Devlog #54 - Asset Hell

Good evening folks. I am, finally, out of scripting hell and dove head first into asset hell!

At the very least this is what I want to do: art. Damn, what a concept. An artist making art.

Alright well I’m sort of on a time crunch because the game has too much stuff so I’m just gonna quickly show what we’ve been working on so I can go back to working like dog.

🍰 Seconds, please!

I suffered doing the food for Snacko because it just made me hungry the entire time. I have no idea how many excess calories I’ve consumed during this period simply because it made me wanna eat despite being full.

Lookit all these entrees! Managed to fit everything in a 64x64 texture, too. Ended up having to nerf the grilled fish a wee bit. He was taking up way too much room.

But, he’s still got the spirit! So yeah. Some of these were hard for me to do simply because some of these things you have to take some creative liberties to make sure it looks good. You know, like why is your sandwich falling apart? Cuz you can see the contents that way. Sorry your sandwich is falling apart.

And um, here are the desserts… Yup. Nothing to say about that. I guess I don’t want to spoil everything so that’s all you’re gonna get :3

Also had to do the icons for all of these, too. Look at this carrot juice glow up✨

Who decided to make all the food items in the game also buildables resulting in having to make 3D assets so you can decorate with them? Oh right, me. I’m the clown.

🦈 Something’s Fishy

Moving on, I also made the fish. I included a blahaj I mean, shark.

I also used up all my brain cells and willpower to give the squid a new rig with it’s own animations. Why is there a giant squid in Snacko? I don’t know to be honest, I don’t remember making that decision.

Yeah… Anyways. I don’t wanna like, literally asset dump all the assets here (buy the game thank you) so I’ll stop here for the fish.

Ah but where will the fish live?! In the aquarium. In the Cultural Center. We had a lot of worries going into this involving the mechniasm behind donating fish with different sizes and how it’ll look, but I think it turned out great.

Quite proud of the journey she went on to get to where she is today. I finished this in a day and a half in a caffeine fueled haze. All in all, a pretty good ratio of what got done and the collateral damage to my mental state.

Here’s a fun early block out to end product comparison!

🏡 I Played the Sims

I just started on this yesterday so it’s technically March stuff, but here’s a preview of the “simple set”, from my fiddling in the Sims to the 3D asset for Snacko. I’ve said this in the past, but it’s easier to play with colour combinations and proportions in the Sims versus drawing it out. So yeah.

Like the furniture set, it’s heavily inspired by Scandinavian furniture and houses, aka my bias. Sorry if it shows through the game a lot. The dark grey in the above assets are dye slots, so I hope you have fun coming up with terrible colour combinations.

Anyways yeah that’s February. Who made February short? That’s not really fair, is it? Like, “ah, I have to get these things done for this month” but jokes on you this month is missing a couple of days. Rude.

OK! Thank you very very very much for reading my rambling till the very end. See you on the other side! I’m still aliveeeeee

Extra thank you to our Patrons and Ko-fi supporters! Without you, Snacko development would look very different. We appreciate every one of you 🐾