Hey everyone,
What a month it has been for Jupiter Moons: Mecha!
Throughout August I have been working hard with Wojtek Krolik (JM:M’s freelance artist and animator) to pave the way for future game development. This month’s focus was mainly on sprite design and cleaning up animations.
Our new animations are explosive!
Almost all of the battle screen animations have been updated. Focussing on making the battles feel more immersive and tense was an essential job for me, especially for moving forward with the demo build.
The animations that have been overhauled are:
-Mech idle animations (they’re now fidgety mechs)
-Taking damage animation (Your mech’s screen now takes damage)
-Destroying your opponents now results in a triumphant explosion.
All this work can be seen in a 10-month progress video, which shows just how far the game has come this year. Watch the video here.
With the new animations in place, I can start focussing on piecing together the prologue for Jupiter Moons: Mecha, which I’m aiming to release by the end of this year.
I’m a REAL mech now
The animations weren’t the only overhaul to the game this month, the mech UI also got a colourful update.
As mentioned above, I really wanted to bring a sense of immersion to the battlefields of Ganymede, and I felt like the old UI just didn’t hit the right notes. The new UI went through several iterations, but, as you can see, the new mech interior is not only more colourful but also brings the sense of actually piloting a mech.
Full speed to Ganymede!
With these cosmetic changes now in place, I (almost) have everything I need to really get to work on the prologue for Jupiter Moons: Mecha. I would love to have the demo available by the end of the year, and the way things are shaping up, that’s definitely a possibility.
A lot of September and October’s work will be more backend programming, working on getting the demo build running smoothly while offering you a meaningful chunk of gameplay.
As always, thank you so much for your support. My vision for the final game is really starting to come into sight. I can’t wait for you to become a mech pilot yourself, we need your help in fighting the corruption on Ganymede!
Stay safe pilot!