HyacinthArt
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The Future of the Game
🕑 Added 2021-02-01 09:28:48 +0000 UTCI will shortly send the next update of the game. But would like to ask a question for everyone since you are all invested in my project. There are aspects of my game I really like (Environment Art, Landscapes), and there are some that I don't and lately I've been trying to think about ways to fix this. There are two main issues I have been thinking about.
1: Is the generic nature of all the characters, most of the were all designed very quickly and honestly, I don't like them at all, the trolls, the sorceress, they aren't something I'm very happy with, as someone who finds meaning in non generic art.
2: Is the way I built the characters, it's hard to explain but, I think I chose a way of displaying the characters (In game, not the scenes) in the worse way possible, that makes it extremely difficult to create new, well done animations, it's to do with the black outlines on most of their limbs, If I was to move forward, I think it would be better to have the outline done in post and not for each limb, but the character. It has made the animation tedious and it actually makes a lot of characters look terrible.
Possible Solution: What I would like to do, is redesign the way I make the game going forward (Not to waste time of redoing the current state of the game) Because that won't make anyone very happy, but to try and fix things as the game goes on. And possibly fix older designs slowly, however, it may mean that some of the scenes won't look anything like the sprites for the changed designs.
And lastly, I think I would like to change the main characters, because right now, it's really just a random girl in a suit of armour, there's no character to it, no instant identification. This is why I'm bringing this up, because obviously it opens up a lot of problems. If I am to do the change, I think it's mostly the armour/clothing I would like to change, rather than her body, maybe thinner in the belly, with the new animation (which is so subtle, I don't think people will even notice) I should hopefully be able to remake all the animations much quicker, and easier than the slow snail pace I had to with the last set, also, they should look much better.
There was so much wasted potential I would like to fix with the game, But I would like to hear what people think first. Because it might not go ahead that way if people are opposed to it.
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I don't even know if I explained it very well, but it's along the lines of, there are some terrible designs in the game, that I would like to make less generic, but this may give people the impression that things are moving backwards.
