#saudade game

[rdsbren]

Game log #5

I've worked on a few more technical things!!! Who knew making a simple point and click shop would be so difficult? But I did it!!! I absolutely hate the look of the in-engine shop menu, so I thought I'd maybe do something creative instead! At first, I had this odd problem where it would repeatedly play the coin sound without clicking anywhere... But I managed to get it working like how it's supposed to after a few sessions. It's really easy to miss a mistake you did when you struggle with reading through text and numbers LOL

Making a sliding tile puzzle also destroyed my brain, even while following a tutorial... There were some differences I had to troubleshoot myself—BUT IT FUNCTIONS! Er... I'm not particularly good at these myself, so I have a few fun ways to 'skip' doing this. I spent an embarrassing amount of time into this... Might make the image more high contrast later so it's easier to see...

There are some funny little NPCs you can come across. The ones with black included into the color palette are more... 'odd'.

I've also done quite a bit of art again. I can't show the others, but I really like this one.

Can you believe it? Some characters are NOT purple!!

[rdsbren]

Game log #4

Short game log, MANY arts! Since I have a better direction of what I want the art in my game to be like, I've freshened up some old graphics/cutscenes!!

Before and afters !!

I've also done a little bit more animation again.

Character portraits!!

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Game log #3

It's been a while! I've been so occupied with commissions and IRL work that I didn't have much energy left for game development...

But I've been making a few more assets again!

I've been dabbling more and more into frame-by-frame animation which has been really cool! I loooooove animation and I know a decent amount of theory, but I've never actually put that much into practice. Feels like I'm improving pretty fast.

Here are a few short animations! There's more to come!

The one below was done with rotoscoping my own footage!

And here's a little attempt I did in Procreate Dreams. I think I prefer just using my trusty ole Clip Studio for now. Other animation programs are kinda scary.

That's all for this time!

[rdsbren]

Game log #2!

Thinking about puzzles is hard... But it is fun to try to create them! I decided it would be a cool idea to have places where you get more of a point and click vibe... You can even play the ocarina in this mode!

Making this is much simpler than I originally thought, so I'm going to play around with it more in the future!

These sprites are textured, unlike the default chibi sprites. I made them sort of match the little headshot icons for his dialogue!

Otherwise, most of my time has been spent on Map Making and filling out the tavern with NPCs... who knew drawing NPCs could get so tiring. BUT, I've included a few references to my friends and other things, so that's fun!

Oh, and if you noticed, I added a CRT screen effect! I think it makes the game look really nice and atmospheric! Very Nostalgic too...

That's all for today!

Thanks for checking in on the development of SAUDADE!