Weekly Progress Update 3
Posted on Thursday 6.44am, July 22nd 2010 by StarRaven (112 views, 0 comments)

This week has been a bizarre mix of hectic and slow! On one hand, I feel like I've gotten nothing done - gone backwards even - but on the other, I feel like I've made some of my first real steps in regards to making the most important overall decisions regarding my game.

This week in programming:
I was just beginning to wonder if I should call my partner and offer to let him know when the game was finished, but it looks like we might be back to work now. I didn't get much done this week. I got a little further on the battle system, but I'll need to get some of the graphics and menus in place to be able to see what's going on before I can make much more progress. Speaking of graphics...

This week in graphics:
I spent a great deal of this week looking at pixel art - er... wait, that makes it sound like I wasn't working on anything. Umm let me rephrase - I spent a lot of time researching pixel art with the intent of deciding on a unique style for the graphics in my game.

When I first started on this project, my goal was mostly to get a game done. But after the expo, and soul-searching and all that crap, I have begun to wonder if a distinctive and unique look might be just as important as... well, everything else! For a long time, I was just sort of getting things done however I could, without much thought to making everything look consistent and giving it a unique style. I want to find a style that I can use and then stick with it throughout the rest of the process. (I think my lack of a clear vision thus far has been a big reason for my constant revisions. Hah... vision... revision....)

My search took me high and low, throughout the vastness of the internet and into the depths of despair - *start melodramatic theme* - I searched and wandered, and finally when I was just about ready to give up... I realized it wasn't going to just jump out and hit me in the face, so I went about making my own style. (What, was that anti-climactic?) I've made some progress, but you guys don't get to see it yet because I'm saving some stuff for the Winter Expo. ;P

I will have a bunch of mock-ups and sketches for you later this week, though! I might post a sprite or two, or some individual elements, but you'll have to wait for the dem- uh err until the Winter Expo.

Last week was research - this week will be graphics. I haven't worked on just graphics in a long time.

This week in mechanics:
Monsters! God I hate designing monsters. I come up with like six good ideas and then I've got nothing... bleh! I've got some stuff sketched. No stats yet.

This week in story:
Secret project! ;D