Posted March 09, 2021 by MadamLaunch
#graphics #presentation
With the core gameplay and kinks from moving to browsers all ironed out, I've started working on presentation! There's a new cover image, which took me all day to get working: it was supposed to be a quick little hour-long warm-up!
The spinning rays for the cover looked so nice that I tried putting them in the game proper, slowing them down significantly to prevent eye strain or confusion, and it worked better than I thought it would. I want to have some other backgrounds later, but this is more than fine for now.
Speaking of backgrounds: I was leaving a whole mess of unused assets and scenes in the project (wallpapers as placeholders for my background-cycling code). Turns out having a bunch of scenes and assets you don't use lying around will bloat your export size. The project's ZIP file went from 19.2 MiB down to 5.4 MiB! Lesson learned, eh.