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Battle Droids

It was meant to be part of a scene piece, but... enough postponing; better incomplete than never.

Droid ranks reference: https://jkhub.org/forums/topic/10322-b1-battle-droid-revamp/page/3/ 

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I need this game.

I. Need. This. Game!

Indie Game Spotlight: Frontier Story

Ready to fulfill your farming dreams? This week’s Indie Game Spotlight, Frontier Story, created by @jmw327, has captured our hearts this week with their latest farming sim. Frontier Story is about exploring a new world and its mysteries, while befriending the townsfolk, building your farm, and raising some adorable animals!

@jmw327, the solo developer handling the code, art, and game design of Frontier Story, took a moment to speak about the indie game scene and how to start getting into it!

What are some major influences to the game?

Harvest Moon 64 (my first Harvest Moon game) is an obvious one, but also the many worlds of the Legend of Zelda series, and the quirkiness of Earthbound, amongst other things. But not just video games! I read a lot as a child, so I think that had a huge influence on my preference for storytelling in games! And of course there are a lot of amazing people in my life who inspired me creatively and in other ways!

How do the farming mechanics work in Frontier Story?

The mechanics will have a lot of similarities of course to the Harvest Moon series, but with some twists of my own! I especially want animals to play a large role in the game, aside from just being tools to make money. So in addition to having them feeling more alive, hopefully almost like a virtual pet, some of them will have unique abilities which will help you in managing your farm if you treat them well! An example of this is a slime-like creature called a Droplet, which produces water!

How did you get into developing games?

It was something I had a desire to do for a while, and then last year I guess I just figured it was time to stop just thinking about doing it, and do it! I already had some programming experience, so I started learning art and trying to pick up the basics of game development just through trial and error.

What does your day-to-day look like for creating Frontier Story?

After all other life obligations are taken care of, I generally put most of my free time towards working on some aspect of the game. A nice part about doing both art and coding is I can create a more relaxing pace I think by switching between the two roles often.

What’s some advice you could give to anyone looking to get into the indie game scene?

Just start creating whatever it is that you want to create! There is a lot of advice on the internet on how to go about creating a game, but I think experimenting is essential when starting anything new. There are a lot of ways to do things, but I think it’s most important to find the one that works for you and your goals. Understanding what you want to get out of making your game is essential!

Want to know when Frontier Story is ready for release? Make sure to follow @jmw327 for game dev updates and more BTS content!

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Seriously, this guy is a god...!

Here’s some art repost of the project I’ve been working on far too slowly. But it’s something! Burnout and my willpower are at odds to try to get some sort of teaser reveal asap, friends

Also includes the custom palette I’ve been color-picking since 2007

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Good lord this is beautiful..!

Hi Tumblr I come bearing gifts: Check it out, it’s the central area of the Kanto Safari Zone

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Docks

Watch out, little fish!

Felt like giving another go at a Pixeljoint weekly challenge, this time creating a tileset with a 4 tiles minimum. Had no idea what to pixelate, so started with the most cliche thing: a box. A lot of hours later I was gladly on with 13 tiles, 6 of those being animated (plus the fish!).

Gotta say, this was a blast to do and i’m actually pretty pleased with the result, considering it is my first serious attempt at doing a tileset. Let me know what you guys think!

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Rat Guard

Well, why not send out this little guy too... Also taken from the “Double King” animation, this one i did even before the other bigger scene, just as a quick doodle.

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Oh damn, this is so beautifully animated!

Teacher Can’t Dance

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Double King

Inspired by the awesome animation "Double King", by the great Felix Colgrave. If you don't know what I'm talking about then this is the right time for you to check it:

https://youtu.be/w_MSFkZHNi4

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Again: way too much time spent on this. I should really try my hands at code-writing, bet it would speed-up the process...

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Coffee Supremacy

Tea is no match for a fine coffee!

Figured a good way to keep on pixelling and improving my skills is to take on the weekly challenges from Pixel Joint. This one is (clearly) for the “Caffeine Wars” challenge, hope you like it.

Give me your feedback!

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How come only now I know of this? Such an amazing idea!

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Sequence

Another doodle idea made at work and taken too far in what comes to time consumption: Two squares, each with 4 corner “ears”, each of those being either in or out. Result: 53 different combinations considering relative positions between the 8 ears (the criteria for uniqueness is that no piece can be matched by simply rotating or mirroring any of the others).

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Jenga

So, I just need to finish some of the old works to get back on track with this pixeling stuff. Not sure this marks a comeback but let’s see.

This one was already promised before, hope you like it!

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Jam Session

Anybody’s in for some music?

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Perspective Square

New experience

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Perspective Heart

So this has origin on some scribbling I did while waiting for the computer at work to respond. Liked the idea and tought of making it more of a “graphic-design-kinda-thing” :) Let me know what you think of it.

Hopefully there’ll be more designs.

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Cubes

Just an idea that I’m starting to explore. Particularly liked the design of it, the use of lines and dots and the overlapping caused by perspective. I’m already thinking of possible applications for this...