simkaart.co
Creating pixel art, interfaces and identity systems for apps and games. Now working on tower defense adventure Rift Riff (coming April 2025).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/Rift_Riff/
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Haha ok. Well it’s exactly the kind of weird we aspire to make things for, I guess 🤓
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Hey! I see you really liked our game when I compare the playtime to the others you’ve tried. We’re finding SNF doesn’t connect us very well to people like you. Do you know any other person with an audience who’d love Rift Riff? 🙏
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[~52 mins] A very brainy tower defense game that has the juice in more ways than one. I almost missed my stop on the train home! 👍 store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...
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Internet 101: don’t click on the pretty girl
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Oh how smart this V in your wordmark. Graphic designer making games? 😁
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Intriguing. Love the basic shapes of the left house. And how the light flows over the whole. I’m not familiar with your work: what is this top layer of scratches over the surface. Is it there to connect the layers? Or is it there to disconnect the viewer from the collage?
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Yea. Makes sense!
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Yeah and you don’t have to stick with black and white to get the same efficiency effect. You can switch to purple and yellow of that better fits the feeling of your scene, for example.
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here's a close up in #aseprite
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Are you in the discord? We’re keeping everyone up to date there :) discord.gg/bf6pxpWC
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Hey! Thanks for asking. The demo and our playtest build are seperate. We are still inviting rounds of playtesters to play our newest content. And we will continue to do so for the coming weeks/(months?). Since a ton of people signed up, we invite in batches. You’ll get the invite someday soon :)
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I will keep posting updates on our progress. Thanks for checking it out!
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And this tower selection part is also a really fun part of the entire experience. A little brainer before the action starts.
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Some sick AOE towers we're adding atm
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Monsters don't stick to predefined paths, but instead find their way organically towards their targets.
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#pixelart #indiegame #godot
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"More stuff my kids won't recognise." :D
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Eric
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And eventually recolouring to something more vibrant
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Testing
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Drawing shadows with polygons
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Setting up collision
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Rough sketch to play over and get a feel for sizes and distances
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First outline for game design
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Overview of the map
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Ouch. Good point.
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After which I came to the realisation that I don't need to repeat the shape so many times to tell the story, and can instead spread it out over the level more naturally.. #pixelart #pixelthought
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And finally one with something that resembles ruins a bit more..
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And one with..golden nuggets??
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And a slighlty dimmed version....
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And here's another one...
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so i then went through a fuckton of iterations for this landmark :P
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I then laid the groundwork for the entire level without 'landmark' and was pretty happy with it. it didn't require more detail, because the colors and small object we're already satisfying enough for my taste, but it lacked the light story telling i wanted to achieve with this map.
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Here's the first sketch where i wanted to integrate another sketch for remains of a large man-made structure i had already made.
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Actually, it should use a pivot that is 1 unit below to make it pop in front*
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Furthermore, ‘stacking’ objects only works when the top objects use the same pivot as the base ‘plate’ of the bottom object. That took a little for me to figure out 😄 #godot #pixelart #storting
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@adriaan.games helped me figure out that you have to imagine the base ‘plate’ of an object that touches the surface the player walks on. Also, avoid diagonal objects, since they have 2 different y coordinates that the player can walk around, making one faulty.
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💙? :)
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proof of the y-sorting-masterpiece