Hi!
EIGHT-LEGGED THINGS have been shuffling around the village, along with GIANT BLACK ORMS crawling on the fields. As a self-proclaimed hero of the village, it's your chance to put things right. What you said last night at the tavern to get the barmaids' attention was not just boasting, wasn't it? Now, it's morning and you feel painfully sober.
This game will be html-exported is and is playable on smartphones, iPhone inclulded. I hope to finish the game by Christmas, we'll see how it goes.
Last week was spent on pondering the options and gameplay. Html export is rather limited in features. I decided to go for it in any case. The gameplay will be a mixed bag of old BASIC games and point and click adventure games, with pseudorandom things happening based on player actions. Maybe. I'll tell more about this later when I get it sorted out in my head.
To speed things up, I'll be using Playmobil characters, with some white/gray/black bacgrounds made out of cardboard and ink. And of any odd items I might have around. Like the miniature snakes and spiders from the Halloween decorations. The camera will be a Nintendo DSi XL. I'll be using Flipnote Studio for the stop-motion animations, mixing imported photos with hand drawn stuff. Animation is something I have never done before, but I'd like to learn how to do it.
Here are some tests, you'll get the idea. The output is tiny, because the Flipnote Studio output resolution is really that small. Luckily, the output looks reasonably good on smartphone screens. And the black and white gif animations load pretty fast.