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DAY 13:

This morning i re-evaluated my current plan and came to conclusion that instead of using next two days still for coding technical aspects, it would be more beneficial to start polishing already and then based upon this polishing (word polishing in unusually wide sense) I could along the way use some time for technical coding as it seems fit. 

And this sure seemed to be the right choice, not because of figuring out what to do on technical side yet, but because I have clearly underestimated the time it takes to get graphics etc. in place. I started at morning to look for free graphics to use, and to my surprise, it was very difficult. I thought all i had to do was find one website with free gfx and write a "Robot" and i would get everything i need, just to pick which one i choose, but alas, this was not the case. I had spent whole day looking for robots and not with very good success. There are robots from sideview available quite good amount to choose from, but no one seems to be making them from directly up as i would need. I think I should have instead of looking for graphics to simply make them myself, might have saved time that way.

Needless to say, progress was not as good as i was expecting today due to this surprising difficulty in finding usable graphics.

However, I did find some that were fine enough. Not perfect, but does their job okay, and at least the game looks much better now that just with gray rectangle as open space, red rectangle, a wall.

Maybe I tomorrow even get to take some screenshot for Kris finally.

Which reminds me, any tips for graphic assets websites? Today I was mainly looking from opengameart.org, but there was surprisingly little content there in the end.

Ah I was going to suggest opengameart.org too, but I see you already tried it. I don't really know where else except maybe the GameMaker Studio marketplace. You might find assets there for free or for a small fee. 


And you can use them regardless if you have gamemaker studio since they'll probably provide jpegs, pngs or actual Photoshop files. Give it a check. 

Thanks for tip. I checked the free ones, but they didnt help. There was one Robot almost usable that actually looks more like a human than a robot in my opinion, I might even use it, if i cant figure out any other possibility. I think I will give it a try to draw myself, I was thinking if I use different coloring style than I usually use, I could make them quick enough, especially if i dont use any animation, which is a shame basically, since it would look much better having animation, but have to save time and skip that.

Didnt check the ones costing something since Speedgame rules forbid using payed content, although I do plan to break that rule a bit, since I have for example this Font collection which has 10 000 fonts and have cost me 19 USD when i bought it originally. But basically those are available for free too, it was just that they had collected these free fonts in handy collection to save time looking them online by paying.

Also, similarly i have bought soundfx collections before and plan to use sounds from those collections (havent put any yet). I think they might be available for free from somewhere basically too, but once again, takes too much time starting to look through online, rather stick to my own collection of sounds where i already have at least some idea what it consists of to save time.

So basically I am restricting myself to not buy anything during speedgame, but stuff that i have already bought before speedgame i am using.

I think you should be good if it's stuff you've bought before.