"The project stage"
When we decided to continue to develop MO, we reviewed the entire game. Because of lacking experience in the early stage, many contents needed to be optimized, including our protagonist.
In order to make the protagonist's dynamic performance smoother, we abandoned the original distortion dynamics and adopted stop-motion animation to make the movement switching ability performance more accurate. The appearance of the skin has also been tweaked and tuned to make the visual ratio well-proportioned. At the same time, to match the background scene, the fineness of pixels had been improved.
Fine-tuning of the size of eyes, the distance, and the angle of tattoos.
Moving (stop-motion)
Jumping and sticking (stop-motion)
Concept art
During the student stage of the game, the protagonist didn't have many abilities. What it could do was the very basic parasitic takeover, jumping and sticking (the speed of jumping up was even very slow at that time), so the protagonist's action was rather simple, however, until the current project stage, it needed new abilities and states to cope with different environments, and that became a problem in the subsequent design of the protagonist's action because the protagonist is just a drop of something gluey.
To pursue a good dynamic performance, the protagonist must be able to move all over the body, and there couldn't be only slight changes among each action since players might not notice that the protagonist is in different states of motion. Therefore, some important actions or states are performed exaggeratedly in the game through the appearance or behaviors of the protagonist.
Take being blown by the wind as an example, for different directions of the protagonist being blown, there would be different dynamics. This would make it easier for the protagonist to integrate into the environment of the game. However, to make players feel its changes, actions need to be a bit exaggerated.
Wind blow pictures
Having said so much, in fact, we didn't expect the protagonist would become like that at first. Ha! The rest part we will tell you guys later if there's any opportunity!!