Hey! Just played it, it was great! Had a lot of fun spamming the dash attack exploding those lil suckers away.
Also felt really silly once I realized I could break the barrels for potions.
Thanks for sharing, cheers!
Oh I see. Well, for making scenes and maps through art programs I could recommend checking this pixelart software list curated by Lospec.
As for game-making engines or so, that's out of my field so I couldn't really provide you proper info on that matter. Perhaps check out Godot? Here's a list of resources from the Gamedev subreddit wiki. It covers several areas but including game engines.
I'm looking forward to anything you might make with these, cheers!
Hey, thanks! No silly questions don't worry.
If I'm understanding correctly, you want to print these for your tabletop games right? I think that's awesome!
As for what app or program to use, do you mean to set them up for printing or to use the assets to make scenes for your games? If the latter, then I'm not sure what the best answer would be.
For making the mockups shown here (and the assets) I used Aseprite, which is a pixelart program with a cost of 20 USD. It has a tileset mode that is really awesome for making tiles and mockups really, but I think unless you're going to take up pixelarting then it's probably not the most accesible solution to your question.
Another program you might want to try (and one I've used for more than a decade myself) is GIMP. It's free but it's not really set up for tiling or pixelart from the get go, it'll be a bit tedious if I'm honest (compared to Aseprite or other programs dedicated to tiling).
Anyway, apologies if I didn't get your question right! Cheers
Those are some charming animations! As for the style, if you mean side scroller style then yes that is compatible with what I'm planning.
My intention at the moment is to take the proper time animating this set.
However, right now I'm working on a 1-bit charset and after I finish that I'll have to make a choice between working on an update for this one or preparing a LoFi charset, which is pretty much done I just want to do some final polish on it.
Maybe this isn't what you hoped to hear, but I just wanted to be honest with you on what the future for this set might look like. I do appreciate your excitement about these characters, it's awesome that you would want to use them for your game. It really motivates me to want to keep working on it, so thanks!
Cheers.
Hey, appreciate your kind words!
Regarding character animations, at the current time I'm more focused towards continuing to expand on the kit series and so doing just one animation makes that possible as opposed to having to create multiple for each kit every time. I would slow down considerably I think.
However, I do intend to eventually add more animations. As for the traps, yes absolutely. I've been planning an update to the Doomgeon and I'm adding some, so if you have some suggestions let me know!
Cheers!
I don't have much of a plan if I'm being honest haha, but I'd like to at least make a couple more themed around a desert, the seas and some snow or ice.
My current workflow with these is really just going with a vague sense of what I want and then sort of figuring it out as I'm crossing that bridge. Actually, Doomcrypt was initially meant to be Doomdune but then I saw a tweet about some Warhammer vampires (I think) and just sort of turned around.
Ah you know what, I was thinking about maybe updating Doomgeon since I've figured out some stuff and feel I can improve on it with some of the feedback I've received from other commenters.