Our work with the Festival continues! Here we have Candy, selling candies outside the hat store:
Another bunch of portraits was needed as well, featuring people enjoying (or not?) the festivities, or, in the case of the Dojo guys, arranging one of the mini games!
We also decided to add another one of Owns ideas for the Festival, namely the petting zoo thing. So we called in Oak to bring a couple of pets and let the kids gather to look at them! With [.....]
Time to finish up the treasure cave! Gonna add a few more props this time around, but mainly it's gonna be a whooole lot of copy pasting pre-existing gold piles :D Enjoy...
The finished right side, as seen above! Below is the complete thing, including the sleepy old dragon lurking about, made by Fred :3
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Part two of creating the treasure cave! Time to start drawing a lot of gold and adding trinkets to make it look more interesting. In this part I'll focus on the left part of the screen, and leave the right part for the next blog post :)
Here's a progress video, which also includes my previous sketch:
And here's what the left side of the cave looks like so far:
Most of the small trinkets are items that were made previously, mainly [.....]
One of the major things we need for the flashback cutscene to be done is a huge cave filled with treasure, complete with the sleeping dragon Fred has been working on recently.
As the prototype of the cutscene is finished and we know where everything will take place, it's time for me to start working on the background!
Above is a very crude sketch where you can see where every major event with the characters will take place. This is important to know so that [.....]
A few more portraits for upcoming festival cutscenes! More to come as well, as a bunch of familiar faces come to hang out at the Festival :)
They don't look too happy yet, but that's cause at the time of this cutscene, the festival hasn't started yet! Don't worry, it'll be a nice and relaxing event (for the most part)..! ;) [.....]
When I asked for your suggestions on how to further decorate the Evergrind Festival, Own at the forums suggested cutouts which you can stand behind to make your character look different. So that's what we decided to do (thanks for the idea)!
We decided to make 2 different versions, one of a couple getting married and one of a monster (we picked the Snowbacca, cause why not)!
The process can be seen here:
Final version without characters:
Final version with characters:
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As the cutscene prototypes are more or less completed (with the exception of a background I need to make), it's time to spice 'em up by giving the characters more expressions!
First up is Dad, who is getting a new expression with his eyes closed:
But wait! In the flashback cutscene, where he'll be appearing with his wife Charlotte, he's much younger. As such, we need a bunch of new portraits illustrating that:
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This is what we're gonna be busy with today:
Inhouse-testing the Queen bee mini boss fight! Not only does she have way more hp and damage than regular bees, she also summons bees that are also stronger than the ones you meet out in the fields. And as if that wasn't enough, she has an attack where she spews slowing honey all over the map, and shoots stingers at you from far away!
This fight is gonna be incredibly hard to balance, because the bees are such an odd kind of enemy. If you know how to use your shield, they really aren't that much of a hassle, but for those [.....]
The quest for making the festival seem more cool continues! In this post I'll share the creation of two stands that have been put together by the folks of Evergrind City: a balloon stand and a popcorn stand!
The balloon stand will be further improved by Fred, who will add a cluster of balloons unlike the others - these ones having the shapes of different animals found around Grindea, such as the Slime balloon seen in the weekly recap over at the devblog this week!
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Time for another time travel portrait! This time around I made a sketch on paper rather than digitally (as mentioned in Tuesday's post), in order to mix things up a bit.
Perhaps I'll do it this some more in the future for portraits as well - it's been really nice to sketch away from the screen for a while. :)
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So, hats (& other types of headgear) are one of the most important things of every game Secrets of Grindea, right? I recently did a few posts where I showed new batches, but so far I've yet to make any video recordings of creating them..
Sooo, I thought it'd be a fun idea to start recording my process, doing maybe around 4 each video and make a series of it, to see how many posts we end up doing before the game is actually done.
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Something I'm trying to become better at is planning what to do next & preparing for it properly. At times, I simply wake up, look at my tasklist, pick something and start working with minimal preparations. Sometimes this works well, sometimes my work tends to get a bit uninspired.
Recently I've found that taking a break from the computer screen and sketching in a notebook helps a lot with my workflow. For some reason it feels much easier sketching freely and try out random ideas when it's [.....]
A new week is coming, but the floods of e-mail we get from people requesting free keys for Secrets of Grindea show no signs of stopping anytime soon! It's super flattering, really - lots of people wanting to play our game! A year ago I'd never believe something like this would happen :)
Of course, a lot of the mails we get are quite obviously from scammers pretending to have YT-channels they don't even link to, as well as those who claim to be famous streamers they quite clearly aren't... But there are also people who only come across of one of the two, as they simply forget to link to their channel, or didn't see the [.....]
Aaand, we'll and the week with another portrait, of a kid! I was playing around with a slightly different style (particularly in the shading) here.
Not sure yet if we'll keep it as it is, start using it on more portraits or if I'll end up going back to fix this one later on. Either way it was fun to try something new!
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Time for another portrait, this time of a woman that should appear in the Embassy of the time travel town!
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Cheers!
