Hello there! I am back to tell you some of my week.
Last week we had a Alpha presentation of our game. We got some critics for mixing different styles of graphics so my main job this week have been to fix some of this in the menys and sektors. The sektors as you can see from my previous posts are mostly, but not only, pixelart and since we decided to focus on pixelart that is now what we have done.
Sektor one. I made some different stars in seperate dokuments in pixelart and replaced the old stars and constellations with them. The bakground city was to light due to the dark sky so to make it all more fitting we had to make it a bit darker. I also decided to remove the moon completely due to that it will be a lot of other stuff and boards on the screen and my opinion is that it only make it messy for the player. The animations on the star constellation and fountains will remain. And i added some roads, just cause it felt fitting 🙂
Sektor 2. I wanted to create the feeling of a cloudy eastern day in Paris. I did that by putting a lot of gray in blue sky and adding dark coulds. At the start I was intent to make the whole sky cloudy, but it proved to be to messy and not fitting at all. Instead I put in small animations on the clouds to make it feel like the coulds are moving even thou they are not.
As the marketvalue sinks, basically the player health point as described in earlier posts, meaning the player are doing poor the all over colour will, together with the music, switch gradually. Becoming darker with a tone of red to make it feel more dramatic. Also to make the feeling more dramatic and destructive the city in the bakground gradually will get destroyed and if you reached this point some of the alien invaders will have wrecked some of the houses too. But that is for the programmers to put in! The houses are destroyed in partikel effect, meaning they will split on collision.
Its been a bad week. Flight strikes and due to illness. But it is just to grab life my the trouth and come back stronger next week!
See you next week.
Best regards
Morgan