Sunday 23 October 2011

Back from the Dead!

Avoiding the pun in the title, hopefully my workload has cleared up a little... or it appears to have anyway.

So, obviously I haven't done much this time, especially not in the case of level designing.

What's been done is:

- New additions to "Extras" menu, including shop
- Gallery for images (currently only got 2 in the bonus shop)
- Resizing... everything
- New inventory Sprites: Handgun, HG Ammo, Combat Knife, ID Card. Also I have done herbs + Mixed Herbs.
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And now, this brings me onto the two polls, that's right, two at the same time.

The first one will be if FAPCOM should continue to resize everything. He's currently scaling everything to about 2x the size it was before, which means more detail, and hopefully more fluid animations. He also says that it takes the same amount of time as it does for the normal sprites, so I'm putting up a poll whether to go with it. The downside to the large sprites is that I will have to re-code a lot of things, I will need to remake all the levels, and I won't release the new sprites until they're all done, since the size is too different to allow the "inconsistencies" like before.

The second one is about a game over pic. I thought, hey, I'll try my hand at making one, and so, off I went with my laptop touch pad and photoshop. I had drawn up a basic pose, then FAPCOM came on and now he's taken over from me, sketching it in 10x more detail. The game over pic itself is a generic death one (not electrocution, but bites, claws, etc.), and so, I wanted to ask the question: How much blood (and maybe some gore. Yes, I said it!) do you want to see in it? After watching the "Dead" movies (George A. Romero is god), I realised that the Resident Evil series is extremely lightened down, but I want to keep its dark atmosphere. So, I'm asking you, on a scale of no blood or gore to George Romero, how much do you want to see?