animal forest test fake screenshot

Hello from Oslo, bitraf (hackerspace). We had a meetup of about 7 people here, and we had a good time. Now the other teams have either folded, or decided to work at home.
Those of us 3 left are working on “Escape from animal forest”
It started off as a very fun idea, you have lifeforms in an ecosystem who perceives the world very differently (especially to humanity), hence “connected worlds” and how they would interact. Sadly in the end we had to scale back so far that it doesn’t really resemble the original idea so much. We went 3D to 2D, the perspectives are not visual anymore, and it became a 2D platformer with a pack of various animals who have to help each other with their different properties. I suppose we can still say that their perspectives on the world help them overcome it, though…

I (SkyfishArt) am the visual artist this time, and we have a programmer: Magnus Ekse, and another programmer: Benjamin Benjaminsen with additional music making abilities on board. I chose a simple watercolour art style for speed and fitting with the concept. (animals escaping from humanity, it turns out). We have tried to make the sounds harmonious together, rather than make a soundtrack, something I have been waiting to do, and I am really happy Benjamin was up to this task. Magnus has done an excellent job as well, working diligently and swiftly the whole time, only fueled by energy drinks and willpower (I imagine). See ya when we’re done!

-skyfishart.com

I’m hosting a local event at Bitraf, Oslo, Norway. Check it out here:

 http://www.meetup.com/bitraf/events/224687588/

Tags: LD #33

Here is a video tutorial for how to set up Krita for easy pixel art style painting: (HD index painting in krita)

Here is a link to do it in photoshop (original tutorial)
http://danfessler.com/blog/hd-index-painting-in-photoshop

Tags: #krita, pixel art, tutorial

pokemen

Skyfish checking in. I only have 28 more minutes to do move animations and I have none yet! (time slotting) So I will make this brief. Here is a fake screenshots. the colours mess up because it’s png, so IDK what you can do. It works in the game anyway. Pokemen is coming along nicely, it’s playable and I found no bugs. Now we need to implement the menu and put the assets in the actual game. I will make a making of post sometime after i think. I only have today to finish everything since I work tomorrow. Oh dear! bye bye Ludum see you soon.

Tags: art, fake screenshot, pixel art, pokemon