missed the question from paulus. well its still going.
I have taken a little aside to gather ideas for the game, and go back and improve things I wasn't happy with.. its still a project of passion and it will take however long it takes. Due to research as well I thought it was healthy for me to practise a bit with releasing/marketing on googleplay before I dump the game to the wind and watch it fall flat. Plus I have had some "math stuff" running through my head and little ideas here and there in the realm of graphics programming that weren't exactly in line with what my game was.
Being obsessive I had to find a way to test these things out and get them out of my system otherwise it would be a distraction when I was working. so I released them as live wallpapers on android. For those unfamiliar android phones can have a program as the homescreenwallpaper. it makes for a nice sandbox for graphics things.
for the curious feel free to try them out I will explain what each does without getting overly math boring.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... te.android
this one here is a ripple effect, essentially what it does is I seed the screen with color gradations and from the centre it displaces the pixels in a radial pattern making it look like water, I also use a little algorythem to simulate reflection/refraction on the ripples.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... te.android
this one is 2 sets of concentric circles being plotted and moved around, where the rings overlap it will boolean the overlap (delete) makes rather neato 1960's ish type effect.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... te.android
this is a really cool thing based on math you likely learned in grade 6... sin and cos functions return between -1 and 1.. so I am applying sin & cos to x and y pixel coordinates and normalizing the value I get back to match those screen coordinates, then using the end resulting number to calculate a color level multiplying my result by pi and doing a sin function to make the palette loop.. long winded way of saying looks like a lavalamp
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... te.android
this one is pretty neat. I won't bore with the math but its a combination of 2 functions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise - Perlin noise is a means of generating a pseudo random number (there is a pattern but its long)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractiona ... ian_motion - I am calculating fractional brownian motion OF perlin noise, and using that to displace a plotted line of pixels.. what that basically means is beams of glowing stuff moving in a random energy pulse sort of way, look very cool.
well thats some show and tell, by doing these sorts of things I can get the ideas out of my head and get back to drawing/animating. composing and coding for the game. What has been really challenging is NOT turning the game dark with heavy tunes and cartoon violence, its a daily stylistic preference I have to avoid.
I have worked alot on the main character sprite, I have a new puppet for him constructed and rigged up to do the animations, I posted a screenshot a while back on deviantart you can check out
http://aahz.deviantart.com/art/Tappyconcept-537689749
So there is your answer Paulus =)
