Gameplay Reference

A guest speaker at my school recommended that I take a look at this game called "Super Crate Box" by Dutch developer Vlambeer.

Super Crate Box gameplay

I feel its a great reference for game speed, level design, and game play. Have a look when you get a chance.

-David

Refined Color Scheme

Figured out the color scheme. Here's a mock-up.

-David Woo

Relative Scale

This is a rough mock up of the game screen with the characters to give a better look at scale.

Danny Concepts

Starting to get a better feel of the character design.

Basic Controls - Attack

This is the second part of the basic movements. The attack button (marked here with a Red Circle with an A) will be the Spacebar key. A third part will be under way to illustrate the different body slamming techniques.

New Monster Design

Monster Attacks

Stage Levels

Dinner Stage

Lunch Stage

Breakfast Stage

Breakfast Stage

Breakfast Stage by George Mallari

Lunch Stage

Lunch Stage by George Mallari

Dinner Stage

Dinner Stage by George Mallari

Game Title

As of now, our project has no official name of solid narrative. So, I just wanted to run this by everybody (with many thanks to Anthony Waters):

"Danny's Dietary Dream Match"

"A young boy with aspirations to become a professional wrestler, journeys into his dreams to defeat his evil eating habits."

Thoughts? Comments?

Just want to make sure we're all on the same page in terms of schedules for the next month or so. I ran this by Sandy, it looks good to her. I'm posting it on all three Nom Nom blogs.

January - Feb. 13: LCAD teams do design and art without collaboration (interference?) from UCI teams.

Monday, Feb. 14: LCAD teams make the trek to UCI, pitch ideas and design/art, teams meet (fairly briefly).

Feb. 14 - Feb. 23: Low-key interaction between UCI and LCAD. UCI students will be working on another assignment until Wednesday, Feb. 23.

Feb. 24 - March 11: Full scale interaction, face to face meetings, iterations, demo'ing of prototypes, requests from both sides for changes flying fast and furious.

March 12 - Monday, March 14: Art is frozen, UCI teams make final game play adjustments, squash bugs. Games turned in to me for grading on Monday, 3/14.

post-March 14: work continues on a few of the prototypes, schedule TBD.

Maybe we will have a Demo Day?

Main Character Design

This is the main character. This is not the final color scheme. Color designs are coming.

Basic Controls - Movement

These are the basic movement controls for the main character. They will utilize both W, A, S, D or the arrow keys.

George Stage 1 Design

George Platform Designs

Programmer's perspective

Everything looks great! I noticed that the files below are JPEGs. That's fine, but possibly not optimal (when you save a jpeg file, it is very likely that some pixels will change color slightly). I'm going to repost some suggestions I made in December on the now unused LCADgameDEV blog:

1. Use .png(PING) format for image files.
2. Sprites should be the size in the file that they are intended to be in game (it's not easy to scale them).
3. Transparent pixels should be indicated by a specific color (this is a little more reliable than using transparency in the image editor). It's also fine to use PNG's built-in transparency.
4. Multiple images for a sprite are most conveniently placed in the same "sprite sheet" file, but this isn't necessary -- one animated sprite can utilize images from more than one file. The sprite sheet file can be organized in any way.
5. It's fairly easy to flip and rotate sprites in the program, so there's no need for the artist to create these extra versions.
6. There's an example of a few sprite sheets and a Java applet that uses them at http://ucigame.org/Gallery/Arrownaut.html (if you see a big black border, that's a bug I'm working on).
7. One sprite can be put on top of another sprite to ease the artists' job a little. As an example, look at http://ucigame.org/Gallery/BounceHouse.html -- when the little guy bounces into the big X his eyes turn red; this is done by temporarily putting this image: http://ucigame.org/Gallery/images/et-red-eyes.png on top of the regular green-eyed one.

Junk Color Variation

These are different color schemes for the Junk Monster.

Non-Starch Color Variation

These are different color schemes for the Non-Starch Monster.

Carb Color Variation

These are different color schemes for the Carb Monster.

Protein Color Variation

These are different color schemes for the Protein Monster.

Colored Monster Designs

These are the basic colors we will use for each type of food.

Environment Concept

Here is a rough idea of the setting and color palette.