Alex Ronay

🧵 @KingdomIsland was my first "wouldn't it be cool to design a game" game. It came to me as a request to help with concept art. I had never made game art, at the time I  was in creating digital illustrations and some 3D work. The idea of learning something new really drew me in!

@Madzom8ie I'm still here, CP name was Qazarpenguin. Was more active in the CP community when it first started back in miniclip days. Been here on Twitter about a decade, just following new worlds and working on my own.

How many OG's are still around in the community? I'd love to see how many of you are still here

@TryFrogParadise Clearly a horse. 🤣

Can you guess what is it? 🤔 Let's get to 10 RT to unblur it ! 🐸

@ryanconnollyart Yes there we go! Missing some dust poofs though, he has to feel like he's connecting with the ground. Still looks like he glides

Happy Thursday! Added some camera shakes every time Mechanicus stops the ground at full speed! Also smoothed out the animations, added his indicator and name tag as well. Follow along for more updates!

Here is the current version we've tested. There will still be swarms of the little robots in the new updated version, but you'll now have lava to worry about.

We've been pretty busy testing the updates to @KingdomIsland with some of our players. While the patches come in, I thought I'd share the progress on the volcano battle update. For contrast, see the video inof the current setup that we've tested with our group in the next comment

@ryanconnollyart I like it without the cape. Couldn't see the full mech

@Alex_Ronay These are the enemy sketches I made not too long ago. Basically just cut the head part off the regular bot and scaled it up to make the Boss Mech

Happy Tuesday everyone! Here’s a little update with the game: - Added the Name UI - Added the Player Indicator - Added a Slide animation (this will turn into the grappling hook) - Updated all the other player animations to smooth them out more - Added the first enemy that chases you! (Which is actually the Boss…) Lots of great progress so far, excited to keep going. Follow along for more updates!

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@ryanconnollyart Can't help but ask, were you inspired?

@_screenhog There also seems to be a difference in how you position it. Zither will lay flat while autoharp I guess is played like this? youtu.be/dwpnFjlTSwU?si…

@_screenhog At first I thought this was like those online guitar chord attachments that push the chords with a button. Seems the zither is a more versatile instrument capable of both melody and harmony. I think the same can be true for an autoharp, but the sound is more folky.

I have been amassing a growing collection of musical instruments, and my family gifted me with an early birthday present this year: a 100-year-old zither. I'm still learning what to do with it, but it's pretty cool!

@ryanconnollyart @MelonMunkyyy I have no doubt it'll be awesome

@Alex_Ronay @MelonMunkyyy Should be playable soon. Working hard on making it happen.

For those interested in how the development side of things is going: I just picked up learning Godot 4 and currently have a player controller that runs around, and a little world builder (the basics). More updates next week!

@ryanconnollyart @MelonMunkyyy Misleading, but yes.

@Alex_Ronay @MelonMunkyyy Convincing though, huh 😆

@ryanconnollyart @MelonMunkyyy Yea like a previz. It looked great

@Alex_Ronay @MelonMunkyyy Nope, was just to give an idea on how it might look/play. It was incredibly helpful going that route though, cause now I have all the assets animations to build the game fully.

@ryanconnollyart @MelonMunkyyy Oh so none of that was playable?

@Alex_Ronay @MelonMunkyyy Animated game demo made in Blender

@ryanconnollyart @MelonMunkyyy Wait, what did we see the other day then?

@MelonMunkyyy Thanks Munky! Can finally traverse with the camera following.

@ryanconnollyart Thanks! I had fun with the characters. Decided to work on toonkins instead.

@Alex_Ronay Totally forgot about Space Brawl! Whatever happened to it? It looks super sick

@ryanconnollyart I hear ya. This is one I worked on in Unity, but it was 3D.

@Alex_Ronay Yeah been looking into it, took a break to make the player controller 😅

@ryanconnollyart youtu.be/JxbnStn-BIY?si… Maybe look into this kind of solution

@Alex_Ronay Exactly. Just with 3D assets instead of 2D planes