{"author_name":"stewthepoo","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[],"epoch":1374521700,"likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"42352","p_author":"stewthepoo","p_authorkey":"24779","p_urlkey":"77984","p_title":"Team tartan paint ~ day 1","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1374521700","p_likes":"4","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"24779","us_name":"stewthepoo","us_username":"stewthepoo","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"

Hi there my names Stewart I\u2019m an artist from the Scottish gamejam team tartan paint.<\/p>\n

Our game is a top down hexagonal strategy game with a Greek theme. We spent the past week brainstorming gameplay and design. We have a very unconventional yet accessible play style\u00a0and we`ll be going into more detail it in the upcoming days courtesy of our team leader<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I\u2019m going to show off some of the assets we managed to whip up on the first day of production.<\/p>\n

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This was one of the initial mockups to show the positioning of the user interface and how the playfield is composed.<\/p>\n

\"health<\/a><\/p>\n

The game involves you sending units toward an enemy base, and the health indicator is to be a statue which crumbles the more damage you do.<\/p>\n

The typical Zeus pointing lightning worked well for a placeholder, but now we`re thinking about having an hourglass which could shatter and crack. We`ll be focusing more on user interface once the initial terrain is done.<\/p>\n

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\"tile<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of which, here are some of my efforts today to try and get tiling paths to be modular and link seamlessly, it was not a fun procedure. The more decorative, straight roads were a real headache and in the end I did a patchy looking cobblestone road to better success. as far as environment art goes, getting the paths working was the biggest hurdle, and mostly from here out it`s just fun draw times. No more modular nightmares.<\/p>\n

I got all the necessary tiles done for mountain\/lava environments done today, and a start on the water ones as well.<\/p>\n

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\"water<\/a><\/p>\n

And our resident coder got the terrain generation up and running. every time you load up the .swf file you end up with a new level.<\/p>\n

\"gameplaylol\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s all for now! It\u2019s been a long day for all of us so sorry for the scrambled and hurried post. Hope the gamejam goes well for everyone!<\/p>\n

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Tags: team tartan paint<\/a><\/p>","time":"July 22nd, 2013 2:35 pm","title":"Team tartan paint ~ day 1"}