{"author_name":"coderfap","cat":"October Challenge 2014","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"October 15, 2014 9:59 am","epoch":1413385140,"text":"Screenshots please \":)\"","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"October 29, 2014 8:35 am","epoch":1414589700,"text":"Early screenshot added.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1413368820,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"26109","p_author":"coderfap","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"61533","p_title":"Creating a Game \u2013 A cautionary tale. pt3","p_cat":"October Challenge 2014","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1413368820","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"text":"

The Graphics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a graphic designer and front-end developer, the graphics was a part of the game building process I was looking forward to. I’m no stranger to Photoshop and Illustrator or hand-drawing but I had never really designed game sprites before.<\/p>\n

I wanted a retro style eighties look to my game and found various references on the internet. There are lots of game graphics sites but nothing really had the specific items I needed. Then I found the website of illustrator Chris Hildenbrand (find him at http:\/\/2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.co.uk\/). Not only did he have the exact look of a cityscape that I wanted but he also had tutorials describing how he creates game elements. I bought the cityscape background tutorial and my look for the game was created.<\/p>\n

Several game elements were drawn up before I was happy but they then had to be redrawn at the correct scale for the coded sizes of the game elements.<\/p>\n

To add a bit of movement I used animated gifs but ran into problems trying to intergrate them into Box2D which didn’t seem to like them, so I had to solve this by positioning them on a layer over the top of the Box2D elements.<\/p>\n

Then I came to do the instruction page and realised I needed to write the copy – not only for this – but also for the small preview pages for the Chrome store pages.<\/p>\n

Then two major problems turned up that I didn’t expect. More in the next blog.<\/p>\n

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