Just Best Friends 🫶

I'm in my local bakery, and one of the policemen is there talking with a colleague. I overhear him say, 'Now I know you're not very excited about this, but how do you feel about cardboard boxes?'

Oof. Being an indie dev I have a spare stylus just in case mine breaks and I have to wait for a new one to arrive.

Yayyyy we can has weapons!  Hello Kitty AK-47, a gatling gun, a rocket launcher, and a tranq gun!  Also we have friendly kidnappers that don’t mind being taken for a ride, and boxes that can now take damage.  There’s still loads of bugs.  Rockets don’t deal damage quite yet, because that’s been useful for debugging.  If you step on a tranq dart the whole thing crashes.  But holy moly this is actually happening!

Not a screenshot, but an arrangement of some of the backgrounds and sprites for an 8-bittish Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker fan fiction game Glowdust and I are working on.  Yerba mate is a wonderful thing!

Today I made the animation for kidnapper drones that can capture Snake!  In the game you’ll have to escape before they fly too high up and cause you to get injured or even die when you finally get free.  The physics of the animation will probably be a lot smoother in-game, but I won’t know that until Glowdust programs it in.  He’s working so hard on that awesome physics engine!       (I had a bit too much fun drawing the first annoyed and then horrified expressions in this sprite)

You’ll be able to ride the kidnapper drones in our game.  I think we might even have a whole level based on just that, because the bridge will be out or something.  Sorry for the tiny, grainy gif, it’s all I could get Tumblr to digest.

Past years

Saw this post years ago and I finally finished this hehe

I know Snake’s just running back and forth and it looks boring, but I’m kind of proud of this tree, and the skid-out animation as he changes direction, both of which I did today.  Hopefully we’ll be able to get some actual gameplay capture gifs going soon, because Photoshop is kind of a PIA for showing off the animation in a real environment.  Things are still a bit glitchy on that end right now!

#metal gear solid #peace walker #fanfic

I was trying to make a decent “idle” animation since we were missing one.  Glowdust said that Snake needs to fidget a little bit, shifting from foot to foot.  Well, I did it and THIS happened.  It’s officially going to be an in-game sprite now (for our fangame, Peace Day).