Gustav von Periwinkle

Well getting lost hopefully happens more often than not lol. These areas are a little more "Metroid" and gamey than the main areas.

Long time since any updates. Needed a break / busy with other work. Anyways-- here's some preview of the alien labyrinth pixel art assets. Still working on them but they're about 80% there. Still need some connection tiles.
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🙏 Bless you. Slow progress lately unfortunately, but there will be more!

well now have another anime I need to watch.

What's this song? It almost sounds like Kate Bush but not her usual style.

Very nice! Space Opera definitely sums up what I'm working on in gane dev. Apparently I already follow a lot of people on this list. Feel free to add me!

I told YT to stop showing me videos from that sad account lol

Drawing in an anime style of the main character in Zenoken. It's fully inked and largely finished with the color application. Shading still needs to be smoothed out here and there. A tall woman with mint green hair, an alien cannon on one arm, who's making finger guns with her other hand and pointing it at the viewer. She has a wry grin. Her eyes are also 2 different colors. She's wearing a cropped gray sweat shirt and white underwear. The Background is a generic gradient with a subtle peach hue/light across the image.

More work done on that initial sketch of Alex, the MC in Zenoken, in her preferred outfit, flying alone in her Winnebago-esque space ship. Follow me if you like what you see and want to keep tabs on Zenoken progress!

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Anime styled sketch of a women with an eye patch,big hair, a tucked away arm cannon resting at her side, and her free arm making a finger gun at the hypothetical camera. She's wearing a loose cropped sweatshirt and underwear.

WIP cheesecake sketch of Zenoken's MC, Alex, known more formidably as the space pirate: "Chinokitsune" -- Sometimes one needs a break from coding to work on fun art.
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traumatizing book

shit--was it lvl 4-5-b or level 3-2-c? I'll open all of them until I find it!

amateurish--you can live in my palace when you name them level__1__A-1, level__1__A-2, etc. etc. I just add more dashes and underscores as the complexity increases. True royal organization even I can't keep up with.

more demo when please! 🥺

Welcome! I made the switch after 8 years a couple years back! It's quite sophisticated as of 4.5.

😂 upperlevel mismanagement is def a factor.

Like if you're pushing out a game like CP2077 you can't have a small team of texture artists or content builders in the game--it's massive. A game requiring that much high-fidelity work--is a massive risk of capital for an industry dominated by corporations beholden to shareholders.

It feels like we're arguing lol, but I'm just meaning that assets--whether it's art or not, simply have higher work loads attached to them than in the 2000s or 2010s. 4K textures take more time to produce than 1K textures. 600 hours of VO takes longer to localize, edit, implement than 100.

For sure! I wasn't disagreeing, just offering what I perceive as one of the biggest contributors to swollen team sizes in AAA is all.

I wouldn't say it sinks a project; I'm speaking toward the exponentially long production times for AAA development that balloons budgets/expectations. 300-500+ employees on payroll for a single project for 6-8 years becomes very expensive high risk asset for a company. rdr2/cp2077/AC series/GTA etc.

I honestly blame prestige open world design being the primary focus in most large budget games. The amount of time needed to produce enough high fidelity assets and a large seamless designed game world filled with content is exponential. It's not the only cause, but I think it's a huge reason.

Wish I could play it again for the first time

As of Godot 4.3 I think it's been pretty viable. You can't use c# however if that's relevant. It explains it a bit in the web export docs below and the things to look out for, e.g. audio issues web players normally have. I haven't tested it myself though.

docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tu...

last I read it largely works fine.

I guess for a belated #screenshotstaurday I'll show a WIP area where some potential allies live in hiding. A small protected serene place in the wilds of Lost Eden's interior depths.
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Cara is the sort of unofficial leader of this hidden group of escaped "experiments." Under the right conditions you can meet them, and choose to help them with their goals. They have a very...rebellious nature, born out of the horrors they were subjected to by the Lost Eden overlords.

Image showing off both pixel portrait art and in game art for a furry adjacent character in Zenoken with a description that reads: "Caracal Sapiens No. 315 "Cara" Product of hybrid experimentation by Lost Eden scientists. Escaped to the interior wilds, their motivations, intelligence, and abilities are unknown. Many such perceived unethical biological experiments continue to be performed on Lost Eden under Sargon's leadership."

Thought it would be fun to share some WIP art/design on a #furry adjacent character (one of many) in Zenoken. They're well hidden, but possible to find in Lost Eden if you have a sharp eye and they trust your spirit.

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Smoky cloud effect is pretty kino! Nice work.

I use 16x16 tiles and a slightly smaller resolution than a lot of games--they usually do 640 x 360 because it fits well with a lot of different 16:9 resolutions. I chose 480x270 because I wanted as close to the same 240p height of an old CRT resolution. And thanks for the chef's kiss!

Screenshot of an alien jungle-esque scene with an electrified high security gate keeping something out...or keeping something in.

Started working on this entry way in Zenoken to a very long, but eerily peaceful exterior area that's been abandoned and fenced off for unknown reasons.

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Getting rid of all social media outside of BSky years ago helped. I get one daily dose of doom news emailing congress and then focus on nice things and game dev art