January Update - Ships, Portraits, Pallets & More (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

Hope you are well, lots going on this month including plenty of new cursed gems stuff, some onlyfiends shading & more book illustrations. You might also noticed i updated my vibe here and on my twitter, which honestly was long overdue. Welcome to the new slightly evil vibe >:3c.

So lets begin with the thing nearest and dearest to my heart, cursed gems. 

This month I have been mostly going through the logic of the game to get it ready for programming. This process has been going pretty well and has also generated plenty of additions and adjustments! This is what the current version of the UI looks like

Whats new?

• I've done a lot of small but necessary UI stuff, including a custom mouse & hover and click buttons
• I've added a whole new UI section at the top to deal with sound and a ~ key for dev commands to help me debug and let me add fun secrets ;)
• All the logic for the inventory box and the status box have been completed, stuff like the curses, the ship name and the weapon damage type is all connected, at least in theory, to the gems slotted.
• Gems will now have 14 slots that effect portraits, 3 that effect weapons and 3 that effect a new element : the ship!

The ship is an alt portrait view that will cycle with the main portrait, why am i adding this? because uh, it's cute... shmup ship... 

So depending on the gem slotted the ship part will change, the gems are grouped into 10 categories according to colour and theme; when slotted to the respective slot they give you a new ship part to play with! It's like a little dress up game for shump ships :3c

Here are all of the pieces! so far unshaded/coloured, you might imagine how they could fit together to build loads of unique ships. 

I am also adding variants for all the weapons, though they will be single designs. Expect them to be in next months post, maybe even shaded if i'm lucky. 

Finally with cursed gems I worked on a ton of portrait combinations to make sure you will be cursed to the upmost satisfaction of your degenerate gem hoarding desire.

(just a small sample)

Next up i've done a whole bunch of shading work on onlyfiends here is a progress gif of that process

(I had to brighten the pallets to compensate for patreons lack of dark mode because dark things are harder to see on a bright background)

After a bit of experimenting  I ended up going with a six colour pallet in a four colour style, as that worked best with rest of the UI (not really pictured here yet) i've basically finished one image in this style, so i've just got to do the next three and then i'll post! i might even do a little print with them 4 fun. 

Lastly, i've been working on some more illustrations for my collab with patrick.

(all patricks wonderful concepts that i'm trying to do justice to)

That's all for January, hope you are so far enjoying the new year, i'm gonna end with another selfie because i'm cute.

(summertime selfie :3c)

Thanks for the support & love, until next month!