Current AFMOS progress: testing some new cameras.

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Gameplay screenshot. The Warrior Milan is covered by a glowing, blue, circular Dragon Shield with a checkerboard pattern. The Empress Alouette is walking next to him. They’re in a nighttime snowy environment with a light snowfall.

Sneak peek at the current AFMOS progress.

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Screenshot of the Warrior Milan jumping performing a charged slash with a massive blue flash in front of him.

Sneak peek on what I'm working on right now for AFMOS.

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making a little bit of progress

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another stupid bug lol

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CW: blood splatter.

First pass at character switching + damage effect UI.

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Making the Art of My 2.5D Pixel DMFD Fangame "A Fire Made of Snowflakes" Over the past 5 months, I have been working on developing the art style of my in-development  Dragon Marked For Death  fangame,  A Fire Made of Snowflakes . In it, I am trying to make an...

I wrote an article on how I created the art style of AFMOS:

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Has some free scripts if you want them too.

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Did some refactoring for my custom dialogue system and added an ability to change expressions (sprites / sprite materials) based on the dialogue.

(YouTube version: youtu.be/F7r67RdDIm4)

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A spritesheet with pink and green tile backgrounds and 4 sprites of the Warrior Milan and the Empress Alouette sitting. From top to bottom, left to right: 1) Milan sitting, facing to the right with his arms on his lap. 2) Alouette sitting, facing to the left, leaned slightly back and with her legs crossed. 3) Milan slumped over with his eyes closed and his arms hanging off the sides of an (invisible) chair. 4) Alouette sitting a little forward with her arms on an (invisible) table in a sort of "alarmed" pose.

A spritesheet with pink and green tile backgrounds and 6 sprites of the Warrior Milan and the Empress Alouette sitting. From top to bottom, left to right: 1) Milan sitting, facing to the front with his legs spread and resting both of his hands on his thighs. He is leaning a little on his right arm. 2) Alouette sitting in a laid-back sassy pose with her right (dragon) arm resting on her cheek. Her head is facing to the front. 3) Milan sitting facing the front with his legs crossed and his left arm resting on an (invisible) table. He is looking to the right. 4) Alouette sitting similar to (2) but she is looking off to the right. 5) Milan sitting similar to (3) but he is looking off to the left. 6) Alouette sitting similar to (2) but she is looking off to the left.

Making sitting sprites was surprisingly hard but I think it paid off.

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The Warrior Milan (left) and the Empress Alouette (right) sitting under an orange light in a dark bar. The square wooden table has a mug of (root) beer near Milan and a mug of raspberry juice near Alouette. A single yellow circle hangs above them. Milan is sitting facing the camera but with his arm on the table and looking at Alouette. Alouette is looking to the right, away from him, with her Dragon Contract's elbow on the table and resting her head on her hand.

I just think they're very adorable.

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Started making blood spray and sparks VFX in AFMOS!! I learned too much from this!! It’s stuff I’ve always wanted to put in BLEED RUNNER but didn’t know how to at the time.

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Alright guys here’s the current combat in AFMOS. Very basic right now but I think I’m making good progress.

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Milan in the dark looking to the right at a candle on the top shelf of a wooden bookshelf. The candlelight is a faint salmon color. The light barely lights up his face and the face of his dragon-chest.

Kid Milan, Angelo, and Alouette, holding hands and walking across a fallen tree over a river. The sky and river and lit in a bright white with a faint red-pink glow. The grass is brown and the ground is rocky. Wooden debris (planks, poles, scaffolding) are on the river. Some wooden scaffolding is arranged in a rectangle "framing" the 3 kids.

An afternoon scene of adult Milan and Alouette walking across a terrace while kid Milan, Angelo, and Alouette are holding hands and walking across the gravel shoreline below. The landscape is grey with bright green grass and plants dotted around. A wooden ladder connecting the shoreline with the top of the terrace is behind the kids. On the muddy brown water, there are wooden stakes bunched together in the foreground. All 5 people are walking from the left to right, with adult Milan and Alouette walking a little bit ahead of the 3 kids.

An ice cave lit up by an extremely bright cyan light from below. The image is framed in a rectangle shape by glowing icicles in the foreground. In the midground, Milan is running across a wooden bridge above a ravine (where you can't see the bottom due to the camera angle), while Alouette is falling above him from the top of a waterfall behind them. The camera is aimed upwards from below.

New batch of visdev shots for AFMOS.

The 4 assignments were:
- Tonal affinity / contrast
- Movement affinity / contrast

Had a lot of fun with these, and I also got to make temp sprites for the kids walking lol.

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Screenshot of Alouette facing to the right, standing with a white sword slash graphic in front of her. She is standing on a rocky ground with snow falling around her.

Making a bit of progress on the combat system in AFMOS.

A small sneak peek for now (mostly because I don't feel like making a video until I can make proper knockback code and attack momentum code).

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Screenshot of a prototype level. Alouette and Milan are standing on a rocky ground in the middle of a snowfall with a campfire in the background. In the bottom-center of the screen, there is a white, italicized narration text that reads: "It takes Milo a couple seconds to find me in the fog. His head's all covered in powder."

Quickly added a new feature to the AFMOS dialogue system to allow screenspace narration text. I'm glad I managed to set up the script in a way that this took only 15 minutes to implement at most.

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Kid Milan sitting on a white / snow-covered riverbank in front of a mud river with wooden debris in the water.

Alouette (with her crown and dragon lit up in red) running across a frozen river with completely still grass and frozen spikes poking out of the water.

Batch of visdev stuff with the prompts "Color Saturation Affinity" and "Color Saturation Contrast".

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A picture of a golden windy grass field on a hill in a golden afternoon. Angelo is standing near the center of this field, waving.

Angelo in the tall grass. (Ghost of Tsushima, Sucker Punch, hire me /j)

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I tried to make them shiver but instead they blew up the universe LMAO

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Alouette and Milan in an ice cave with a red light / sun in front of them. Alouette and Milan are far away near the mouth of the cave and next to a fire. Alouette is kneeled over Milan, who is incapacitated / frozen. Light snow falls around them, and the cave darkens to black at the foreground.

Decided to change AFMOS's art style since the retro color palette was too limiting for what I want to do.

I have a lot more freedom over things like bloom and depth of field now.

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