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    I'd also love if Steven and/or Travis (art, audio programming) would be willing to add a post about their contributions. 

     

    It's a-me!

     

    I don't know what to say about the art! I've drawn dumb cartoons since small times so when someone says to me "hey can you draw this", I can generally crank something cartoony out in a few minutes if I'm not too bothered about the quality -- perfect for a game jam. :)

     

    Lately I've been trying to develop my "real art" skills by learning semi-realism digital painting techniques.  So, these fast and loose cartoons are a nice break from that...

     

    There's not much to the process. If I don't immediately get some sort of mental image from the suggestion, I'll do a Google image search to get some references to look at.  I work at a large size (like 2000x2000 or higher) on my iPad Pro (using the Procreate app and an Apple Pencil) and do thick black and white line art.  I add flat color (and maybe some very simply shadows and highlights) on a layer below that.  I reduce the opacity of the line art layer so it's not fully black, but a darker version of the color underneath.  So basic cartoony cel-shading-y looking stuff.  I export as PNG and they're added to the game and resized as necessary.

     

    I felt like the boombox should look like it came from the Mushroom Kingdom rather than real-life, so it has music note speakers inspired by the music note blocks in Mario games.  The line-art kind of reminded me of a pig for some reason, so I colored it pink. (??)

     

    Unless I'm forgetting something, this is the first time my art has appeared in a video game, so it's really weird and fun to see it come to life, even though they're just front-facing, perspective-defying flats.  I think I would enjoy someday creating art for a game that I was able to spend a bit more time on.  I'd love to do a whole game of my own from code on up, but I can never seem to come up with a viable story / scenario to build on.

     
    (PS: I've also been helping make pixely character sprites for another jam game, World of Blanks.  Sprites and animation are definitely not my forté but it has been a good learning exercise.)

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    UPDATE: I signed on to work with a few folks, so probably can't take on any more at this time without overcommitting myself! Thanks!

     

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    Hello, I am not good at coming up with game ideas by myself but might be helpful to a team?

     

    Best way to contact me is email: (my username) at panic.com, or PM

     

    Timezone: Pacific

     

    Skills: I'm a 2D artist and programmer.  I have a lot of programming experience, but am new to Unity.

     

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