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[BeerDrinkingBurke]

Hi all. Another busy week with gamedev this week. I did a wrap-up post linking to different screenshots over here:


https://www.reddit.com/r/gamemaker/comments/a6c5l6/screenshot_saturday_december_15_2018/ebtseya

[BeerDrinkingBurke]

Hi all. It's time for dev diary #16!
 
Featuring:

- Player walking animation.
- Working candles
- Shadowmap - ambient light integration
- Spawnable guests linked to a dialogue window
- the sexiest barrels you ever did see
- less waffling!

[BeerDrinkingBurke]

Hiya all! Time for dev diary #17. ;-)

[Jubal]

It's been fun watching the anims come together on Twitter - very cool to see them in the game!

[BeerDrinkingBurke]

Thanks Jubal!


Yeah I really am enjoying the animation process. There's going to be a hundred or so animated guests once I'm done (working off a few dozen base models). It should really help the place come alive once you have 9-10 animated characters on the screen at once.

[Jubal]

Yeah. I should learn more about how to do these sorts of pixel-animationy things, it looks an interesting process but I've never made myself sit down and look at how it's done practically.

[BeerDrinkingBurke]

If you are ever interested in trying your hand at pixel art animation I can really recommend Pyxel Edit. Super user friendly and powerful.



https://pyxeledit.com/


Using this and watching some simple youtube videos was enough to get me started.


Here's one I used to learn how to do a walk animation using the same software.


https://youtu.be/nQZECTSzaaI

[Jubal]

Ooh, thanks for the links

[BeerDrinkingBurke]

No prob!


I put off doing any animation for years because it looked really complicated. Turned out there's just a few simple steps to follow
to get something looking half decent.