BRAWL2 [Environent] greentooth, aumramaram

aumramaram

greentooth

I've seen a lot of Greentooth in other games. I want to see Greentooth's native realm.

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I use:
-Magicavoxel - hard surface, blocks
-GDevelop - game engine and pixel editor (Piskl)
-SculptGL -soft surface web based bare bones sculpting with fast brushes and retopo)
-Blender - precision surface (rarely needed), technical stuff like mesh processing via scripts

GDevelop is likely the slowest and least feature-rich game engine out there, but it's extremely quick to produce with. I told myself strictly to only use it to make the visual level for the challenge, but in this engine it's easy to throw in things like bullets, movement, health systems, so I ended up doing it little by little anyway and now it's shaping up to be a game.

There are no normal maps or textures at all and there's no specular or emissive. I use vertex colors and found that GDevelop processes them entirely in float, so wrote MEL script which give emissives for free. That's a hack but it works beautifully for the time being. With a simple engine like this creative solutions are needed.

I'm on an i7-8550U @1.8 w/ UHD 620 iGPU. Aiming for a steady 30 FPS with good optimization at medium detail setting. For this engine, about 600k tris. Bottleneck now is CPU. Tons of little units updating their logic every frame, the tiny white guys each being obscene amounts of tris, and too many draw calls. Lots of room for optimization still. I'm not worried about performance impact of adding audio.








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is it going to remove the colors again and make my flower look stupid?

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blocking out a level design. Rectangular for the final screenshot, divided into roughly 5 different areas.

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I make a few detailed meshes and instance them around the place to get it looking busy termine style

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blocks have some semi-random positioning for a more natural look, blocking out the far pieces so the player never looks at empty space

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these boxes and the built-in pixel editor makes prototyping blocks very quick. I'm counting on leaving quite a lot of the geo as simple boxes. Here I start adding some crowds and more assets.

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designs. Effects: muzzle flash, projectiles, speed trail, bloom, etc

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various designs, more assets. Starting to imagine what greentooth looks like in hulk mode

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tools and workflow

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sacboi

Excellent 

Always wondered where the little bugger came from, hmm...pacman's cousin? 

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sacboi said:

Excellent 

Always wondered where the little bugger came from, hmm...pacman's cousin? 

Thanks and I wondered too. I don't even know who made the design. Pac-man's cousin, exactly. Is there existing lore?  Greentooth is a legend referenced in many great titles, some kind of game-interdimensional being. I imagine there is a kid who gets to live in a mad childish realm made from all his favourite games.

from this morning, I'm figuring out enemy attacks

sacboi

aumramaram said:

[...] I wondered too. I don't even know who made the design. Pac-man's cousin, exactly. Is there existing lore?  

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Polycount:About

Lil' dude belongs to this community i.e. created by it's members though copyright waived (CCO) however on the proviso not to be used for monetization purposes. 

but

I also like to think exists in a parallel universe getting up to all manner of shenanigans, us huumans might not consciously partake...