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I've been wanting to incorporate some famous images from art history, and I finally figured out a way to incorporate a few Impressionist paintings: Monet's "Haystacks" are shaped just like Pac-Man ghosts

#enemy design

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And that's how with just a bit of color editing and Save As Gif, you can turn the playback head from a Soviet tape player into a minor video game enemy robot that crosses the screen at a roughly 45° angle

#enemy design

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You make spaghetti code and it makes things in the game work in ways you didn’t want them to. That’s why they call it creepypasta

(No idea if that’s true but I’ve been working with this stuff for a bit now and man. These numbers and letters and punctuations get up to some shenanigans)

the fact that any video game ever gets made is a fucking miracle, let alone good ones.

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I hadn't been planning on having a parody of the Mortal Kombat "Toasty!" guy but I found this guy on a Jazz Age movie poster and I might have to work it in somehow

#get a load of this guy

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Man, what was up with that, me saying anything would be visually consistent? Most bosses' weak points will have to be different Objects so they might as well have different Sprites too, with a consistent red/orange/pink colors so you can usually tell where to aim. Some sticking out of their surface, some as projectiles you have to catch, some orbiting their heads or something, &c. &c.

Made a nice little obvious Glowing Weak Point for mechanical bosses, just to vary it up from the anatomical hearts

#game design #flashing #very slightly

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Please check this out. It's easy and takes only a ferw seconds, and this campaign looks like it has a great shot: stopkillinggames.com

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#enemy design

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Oh THATS why when I was trying to pick out eyes for these guys the black pixels looked so natural against the green! Hmmm.

Fun fact, i can’t find any gifs of actual Minecraft Creepers because the gif search has nothing but Creeper-inspired stimboard stuff

I was putting some bread away and noticed that Occlupanids look a lot like Space Invaders...

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I was putting some bread away and noticed that Occlupanids look a lot like Space Invaders...

#occlupanids #enemy design

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Made a nice little obvious Glowing Weak Point for mechanical bosses, just to vary it up from the anatomical hearts

#game design

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Still unsure about this eyeball thing, but I just wanted to show off the Leyendecker dragon costume as a boss option

#boss fight

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Niche complaint, I know, but nothing more frustrating to the digital collage-maker that spent a long time cutting out a piece and then accidentally exported as JPEG instead of PNG while the background was set to the same black as the image outline, meaning the whole thing has to be done manually a second time

#collage

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Some possible balls for the Pong-adjacent bosses, just gotta see what stands out properly against the background

#game design #orbs

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Going back to some early concept art I'm working on including a segment where the player is caught between two big invulnerable bosses playing Pong Non-Specific Ball-Bouncing Paddle Game with a big spike ball or something, which has been a great use for some of the oddly-shaped art I've found. With this Medusa she's normally open-eyed, but when the ball hits her she flinches

#enemy design

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Put some collectible where the head should be so you have to kill it while avoiding the stinger to get it. But with that new idea of a bunch of different collectibles for no clear reason, the question is which one? There's so many options. I've been prepping dozens of options which will get tiring to program but how do you narrow it down

#enemy design #vg items

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If you were wandering around a maze game with minimal instructions, which of these would most clearly communicate to you "here is the exit to the next level"?

#game design #just design in general really

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a thing to understand is that indie games can push the envelope not in spite of being indie but because of it. once your company gets big enough you simply cannot make a game like Baba Is You