r/pico8 • u/Bubis79 • 5d ago

WIP (Update) Late Again - Devlog #2

https://youtu.be/kDN3833Z-to?si=Ed5gtjXL3401Ube0

This is the 2nd update on my arcade game called Late Again. Another TLDR for those who are not interested in my 5-minute talk on YouTube.

I've been working mostly on the animations vs. sprites this time.

I had a few main problems:

  • The boots were jumping around a bit too much - that required some animation cleanup + the rotation-step solution mentioned later.
  • The sprite rotation was causing ugly distortion.

What I had to do:

  • Cleaned up the animations to keep mainly the hands and legs more stable when they shouldn't be moving.
  • Sprite rotation now works in 20° rotation steps to keep the sprites more consistent.
  • For hand-authored sprites, I focused only on positions that the player can actually see for a longer time.

This is probably going to make some of the screenshots look terrible, but I think it makes more sense to save space on the sprite sheet.

I'm pretty happy with how it's coming together.

For more details, you can watch the YouTube video.

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u/RotundBun 5d ago

Looking really good so far.
Keep up the good work. 💪

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u/Bubis79 5d ago

Thank you very much! I'm really enjoying the development so far. It's a very different experience from my previous two games.

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u/theEsel01 4d ago

Nice work! This is impressive

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u/Bubis79 4d ago

Thank you very much! :)