So I figured I would make a post about this, since I thought it was pretty interesting. Here is an image showing the sprite development I went through trying to find a nice design for the player/boss sprites for Hero Dude.
The first two versions of the main character differ pretty greatly. At first I was thinking I’d just toss the main character into this Mega Man-style suit of armor lookin’ thing. Since I was going for a humorous take on the game, I figured it didn’t matter how silly he looked or how many times I stamped his “HD” (Hero Dude) logo on him.
The second and third versions of the main character have more of a resemblance between them. It looks like I started getting the mindset that he was going to be some sort of a soldier or something. This becomes more apparent in the third version.
The boss didn’t undergo much of a change. I always knew he was going to be a cliche mad scientist trying to destroy the world or something (lol spoilers). He kept his white labcoat and gray hair through both versions, I only made him fatter and got rid of his huge hair stacks. (This was done to preserve the shape of his head/body, which I want to be uniform throughout the game.)
And yeah, that’s about it. Today I’ll be getting back to work on Hero Dude. Mainly working on some gun action today. I want to start drawing ideas for levels and whatnot. I already know that 95% of the game takes place on the Boss’s flying ship-fort thing. The other 5% is the player getting to the flying ship-fort thing.
(Trust me, this all makes sense in my head.)
So only a boss, and a player? No infantry yet?
Hmm, that’s not a bad idea. Maybe I should add some other bad dudes.
GENIUS.
But in all srsness I didn’t get to it yet. Still working on the main game engine. I’ll probably start developing them later this week.
Sounds cool.
Just wait, next year (when I take web design in school) I’ll finish all the work 5 minutes in, then I’ll go play some games, lean over to the guy next to me, and be all “Yeah, I know the guy who made this…his name’s Ralph”.
Alright now you’re just being silly.
Wow.. good thing I’m a regular visitor cause I had no warning of this post on Twitter. Thanks a lot Raplh >:C
Nah, it’s all good, I forgive you this time, just don’t do it again ;D
You better not procrastinate with this game like your last one lol
I DID PROMOTE IT ON TWITTER YOU BLAZING COW.
http://twitter.com/ftlralph
Yeah, procrastination, it seems all good at the time… But afterwords, jeez… feels bad man.
New post on fortheloss.org talking about the process I went through developing sprites for my new game. Check it out if you breathe air! – 7 hours ago
You know what they say Ralph, hard work may pay off in the future, but procrastination pays off now.
What?
@Ralph: Oh, I see, sorry it’s just you were drowned by IGN spam and I was looking for a link.
@Paul: So true.
I love how we just have meaningless discussions in the comments that are totally unrelated to the post, if you can even call it that.
I don’t even read the posts, I just look at the pretty pictures.
Lol, Ralph, I was just thinking that right before I refreshed the page (yes, I have it open all the time)
@Paul: Rofl.
I don’t care as long as you clicksay an adsay every nowsay and thensay but notsay often enoughsay for me to getsay in troublesay.
…the hell did I just type.
Hmmmm, I dunno, I’m sure it wasn’tsay againtstsay the rulesay ;D
Follow me on twitter and we’ll talksay
Yah.
I actually thought I was already, guess not.
BUT I AM NOW LOL.
So how’s everyone doing today?
Awesome.
Yeah, I’m doing well, just working while trying to maintain my 3 websites.
How ’bout you?
Wait, what’s the third one?
Host My Filez
It’s my hosting site, I’m currently working on getting a nice theme put on it to be more appealing.
It’s got free unlimited space for pretty much any file type.
OMFG, I did it again! Wtf is wrong with my coding skills?! I could have sworn I put the “” but look at that fail “http://”
*facepalm*
WHAT A NOOB, BAHAHA.
v_v
How much more of a fail could that have been though?! Lol
I should maybe look into getting one of those plugins that adds the available tags on top of comment forms in pretty little buttons.
Yes, maybe you should so I wont have to code everything from scratch and fuck up all the time :\
Ralph, you don’t need a plugin. It’s a function built into WordPress, you just need to add it to your theme.