Hey guys, I’ve finished updating Sketchbook for the Epic Battle Fantasy Collection. It’s an interactive sketchbook that originally contained 100 pages of traditional drawings, but now has almost 200. I’ve also improved the interface to allow for faster navigation, and added new music by Phyrnna.
There’s not much else to say about it. You’ve probably seen most of the art in there if you’ve been following me closely for 10+ years, and now it’s all in one place.
Hey guys, the launcher interface is pretty much finished now. It’s time for me to start programming the achievements and resolution options.
Here’s what the main menu looks like at the moment, to remind you which games are gonna be in the collection.
I think there’s around 8 hours of content in there if you play through the games casually, probably double that if you want to get every achievement, plus a decent amount of replay value.
Hey guys, I’m working on the launcher for the Epic Battle Fantasy Collection. It essentially functions like a Flash games website, letting you select a game, view some information, and then launch it. I think it looks pretty cool so far, and it’s coming along quickly.
I suspect the most frustrating part is going to be getting different game resolutions running correctly, especially since every game has a different, and often nonsensical, aspect ratio. None of them were designed to be played in full-screen mode.
Not sure how I’m gonna handle that.
Hey guys, I was wondering if tracing over EBF art would make drawing pixel art faster… but nope, not really. If you set a swf file to low quality and scale it down, you’ve essentially got aliased pixel art, but it’s very messy and requires so much clean up, that I basically ended up redrawing everything. These golems are the biggest pixel creatures I’ve drawn so far, and they took way longer than all the others for sure. I really wonder if pixel artists get much faster with practice, cause what you see below took a little more than a day to do. Animating pixel art of this quality must take a painful amount of time, especially since you often can’t motion tween it like with other 2D art. I can see why most games doing pixel art stick to Terraria levels of detail and animation quality.
Anyway, I’m sure I’ll eventually make a game using all the pixel art I’ve been doing, but the foes definitely won’t have more than 2 animation frames.
Anyone tried doing pixel art? How long does it take for you?
Hey guys. I went for a walk and documented some of the wildlife and plants that I encountered. I’ve also started using GIMP for pixel art, mainly because my incredibly old version of Photoshop does not allow me to change hotkey bindings. It’s a cool app and has all the features an artist needs, but some of the small differences in how tools work compared to Photoshop will take some getting used to. (I miss the hand tool – pan just ain’t the same)
