The Metroidvania Metroid-like game genre, from a development perspective, is quite complex to master. World and level design, for examples, are core elements of the game along with player abilities and game physics. You cannot plan one without the other. This is because player abilities, powerups and game physics, are the very elements that allow the Player…
In this post I’ll try to write down the thinking process I made when I chose to develop Kren at a 384×216 sceen resolution.
Today I started posting around forums. I’m looking for an artist. I have no artistic skills whatsoever; I cannot draw tilesets, sprites, animations… let alone concept art.
In the earlier tech demo, I had positioned a truckload of similar tilesets. Those bluish/greyish square blocks are not hand picked. I did not make that work in the level editor. I got inspired by the Smart Tile Objects tutorial by HeartBeast. I simply downloaded the Square Blocks Textures from OpenGameArt.org, cut and pasted a bit in…
Not relevant anymoreThings changed quite a bit and thought I’m still using the same notebook, I’m now a happy Windows 10 user running GameMaker Studio 2. I use Linux only when compiling via VirtualBox. I’ll keep this short and sweet. Whenever I tell people that I have a notebook, they usually reply with something like…
I’ll write a longer post soon. You can watch the video on youtube with some audio effects as well. I’m still early into the planning stages of the game. I just needed a platformer engine I can work with to build the game. It’s going to be a Metroidvania type of game. More on that…
