just.draw(this)

Hi there! We are Volcanic Giraffe, we are in for 5th time, and it will be hard to improve our 22th place in Jam, but we'll do our best!

You've probably noted that our team has a great artist - just look at these title screens from our previous games! Galvanica, Rent for 60 seconds, Ancient Contact

But sometimes I (a programmer guy) have to do something by myself. Will I try to draw something…? Maybe in Photoshop…? No, I’m a programmer, aren’t I? Let's generate some graphics!

For example, in Galvanica we needed moving stars on the background. Shall I ask our artist to draw some dots? Naah, he is busy with the chair painting, let’s just put some yellow spots randomly. Stars

You may say: «Ha, that is easy. What about something more complex?»

Well, here is fire sprite drawn by our artist: fire0.gif And these ones are code-generated using particles: fireem1.giffire/em22.giffire_32.gif

And this dangerous-like mass is also completely generated - our artist just adjusted some colors to fit the overall style. danger1.gif So what I wanted to say: even if you are not an artist and cannot paint something beautiful, you still may code it! Looking forward for your games with generated assets. Maybe did someone generate some music? Levels? The whole game? 😃