Red Wizard Island

[Hatonastick]

There's a saying we use over at Retro Remakes all the time that applies right about now -

"Is it done yet?"

Doesn't that usually start right after someone announces they are going to _start_ making a game?

[r0ber7]

There's a saying we use over at Retro Remakes all the time that applies right about now -

"Is it done yet?"

Hehe, sorry. It's a long process. But it all pays off. I could make it faster, but it'd be a less awesome game and I'd freak out. I do have a theoretical deadline on the 28th of february 2012. I'll release something that day. It may just be a test alpha of single player mode for the members of this forum only. Or it could be the entire single & multiplayer game on all forums, webshops + trailer. Depends on the pace of progress, who knows. Either way, you guys will be the first to know. 

(Test alpha may come sooner. If december smiles upon me, it might be around new years but bugs & glitches tend to slow things down and I can't predict those.)

Today I did some more optimization. Everything is back to 60 fps as it should be, including the warp. Main focus the coming days will be on background graphics. Bob Ross is teaching me how to draw mountains. 

[Ian Price]

Good olde Bob Ross. Sadly missed. And he's not on telly anymore either

[fuzzy70]

Main focus the coming days will be on background graphics. Bob Ross is teaching me how to draw mountains. 

Drawing mountains is definitely something I cheat with, normally involves firing up Terragen then some post processing in Photoshop. Otherwise whatever I draw normally would not look out of place in the original 80's Scramble arcade game 

Lee

[r0ber7]

Drawing mountains is definitely something I cheat with, normally involves firing up Terragen then some post processing in Photoshop. Otherwise whatever I draw normally would not look out of place in the original 80's Scramble arcade game 

Lee

I tried cheating, didn't suit the style. Below is the current pixeled mountain. I'm failry content about it.



Sorry for the low contrast with the black, but it's supposed to be that way in the game. (It's a background. ) Oh, and context = dark blue water, hence the circles.

In addition:



The merchant of the magic shop.



A sheep.

Today:

- did all of the above pixels plus a pinetree, but it's still WIP
- added code for friendly critters (so now I can make little villages of NPCs too )
- added code for automatic randomization of parallax mountains in the background
- fixed a few glitches

That's about it I think. Cia.

[fuzzy70]

I tried cheating, didn't suit the style. Below is the current pixeled mountain. I'm failry content about it.

Me & photoshop with terragen have this understanding "YOU will work & FIT in"   

Lee

[Hatonastick]

Drawing mountains is definitely something I cheat with, normally involves firing up Terragen then some post processing in Photoshop. Otherwise whatever I draw normally would not look out of place in the original 80's Scramble arcade game 

Lee

I tried cheating, didn't suit the style. Below is the current pixeled mountain. I'm failry content about it.

Sorry for the low contrast with the black, but it's supposed to be that way in the game. (It's a background. ) Oh, and context = dark blue water, hence the circles.

In addition:


The merchant of the magic shop.


A sheep.

Today:

- did all of the above pixels plus a pinetree, but it's still WIP
- added code for friendly critters (so now I can make little villages of NPCs too )
- added code for automatic randomization of parallax mountains in the background
- fixed a few glitches

That's about it I think. Cia.

I love the merchant and the sheep!

[Ian Price]

That sheep looks wonderful

[Nathan]

I agree, that sheeps looks great!  Did you previously say you use GIMP for drawing sprites?

[r0ber7]

Thanks all. I'm pixeling on. Just changed the ground pixels in the entire tileset. For comparison:

before


after


I dare say it's an improvement. Oh, and notice the +2 parallax forest layers in the second image. Depth!

I agree, that sheeps looks great!  Did you previously say you use GIMP for drawing sprites?

Mainly I use Grafx2 (pixeling sprites, details, etc.). For getting the contours of handdrawn sketches, or adding glowing light and so on, I use Gimp. For example, I first drew a notebook sketch of the merchant. Then I scanned it, traced the lines in Gimp, and finally pixeled the hell out of it in Grafx2.

[Ruidesco]

Dat forest.
It's really cool to see how this project evolves, and does it so nicely.

[r0ber7]

Didn't do too much game related stuff today. Painted one of the walls in my apartment white though.

- fixed some weird glitches
- added "in between" anims to the critter code
- pixeled some minor stuff

Here's a villager, old version. May change hair and colours tomorrow.

It's really cool to see how this project evolves, and does it so nicely.

It's one of the reasons I keep a log. It's satisfying when I look back and see how it's changed.

[r0ber7]

Testing out a village. I'm not satisfied with the villagers I've pixeled so far,  so they're not in there yet.

Today:

- pixeled houses, fences.
- started work on first endboss code.
- worked on the graphics for the endboss.

Here he is walking. His graphics still need a lot of work. Or is it her graphics? It's a chicken, so I guess it's a she.

[fuzzy70]

Here he is walking. His graphics still need a lot of work. Or is it her graphics? It's a chicken, so I guess it's a she.

What sex is a chicken actually?, never really thought about it as Hens are female & cocks male, forgot all about the humble "normal chicken" 

Lee

[Zapp]

When people say chicken they are usually referring to Hen's that lay the eggs. Roosters are the males. Chicks are the infants.