Heya one and all, I'm back again with yet another piece of platformer perfective progress at a positive pacing. This week, it's less an asset for the game and more a bigger concept piece for the game itself.. Map concepts!
While making a working tile set, I decided to actually take some time to make a simulated landscape of how the level should work. In my current sprite sheet for geometry, every tile is a massive 64 x 64 pixels.. HOWEVER, the concept chart can have tiles represented by a much easier to compact together 2 x 2.
The checkered floor being solid ground, the striped being more inside-setting walls, or mountains to climb onto with their respective platforms, thinner platforms overall. So far I'm building up the first level, simple enough with some jumps, a few hills, and an example of going under ground as another pathway.
It's not too far progressed past this point yet, but there's an above path, a below path, and the middle can maybe have a reward for making the jumps just right.
The level concepts also will have markers for things like Checkpoints, Enemies, and Springs. Springs in purple, enemies red, and checkpoints yellow at the moment, soon coins added too.
Even a marker for where to start the playable character, Moof, at in the level. This is where the fun begins.
Other small details I need to think of what would work with the character is a power-up, and what he ends the level with.
(IE: Mario has Mushrooms, Fire Flowers, and the flagpole. Sonic has Shields and Signposts with his face on it.)
For Moof and his sprites, he's got not much, but DOES have a flowing in the wind animation, usable for diving, or riding on a dragon or a plane.
Just a small update for him, but more sprites.
Enemies however have a concept, but no sprites yet, I will make test ones soon. So far, goo creatures, absolute small round lads, tiny orbs. (Old Concept image, will make new ones soon.)
They can shape themselves, which means they can have wings, spikes, can squash and stretch, come in different forms, they're all little goober creatures. Name pending.
Enemies, maps, and a map icon indicator all come together to make the land feel true. Building them however.. the answer comes in due time, so until next post.
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