Progress Log 5/29/20 - Character Portraits, First Game Map & New Character Design (Patreon)

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We’ve got a lot to cover in today’s progress log. Earlier this month, we mentioned that Patreon is rolling out a tax to some states in order to comply with some new guidelines. This tax change has prompted us to revamp our tiers earlier than expected to avoid unnecessary taxes. Because of this, new tiers will be rolling out before June 1st and we’ll be posting the details on that soon!

So let's get to it! Here's what's been happening with us.

Completed Yuba and Tabu’s Portraits

Yuba and Tabu’s in game portraits are completed and animated in game!

Tabu is huge so his positioning on screen is quite different from other characters. Thankfully, the custom dialogue sprite system is working pretty well and it’s streamlined enough that we should be able to easily add more sprites as we go.

Tabu’s House Exterior Map

The first game world map of Project Oni is coming together!

Several of the world props made for this map were designed with reusability in mind. The crate for example will be making an appearance in a future location with a different color scheme. Things such as lanterns can also be reused depending on the region of the world. (They also emit light using the 2D sprite lighting system!)

This may also come as a bit of a surprise, but I’ve taken up concept art work to help Doku streamline ideas. Sometimes when we discuss things, it’s hard to portray what we have in mind without some kind of visual concept beforehand.

It’s rough but it seems to get the job done and I’ll probably keep improving as we make more maps and characters.

New Character Design!

A while back we had posted the girl with the large axe weapon. Our intentions for her were to be a dynamic duo with another oni, and here he is.

We struggled with picking a color scheme but wanted to stick to the red oni blue oni theme. The biggest part that we’re unsure of is what color to keep on the girl’s stockings. The waist coat she has gives her silhouette a ton of weight, so changing it’s color around really impacts the character’s design. Please let us know what you think!

There’s a ton of information that we want to give you guys about the Project Oni characters and game world, so we’re going to start a series of deep-dive posts. These posts will feature individual characters and locations to disclose the lore for those that are interested. We’re not entirely sure when we’ll be rolling these out but probably once the bulk of the Patreon revamp is done, since we also have to work on a solid road map for oni.

That’s it for now!

-Vanis & Doku