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馃 ROAR RUNNER


Roar Runner
is a thrilling adventure platformer starring a cute but fearless T-Rex! 馃
Run, jump, roar, and munch your way through challenging stages in this vibrant pixel art world.

Explore prehistoric landscapes in search of food while rescuing your lost Caveman pal. But the journey won鈥檛 be easy! Watch out for flying dinosaurs, poisonous cactuses, and other dangers trying to stop your dino dash.

With charming retro pixel graphics, fast-paced platforming, and classic arcade vibes, Roar Runner delivers a fresh and exciting twist on a world-famous style of gameplay.

Get ready to run, roar, and rule the prehistoric world! 馃馃敟


Starring 
Trex

A Cute Carnivour REX,that can Pack a Rawr
*Claimer* :-Hand Painted in Pixel art , and #NOAI  used in any of the Assetes from Characters to the props to the Landscapes all are hand painted Strictly  (Some Promotional content might have Ai).

How  Do I Design the Character ?

1.Trex

Creating character is not just a minute work as you have idea of a character is a diffrent thing and creating it in actual working model is a separate thing ,it involves :-

  1. Character idea.
  2. ArtStyle.
  3. Mannerism of the Character.
  4. Animation and Flexibility.
  5. Unique identity.

In this case i had:-

Character idea (i wanted to create a game where the lead character should be cute , the enviornment i had in my mind was warm high key adventous tone hence the character shoul potray it) so i took refrences 

As the Chrome dino runs, we caught up with the Googlers who built it

No better than Google Dino game Well It was Awesome for a start as i got the walk cycle idea and the character silhoutte . Now i had to make it cute for i have more pixels to spent

Evolution of Gon (1994 - 2024)

So i took Gon from Tekken 

Then i got My Rex

Its Cool!

Now the enemies

for flying dino(Pterosaur)

File:Chrome Pterodactyl.png - Wikimedia Commons


Pterodactyl: Facts about pteranodon and other pterosaurs | Live Science

It was Easy to figure as i am a fan of jurrassic park/world movies so i made it in the similar shape

 

i have used asprite software for pixel art creation my package of pixel art will be(asprite , photoshop and after effects), i know its a weird combination but it tremandously helps with the animation in pixel art and visuals i have used it in Norbert and the Robot and the visuals are absolutly amazing

Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool

Each Frame is Crafted Individually ,yes There was a Though came to my Mind About  when there is AI i should create my frames there and i have tried to get a decent result but the charm wasnt there and the shape silhoutte wasnt good enough though shading was good in AI but the animation didnt came out well which i intended for my Game!.


This is The non AI Version which seems to me very clean and interesting 
This is the AI Dino Version too be shading is Good and its cute

But for my game art style it didnt go with MY game , What do you think about it tell me in the Comments.Would appreciate  it if i  know what my readers think .Thank you for your support.



Now for the Enviornment , as without the correct enviornment the actor couldn't do anything and the audience will not get the experience they are paying for , so i started looking for pre historic enviornment even from games and movies of jurrasic park and even lot of  pre historic refrences yet for game i couldnt find something that suits me for art style and adventours experience for my game so i look up to the old master Mario!!. the mountains and hills actually gives realistic feeling  if i draw them but super mario bros's enviornment looks really sick and to me i found a good refrence 

789 Mario Bros Background Royalty-Free Images, Stock Photos & Pictures |  Shutterstock

And  i said its  perfect !! for my theme as i could easily start with a good visual depth and neat pixel art

here is mine version 

and here is how its translated


Stay Tuned for Daily Report


Yeah  i was kinda busy so couldnt  make it to every day post but yeah now  i am getting it back , so Sound and bgm for the game is a real task that i needed to  work on and , as i do not have any funds on me right now for this game and trying to figure out to aquire the funding , I thought it would  be better for me to  try ai  for the Sounds bgm , though some sfx i have used from royality free sound , but i apromise there is more to come for improvements and human ones as well ,

here are some of the takes that i took with ai for bgms

https://audio.com/cube-nom/audio/jagged-canopy-climb

https://audio.com/cube-nom/audio/prehistoric-high-score

https://audio.com/cube-nom/audio/the-verdant-trail

https://audio.com/cube-nom/audio/sun-drenched-canopy



Only few minor changes are left then after that game's Alpha build will be released 

i wonder how much better the game  looks the time i started , theres animation for everything character does now 

kinda like the Dino actually likes the enviornment 


from water splashes to character jump , down face , rawr and even hurt all of it comes alive after put all together , for animation i had used asprite as the software itself provides the animation tools that actually helps to see the character coming out live in the workbench

if any body wants to know how these pixel animatons done do tell me in comment ill make a video out of currently ill be working on the video teaser for Roar Runner

Stay Tuned

Pixel adventure Begins 

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