Oceans Dream

“The ruler of Marsall town area to Vila Estelar. She is confident but impulsive. She generally wants the best for her country/towns, even if she doesn’t always pick the best way to do it. She is pretty stern though and can be rather cruel at times. She’s rich and will take advantage of this fact, as she has many servants.”

http://oceansdream.deviantart.com/journal/27214536/

For info on that.

Does not include animations, so no spritesheet requests or anything! I also do not have plans to join any projects so no requests of that nature either!

I want to raise up $60 for I-Con which is going to happen in the 26th, 27th and 28th of this month. The ticket is rather expensive but I should be able to cover for the things I want to buy.

The mainsite has been there for a while, but just now I decided to make it functional. It has links to Paradise Blue, Island Sky, and some Azulea info. It will also link back to this and the pixel blog. Finally, one thing down on my to do list!

Red faction collectables post

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Which is already the first question: how many collectibles should there be in a game. I always like to link to this ancient Penny Arcade comic because even back then it was already evident that this mechanic is being abused by many modern games. And it got even worse when achievements and online unlockables arrived. Red Faction: Guerrilla lives up to that cliché… and then some. You collect: ore deposits, radio tags, propaganda billboards and supply crates. The game also keeps track of and rewards you for completing all side-missions, races and demolishon challenges.

I thought this was an interesting read, as I haven’t played the game so it’s nice to see what games do it right and what doesn’t.

I’ll put my own thoughts on it. I find that collectables can help make exploring more fun to do since you’re exploring with a purpose rather than wandering aimlessly. I like to reward a player for either each one they get, or set a small amount of them they need to find so it doesn’t seem like the goal is too far away. Also, rewards don’t necessarily have to be usable things, they can be silly things or give a little more detail about the world you’re in. So if a player is only playing for x reason, they don’t need to feel forced to collect these things if they don’t want to, but the players that do can be rewarded for it as well.

Update on Pixel Tutorial, me making icons in MS Paint. I need to get a video recording program so I can record another pixel progress thing sometime.

I was in NYC for the week of New years. I visited Kaede and Immortal, and while it didn’t all go according to plan, I still had fun. It was nice to meet them.

So now that I’m back on my computer, I am working on sprites for one project, tilesets for another, tilesets for another, working on my project, job hunting, and other things as well. Busy busy.

Azulea wise, I am now waiting for the story from Nessiah, as she volunteered to help me with it. Once I get that, I can go ahead and work on the game and plan out what will go where. I need a tileset for the school interior and exterior as I have a new design for it (brick buildings are boring).

Nothing really new, working on commissions now for holiday money!

These blogs have been updated recently:

Hima’s blog, with screens of Alice in Underground.

Modesty Studios, with a topic on Heroes.

Prey Heaven has commission info, and current project status.

Sacred Earth: Memory is being worked on, most of us calling it SEB:Remake, and has some menu info and progress. Check it out!

Division Heaven was updated… by me. It’s a post on working on your first game. So if you haven’t made your first game yet or are planning to do so, it could be helpful.

That is all for now, will come back with updates later this week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Q0Yy1LYZA

Me fighting an optional boss in Paradise Blue. I couldn’t record sound in the video (figures) so I just placed an mp3 of the boss music for that fight as the background music. Thanks to Dajhail for making it into an mp3 for me, with my computer, I don’t have everything set up yet to be able to do that on my own.

Did a new pixel tutorial, this time on Japan. Check it out here!

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Division Heaven has an update, some on her life and some wip screens for Marian and another project.

Excalistia has an update. RPG has ramirez making his game for him!

Game Design Reviews has a few new posts, most on the interface of Mass Effect, and a new one on Okami.

They came from outerspace now allows for comments, and has other updates as well.

I finally got around to making a new pixel tutorial step by step. This is of a kitchen this time. Check it out here!

Nothing to note on my own projects, I’ve been busy with Oblivion and working on other pixel projects.

Before I go on the blog list updates, there is a contest taking place in Gamejolt!

It will run for a week.  The winner gets a free game in steam as well!

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Division Heaven has an update. She graduated, congratulations!

Excalistia has an update on the equipment system, complete with sprites.

Pan and Pans has a gameplay info update.

Skie is bored. The Melancholy of Skiezumiya? Well, check out Skie’s sprites while you’re there.

They came from outerspace has some gameplay updates.

My pixel blog has been updated with 2 tutorials from Holder. The topics are linked to RRR for the moment but I’ll see if I can get them posted directly. That’s up to Holder though.

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Division Heaven has been updated with a comic. She’s working on stuff though, don’t worry! Just a bit busy with schoolwork.

Game Design Reviews has a post in the scrapbook on Episodic content. It’s an interesting read, go check it out!

Also added these blogs:

Everlasting Journey by PepsiOtaku

They came from outerspace by Chibidestiny

Pan and Pans by Thernz