Recently put a bunch of these placeholder shape tiles together that will assist me in blocking out building shapes and maps to then be drawn properly later.
Blocking out Battle system UI is coming along nicely! Battle Start/Load is done, and now finished most of the beginning logic for calculating positions in the Attack Queue. Birds are fun to draw~
Going for something similar to the Earthbound/Mother series here.
I bought a base license an drew some of the core characters for KOH here. Riftmaw is from the Jungle Tribe, and Gwendul is Taiga Tribe. I might do some others in this same style, since it was a fun little experience.
I know I've been really pushing for traffic to our Patreon page. I'm worried that I might be coming off as a little too persistent, and for that I apologize. It's been difficult finding the courage to revive this blog.. so I want to ride that spark of bravery to be as honest and open with our all our followers as I possibly can.
We need your support.
Please tell your friends if you think they might be interested in any of this sort of behind-the-scenes game development content. Because (as-of-posting) we're currently at around $33/month and I'm putting at least 10-20 hours per week (most likely more) into this, which if you do math it makes.. 33/(20*4.3 weeks) .. some very tiny numbers;;;
Like approximately $0.38/hour kinds of tiny. Help.
So even if you can't afford to pledge right now, I understand. Sharing a link to any of our pages, or even this post itself, costs nothing yet is extremely powerful.
Follow us on Youtube and Twitch
Send in fanart and I'll repost/share it here
Submit asks and I'll answer them!
500 Riftling ($1) pledges would mean my rent is covered
Allowing me to sustainably focus on our projects
Which means they could get to Kickstarter sooner!
We have a fairly large following here, but I'm not sure how many have left during the Great Tumblr Exodus in December 2018. So if you see this, please take this as a call to action.
We're a tiny studio of 3 core members: myself, Lena (my loving partner), and Michael Slee (close programmer friend). I am the main force behind the writing of these longer posts.. as well as the sole 3D artist and animator. I'm responsible for the 3D work you've seen me post before:
If you want to our projects come to fruition, or enjoyed that gamedev content, I implore you to help.
I've come up with a few tentative plans to help us grow this year, as long as we are consistent.. but a lot of it is still up to digital word-of-mouth. Remember: just a small handful of shares to the right audiences could mean a whole world of difference to our future and the future of all our projects.
That includes both Driftwood Hollow and its episodic content updates, as well as KOH, and even further into other project ideas we would love the chance to develop into full experiences.
I want to end this with: I appreciate each and every like and follow, every pledge, every share, every kind and form of support we receive. It's part of what helped me to be brave right now; it will help me be brave in the future. I know that altogether, every small piece has to have a long term impact in the end.
Thanks so much for your time, your trust, and for hearing me out~
And happy holidays from the 3 of us here at Riftcaller! 🎄⛄🌠
A bit of what I'm working on right now! Using this template as a bit of a basis for generic emotions to be plopped in for the Small Portraits of the battle system, plus elsewhere.
A sketch I did of the first bit of highway from the east gorge that crosses into Driftwood Hollow! It's pretty high up, so I like the idea of being able to see the Lighthouse from this vantage point. I feel like I made the road way to narrow here and/or the sign is too big, so will have to adjust before taking this further.
Some temporary art for banners that link to each game project's page on the new site!
And a reminder that supporting on Patreon would help immensely and enable us to make them both a reality! If 200 people pledged at the $1/month tier, that would cover all of Kåre's bills for the month. They're also severely disabled, so that kind of support would really brighten their day!
Become a patron of Riftcaller Games today: Get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for ar
Made a very rough mockup for the Argument/Battle system! I think very simple backgrounds or slight scrolling pattern would be a goal. And I appreciate knowing my turn order in RPGs, so also has an unobtrusive queue off to the side there. Excited to start building it in-engine!
Working on the overworld map today while cuddling with Lena. They've been playing Moonglow Bay and it is giving me the serotonin!! Oh and I made my own very simple triangle brush to making painting in the trees no problem at all, so there's that too~
Been having a bit of a fibro flare which is keeping me off the computer, weh..
I had to redo the sidewalks due to some grid misalignment bleeehhh, but they're all done now. There's some minor nicks in the corners between some tiles but honestly will be hardly visible once I size things down.
Tiled Map Editor so far is a joy to use and has support for most major engines, I think? Like a lot of these tiles are bigger than my defined tile size and it has absolutely zero problems loading them in with any other sized tile, as long as it's a factor of 2 and is chopped correctly.
I did a lot of organizing yesterday, putting together a special Trello to keep track what I do month-by-month and day-to-day. Should help with both keeping up moral and make writing updates easier overall.
Been on bed rest for today and yesterday, which is always annoying to me. I seem to have done something to my knee and I need it to feel better for this weekend, weh.
And a gentle reminder that the Patreon exists and I'd love to get back up to 10 Patrons again.
🐲 Kåre
Become a patron of Riftcaller Games today: Get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for ar
Been thinking hard about how to split the map into zones, and slowly making progress on the coloring~ All the dots represent potential positions for the different lots in town, which could be homes, businesses, gas stations, etc..
Been going through the Trello and updating cards with checklists, priorities, and sorting into their respective milestone. Very cool and neat to know we're 24% done with all the Core Systems! I also have general Art Direction stuff in the Core System milestone too since needs to be done before the actual game stuff.
2087
tangentwithtanner
kianamaiart
pixelskylines
prguitarman
origamiaround
turnnoffyourmind
janainaart
snowghoul