Development Log #023 (Archived)

There is a big update for this month: we now have an artist, Petr(Simulyatum)! He’s an experienced artist who has an amazing portfolio of high fantasy portraits as well as epic European battlefield scenes. We started with character art such as 2D portraits, an area he excels at, and he came up with some amazing art for the two main characters, Alton Alstair and Emma Slate. To top it off, he is also doing the sprite art for the game and it is looking amazing!

For the first time I am able to run the game using original content which is a big deal, and as you can see to the left (if you’re on a phone, you might not see it…) we have a new icon image of Alton and Emma standing under a tree. These sprites are the official Dusk Tactics sprites made by Petr, in their first incarnation, and looking amazing.

Style was a big part of the discussion. For the sprites, we decided to go with the an anime inspired look, with slightly enlarged heads to convey emotion and expressions. It’s similar to what you’d see in Disgaea. The portraits are inspired by Tactics Ogre and are done in a more realistic fashion. While these are still being worked on, so far we have four main characters outlined and two completed.

I’ll be adding more pictures to the gallery as well as some gifs featuring weapon animations. This is all early in the process, but we’re on a good track to have a playable demo before the year is out, if not sooner.

Note: The images on some of these older development logs might show resources that are copyrighted or have other use restrictions. None of these resources are used in the current version of the game and they were never used in any version that was released at any time.