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Project Started:	7th February, 2007	Last Update:	15th December, 2009
Project Owner:	Dr. James MD	Project Members:	MrPineapple
Project Type:	Platform	Project Progress:
More Info:	http://satansam.co.uk/tormishire	Faves:	78

New art

Posted 28th Sep 08, by Dr. James MD

Hi, my name is James and I'm going to redraw lots of stuff for this game.

See I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. With The New Satan Sam I tried to cover up my lack of classic pixel art training with stylised visuals, at least for the background art. I thought I knew enough about art and such to be able to go for a more realistic approach with Tormi. But it hasn't worked as I just can't draw big detailed backgrounds.
So the new style is going to be a bit of a step back to Satan Sam in that I'll be using a more abstract approach. Graphics represented more by their purpose and impact than how they'd normally appear. At least this will give me a much more creative artistic license to be able to draw pretty much what comes into mind without worrying too much about realism.

And that's the problem with this game. Realism. I've grounded a few things within logic but it's difficult to balance the surreal parts of some of the game with this relentless realism.

So really it's time to step back, take some LSD or just drink 2 Red Bulls and go a little bit loose with design.

But enough about art. This is the nuze!

+ Been working flat out again on the engine, mostly enhancing the end-user experience by supporting more controllers, having the keyboard instantly useable should a controller be disconnected, tidying up the online and DLC bits (like it used to crash if the connection went down).

+ Wrangled myself another guest track, this time by a DJ style chap and its to be used in the final section of the game. It's a really fantastic piece that fits in well with the rest of the soundtrack. Also got a couple of tracks from MrPineapple's (the main musician) sister.

Also shipped off a demo to some industry execs who were rather pleased with it! Which was a big slice of motivation.

Posted by -Dark Martin-

28th September, 2008

Why are the monsters crapping star dust?

Posted by Codemonkey

28th September, 2008

What kind of "industry execs"?

Posted by AndyUK

28th September, 2008

heh you're never going to finish this if you keep redoing things.

Oh btw how would you make the game auto detect a controller anyway? That would be actually be really useful for my game.

Posted by Dr. James MD

28th September, 2008

If the controller (using the Joystick 2 object) is disconnected then it just switches to keyboard, and if joystick is selected under the options and one is suddenly connected then it starts a loop to find the controller and sets it all back up again.
Think it pretty much does rely on that Joystick 2 object.

Posted by -Athan-

28th September, 2008

man you can't let it down. this is a piece of art, so you can't "BANG!!!" it like that

Posted by Yami

28th September, 2008

See I would have to disagree with you on here. I think where you are the most successful is with yours backgrounds. So if size is a problem perhaps you should try making these objects that are giving you so much trouble smaller?

Posted by alastair john jack

29th September, 2008

It'll be interesting to see the upcoming art then!
You still think you'll be able to finish this by the end of the year?

Posted by Dr. James MD

29th September, 2008

Good gravy no. Early '09. The new graphics won't take long, maybe about days worth of art+coding like. The beastily slow bit are bosses and balancing of such.

Posted by -Dark Martin-

29th September, 2008

So your Degrading the graphics... may i ask why god WHY?

Posted by Dr. James MD

29th September, 2008

Not degrading... Just applying some of the arty farty stuff I've learnt onto new abstract objects. Mostly for parallax backgrounds. I'm happy with the fore and midground stuff, but the far-background has been WIP for 2 years now.

Posted by Jon C-B

30th September, 2008