The following sprites served me well as placeholder art. Maybe you'll find something you can use as a placeholder in your own game. If any of it should end up in your final product, that's fine as well. Feel free to modify this stuff in any way you see fit. No credit necessary, but it would be nice if you could link back here if you have a dev blog or something.
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Free Game Assets (Public Domain)
I'm dumping some of the stuff I created in the beginning of the game before I knew where I wanted to go with the art style. (Forgive the lack of updates lately. I've been busy clearing my plate for October so I can do my third annual horror movie marathon on The Goug' Blog.)
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Blood Ship: Day 61
My ToonBoom trial ended and I had to fork over $180 for the yearly subscription, plus I bought some FX assets that may or may not remain in the final game. That brings the total cost of the game up to $310.97. That's cheap for a game budget, sure, but it's not cheap for me.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Blood Ship: Day 53
Despite my initial love for Spine, I haven't used it in weeks. Now that I've gone with more traditional animations, the predominantly tweened animations I did last month stick out like a sore thumb.
Games I'm currently playing on my MAME machine: the Gradius series, Raiden, and R-Type.
Wait. Not playing. Researching.
Yeah....
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Blood Ship: Day 46
About a week ago I broke the bomb ability. The problem was dumb and the solution was even dumber, but it's surprising I'm over a month in and that's one of the more serious issues I've had. I can only think of two or three other times I wanted to rip my hair out by the fistful. (These kinds of problems seemed to plague my last game attempt on a daily basis.)
As I've said in previous posts, I've been circling and circling around the imperfect stuff, improving instead of building new stuff. I think the time to branch out to new stuff is almost here. I'm thinking proper stages, new bosses, etc. I'd like to make a browser version, too, so people can try the randomly generated mode before downloading the complete desktop version.
(Sonic Mania isn't coming out today after all, but that's probably a good thing for the sake of productivity. My day job is unusually demanding this week.)
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Blood Ship: Day 39
Boob physics, anyone?
Looks like I'm using Toon Boom Harmony for my animations. I've tried most of the competing programs, and I resisted this one because I hate subscription models, but I fell in love with it minutes after beginning the trial. Super smooth, super intuitive (I haven't even looked at the instructions yet), and the subscription thing's not nearly as egregious as Adobe's subscription models.
Today's the first time I felt unmotivated to work on the game. I'm tired and I just want to play Slime Rancher, which is probably the biggest threat to my productivity since I started this whole thing. (I imagine next week's Sonic Mania will be the next big threat.) I managed to get some stuff done, but I'm probably going to bed at a somewhat decent hour tonight.
Today's the first time I felt unmotivated to work on the game. I'm tired and I just want to play Slime Rancher, which is probably the biggest threat to my productivity since I started this whole thing. (I imagine next week's Sonic Mania will be the next big threat.) I managed to get some stuff done, but I'm probably going to bed at a somewhat decent hour tonight.
Visually, there's nothing terribly new in the game other than some of the effects, but it feels a lot tighter than it did last week. I'm currently fixing the stuff that was handled sloppily during my push to get a working prototype as soon as possible.
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Blood Ship: Day 32
Two problems this week: sometimes the wave generator doesn't shut off when the boss appears and, even rarer, the player's projectiles impact on something which doesn't seem to exist. I'm still in "ignore it and hope it fixes itself" denial, but that's kind of like just driving a car until the check engine light burns out.
I've been studying a lot of other shoot-'em-ups and paying attention to the little details which contribute to the way the game feels. I want to nail the feeling of what I've got before adding any more new stuff. I want to get the artwork a helluva lot closer to the goalpost, too (as you can see above, it ain't even close). The problem is I have the best ideas for new stuff when I make it a point not to add new stuff.
Here's my end-of-month budget report:
$18.99 Gamemaker (purchased during last year's Humble Bundle sale)
$14.99 Aseprite (already owned it, but haven't used it in earnest until now)
$0.99 A bullet-hell script (which may not make it to the final version)
$69.00 Spine (also may not make it to the final version)
$5.00 Some generic laser sounds (almost definitely won't make it to the final version)
$108.97. Not bad, I'd say.
I've been studying a lot of other shoot-'em-ups and paying attention to the little details which contribute to the way the game feels. I want to nail the feeling of what I've got before adding any more new stuff. I want to get the artwork a helluva lot closer to the goalpost, too (as you can see above, it ain't even close). The problem is I have the best ideas for new stuff when I make it a point not to add new stuff.
Here's my end-of-month budget report:
$18.99 Gamemaker (purchased during last year's Humble Bundle sale)
$14.99 Aseprite (already owned it, but haven't used it in earnest until now)
$0.99 A bullet-hell script (which may not make it to the final version)
$69.00 Spine (also may not make it to the final version)
$5.00 Some generic laser sounds (almost definitely won't make it to the final version)
$108.97. Not bad, I'd say.
Friday, July 28, 2017
Blood Ship: Day 28
Placeholder sound is in and I've been tweaking it the last couple of days. I now have generic laser sounds and bullet-impacts, as well as dynamic boss music. I don't plan on leaving any of these sounds in the final game, but it's amazing how much more fun it is now.
Endless mode is completely functional at the moment... you can play it forever (if you're good enough). Although there's currently one boss, he gets tougher each time you face him. To give you an idea of the difficulty: I've beaten the boss twice in a single game, but not three yet.
For the next few days I'll probably be adjusting what I have rather than adding anything new. I have a little over two pages of notes I want to address, so there might not be a whole lot to report for a while.
Endless mode is completely functional at the moment... you can play it forever (if you're good enough). Although there's currently one boss, he gets tougher each time you face him. To give you an idea of the difficulty: I've beaten the boss twice in a single game, but not three yet.
For the next few days I'll probably be adjusting what I have rather than adding anything new. I have a little over two pages of notes I want to address, so there might not be a whole lot to report for a while.
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