Hey hey hey! Welcome to your monthly thatcombatwombat progress update! 👋
The first half or so of May was largely occupied by finishing up school. If you didn't see it on the socials, I'm happy to say that I've finally graduated college (feel free to pat me on the back in the comments). That means work on GOCKHAUS is now full-steam ahead!
Since we're still in early stages, it may not be as flashy as what's to come. A lot of sorting out plugins and putting the map together. Building blocks!
What you may find more fascinating is the character sprite work. I've included above Brandon's spritesheet from BreedTown 3. It functions very similarly to any other character's sprite in my other games: characters have four directions they can move in, with a single static sprite depending on which direction they're facing, and a 2-3 frame walk cycle for moving. In BreedTown 3 I just had that sprite become slanted when you were sprinting, and there was no unique sprite for jumping.
Now next to it is Brandi's spritesheet. In GOCKHAUS, you have separate 6 frame animation loops for standing still, walking, running, and jumping. There's also now diagonal movement! The result is that the character spritesheets are much larger and more complex. I think character spritesheets in BreedTown 3 would take a day at most, whereas in GOCKHAUS a couple of these took like a week each. Fortunately, I've already completed all of them throughout the past month, and I'm quite pleased with the results (by popular demand, I'm also going for a less 'chibi' look this time)
What do you think?
Now that I'm done with school, progress on the game is quickly advancing. By the end of June I'll certainly have some story stuff done, which should be fun.
As for the demo... I want to say that it will also come out by the end of June if I REALLY blitz, but more realistically, it'll probably be sometime in July. We shall see!
Now more than ever, your financial support is greatly appreciated. I'm working hard for all of you, and your backing helps to make this all possible!
Thank you as always! See you next month with another exciting update! ^^