Category: Artwork

Finally starting to work on some marketing material. Hopefully this will end up on a postcard style flyer on the desk of Zeus Comics. First draft, so still needs some tweaking.

Sorry for lack of updates, I’ve lost some momentum due to Thanksgiving and Christmas stuff coming up. Starting to get back into the swing of things. Have a plan to tackle tutorial which is next major thing on the list. In the meantime, I got some artwork done. Three of the ten characters are done. Here is a shot (from left to right) of Coco, Bango Blue, and Spin Lock. Click on image to see high rez.

Started up-converting artwork. I was right, redoing textures is a pain. I spent a good hour and half just trying to find the original brush I had used. Tweaked color on inlay so it blends a little better and doesn’t pop so much (less distracting hopefully). Let me know what you think on twitter. Do you like inlay with slight glow or with shadow? I think I lean towards shadow. I like the glow cause of that bloom effect, but at the same time, it just kind of makes it blurry. The shadowing is much sharper…

Ok, so I think I’m through the brunt of the artwork. I still need to polish up some tidbits here and there, but I’m satisfied enough that I can finally move on. My goal is to get it into a demo-able state by the end of this month.

Unfortunately, today was sort of a wash because I spent about five hours trying to get the “emission generator pusher” to work. It was just not happening. I got him partially working, and it would’ve required a lot more coding to finish him. Plus, from a gameplay perspective it wasn’t making much sense. So I thought it was better to just scrap the feature. On a positive note, the barriers for the emission generators worked out much better than I thought.

Also very pleased with how the emission generators spawn (inspired by Game of Thrones intro). I overhauled the emission generator explosion so it is much more epic now. And reused sploding artwork for the spawn (yea reusable artwork!). Here is a screen shot of the emission generator sploding.

Also got latest versions of the music tracks in the game. First track is called “Cowboy Coder” and the second track is called “Welcome to Emission Control”. There is a third track in the works and I think there is still some polishing going on with the current tracks. Langevin is doing an awesome job with the music!

Next release will be HUD stuff (hopefully I can get it in by next weekend). Any feedback on artwork and current spawn patterns is appreciated. And 3G framerate is still atrocious.

Starting to lose momentum so thought I’d make a post. Just got the tower explosion effect done. I think it needs more polish. I spent way to much time for it, and it didn’t come out as well as I had hoped. I think I tweak the artwork a little more it will be there. For now, it’s good enough. I’ll move onto the emissions next. Once I get them semi complete, I’ll take a break. Sigh, artwork is hard…

I have been hard at work on S BAT 2. I’ve been overhauling the artwork, so it is taking me some time. I hoping to have the next release ready by the end of July. Artwork is coming along really well, I’m really excited about it and have gotten good feed back from the few I’ve shown. Also, have been getting some cool music samples from Langevin and we started working on gathering sound effects.

In the mean time, is a early version of some of the artwork I am working on for the new look. And yes I know, I’m totally ripping off FLCL… I hope people see it more as I’m inspired by FLCL and I’m making it my own… but I guess people will see through that and just call me a hack ;_;.