April 30, 2022

Csprites

Csprites, aka Combat Sprites are the counterpart to isosprites. They show up in the battle scene. I don't really like the look of them and I dread coding for some reason. So lets redraw them. new base

Test sketch

alice head

yea she frowns underneath the mask

looks okay I guess, but still feels off, might redraw again later... (I did redraw them again later, I know since this work was done months ago)

Water Shader

Shaders are literal witchcraft, although getting this one to work was a bit of a hassle since a lot don't play well with an orthographic camera. Don't mind the jesus tech, It get's patched out later.

Psuedo2D

A dump of some things. I briefly mentioned how I had rewrote the game in Godot 4. During the transition I decided to give up on pure 2D and just make a 3D game that looks 2D... so in my own words, pearlessential is now a Psuedo2D game. Here are some captures from early in the transition.

Dialogue and Camera

So this is really basic but also really cool. Once you get displaying text sorted, a cool feature you should add to your dialogue system is the ability for it to move the camera around, with good application I think you can get really cinematic with it haha. In-game cutscenes are kinda crazy now that I think about it. I wonder if there are any resources diving into how studios tackle making them. I need to hit up the GDC vault lol.

Explosives Cont.

Physics objects are really fun to play with! Another reason you should just make a 3D game with an isometric perspective instead of a pure 2D one. Not to say you couldn't do this in pure 2D...

Anyway, I guess this means I need to come up with a reason you'd find a ton of crates lying around. Maybe a warehouse level... and a quest to find a needle in a crate stack...?

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WIP ui stuff

^ popups for damage context

^ new status effect badges (used to be just text) still wip

^banter boxes... suppose to give room for side comments in a way, might still be annoying to the player

^ side box for less important dialogue, maybe ill have it come out of the speaker like cross code

Yellow Yellow, this is content that would have probably appeared on twitter in the middle of 2023...

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I'm Ali. This is a blog for my video game, I usually do this on Twitter but you know, rich dude wants more money. Welcome! I usually just post stuff about the game. My game is a JRPG-inspired exploration game called pearlessential. It's made in Godot Engine.

Website: pearlessential.webflow.io/

Itch: https://alkaliii.itch.io/

and since you read this far, I have an empty discord server waiting to be populated that you can find here: https://discord.gg/UZ3DCZXmr9

Not sure what else to say right now, other than be patient lol.

Inventory Update Notices

Pretty minor, the inventory backend was the harder more impressive part. I really need to work on animations for lifting objects lol

Isosprites

I call em isosprites since they are isometric sprites. Off all the art in my game I like these the most, yet I never want to spend time making more of them. I guess ill get all the time in the world to make them if I can get passed this project's pre-production phase (I'm sorta close... maybe I should make a checklist...) sneaky peeky behind the scenes