Added a gun and have been working on the map, also muzzle flashes are amazing.

Today I didn't do much. No real sceenshots to show. What I did do, though, was start animating the main character, which was pretty troublesome >w<

Previously I've drawn her at a weird angle that frankly looked like something for a platformer, but since this is a top-down (well, 45 degrees or whatever) game with 4-directional movement, that couldn't work. So I drew her again and tried to make a downward facing walk animation:

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The result was a damn catastrophe LOL, way too small to do anything that looks even halfway decent. So, I increased her size by a bit (from 9x9 to 10x15) and tried again. Also made an upwards walk.

and the idle frames:

Much better! She also doesn't look flat as a pancake any more, lol. Still no face as there's basically no room, but I think that's really cute in a weird way. Thoughts? The shading on the dress might also be a bit too intense, but eh, it's fine for now :v

And that's it for today. I spent way too much time on this. Extreme low-res is sooo hard D:

This is the opening of my first boss fight. See if you can guess the inspiration :)

It walks in him.

Mostly been writing dialogue trees lately, but today I did get in some animation time to make a tiny (glitchy) version of our logo and get our player moving in the 4 cardinal directions we all know and love:

The glitching might not fit with the aesthetic of this particular game, but I think it's cool so whatevs. The running animation needs... somehing. I don't know. I really don't want to make it bigger and make traversal feel claustrophobic, but I can't get the smoothness I want with so few pixels.

And here's a quick quick slide-through of all the characters, breaking pixels and gettin' dizzy!

the very start of PuPeura :> i've added like the first dialogue to the game and the first quest. i've made few sprites for the villagers so they change expressions when talked to. i also made a selection system for the dialogue so you can pick "yah or nah" for stuff.

dont bully the queen (this is what happens when you use a tool on her)

Not much done today either >w<

First I tweaked and finished all 4 walk animations:

The side ones look more like she's running. Eh, that's fine, actually. That means I can use the same animations for both running and walking without it being too weird!

Then I spent all day trying to implement dialogue. I used this excellent dialogue engine by my friend @JujuAdams. It was a challenge to make it work with views and have it work at this tiny scale, but I managed it! So here's my first dialogue test:

Here's my font btw, in case anyone likes it. I tried to make it tiny but also as easily readable as possible.

And that's it for today! I'll be very busy for the coming days, probably won't have time for a lot of jamming, so maybe don't expect daily posts from me for a couple days, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A terrible half-complete skybox really sells the illusion of rotation, despite being a simple 2D image.