Post AbxKhJVLpsHxqmVISe by T045T@scl.zmb.cm
 (DIR) More posts by T045T@scl.zmb.cm
 (DIR) Post #AbxKh95oXxv5YgTlGi by mcc@mastodon.social
       2023-11-19T04:49:37Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       I need to make some small resolution pixel art for this next thing I'm gonna make. I wonder if I should try to do it myself or try to collaborate with someone. I'd need to find someone who could make weird skranky sprites. By which I mean someone who is enough on my artistic wavelength they could intuit what the non-word "skranky" means
       
 (DIR) Post #AbxKhCvKItuJRJbRTc by mcc@mastodon.social
       2023-11-19T05:34:39Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       Yeah I am only maybe like… 65% certain what it is I'm doing here?
       
 (DIR) Post #AbxKhHJDzzOt2aoaHY by mcc@mastodon.social
       2023-11-19T05:38:10Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       I'm gonna try to make a little game named SPACE OUT where you have little waves of aliens moving back and forth at the top and you try to take them out by bouncing a little ball off your tank platform at the bottom. There are various complications I could introduce (you want to avoid being hit by the falling corpses of enemies? maybe you shoot balls instead of bouncing a single ball, and want to *avoid* them when they bounce back?) and I have a plan for a second order visual effect
       
 (DIR) Post #AbxKhJVLpsHxqmVISe by T045T@scl.zmb.cm
       2023-11-19T06:30:18Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @mcc ooh!I once had a similar idea that involved Ikaruga mechanics (i.e. there were two colors of enemy and you could change colors and bounce back shots of the same color you were), but I never got past a very rough prototype. Still wonder if there’s something to that…
       
 (DIR) Post #AbxKhKkzBEOBjYpITA by mcc@mastodon.social
       2023-11-19T05:39:50Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       The problem is you'd probably want the sprites much wider than this, so a ball could slide into the enemy lines. I'm gonna try again at 2x that resolution. I think also maybe I need to adjust my tools, pinta has a good pixel pencil but it can't do lines or text without antialiasingNormally I wouldn't, like, talk about what I was making until I had something to demo? But then I realized I have no idea who I expect is actually reading this, or for that matter who would be playing it if I made it