beautiful suspicious girl

This was going to be a post about our future goals, but I'd rather share these fun images of Life Witch instead.  Our composer (Chris Lucero) took on the task of rigging her so we could try to stay on schedule and get her animations in by the end of the quarter.  We're cutting it a little close, but hopefully we can do it! Now, without further ado:  

Whoooosh

Added bonus!

Hot off the press

We have a new build!  We are 6/7 weeks into the quarter so far, so hopefully we can push 1 or 2 more iterations out by the end.  Here are a couple screenshots of the current build.  When we have a play friendly build, hopefully we can share it with you.  Until then, here, take these candid snapshots.

Little witch in a big world.

Opening the door to who knows where.

Back up, ya'll.

Hoover vaccuum fish syndrome.

No thank you.

Goin' down into Emerald City.

This is Zelda.

Hangin' out.

Plants

Here are some plant concepts that Hank did and hasn't had time to post.

Here's a preview of some of these plants in action.

Project manager out

Just A product of Our Enviroment...

I met a gypsy and she hipped me to some life game

To stimulate then activate the left and right brain

Said baby boy you only funky as your last cut

You focus on the past your ass'll be a has what

That's one to live by or either that's one to die to

I try to just throw it at you--> determine your own adventure

Howdy, howdy, and what it do?! How goes it Bala followers?  It’s the Heavyweight Champion of the Universe as well as your friendly neighborhood concept artist, David Houston, chiming in once more on the group blog-o-jigger. So long time no see! I hope everybody’s been well and the other projects have been kicking all types of ass!  As usual, I’ve been in concept land trying to cook up so cool looks and schemes to our game. In that regard, I have some sad but necessary news to drop in. As Angelica alluded to in a previous post we’ve had to cut back on some of the designs for the game, mainly for the sake of scoping. That has me a little bummed out because we had some really fun dungeons and baddies on deck, but alas it was not meant to be…at least for now. The positive side of that is that if the development of this game goes beyond this class, there is a lot of material for making a full-fledged game. So let’s not say good-bye to all the great dungeons and characters we made, but maybe see ya later!

 

So let’s switch the game up and focus in on what we do have rolling for Bala, as of now we have 3 areas of interest planned. We have a forest level that acts as our tutorial stage, a cake dungeon, and a time dungeon. So that means the Champ here has been working on environments for our tutorial level (yay\(^o^)/…sort of(-_-;))! I’m not the best at environments, but I’m a competitive SOB who enjoys a good challenge, so I took to it with a grin. Hank built a block out of the level and drew up an out line so we have an idea of what happens where. So the next think to do was add a little style to it, so that we could get a good idea for the ebb and flow of each “room” in our forest. That meant getting on some draw overs!

  

These are pretty much useful little style guides that help you figure out what assets you might need and where to put them. It’s also a cheap little way to get you concept art to match the area…hehehe. Once we got down into establishing how we wanted the areas to look we started trying to divvy up the work load on assets. Hank went after the foilage…err foliage, and I started trying to hammer out some of the possible man made like assets. Since Angelica wanted some statues to go into our ruin like area of the forest, I figure that was as good a place as any to start. Since the forest is loaded with Guardian deity fish/snake type creatures, I went in and tried to give them a motif for their area.

I tried to hash out a few different feels for the statues. The first design on the left was meant to seem more primitive. I wanted it to seem more like someone just went to work with a chisel and just scraped the façade of the sucker right out of the rock and left it there. I also thought that it was just kind of cool to have it wrapped around the rock as if it were protecting it from something. I was really trying to hammer home that whole guardian thing with that one. It also might be a cool little animation concept for the shield guardian (the Guardians drop the power ups in the first stage now, as opposed to the children). So animation squad; keep it in the rolodex. The second one is a bit more of a blatant statue, where the creature is curled up on a pedestal, with some sort of ancient runes or language scribed across it. 

I had a few more iterations of this statue, but this one was a bit more interesting. This one is more dragon like, filled with a gang of loops and coils. The idea was to over stylize the guardians and make them seem like something beyond what they are (such is often the case with depictions of legends).  They are thought of as something to fear or at least be in awe of, so I really tried to give it that feel in the design.

Whelp, that’s just a taste of what we’ve got going on for now. There’s more good stuff on the horizon kiddies so stay tuned in. Same Bala place, same Bala channel!