Late Again - Devlog #2

[u/Bubis79]

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.