The Worst Grim Reaper (dev blog)

Updates and bedtime anecdotes about the development of the game 'The Worst Grim Reaper' by Moon Moon Moon. www.theworstgrimreaper.com

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testing rain and lightning for the trailer!

sound is not really in sync yet tho :c

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The moment I’ve been looking forward to since birth: drawing the town

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make someones weekend x !

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We finally got talking NPC’s working! Is this readable you think?

let me know :>

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We’ve got an OFFICIAL website now!

Tumblr will remain our blog thing though :).

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a video of Martín testing his homemade parallax

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the worst grim reaper: prologue [videogame, 2018]

the story script is almost finished, pixel art is on 25%, coding is going really fast! You can follow this project on here or facebook.

please reblog if you like it! <3

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Random snapshot!

These screenshots I post are only of the pixel art, the real game will have dynamic lighting and what not. Still in the raw-pixel-art phase right now. Drawing pixel-art 24/7, even dreamt in low-resolution last night.

Anyway, we’ve got a deadline and all three of us are working super hard to make it in time! It’ll be fine.

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NEWS: We’re making a short prequel for TWGR, which we’ll try to release in a few months. storyboards, scripts are almost ready, coding has been done for the most part, pixel art and animations do still need a lot of work :>

anyway, excited!

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been a while since the last update, sorry! that was mostly caused by an intensive period of concerts with Moon Moon Moon. But since a week we’re totally back to making this game!

here’s an image of a forest we’re working on

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It took me a long time to make this deer not look like a giant dog. It sort of worked..?

Next step is adding dynamic lights and what not :>

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Also made a Facebook page with an animated banner.

More updates about the game coming soon :>

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Skyping up a Story

Just finished skyping with Mark Anthony (I'm actually just gonna call him Anthony from now on, as I'm also a Mark) who lives in New York. We talked for 3 hours about the story, which is really starting to come together.

After three hours of thinking with that in-game-world logic and reasoning, I'm now in some weird in-between state, semi with my mind in the real world. Idk. My room always feels a bit too quiet too abrubtly after long skype calls.

I'm really used to doing everything alone with art and stuff, but I'm seeing the very positive sides of working together with other people. I tend to be a bit too free in my thinking and mostly just start working randomly on things until they sometimes magically come together, but Anthony is more realistic and pragmatic in his approach, and tries to make more sense and meaning (and he's really creative in that way). On my own, it wouldn't be half as good as it's shaping up to be now.

Anyway, I probably should go to sleep goodnight! (it's 1 AM here!)

And obviously I can't code shit so Martín is too invaluable for this game to even explain (also I know he'll be reading this so just a shout out <3 )

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See you're using Photoshop ! Very enthousiastic about the new post, concerning the bike and the garage. Can't wait to see another gameplay footage !

The program is actually Aseprite, which I really recommend for making pixel art. The UI takes some getting used to but it's worth it in the end!Cheers :3

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LO AND BEHOLD. TWGR now has an Instagram. “an instagram”

Also, more importantly, I’m working on a city part of the game and I sort of succeeded in making a bicycle (?). See [work in progress] screenshot up there :3

oh, and btw we have INSTAGRAM now! yuck! Did I already say that?

oh and also I’m writing this while listening to dramatic choir music that suddenly went on on Spotify and it’s making me type very intensely and loud. x!

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a human has arrived in the TWGR world!

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Hi ! I've been trying to send you a message for a couple of weeks, but I hadn't understood that I needed a Tumblr account... Anyway, I'm following your project closely, I really love the aesthetics and I love Moon Moon Moon. Such a great inspiration for me, since I'm trying to develop a small pixel art game to. Best wishes

Hey!

thanks a lot for your message! :) means a lot to hear that the game is an inspiration for you. Can’t wait to see what things you’ll create and if you’ve got any questions you can always ask (in PM or public message)

and awesome that you’re on tumblr now! :x

cheers! - Mark