Whoops I haven’t posted anything in a bit, so here’s a new song I just started working on for Charlotte’s Dream! It’s a boss theme for one of the game’s bosses; it’s only like halfway done (and it’s got no bass yet) so enjoy the song ending right as the triumphant chorus really kicks in. Also, this is the first song I’ve done that I mostly composed directly on guitar instead of just writing a tab in GP first! I want to try actually playing the song myself instead of just exporting a Guitar Pro tab, but I’m still a little sloppy and my audio equipment ain’t great. Still, it’d probably sound a lot better than what I’ve been using.

I’ve been working a lot on the game, but everything I’ve been doing is planning work so I don’t have anything to show for it yet. But soon!

I changed the way slide notes work; now there are three set positions, being middle, high, and low. Holding up slides a note up to high and holding down slides a note down to low, while releasing up or down slides back to the middle position. I also made it so you can slide much sooner, basically as soon as the projectile appears.

And finally, before Charlotte technically slid the wrong way on the neck corresponding to the direction the projectile, since sliding towards the body of the guitar raises the pitch and sliding towards the headstock lowers the pitch. It might be a little visually weird to see the projectile move in the opposite direction of her hand, and even my dumb brain switched the animations around despite the fact I’ve played guitar for years, but this way is how it actually works.

I was just gonna add an alternate picking and guitar slide animation but I accidentally completely revamped Charlotte’s sprite oops. It was ancient and I was sick of looking at it! I made the old one very simple to cut down on my workload for assets, and while this new sprite is a bit bigger and more detailed I think I can handle it now (thanks adderall).

The walking and jumping/falling animations are incomplete (obviously) and the guitar is missing an electric effect when you fire a projectile, but the alternate picking and sliding are basically done! I might add another frame to the blink/tweak it a bit too.

Alright, part two! The new stuff! This is a reminder that I haven’t made any new assets yet, so if anything looks off/bad it’s just a placeholder right now.

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So hey, remember when I did gamedev? Yeah me neither.

Anyway, I’ve decided to start up again! I’m going to be reworking Charlotte’s Dream; this time with a bigger focus on the design of the gameplay. I’ve been thinking hard about this the past few days, and I had some ideas on how to make the game more interesting. This is gonna be split into two posts since this one turned out super long already; this first one being about how I revamped the old mechanics, and the next post some fun new stuff. And I should say now that I’ll be reworking some of the sprites too, so you can think of the all sprites here as placeholders. 

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A simple pic I did of Charlotte as practice! I tried a different brush for lineart, and while it’s more messy right now since I’m still getting used to it I like it better than the pen tool I was using before.

I’ll probably keep working on this picture since I like how it’s come along overall but it’s it’s a bit messy, though I figured I’d post it now as I haven’t updated in a bit. I’ve been working on stuff, but I’ve been having some frustrations with my art/process in general so I haven’t had much to actually show. 

Also feet are absolutely the worst just letting everyone know.

The finished version of my Nia picture! I didn’t save the background till the last minute this time so I hope it turned out well! Maybe one day I’ll actually draw a scene or something instead of some abstract colors.

I did a sketch of my girl Nia from Pop’n Music! I hadn’t played pop’n in a few months because the arcade I play it at was settling into a new place and I’ve been dealing with that good ol’ depression among other things, but I started going again recently and god damn did I miss this game; I just had to draw a lil something to celebrate.

Also I’ve only been posting sketches recently since I’ve had very little motivation recently, which it turns out was due to my meds being at too high a dose and giving me some crazy anxiety. But I got that sorted out, so I’m gonna try to actually finish up these sketches and just be more productive in general!

I did a sketch/redesign of one of my OC’s, Serra! I wanted to do a different angle this time since I tend to draw just straight on, but boy is it a bad idea to try an angle you’re unfamiliar with while completely redesigning a character. But hey I did it!

In other news, I’ve been dealing with a lot of personal stuff recently (hence the lack of any updates for a few weeks), so I probably won’t be posting much art until I’ve got stuff more sorted out. I’ll definitely be posting art, it just won’t be as frequent as before; maybe one or two updates a week.

I had a cute idea for a Hex Maniac picture, so I did a sketch of it! I’m still undecided on the ghost lights as the background though, so we’ll see if I stick with it when I finish the piece up.

Fun fact though I spent a while trying to get the composition right and then when I flipped the picture over to check for errors down the line I realized the composition read a million times better and that was the problem. So remember to always flip your art every now and again!

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