Happy St. Patty's Day 🍀 I realize I haven't posted much of late. My day job has been sucking up a lot of my energy. The search for the right Fester buddies continues (the poor boyo is definitely lonely....). I am working on some new goth stuff. Still trying to think of a way to merge Fester and the goth line but haven't quite found that just yet (not that Fester won't continue in his own stuff). But, yeah, we are still alive on this end. Just tired. Very tired 😬 . . . . . . . . #pushypushyupdowngo #artist #illustrator #stpattysday #stpatricksday #happystpatricksday #cats #catsofinstagram #catlady #blackcats #blackcatsrule #blackcatsofinstagram #blackcatsaregoodluck #endoftherainbow #rainbow #funnycats #catbutt https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp6IUH6PehD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Whipped these boys out real quick for the Etsy order that came through. I never thought I’d make sales through Etsy but this is my second one and I’m very happy for any!
There’s nothing like trying to be cute in a picture and your cat photobombs you with her a**! 🤣🤣 #CatLife #CatButt #TuxedoCat #Grace #ThankfulAndBlessed (at Cape Coral, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClSGqRNNkO0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
I’ve lived in San Diego all this time, and yet today was my first trip to @legolandcalifornia and I made it proudly wearing my custom cat butt earrings by @babykatescreations!!! #catbutt #earrings #earringsoftheday #earringsofinstagram #handmade #handmadejewelry #custom #travel #polymerclayearrings #supportsmallbusiness #supportart #summervibes #summerlooks #babykate #babykatecreations #legoland #summerfun #california #lifestyle #travelgram #travelphotography #california #themepark #rides #bionicle #lego #summerfashion #artistsoninstagram #art #wearableart #madetoorder (at LEGOLAND California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf0nYWvOLdd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
If she fits … she sits… she also being norty mama had to sensor #thiscatisnorty #ifitsisits #catinbox #box #whitecatsofig #whitecatsrule #sillygirl #norty #catbutts https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFPZNmpI9w/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
A ton of visual updates this week! Here's how it looks so far:
Temporarily added the mosaic shader because he naked
--- Basic player animation! ---
Personally it was the most challenging part of development this week. I've done some rough frame by frame animations in the past, but animating something presentable for a game? That's a different story.
Here's my first pass:
My goal is to make it a silly and slightly nightmarish game, so tried to see how it looked if I made him overly twinky lol. Looking back on it, I could say it was more distracting and given that I want the player to focus on the bullets, I think it wouldn't be that worth putting the extra effort on this part.
I will likely do another pass for the next update to give him clothes lol
--- Other visual updates! ---
The other main visual change are peanut butter bullets! It took a bit to find a nice looking color scheme that didn't look like a flame.
Other sprite updates would be background floor tiles, hearts (cat shaped), and the center table.
I'd say I'm close to the halfway mark for Milestone 2!
--- Godot Icon??? ---
This will be converted into a throwable bag of peanuts by next update. I promise it'll make sense narratively
--- Polishing character sprites ---
I will polish/draw up dialogue character portraits for all characters in the game and try to have a basic eating animation for the three peanut emitters.
--- More hell patterns ---
Will see if I can show more patterns next week since I've got some interesting ones like this one: