If you did not catch it, we recently had a an interview with reaxxion.com. We had a really great time with the interview and we hope you enjoy it. I really loved the interview and the blurb that he wrote at the beginning was insightful. We are happy that he felt our project was competent enough to write about it.
Music
The last two weeks have been really great with development. Mark has made some really great music. The stuff he has recently composed really captures the the essence of what we want to interpret to everyone and it’s really exciting to get things going. These pieces are important to the story and its something we want you all to experience in the game first. I feel like he is making the best soundtrack for our game and it is really exciting to hear every new piece.
More Art
Ricky is still doing his thing, making battle backgrounds. He is currently working and getting a lot done as usual. Here is a sketch of his current work in progress.
Spriter Pro
So I have had my eye on this program called Spriter Pro for some time now and I have to say this is my new favorite program. I have been able to make some really solid animations with a lot less spriting. Although our main humanoid characters will be sprited the traditional way this program makes a way to animate some really big enemies like the ones we planned with efficiency and quality.
The first thing I sprited was a mechanical creature that we are creating for an undisclosed area. I think you will see how well we were able to animate it and for a first attempt at the program, I do not think it was that bad.
Although we can make many more frames of animations we are limiting them as we do not want to overload the program with thousands of frames per animation, but we could if we really wanted to make the game lag like crazy lol.
I have recently been animating the white wolf which we all worked on together during the campaign. The program actually has a method to either save the pixel work or smooth it out. Now we are between which version that we would want to use.
These are still somewhat rough animations as the heads would need to change and animate a bit more and I enlarged them so you can see how different they are. We would really like you guys opinions on this as we would like to know which version you all would prefer. We feel it’s better to ask the people who are definitely going to be playing, you guys collectively can help answer the question of what you would like to see.
We finally found an animator that is going to be making custom visual effects for skills and abilities and we hope to show you more news on that soon. I’ve also acquired a little help to make the main playable characters and bosses much more dynamic and diverse. Her name is Debbie Ekberg and she has already shown she has a lot of talent and skills to bring to our game.
Selling T-shirts
We have been playing around with the idea of selling t-shirts to gather some more funding for some small additions to our project. We want to ask you guys if you think it’s a good idea. We want to go to Ricky and with your help, come up with a cool design that you all will like. Let us know in the comments what you think and you can help us brainstorm some killer ideas for it.
By the way, Whitney has just finished changing the forum software and updating it. It’s been inactive for a bit, but we are still around checking it almost everyday. Previous members who we KNOW are real have been migrated here. Posts have been copied, but not post times, so please ignore that stuff. It’s all going to say the same date/time. Those that have been migrated here, please make a new password. When migrating the members, Whitney gave you all a password manually, so she knows it.
http://whiteguardianstudios.com/forums/index.php
Thanks for reading this update we are really excited about February and the work that we have ahead of us.
Best,
Tyrell and Whitney White
