[WIP] Sunblazer - Sprites and Light Devlog

[PypeBros]

may I suggest this as an alternate reference for the explosion ?

http://www.javalemmings.com/xeo3/xeo3blog/img/boom.gif

as seen on http://xeo3.splinder.com/post/6860725/in+%26+out

[Olothontor]

I think that would make an excellent laser hit animation.

Something like so?


EDIT: Hey, look, a buncha updates! And as soon as I finish up the interface, the scrolling background, and some minor 'feel' details, all we'll be waiting on is the coding to be finished. The demo game is on its merry way, folks! Sit tight (probably won't be too exciting, but I'll post it anyway)!

[PypeBros]

I think that would make an excellent laser hit animation.

Something like so?

Yeah, that's the idea for the shape. With a bit more anti-aliasing against black and framerate tweaking, it could get very solid.
Some hue shifting would definitely put the final plus. As you may have seen XeO³ is almost mono-chromatic game and that aspect shouldn't be kept verbatim.

[Olothontor]

Merci for the advice. But hue shifting... as in, changing colors entirely, or simply having the current colors make more of a shift outwards/inwards?

[bengo]

That main ship seems rather... big? I'm guessing if this is gonna be a bullet hell you might want to make your ship smaller (yes obviously hit-box will only be one pixel but even then the ship tends to look rather small).

[Gil]

Merci for the advice. But hue shifting... as in, changing colors entirely, or simply having the current colors make more of a shift outwards/inwards?

Hue shifting is a technique where you make sure your shades don't become lighter/darker only, but change in color too. In a flame, the lighter colors are yellow, the darker parts are red. Something like that.

[Olothontor]

Aha! Thanks for the clarification. I can definitely do that.

[Gil]

It doesn't have to be yellow to red of course. It can be red to purple or purple to green, or whatever floats your boat (it's a LAZER, go wild)

[Olothontor]

Made a SLIGHT modification.



It now matches the laser projectiles of the enemies, which it what it was made for.

[Lizzrd]

The last few frames of the laser explosion looks like it's lingering somehow.
Might be that it's alone and not ingame though.