Heyoooo, another day, another devlog.
THE VIDEO!
This time, I got a video for ya. If you got an hour to spare, I discuss WE'RE GETTING DEEPER INTO THE ABYSS near the end of the video, even showing off a new character design from 2018. But I plan on putting them in the game, fun fun. It talks about the games I worked on over the years and me as an artist, I didn't get too deep into this game, but it does have some details in the game and what the gameplay will be about. But if you're following this game consistently, then hey. You may already know!
I feel video form is better! I suck at explaining since my ADHD lets me yap and I feel I may be rude sometimes when I don't mean to be, haha. I just suck at talking to others. Anyway, let's get into this one.
LOTTA NEW STUFF. AND I MEAN A LOT. ENVIRONMENT STUFF!
So, okay. I've been working on trees, grass, and adding a lot of those over the time. It's been kinda... Repetitive to say the least. But this is something that makes the world look more nicer. I don't want to have the same single tree placed and same single grass model placed constantly. So, this is what I'm working on.
What happened to the buildings I was working on? Don't worry! These are being worked on constantly. I figured I need to make the world look nicer, and to do that, foliage was a focus. The foliage are painted in Substance painter, or Krita.
- Trees = Substance Painter
- Grass = Substance Painter
- Leaf Textures = Krita
The cool thing about the grass too, it has collision! So when the player steps on them, it squishes! Kinda cool, just a small detail.
Also, when you get too close to a certain object, like a tree for an example it has an effect to where it'll disappear / fade away. This is just something that's common in games now, or sometimes it won't in games? I've seen the camera in games just have collision and bump against walls and get closer to the player, this game won't have issues with the camera, so don't worry about fighting the camera.
Regarding NFTS... I say NO to them for my projects.
I would also like to say, I received an email talking about selling my art (characters of this game, models, etc) and just to clarify. I WILL NEVER EVER SELL NFTs OF THIS GAME OR MY CHARACTERS! So, if you ever see anything of my character or anything that says the developer agrees of this, so uhh.. Me? No. I don't. I will release ART of my characters that you can download and use as anything you'd like, profile photos, desktop backgrounds, phone backgrounds, anything. Just DON'T fall for any scams related to my small game if you see any.
I'm a small creator, so uh. Highly doubt anything is going to happen, but still. It worries me, yeah? Just would like to spread the word!
REDESIGN OF THE ART STYLE. EVENTUALLY...
So uh, I've been thinking of working on the art style eventually. This is a major change, but not too major, you're seeing the same gameplay, but the main character will be changing sprites and animations. I feel I can make a better drawing of him overall. I feel it could just be better. I made him when I didn't know anything about digital art and now I know a bit of it. So, I may experiment with some art styles and come back to the public with some ideas. But the world will stay the same. Maybe, no promises. I tend to change my mind a lot, haha.
Think that's it?
I've mostly just been messing around with modeling still and I know it's been quiet, that video was something I worked on and honestly, I don't think it's a big devlog, but it shows you my history as a developer. But hey! Hopefully it's still interesting. I'll share more as time comes along.
When time comes to share more, I tend to update more in the Discord server, so please join there. Also, I plan on streaming my game development sometimes, so check me out there if you'd like. Only really plan on streaming the game development process and that's really it. Rarely will I do anything else because I'm not really a variety streamer. I made this channel to directly stream game development and that's it. Answer questions and.. Yeah, that's it, too.