Wall Defender MX is a pet project in development. It’s a clone of Bomb Software’s 1983 Atari Game by the same name. This game take a bit at the lone spaceman defending his last place in space, defending the dysfunctional dead-space fortress as it drifts though Xorthor territory and other space bandits zones. The Video-cap featured here is a preview of art development of the game.

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If you love designing characters and need a place to start, I’d recommend Cartooning; The head and figure – by Jack Hamm. The book has a relatively large collection of different part of the body.

KSM is a side scroller 2D pixel-style game with a multitude of enemies and equal number of special combo moves as the player hacks and slashes his way though the kingdom in search of treasures.

KSM is only a test game and will be made with Stencyl (Flash game maker). Working on this mini project would give me an opportunity to collaborate with other Stencyl behavior programmers and strengthen my knowledge on how to make a solid game with Stencyl.

I’ve turned in the mini test game over to the Stencyl community for peer review and am hoping to get a talented programmer who can help out with all the behaviors that I was unable to tackle. So for now, here are some level screen shots of the game!

Want to read more about the development? Check these earlier posts:

• Enclave – Concept Designs
• Enclave – Character Run Cycle
• Test Game Play
• Learn How to Make a 2-Frame Walk Cycle

Concept art for the main character. Run-cycles coming up next.

Currently, the last design is in cleanup phase before it’s sent off for development.

Rough cover art for this episode by vlogbrothers.

Three Diggas and a Mallu is a series of comics based on my K-12 school friends who have been around since the last two decades. These jokes are very colloquial and are all inside jokes, so I don’t really expect anyone to understand them.

To learn more about Indie Jones, go here.

Game development is really fun, especially figuring out timing on different characters. Here’s a preview of what this bot’s walk cycle would look like.

Recently, Nate mailed saying that he’s uploading his documentary to Kickstarter, asking netizens of the Interbutt to help fund his movie. We spoke about other ways to get this message out there so that more people could support this project. My friend and I have been working on a concept to make this message go a bit more viral. We’re also on a tight deadline to get this completed before the Kickstarter deadline. (Project funding closes on September 1, 11:59 pm EDT)

The concept is quite simple: one plays as Nate, the Indie(ana) Jones who is being chased by this big boulder of time to get all the funding he needs for his project. He needs to collect every little gem he comes across and avoid pitfalls and dodge objects that come across his way.

After we worked out a list of art and animation assets to be made, I roughed out some concept art for the game play and dived right into the style that I wanted the game to look like. First targeting the character designs, turnarounds and run cycle.

Now Nate doesn’t look anything like the character and I felt that I really needed to tweak the art style or do a completely different approach to make the character look more like the reference. Deciding to go 8-bit style, I was able to get Indie to look exactly like Nate…
For the technically curious, Pixel Tools, v2.0 pixel plugin by the neuroscientist Patrick Mineault, is a boon to Flash artists/animators everywhere. I was able to work around the bug that kept crashing Flash.

This game style is a bit new to me as I haven’t worked much on this patience-draining-yet-worth-every-second art approach.

Will keep you posted on further updates.

]]> http://www.devilsgarage.com/analysis/everything-by-everyone/feed/ 3 http://www.devilsgarage.com/concept/rock-mash-vehicles/ http://www.devilsgarage.com/concept/rock-mash-vehicles/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 08:45:20 +0000 Diablo http://www.devilsgarage.com/?p=1937 Here are some of the prop designs used in Rock Mash. I decided to keep them very simple and stylized because they hardly get any screen time before they are all mashed to smithereens.

As much as I really didn’t like WordPress, I never thought I could pull off this whole website in under two week without the help of the Interbutt, WP, everyone’s philanthropic contributions, plugins and themes.

Most recent updates: Other than the fact that a good portion of the site has been revamped, do check in for new content over the next few weeks. I also understand that a lot of the earlier posts have broken links and I’m working on correcting all that.

Here are some initial concepts I was leaning towards when redesigning this site.

The biggest challenge while working on the layouts was to create an intuitive navigation that was easy to understand and always had scope for expansion.

It was this layout design (below) that I felt best suited the new design. I dropped the Print and Illustration links and combined the content under a Design category.

Made these assets for a top-down shooter game. Rigged the assets such that one can create more jets from random combinations of jet parts.

Pvt. Bedlam is a game concept inspired by the movie Jacob’s Ladder. Bedlam’s crew was picked by the Army to try out new experimental performance drugs to make universal soldiers, but things go bad with the first batch of testing and the Private is one of the mad survivors who is hayballin’ his way outta there. Alice’s Restaurant Massacre would probably be the most fitting track for this game.

The Power of the Decoder

The Trip to Gokarna with Adithya Kote

Ashwin’s Birthday

Read an older post about the whole design process. Cheers.

Update: Got to meet Kelly Revak from The Behemoth over at Comic-Con 2010 and she gave me some sweet Behemoth swag. Thanks!!!

I made this series of Hindu gods for Moytoy Community but never got around to coloring the characters.

I love killing the “Smoker.” Sweet gratification upon seeing that tar-filled smoke cloud explode.
For all you “Smoker” lovers, read this article