Where this all started 3 years ago when this was gonna be a simple tower defense game...
Apparently, Patreon thinks there's implied nudity here so it has to be Patron only. As far as I know, I didn't make any naked girls here...
2020-10-15 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes when you're building something, you forget about the little things or less glamorous things. But something as simple as this menu concept can really put into perspective the work that needs to be put in at a glance. I got work to do...
2020-10-15 07:03:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Gonna Post a bunch of sketches I've done but haven't shown yet.
2020-10-14 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay... I'm realizing my tendencies to go radio silent when I'm in certain creative phases. To remedy this, I'm gonna try to post things as they get finished instead of "planning" to post it at a future date. Lets see how well that goes XD
Anyways, above is a bunch of sketches recent and some older of me experimenting with character ideas and story elements.
Taking sketch suggestions on Twitch right now! Come join the Fun!
https://www.twitch.tv/miltoniusarts
Live Streaming the creation of "Skeez" for the Akumi Game! around 7ish... Pacific Time
https://www.twitch.tv/miltoniusarts
#LiveStreaming
Gonna be fudging around with the Akumi Game engine and figuring out how to stream again if you'd like to join! Not sure I remember how to stream so it's gonna be a bit of a disaster! XD
https://www.twitch.tv/miltoniusarts
Evil Akumi has MORE hitpoints AND does more damage. But normal Akumi has dodge, block and a chance to proc multi-hit. Choosing what stats and abilities to focus on will equal victory or defeat!
This is the actual game engine in progress. I use it to test the character animations to see if they react and move correctly. Will post more of these tests soon!
2020-09-10 17:19:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Undead assassins for hire. Wanted for the murder of prominent officials and countless other victims. They compliment each other's skills, one being the up close and personal melee attacker while the other casts deadly spells from afar.
2020-09-03 23:36:59 +0000 UTC View Post
So to begin the game you'll choose between the characters Akumi or the mercenary/hunter Skeez. (Some of you may know him from an obscure Akumiverse story. :D) You'll unlock other characters in the game too!
Akumi's starting class will be melee warrior while Skeez will be focused on ranged attacks. Both will be accompanied by a personal drone which can be customized to...
2020-09-02 16:33:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Still hammering out the battle mechanics. Coder working to fix some animation issues with the importing of Spine files to Unity. Mainly the transition function.
Animation Transitions
You'll notice a lot of new 2d game have animations that flow into each other. Example, if a character is in the middle of a run and stops, the transition between the 'run' and 'idle' an...
2020-08-18 07:15:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Who do you take on your adventures?
These we're extra fun to work on. It's cuteness overload! XD
2020-08-03 05:50:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Magic Girl Skins! ( Note the extra shading/lighting detail! ) I love the amount of skin variants I can make for one character.
Battle Engine Prototype: The game development is getting more intense. Finished a pretty substantial meeting today. We have the bare bones battle engine prototype working! Think of this as the frame-work of th...
Just an idea of the skin variations that can happen with one character design. Time to move on to the rest of the Akumiverse cast of characters!
Lost of stuff to do this week.
Onwards and Upwards!
-Miltonius
2020-07-27 14:49:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The game animations will be playing at 60 frame per second! A lot of the time you can't see the fluid animations through the gifs I post because of the compression and frame-drops. My friend Dave saw the animations playing on my computer in real-time and said, wow that looks really smooth, you can't see that fluidity in the gifs.
Well check out this video to get a closer idea of what the...
Sorry for the low resolution, this is an exported gif the programmer sent me. So here we go! The first iteration of the battle system. It looks simple but there's a lot of functions happening in this small little test. I'll explain. This is and AI battle simulator. Things happening: there are attacks, hits, blocks, dodges, defeat and win animations. Also walks and runs.
Aku... 2020-07-20 16:29:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This game is going to be my little art playground! :D
Will be showing actual coded game engine progress soon!
Above is the Flesh Stalker I posted a few weeks ago with the new shading! :D
F.O.C.U.S = Focus One Direction Until Successful!
It's absolutely amazing the things that can happen when you put your head down and just start moving in the direction of your goal.
I think I'm figuring out this GIF animation thing too. XD
More updates on the way!
Onwards and Upwards!
-Miltoniu...
2020-07-15 06:16:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Just figured out how to apply new skins to existing animations! Man Spine is an animators dream program!
2020-07-14 02:49:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright, after trial and error, I think I've found my balance of light and shadow.
2020-07-14 02:48:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I think we may be on to something my friends! I've been experimenting and I think I've found a good balance of shading. Will post walk animations later.
I'm glad I didn't settle, progress not perfection. Or progress IS perfection!
Excited to try this shading on other characters now!
Most of you know I tend to lean towards the "less is more" approach when it comes to my arts. But then Photoshop pulled me in with the results being top right. I like both! Which do you prefer?
Honestly, I think the difference is small, at least on this character model. Maybe it can be used on targeted areas but not every time.
The Spiderverse movie was so good. Who's ready for the next one?
2020-07-06 21:03:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope you all had a Happy 4th of July weekend! For FREEEEDOMMM!!!!
2020-07-05 23:22:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Canada Day! I know it was yesterday but better late than never!
I'd like to visit there one day. :D
2020-07-02 22:31:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This was really good practice for cape animations. The great thing about Spine, is mesh animations. I can take any piece of art no matter the detail and animate it. It's magic I say!
Still figuring out this method of animating. Using the graph editor to adjust movements is still new to me.
Animating a 4 legged character is always a challenge but I'm pretty satisfied with this result. Watched slow motion run loops of dogs but ended up making him run more like a deer because it was visually was easier and looked more clear. Dog runs are quite interesting, at least on greyhounds, each foot lands indi...
2020-06-30 16:58:19 +0000 UTC View Post
You may of seen her taking down some baddies here and there. Just hope you don't have a price on your head when she's ready for business!
2020-06-25 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
You saw the runs but there will also be walks too. Speaking of walks, I need to get outside and take one myself!
Onward and Upwards!
-Miltonius
