The thought of using the character for a video game didn't occur to me until that day in September '23 when I finally attempted to draw Curtains in GIMP 3.0. This marked the very beginning of my game dev journey Left to right top: 1st draft > 2nd draft Left to right bottom: 3rd draft > Final 3/10 - ThreadSky

grimclownjay.bsky.social • 7 days ago

The thought of using the character for a video game didn't occur to me until that day in September '23 when I finally attempted to draw Curtains in GIMP 3.0. This marked the very beginning of my game dev journey

Left to right top: 1st draft > 2nd draft
Left to right bottom: 3rd draft > Final
3/10

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grimclownjay.bsky.social•7 days ago

With drawing being something that never really came naturally to me, the 1st real challenge I faced was animating the character. After 3 months of frustration, the idle and running animations took form. It was at this point that I started to crave the ability to control the character
4/10

grimclownjay.bsky.social•7 days ago

The year that followed was spent learning how to use Unreal Engine 5 to create assets and code the mechanics that I wanted to appear in the game. Most of that time was spent drawing out the framework for the world and measuring everything to make sure all of the platforming worked
5/10

grimclownjay.bsky.social•7 days ago

Most of my progress was documented on X, but due to their change in policy regarding creator content and generative AI training, I switched over to @bsky.app about a year and a half into the journey. It was around this time that I started adding textures to the game world
6/10

grimclownjay.bsky.social•7 days ago

The creation and addition of textures occupied a lot of time at this point, and it was around here that I came to terms with my artistic limitations and really leaned into the whole "MSPaint doodle" cartoon art style.
7/10

grimclownjay.bsky.social•7 days ago

One of the key features of the game is there are 6 possible endings to find, the main objective being the discovery of a fuel source for Curtains' ship. After the textures were in place, the coding and designing for each ending began. Some musical placeholders were also introduced
8/10

grimclownjay.bsky.social•7 days ago

Now that there was a working goal and placeholder title screen, it felt important to make a demo available. On this day, the first working demo for the game was released on https://itch.io
9/10

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