Spinning the burning wheels

Man.

It has been an eventful week to say the least. There's three days until the end of the jam and we're really close to everything coming together. All of the art that is required is finished, and the main mechanic has been worked out. It has been pretty relentless work on both our parts, but I found myself hesitating after I finished the required materials. I'm finding myself worried about something, but I can't place what it is that prevents me from working. I'll have to look into this at some point, but now isn't the time. 

This week I continued my digging through the node.js course. It's getting into things for networking now which doesn't seem that useful aside from answering questions I always had in the back of my head. 

As for Twisted Towers, well, to be honest I haven't had the time to think about it all that much lmao. I guess working on the art has shown me how fucking crazy my idea is since I have to draw 256 variants for tits but I'm okay with this; at peace with it. Sure, let's talk about the body in more depth this week.  So yes, every expandable part is going to have 256 or some multiple of 256 for the amount of different states it can have. This isn't going to be that terrifying though because it's all going to be broken down into layers and parts like a good old fashioned paper doll. At least I think that's the proper name for it. But yes, each part will have its own layer to change the sprite out which drastically reduces the amount of work needed since each combo won't need its own whole image. This will also be useful for things like dismemberment or positions. 

This isn't to say that the clothes and equipment won't be their own issue though. I think I may have said something about it but I was planning on having things like latex items be more transparent as you stretch them out, but I think there's probably only going to be like, 8 different levels of that effect. Probably organized in 8 different folders. Cloth stuff can have wetness and stuff like that as well. It's going to be interesting to see the extent of actual physical size I end up going with for the maximum since, if you could guess, 256 is a shit load of different images. I could easily see things getting into like, room filling proportions. Otherwise I think the changes would hardly be noticeable. I suppose I could reserve portions for the 256 for different shapes, like breasts could be perky, round, natural, etc. but that seems almost boring; like a cop out. Well, I can always decide later how I want to go about it. That's all for this week. 

Links to stuff

Aseperite:

https://www.aseprite.org/

Things to remember

Find what conditions you work best in and work in those conditions.

Adapt

You can do anything