Posted January 19, 2025 by Imogia Games
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As they rose, they put one feet, claw, paw, tentacle or whatever in front the other.
Let's continue working on the CC0 asset pack resource to be used with 2d platformer level editor PlataGO!
From now on, it will seem as if the process has been really smooth and fluid by just reading through the devlogs. (I you really read all the entries so far, let me warmly thank you, and don't hesitate to say hi in a comment!), however it really took me some time to properly figuring each monster out.
Let me recap the constraint I had to work with here:
Engine constraints:
- No choice but to respect PlataGO! sprites size
- No choice but to respect PlataGO! number of animation frames
Personal constraints:
- Try to the maximum to go to a consistent artstyle
- Use ONLY resources that have been released under a CC0 licence, so I can release the remixes under the same licence.
For my first monster, I wanted to calmly warmup. I already had this slime monster by Radomir Dopieralski in mind. I think it's going to make a perfect basic enemy for the game. Easy to aim, slow and with few hp.
The original spritesheet had a 4 directions walk cycle, but I only needed to use the rightward one:
This one took a while, as I had several candidates for it, but I finally setteld on this goblin character published by OGA contributor MoikMellah. This pack features various goblin variations, and I chose the "Goblin Guard" one.
After careful examination, it seems to me that it would be a good fit even though the general proportions are a bit too much realistic to my taste.
Now, do you remember what I said about the proportions being a bit too realistic?
Guess what, days after completing the spritesheet, for the redaction of this article, I opened it again and I had that thaught:
"Hey what if I made the head 200% bigger so it will look more SD?
Well actually, 200% was way too big of a scale up, but with a 150% upscale and a few tweaks, it looked quite good!
Sometimes it's worth to let a work "simmer" and get back to it after a few days with a fresh eye and refreshed energy. I'm happy I went the extra mile to make the head bigger, I really think it's much more consistent with the rest of the art direction now.
The good news is that as I already made the spritesheet with the realistic proportions, I have now a second spritesheet with the bigger head to release under CC0 licence, yay!