Aldo the Ant Dev Thread [mynameisace...]
Hey guys,
After a long stint playing guitar on a cruise ship I'm back and full of ideas. The game I'm starting today will be called Aldo the Ant. I've made a quick image to show the gist of my idea:
Some of you keen eyed monkeys may recognise the character as one I designed ages ago for one of the first games I did. I really loved the character and the game flopped more than a holiday goer's sandals so I thought I'd re-use the character and create a completely different game. I'm going to have it all in the silhouette style as above and document every aspect of the game from ideas and design all the way up to sales and marketing.
The blog that will document it all will be at http://aldotheant.tumblr.com/
If you could add Aldo to your twitter followers, that'd be great @AldoTheAnt
I'm going to take input and ideas off everyone because I really want this to work, so if anyone has any input along the way from not liking the level design, all the way up to marketing tips, I'll appreciate it!
Cheers,
Ace
After a long stint playing guitar on a cruise ship I'm back and full of ideas. The game I'm starting today will be called Aldo the Ant. I've made a quick image to show the gist of my idea:
Some of you keen eyed monkeys may recognise the character as one I designed ages ago for one of the first games I did. I really loved the character and the game flopped more than a holiday goer's sandals so I thought I'd re-use the character and create a completely different game. I'm going to have it all in the silhouette style as above and document every aspect of the game from ideas and design all the way up to sales and marketing.
The blog that will document it all will be at http://aldotheant.tumblr.com/
If you could add Aldo to your twitter followers, that'd be great @AldoTheAnt
I'm going to take input and ideas off everyone because I really want this to work, so if anyone has any input along the way from not liking the level design, all the way up to marketing tips, I'll appreciate it!
Cheers,
Ace
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Can't wait to see some gameplay. I'll be watching this thread. :-)
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Cheers,
J.Leonard
Love the silhouette feel, i've also been hard at work on a game in this style, platformer and silhouette, so please drop in and take a look at my thread
@tshirtbooth - You just can't stop using cooking and kitchen puns can you?!
@SlickZero - I got myself a Tyler Variax for session stuff, it's actually really awesome.
@beefy_clyro - Your game looks awesome, how far off finishing it are you? Yup, the amount of recycling I'm doing is single handedly fighting off global warming
I'm busy making trees at the moment, trying to put as much effort in to every single bit of the artwork, not just the characters. I'm the first one to admit I'm not an artist by any means, so have to really put work in, but I'm having fun with it. I'm creating 5 different trees that will be on the parallax layer, I'll put up some pics soon.
Ace
Looking forward to seeing more mate, i've always liked the style you come up with and for a 'non-artist', i think you do a damn good job. You mention the different game ideas so going to be interesting to see what route you pick or how you merge them.
Today I've been working hard on foreground elements and parallax trees and stuff. This shot isn't how any level will look, just a few of the elements I've created thrown together. The parallax layer will be done by tonight I think.
I also have a gameplay idea, I need to do a mock up of the idea and make a video of it so that I can show you so that will be coming in the next day I reckon.
@beefy_clyro You're definitely gonna beat me on finishing projects then haha
Ace
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Good to have you back!
Nice ant with a nice name.
Cheers,
Ludwig
Lump Apps and My Assets
Ace
-Thomas
I've created 10 different skyline 'toppers' that all connect together in any order, so I can randomly place them and will look different on each level. Here are the toppers all together:
Added together and added in to a scene will look something like this:
Going to work on Aldo's animation and some other stuff now
Ace
I have some of the mechanism up and running, but focusing on doing the animation run-cycle... This is making me want to eat my own face, animation is such a difficult thing, I'm in awe of people like @SpriteAttack who can do it so seamlessly!
Ace
I hope you don't mind that I'm changing my gs name to "mynameisjack" and making a new app called Aldin the ant...... My art looks similar to yours but don't worry... I at least did some work, (do you know how hard it is to drag un-watermarked images to gamesalad?)
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I hope you get the moral of the fairy tale.... Don't Put up un watermark images that the little kiddies on the forums will steal
Cheers,
Jack
Ace
Here's Aldo breathing and blinking.
Ace