Hey Orbs! This week, we've mainly been working on sprites. Check out these glimpses of OL!
The standard bed.
More Main Menu development in the form of a dropdown!
A... giant canister of hair gel..?
We've recently commissioned Reiforce from DeviantArt to do some animations for us. Their first attempt was good- but the direction Meridian was walking? Not so good. Our oversight resulted in hilarity.
Artist SmileyFaceOrg finished up this awesome piece this week, of the character Scavenger! Her designed is heavily influenced by Buddy from the RPG LISA, but she has a few secrets of her own.
And finally, check out this battle mockup! Don't read too much into it. ;)
That's all we have for you this week! Look forward to more dialogue development in the next weekly update.
Greetings Orbs! This is co-head writer and voice actor Joshua Hawk here with a important update.
As Andrew touched upon in his most recent Weekly Update, we here on the development team have been working hard to create a demo of the game for you all. So it is with overwhelming enthusiasm that I present to you all the first sneak peek for the aforementioned demo!
Before I continue, I must take some time to thank the people who worked to bring this sneak peek to you. Special thanks to Andrew Wiles for his leadership regarding the project and for providing his voice for the narration of the video, to Santorno for his programming and recording of the visuals, and to Taitoki for the music. And while thanking myself would be rather conceited and frankly redundant, I will (in the third person) credit Joshua for provided his voice to the hog we have dubbed Mr. Piggles.
Anywho, in this sneak peak we show off the start menu for the game. And while it is not completely finished yet, it is largely finalized. We hope to have the completed product look and feel very similar to this sneak peek in both design and functionality.
There you have it! The first sneak peek for Orb Legend's up and coming demo! This is most certainly a big step forward in terms of productivity, so I want to know - do you like what you see here? Does this help get you excited for the demo? Let us know in the comments below!
Sadly, our beloved Cobalt has left the development. I'll be continuing posts from now on. We'll miss him!
A few big changes -- we've expanded our team! Please welcome Santorno, Criaha, Crafty, and Ackee! They're all priceless additions and I'm super excited about our time together.
I think the most important piece of information I can give you on this post is we finally have our first build in the works! The start menu is being built currently. Yes, we still plan on making a demo! Be on the lookout for version Baby Meridian soon!
We have a new pixel version of the OL logo that you'll be seeing very soon! Check out the comparison below. I think its an upgrade. :)
As you can see, we've updated it to better match our full quality logo that you can view at the top of this site.
Here's a sketch for a quirky character: Santorno's character addition to the game!
And here's an unfinished room! Who could inhabit this workspace?
Here's a pig for good measure. How could he fit into this legend?
I know we said we'd update the character page last week, but because the blog is going to be redesigned entirely, we're going to postpone the release for that. :) What do you think of these sneek peaks? Tell us in the comments!
