Fervir (Posts tagged gamedev)

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Fervir

Game developer, dabbler in pixel art and animation @blankthevidya

**I spent 7 years learning how to make this game by myself!**
This game is called **Creature Keeper** and you can befriend creatures and fight alongside them!

I got into gamedev as a hobby, not knowing how to make pixel art, program, compose, design, but now I do all of those things and more! Some time after, I even started posting progress here, on **Tumblr**! Over the years I spent my time honing my skills, eventually becoming a professional pixel artist. I helped make **Tangledeep**, which released last year!
I am currently running a **Kickstarter** to fund development and you can find more information at
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creaturekeeper/creature-keeper
Any support would be greatly appreciated!

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Can you really call it dev mode, if you can’t tank your FPS?

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Pledge

I wanted there to be some kind of farming in Creature Keeper, but thought managing crops in town broke the flow too much; so I came up with Pocket Garden : A farm on the go!
Grow food, buffs, equips, and more!
Check out more mechanics on the... — I wanted there to be some kind of **farming** in **Creature Keeper**, but thought managing crops in town **broke the flow** too much; so I came up with **Pocket Garden** : A farm on the go!
Grow food, buffs, equips, and more!
Check out more mechanics on the **Kickstarter**!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creaturekeeper/creature-keeper

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This is Creature Keeper, a game about befriending creatures and fighting alongside them! You can learn skills from creatures and grow all kinds of things in your Pocket Garden.

Learn more by watching the video on Kickstarter!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creaturekeeper/creature-keeper

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In case charging up shots isn’t your style, you can also fire arrows off instantly for real quick, but inaccurate attacks

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Piercing arrows not working out? Try blunt arrows

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New dodging mechanics!
A well timed dodge restores your stamina fully and gives you invincibility and attack boost

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Bushes, pots, bushes, pots, break them all and roll around in the leaves

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Spent a week on inventory stuff. It worked out pretty nicely

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Full spriting process of this shadow elemental for Tangledeep — Full spriting process of this shadow elemental for **Tangledeep**

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Duct tape sequencing exercise.

You have to draw the cross section of the duct tape (out, up, in, down) but you segment it and alternate each segment by going around the tape roll.

The final sequence is something like: (around/out/around/up/around/in/around/down/repeat)

The purpose of this exercise is to task you with drawing in perspective while also having to parallel-process the sequence.

Ideally, you do this without guidelines (second image) because if you draw guidelines it solves the problem of maintaining the perspective and volume of the tape roll.

I’ve been doing this for quite a while and even though I have a pretty good handle on the perspective and sequencing, the segments are pretty irregular and there’s a lot of drift. The bottom inner circle suffers the most drift because I can’t see through my own hand.

The third image is a beginner-level sequencing exercise. I designed sequencing exercises to train students to slow down, think about where their next line should be targeted and carefully aim.

All of these exercises(with the exceptions of the guidelines) were performed without lifting the stylus. It’s OK to pause and hold your pen in the same position when thinking about where to go next, in fact, I encourage it.

Ultimately, you trade off speed for accuracy and methodical precision, but when you get comfortable with it, speed eventually comes back.

When you make hard things easy, then you’re easily doing hard things.

and

If it’s not hard, you have nothing to gain.