found throughout the ocean!

Siphonophores are colonies of tiny animals called “zooids”, and they play an important role in the oceanic food webs.

Thank you to our colleagues at @mbari-blog for the common siphonophore footage! Check out their website to learn more about these magnificent mysteries!

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the Devonian Hunsrück Slate #Paleostream! 

Look at all these weird little critters!

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Spinosaurus drama is cool and things, but do you know what's even cooler? Better fossils of animals that lived with Spinosaurus!

There is a new specimen of Concavotectum currently on display in Tuscon. BigSkyFossils took some photos of it and I had to doodle it! It's been a while since I did a tselfatiform and now we have finally an idea how the postcranium looked like!

So far we only had a few fragments and this pretty good skull. As some people noted though, the eye is reconstructed in the wrong corner.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Many people are not aware of the many incredible fish deep time has to offer, dinosaurs just take up so much media space!

Rhinconichthys, Dentilepisosteus

Tartuosteus, Brindabellaspis

Tselfatia, Alienacanthus

Aleosteus, Martillichthys

Polymerichthys, Foreyia

But most importantly never forget Pycnodontiforms!

Stenoprotome, Gladiopycnodus

Maraldichthys, Monocerichthys

[that-dumb-moth]

and then... there's the fucking horseshoe crab that has outlived every one of them and is still the exact same.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

COMMON MISCONCEPTION!

Horseshoe crabs HAVE changed quite a bit throughout their evolution! And been species that look like they are from the Jurassic have undergone a lot of molecular evolution, stuff that might not be expressed in their appearance but in how they function.

[espectro-game]

March UPDATE!

The month flew by??

Tile set color scheme is being picked. So far I believe I got three good colors that convey certain feelings for the levels. I am not sure how but I will have to do a tile sheet for these soon, and remove the duplicate tiles not worth it. I HAVE FINALLY STARTED WORKING ON PLAYER SPRITE(S)!!1111 I had to redo the og sprite I spent days on bc it was a poor draft. I like this version better fits more with the overall style. Now just need to find a solid color scheme and textures, cohesively make the sprite for all the actions and then it should be gucci!! After I shall finally do a test run with a simple level see how all the assets fit and its interactions (and if I even got anything from teaching myself on the moment lol) Lets see!

I'm gonna have to keep you all whaling (get it?) for a while longer but I am super excited for this project! !!

[espectro-game]

Progress is happening on the game assets! Here's a wip of the tileset I'll use through most of it. I don't want to complicate myself but I still want it to look good for a tileset lol. Working in 16 X 16 is hard but one learns how to adapt

Shout out to aseprite making this process much easier

[espectro-game]

low key dying at the fact of making tile sets. I can take learning coding,multiple softwares, doing sprites BUT tile sets are another WORLD!!!!

[heartnosekid]

rainbow tripod fish larva (bathypterois grallator) | source

[espectro-game]

February update!

Considering doing monthly updates perhaps reblog fish stuff here to keep some activity while I work on the art.

As for the update I'm almost reaching 40 sprites yehaww!! Also, thinking heavily on adding like a challenge level. It seems to me the most challenging level barely has much so to change that I shall add something to spice things up! It is fun the theme in mind. I have to get myself in gear and finish the composing enemy code tutorials. Finished the sprites needed for the base level so gonna jump into actual game making to test it all out. Then after I'll be finishing up the sprites and learn how to do sprite sheets On a side note sinophores are the most alien looking thing/concept I have seen from this project. Give me sci-fi vibes! Very cool

[espectro-game]

Do you know the levels of the ocean?

Epipelagic Zone: (0-200 meters 0 to 660 feet)

Mesopelagic Zone: 200 meters to 1,000 meters (660 feet to 3,300 feet)

Bathypelagic Zone: 1,000-4,000 meters (3,300 - 13,100 feet)

Abyssopelagic Zone: 4,000 meters to 6,000 meters (13,100 feet) to 19,700 feet)

Hadalpelagic Zone: 6,000 meters to the very bottom, 10,994 meters (19,700 feet to 36,070 feet or the bottom)

Source

[espectro-game]

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I can share a crumb of music here's a theme the composer Dexbasson did for me! I think its fitting for the start gives it a good ambience.

You all should check him out if you're into chiptune or overall cool oc themes! He made one for my main oc and it was glorious!! Still gotta do an animatic with it ;v; Here's other places you all can find him!

Foxhide

All music by me (Dex) under different aliases. Anyone else involved is credited in the album description. Banner and pfp by ShenzaiBird @ h