knotty musk
i spend my time drawing ship art and now i'm making a game for myself for fun.
i'm not used to do pixel art so it might look a bit terrible and i don't know programing, so i will do simple gameplay that the base engine + plugins allow me to do .
this game is mainly fannart of a hat in time, but its a self insert ship thing, so don't expect canon stuff here.
i'm mostly making assets for now.
valid drift
looks very adorable! :3
knotty musk
looks very adorable! :3
Oh thank you !
knotty musk
Is that Snatcher from A Hat In Time?
Yes its him ^^
Thank you!
knotty musk
the subcon village, i had to cut it in two in gb studio so it fits the tile number
i think i'm gonna remove the mushroom above the fire its kinda blocking the way
valid drift
omg this is so adorable
jolly raft
Great job! Would love to see your take of Hat Kid!
Been thinking of making a Nyakuza Metro GB game myself
knotty musk
Great job! Would love to see your take of Hat Kid!
I might make her appear but in her adult version as my story takes place after the original game
jolly raft
Fancy. Ever see the beta designs for “hat adult”?
knotty musk
Yeah, that's how it will look
Some of my drawings that she's in for example, I do small comics for fun on my blog and it's taken from it
jolly raft
That’s actually spot on 
topaz token
Now that is cool ngl
knotty musk
mhh i am looking to color the background a bit but the way i did my trees its making it quite complicated
and i don't know if like it more classic green or with the night blue
topaz token
Which one do u prefer more
knotty musk
because i used the dark green a lot and the trees on the front are not lined up with the grid, so to patch it up i would need to use a lot of actors and that wouldn't be the best
topaz token
Use whatever makes sense for the scene
knotty musk
the vines on the trees looks better when the backround is green
topaz token
Then green makes more sense
knotty musk
yeah
knotty musk
the pick up items i made the left one but maybe they look a bit too big next to my character so i tried smaller version
knotty musk
what is going on with the menu system
knotty musk
yeah, i will do the menu on another scene with less tile instead
knotty musk
for dialogue cutscenes , faces are sprites, i just left medo's eyes as the backround for now so i could use more gradient in her eyes, might change it a bit depending on how i do expressions
full version
knotty musk
Oh , I think I found a way (this will also be a note for myself)
If I leave the background area under the eyes in just the lightest color then I just have to do that color as transparent in my sprite and then rearrange my palette for that sprite.
It should compensate the 4th color
This way I should be able to add blink and more eyes shapes if needed
valid drift
dude that pixel art is so good
knotty musk
knotty musk
so, i did the face sprite fix, the eyes are now a sprite and no more backround,
i gave the backround a frame
even tho i made my characters bigger the dialogue box will cover them anyway and it will give me more tiles to work with for the other characters
knotty musk
wip for Mu's portrait
knotty musk
faces variation
jolly raft
Looks great!
Not sure what you’re going for gameplay wise, but 4x4 avatars might be something to consider
Mixing this in with dialog triggers in the game world could be even better 
knotty musk
Mixing this in with dialog triggers in the game world could be even better <:Mar...
The in engine avatars feels too small to my liking, I think I'll still do some for like the small dialogues or when examining things, but I still want to do cutscenes with big sprites
knotty musk
Because I want to have that thing were I can show different emotions more like a visual novel
Might had some simple gradient to the background, It does look a bit empty
orchid lynx
made me double check if my glasses were on there
jolly raft
The in engine avatars feels too small to my liking, I think I'll still do some f...
Exactly my point, rather than going for the standard avatar with text, you could use the Large avatar plugin, giving you some more creative freedom at 32x32
knotty musk
Exactly my point, rather than going for the standard avatar with text, you could...
might look at it
jolly raft
might look at it
Very cool
lmk if you need any help with that part, I’ll try and find my cheat sheet and send it sometime
knotty musk
a hat in time?????????????!!!!?!??!?!
Yes!!
knotty musk
this is probably the cutest game I'll ever see
I need to continue working on it
timid cloak
@knotty musk I'm loving the artwork! (And the color of your gameboy color)
knotty musk
<@302782200368070656> I'm loving the artwork! (And the color of your gameboy col...
thanks ❤️
knotty musk
Ive been thinking id like to continue working on this again
knotty musk
this look much better than i tought
drifting cove
for dialogue cutscenes , faces are sprites, i just left medo's eyes as the backr...
Do Boath! background for the eye balls with detail, and sprites fro the lids to cover it up when needed
knotty musk
Do Boath! background for the eye balls with detail, and sprites fro the lids to...
It would not work if you want to move the eyeball or shrink it too, it just simpler to do the whole eyes as sprites, unless you are doing only blinking
drifting cove
True, (I was only imagining blinking)
Don't get me wrong try everything, but I want to warn you / make you aware. That lines of script in any given spot, say the int of the scene for instance, is limited. After so many actions (and it's not many) it will just ignore everything else.
So my warning is with script long like what that level of animated cutscenes can make is
Write a line or two and test.
Don't wanna be sitting with a full script and have to retroactivly delete a line/ test, delete a line / test - untill it works again
(And I'm talking after like 15-20 lines of code)
knotty musk
The cutscenes are scenes by themselves, so maybe I could have multiple event in one scene, and switch to another one if it's too much
drifting cove
That's another work around
Start the cut scene in int then switch to an actor calling a side scrip 🤔
That would definitely work
That's how I do invt
(calling side scripts)
knotty musk
I'll see, for now I didn't had problems
drifting cove
(good, and I hope you don't have any issue)
(Just didn't want it to happen and you be like what did I do wrong)
I don't know "a hat in time", but I agree with the fact that this build is looking amazing!
I want to see it finished
Looooove the spikey mushroom house thing the most
knotty musk
I don't know if I will ever finish lol, I struggle adding any gameplay (I had tried doing a sort of puzzle , it's pretty terrible :'3
I'm just bad at designing gameplay
I think it will mostly be a sort of visual novel, I mostly just wanna have fun drawing the characters and doing a little story
drifting cove
Always follow the fun!
knotty musk
The house is like a dead tree, in hat in time, it's super tall and it's a challenge to climb it, I could only draw the bottom here, since I'm doing a side scrolling map
drifting cove
Grate sprite work!
If you find you don't like the design/code aspect, perhaps consider a colab!
You should get your work out there! (in finished works)
(it's high grade art, and should be seen/ collaborated)
knotty musk
It's good there is another emulator on that device because the base game boy emulator completely breaks my game , but the gambatte one runs it fine
I have an actual game boy color to play the cartridge but that thing was really cute I didn't resist
valid drift
is it fully released?
knotty musk
is it fully released?
No it's just my small demo, i haven't made much progress, just felt like looking through it again
