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Hey cocefi! I just started playing Drawn to Life recently and I’m like super obsessed with it now :3 I kinda wish I saw it when I was a kid, but even now it’s inspiring the heck outta me! Your art style is magical, and it’s actually one of the reasons I’m getting more serious into breaking into the gaming industry with my art skills. If you ever have any advice for someone just starting out, I’d love to hear it!

Hello chocotamii, thanks for writing in. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying DtL. My personal advice for someone starting out is to continue honing your skills (but also remember to chill so you don't burn yourself out) and to participate in game/art communities by posting your work, giving helpful comments/encouragements and joining hobby projects for experience. Better yet, make friends and have fun together! In the indie games space, being easy to work with will often land you more opportunities than just having an amazing portfolio. Welp, that's all I can think of right now, my past experience may be outdated and irrelevant nowadays as the landscape has changed considerably, so do take them with a pinch of salt. Hope that helps and have a good day!

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I have a question for someone who is new to game dev and 3d modeling what do you suggest i use for game making unity or godot. In your opinion what would be easier for a absolute beginner. (I think saw a post of you using godot)

With all the dramas going on with Unity, the splitting of rendering pipelines, the runtime fee fiasco and another big employee layoffs which just hit today, I'd recommend going with Godot. It's fully open sourced and the 3D features are improving quickly from what I'm seeing. A lot of indie devs have switched over too. That said, I've only tried Godot briefly and is not well versed with it yet. My Unity game is unfortunately too far along to be ported over to Godot, but if I were to start a new project today, Godot will definitely be my engine of choice. Also Brackeys (famous for his awesome Unity tutorials) has just recently released a Godot tutorial. Go check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5KpqcoiIU

Have fun learning!

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I’m very inspired by your Project Dungeon. I love the vibes of it and the cute characters and just everything. I'm very interested in game making. I’m very new to everything. I'm using unity at school and I have tried Godot and learning to animate in Blender in my free time. I hope one day I'll make a little cute game like Project Dungeon. Here is a model I’ve made Lemo. Kinda inspired by your game Project Dungeon, Animal crossing new horizons and Pikmin. Sorry for yapping. I just want to say Thank you.

Hello, thank you for your kind words. Lemo is looking really cute! I can't wait to see them running around in game. Wishing you the best! =)

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It’s been almost another year since my last Tumblr update, time sure flies doesn’t it? I thought I’d be able to fully focus on adding content to my hobby dungeon crawler game this year, but boy, how absolutely wrong was I!

Getting hit by design indecisiveness at this point of development sure didn’t help. Luckily I have a much clearer direction now and hopefully things work out for the better.

Stuff I did this year:

new hot springs map theme

trap support

ice element (freezing and sliding)

knock back chaining

new inventory (you can carry more junks now!)

text delay support for dialog box

complete rework of map branching system

a couple of new mobs

mob aura and leveling system

added proper sound effects

bug fixes and more!

I couldn’t help but wonder if it’s really okay to spend so much time on this single project when I could’ve done a hundred of other different things over these years. Who knows...

Till next time!

PS: I finally have a proper portfolio site too. (Please hire me for pixel art jobs so I can indulge in my gamedev hobby)

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Woah... almost year went by since the last update!

This game is still chugging along slowly (4 years and counting). It’s wasn’t easy juggling between work and this side project, so the graphic side has remained somewhat stagnant. I was just too drained to do art after a long day of work. On the other hand, coding has been going pretty well!

Some things I’ve managed to do this year:

updated UIs and controls

support for branching levels

destructible walls

fire propagation

new AI system

reworked map generation system

basic sound system

various game mechanics (not gonna post any spoilers!)

lotsa bug fixes!!

Just a few more essential things to do before I get to the fun part: adding game content! =D

That’s all for now. Have a great new year ahead!

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I-I'm still working on this! Just dumping a bunch of random shots from the latest build. Follow my Twitter for more up-to-date progress.

And some info before anyone asks:

There’s still no game title (just calling it Project Dungeon for now).

There’s still no release schedule.

It’s loosely based on the Mystery Dungeon game genre.

It’s currently developed with Unity for the PC.

I’m only working on it during my free time.

I’ll be focusing more on coding next year so there won’t be much pretty things to show then. Till next time!

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Hii hello, I'm a 3D artist about to enter my senior year and I was wondering if I could rig those old models you posted you know just for fun, okay well thanks I just thought they were really cute. :)

Oh yeah go right ahead! Have fun with them! =)

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Just rummaged through my backup CDs today and found some of my older 3D models (from 2005 and 2011 respectively).

I’ve converted them to Blender format for anyone who wants to poke around. I couldn’t salvage the old rigs however, so they are just T-posed models along with their textures.

Grab them here: (files no longer available)

Happy holidays! =)

Updated with license for those who’re asking, though attribution isn’t always necessary: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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dorkthalos

Made a little girl who want to aspire some sailor hero!

My first pixel art with only 16 colors!

It was inspired (agressively to be honest) by on of cocefi art (http://pixosprout.tumblr.com/post/31711327762)

pixosprout

Cute! =D

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Can you share a couple of wireframes of full human-like characters? I love your low poly chibi style and want to learn how to master it!

Here you go!

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Hi ! So the game has been cancelled ? I'm a little sad. :c Don't u think to use donations ? Anyway do u think of making another game like that in the future ? ~ Have a nice day ! :D

Hi anon, no worries, we’re doing fine financially (thanks to day jobs) =)

While it’s not exactly the same, but I’ll still be continuing on my dungeon game. Cheers =D

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just curious, but did you make a game in the past that did get uploaded?

Hmm.. I had a couple of solo game projects up online yeaaars (decade?) ago, which thankfully aren’t available anymore (cause they are just plain awful). I haven’t uploaded anything else since and the rest are just commercial titles I was involved in.

Here’s a shot from an old game that was up (yes, it has chickens too). I’m too lazy to dig through my backup CDs for any older ones haha

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Just curious, is there anyway that a downloadable vers. could be made of what existed before cancelation? Or is it all just being thrown away? It seems like such a waste of an awesome looking game

Thanks! There’s no plans to upload the prototype at the moment. Sean (the programmer) may repurpose some of the assets for future games he’ll be doing (while I go back to focus on my dungeon game project), so it’s not a complete waste! Plus we’ve learned lots from this project! =)

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why has it been cancelled?? :c

We hit a few snags with getting multi-mobile-device-local-multiplayer working smoothly plus the lack of wide market appeal for such game made it hard to continue on.

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