apicici

psychicparrot42, 13 hours ago to random

Anybody got any good VPN recommendations? Ta in advance :)

apicici, 1 day ago to devlog

I wrote a blog post to explain how my technique for smooth, pixel-perfect parallax scrolling works, with comparisons to the other common approaches.

https://blog.apicici.com/posts/2024/05/smooth_pixel_perfect_parallax/

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An animation showcasing the smooth parallax effect in one of the locations of our upcoming game. The camera moves left to right on the pixel art drawing of a cemetery, with threes in the foreground and the sky in the background on different layers with different parallax settings.

apicici, 1 day ago to pixelart

A few weeks ago I had an idea on how to get a parallax effect in my game that would be BOTH pixel-perfect and smooth. Yesterday I finally tried it out and it works even better than I expected!

Here's a before/after comparison. The improvement is especially noticeable with multiple background layers moving at different speeds, like the clouds and the moon/stars.

When I have some time I'll try to write a short blog post about the technique.

#pixelArt #indieDev #gameDev #pointAndClick

An animation showcasing the old parallax effect in one of the locations of our upcoming game. The camera moves left to right on the pixel art drawing of a cemetery, with threes in the foreground and the sky in the background on different layers with different parallax settings.
An animation showcasing the smooth parallax effect in one of the locations of our upcoming game. The camera moves left to right on the pixel art drawing of a cemetery, with threes in the foreground and the sky in the background on different layers with different parallax settings.

apicici, 27 days ago to pixelart

It's done! I finished animating all the candles! The curse has been lifted! All hail our candle overlords!

I can now confirm that our upcoming game contains 82 painstakingly, individually animated candles. Ok, at some point I started reusing the flame animations, but the moving lights on the candles and the halos were done individually.

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A moonlit pixel art scene of a country road leading to a mansion, with candles on each sides of the path.

apicici, 1 month ago to pixelart

We're one big step closer to finishing our next game: as of today, all the main art for the room backgrounds is finished!

To celebrate, here is the first fully completed room. Background and characters by our lead artist, candle animations by me.

The other rooms are almost fully done, but they are missing the candle flames. And there are A LOT of candles in this game.😩

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The game protagonist, Ines, is standing in a kitchen dimly lit by candles.

grumpygamer, 2 months ago to random

I do wish Aseprite had an api that could do an export exactly like you can from the command line. Maybe there is a way to do that? @aseprite

#aseprite

apicici, 6 months ago to pixelart

Our upcoming game now has a title AND a title screen!

The game will be called "The founders of [redacted]: an Ines tale" and will be the fourth game in the Ines series.

All the art in the title screen (including the fonts) was done by me 😎

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Title screen for "The founders of [redacted]: an Ines tale". A desolated, dull, background, with a tree with occasionally falling leaves as the only prominent figure. The game's main character, Ines, is sitting on the ground with her back on the tree. A mysterious figure pops out their head from the top of the tree every few seconds.

apicici, 7 months ago to pixelart

Walking cycle animation that I made for practice a while ago and completely forgot about until today. It's a cool character, I should do something with it at some point.

#pixelArt #animation

Pixel art animation of a walking cycle
Pixel art animation of a walking cycle

apicici, 7 months ago to gamedev

Proof of concept of the inventory interface for the new game. The items are placeholders, no ice cream in this game (for now).

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apicici, 7 months ago to devlog

All the puzzles for the new game have been planned! It's bigger that our previous ones, and it warranted the use of a good old Puzzle Dependency Chart™.

I hear it's all downhill from here.

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apicici, 7 months ago to pixelart

We're working on a new game! Really, I have proof!

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Animation of a pixel art ghost floating in a room with a big staircase.

apicici, 7 months ago to random

Celebrating the anniversary of Return to Monkey island by playing it again, this time with the Writer's cut option turned on and in the company of our dog Guybrush, who hadn't yet joined the family last year.

Thanks @grumpygamer, @thatdave, and the rest of the team for the wonderful experience!

#MonkeyIsland #ReturnToMonkeyIsand #Guybrush

Guybrush the dog looking at Return to Monkey Island on the TV
Guybrush the dog, quite uninterested in the TV
Guybrush the dog, quite uninterested in the TV

apicici, 8 months ago to random

Currently planning the next adventure of Ines and uncle Lee, which we hope to finish this fall. This would be the first one that we don't do as part of a game jam, I wonder if that's going to make things easier or more difficult 🤔

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grumpygamer, 8 months ago to random

Here’s to campfires, good friends, and good stories!

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apicici, 8 months ago to devlog

I've spent the last couple of days working on the 🇮🇹 Italian 🇮🇹 translation for my latest game "Not enough time", so I decided to write a blog post about the approach I used to make the game translation-ready (mostly so I won't forget again how it works, next time I make a game):
https://blog.apicici.com/posts/2023/08/game_translations/

The approach I use is (very) heavily inspired by the one used by @grumpygamer in #ThimbleweedPark and #ReturnToMonkeyIsland. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!

#devlog

Options menu for the game with Italian language selected

apicici, 8 months ago to Canada

I've been lurking around here for a while now, I figured it was time for a proper #introduction!

I'm a mathematical physicist based in #Canada, as well as an hobbyst #indieGameDev making #pointAndClick #AdventureGames with two friends. We have released three free short games about the adventures of Ines and her weird uncle Lee, the latest of which was released earlier this month: https://apicici.itch.io/ines-in-not-enough-time

I have a dog named #Guybrush who had his first birthday last month (picture attached).

grumpygamer, 10 months ago to random

If you're making an indie pixel art game, tag me with a screenshot and I'll boost you!