{"author_name":"Arakade","cat":"LD #35","comments":[],"epoch":1460938620,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"6720","p_author":"Arakade","p_authorkey":"18287","p_urlkey":"42156","p_title":"Run, Gamer, Run! End of day 2: A working albeit iffy game","p_cat":"LD #35","p_event":"LD35","p_time":"1460938620","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"18287","us_name":"Arakade","us_username":"arakade","event_start":"1460678400","event_key":"33","event_name":"LD35"},"text":"

So, end of day 2! \u00a0We have a basically working game. \u00a0A few more hours tomorrow evening then fin!<\/p>\n

Today, much faffing about, lots more drawing, developing and some tuning.<\/p>\n

Rupert had a rather short day — Sunday is swimming day for his boys so he only had from 10am to 1pm and 9pm to midnight = 6 hours. \u00a0The first 2 hours were lost to the Spriter-Unity import oddities that ended up in XML files revealing missing key-frames. \u00a0(Still, at least Spriter has a user-readable file-format otherwise this might have been much harder to diagnose!)<\/p>\n

After the thin-man draft imported OK, he managed to redraw most of the fat character for proper animation — including using Krita’s vector graphics facility for some parts! \u00a0(can you tell which — when I decided to try it?) \u00a0This version benefited from all of yesterday and this morning’s learning about what works best for animated characters. \u00a0Whether it’s a lesson that’s stuck, we’ll only tell tomorrow when it’s brought across into Spriter!
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Rupert realized he probably should have done the whole drawing in vector form. \u00a0The only reason he decided not to was a desire to practise ‘real’ art (as opposed to technical drawing which vector art always feels more like). \u00a0As such, most of the art was sketched with a Wacom Intuos and Krita.<\/p>\n

Rupert also decided to be naughty and code-up a little bit of the game that he hadn’t explained well enough to Carl — the fat character should huff to a stop, animate a wind-up, flail through the air and recover on landing — a bit like a really flabby Hulk jump! \u00a0Coroutines to the rescue \":)\"<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Carl wrote more of the game, learnt about Unity Cloud Build and ported to Android! \u00a0That “more of the game” summary includes\u00a0doing menus including GUI, diagnosing gnarly multi-collider bugs, drawing place-holder art (which might become permanent if we run out of time tomorrow evening!) and making some parallax effects for the runner.<\/p>\n

With our 3-ish hours tomorrow, Rupert plans to finish the fat-man, chop him up for Spriter, re-animate, import into Unity. \u00a0It’s unlikely Rupert will manage to draw a final version of thin-man so that side might need cutting — a great shame given it’s cost about 6 hours already but that’s jamming, eh! \u00a0If there’s spare time, Carl made Rupert promise to re-draw some of his fine place-holder art. \u00a0(Whaddya think, Internet? \u00a0Shall we keep his stuff? \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n \n

Tags: exercise<\/a>, fat<\/a>, run<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 17th, 2016 7:17 pm","title":"Run, Gamer, Run! End of day 2: A working albeit iffy game"}