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Lucid Dream: Feb 4, 2003; That boy ain't right.

here is the progress I made so far:

# ¿ Jan 8, 2016 15:03

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 15:31

Lucid Dream: Feb 4, 2003; That boy ain't right.

Here is my progress so far. I'm going to work on a hunting minigame tomorrow.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2016 16:05

Lucid Dream: Feb 4, 2003; That boy ain't right.

Hey folks, if there are any art people out there who aren't already working on something I could use some sprites for the game I'm working on for the jam. I'm making an oregon trail ripoff where you play as a penguin, and I've been able to get by with programmer art for the most part, but there are certain parts that I am too terrible at art for.

In Oregon Trail, you move forward until you hit various destinations like rivers or forts. I'm going to need both smaller icon type sprites as well as larger "full screen" sprites for the different destinations.
The "icon" type sprites look like this:

and the larger ones look like this:

I have quite a bit of the functionality of the game done, but I haven't really settled on locations yet aside from "the north pole" and "a mound of snow" so I'm open to pretty much anything destination-wise. The game will span the globe, roughly like this:

so it'll need at least some water locations and some land locations, possibly specific locations roughly on that line (although the line doesn't need to be straight, and could definitely deviate as much as the whole planet if we wanted).

I'm also going to do at least one hunting minigame, so it'll probably need some creatures to shoot at (and/or swim at and eat when over water?) at some point as well.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 18:25

Lucid Dream: Feb 4, 2003; That boy ain't right.

iSurrender posted:

Sprawling, unstructured progress full of internal static everythings, making a mockery of all that is good design, but progress nonetheless.

I've never done a game jam because I've always been busy when they came around, but I'm really enjoying the fact that I can cut corners in a jam game and feel justified because of the time limit :v:

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 19:56

Lucid Dream: Feb 4, 2003; That boy ain't right.

Ok, here is my progress so far. Spoiler alert (judges don't click).

# ¿ Jan 11, 2016 06:31

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 15:31

Lucid Dream: Feb 4, 2003; That boy ain't right.

Antifreeze Head posted:

You can get some decent results by taking photos and running them through Photoshop to make them look like pixel art.

http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/how-to-turn-any-photograph-into-pixel-art-with-photoshop

If that is the route you want to go, there are no shortages of public domain images that exist that can assist. If you need something specific, sent me a PM. I'm in Canada and we currently have an abundance of snow and so long as it doesn't require a camera fancier than my phone, I can probably get it for you. I can do some generic wintery sounds (crunching snow, wind, others?) too.

If you're looking for locations as you circumnavigate the globe longitudinally, stopping at the so-far-undiscovered resting place of the HMS Terror is an interesting option as something to do as you head towards the north pole. Hans Island is also fun, nobody really knows if it belongs to Denmark or Canada and the countries take turns leaving bottles of booze on the speck of an island as a means of claiming it. Robert Falcon Scott is a name you'll want to look at if you haven't already decided on who you want for the "peperony and chease" moment.

Good stuff, thanks.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2016 22:01

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