Apothecary

[esteban]

Background tiles are in. Still plenty of fiddling to do with collision boxes until I feel comfortable with it.

Fantastique. You will hate me for saying this, but I feel like her arms are too limp/passive when she walks...just a slight tweak to make her seem more assertive and deliberate would be great.


But, even if the sprite remains the same, the game looks splendid. I love it. 

[vestcoat]

Fantastique. You will hate me for saying this, but I feel like her arms are too limp/passive when she walks...just a slight tweak to make her seem more assertive and deliberate would be great.


But, even if the sprite remains the same, the game looks splendid. I love it. 

I don't know, limp/passive sprite arms = limp/passive game. DEAR GOD FIX THE ARMS!

[sunteam_paul]

I hate animating stuff. I might try to make her arms swing out a little more than they do now. I don't want her too dynamic because she's supposed to be walking and not running, so she'd look like she was having a fit or something.

[esteban]

I hate animating stuff. I might try to make her arms swing out a little more than they do now. I don't want her too dynamic because she's supposed to be walking and not running, so she'd look like she was having a fit or something.

Agreed, don't have her swinging her arms too much. In fact, presently, perhaps there is too much movement (swing) from elbow to wrist/hand. That is, her forearm is "hanging" + swinging from her elbow—

I think this is the main thing: instead of her arms "hanging" from her shoulders (or her forearm "swinging" from her elbow), have a subtle, but deliberate, shoulder-shifting-forward + upper arm follows suit + forearm (I don't know what will look good, maybe the forearm could be 1-2 pixels more dynamic than shoulder+upper arm shift).

Anyway, I love your work and I know that the subtleties (of animating sprites) can be quite frustrating. 

 

[Orion_]

If you stop to this kind of detail, the game will never be released
I think we might make some concession in order not to spend another year on this project.

[Necromancer]

Instead of arm swing, how 'bout she reach up and honk one of her luscious hooters every few steps? 

[Desh]

This is awesome!  I wish I had the skills of you super smart software wizards so I could contribute to stuff like this.  I just need to kick myself in the ass and learn it.  I'm just tarded with coding and software.

[sunteam_paul]

I hate animating stuff. I might try to make her arms swing out a little more than they do now. I don't want her too dynamic because she's supposed to be walking and not running, so she'd look like she was having a fit or something.

look to crest of wolf/riot zone for inspiration on animating a natural walking style.

I hope that was a joke.

[sunteam_paul]

[ParanoiaDragon]

I hate animating stuff. I might try to make her arms swing out a little more than they do now. I don't want her too dynamic because she's supposed to be walking and not running, so she'd look like she was having a fit or something.

look to crest of wolf/riot zone for inspiration on animating a natural walking style.

I hope that was a joke.

WHY?

I remember EGM rating Riot Zone, & stating how Tony walked like he had a rock in his shoe!

[HailingTheThings]

I see absolutely no problem with this. Every game should be this fluid.

[esteban]

I want the gal in Apothecary to do pirouettes as she walks.

[Marll]

Late to the party here, but I agree, new boob placement looks much better.

I think that if her arms swung a little bit less at the elbow and just a bit more at the shoulder it would be just about right.

Looking forward to seeing more developments of this.

[seieienbu]

I'm just gonna leave this here...

[sunteam_paul]

UPDATE: After a worrying email from Orion in December, followed by silence, Apothecary was in danger of being canned once again.

Thankfully, Arkhan has stepped in and development is now returning 'in-house' to Aetherbyte. This does mean we're starting from scratch but it stands a much greater chance of being completed now.

If it gets almost cancelled again I will punch somebody.