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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 1d

Trust the process.

Today I painted some rocks and tree layer elements, as well as coloring in the boat layers.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 2d

Took a break from the detailed background stuff today to take yet another crack at the interiors. Previous version was isometric and just felt very technical drawing vs the more cosy feel I was after. Experimenting with some simple 3D shapes and sprite stacks. I like the new feel, so far.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 3d

My weekend of Gunwale boating lineart.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 5d

WIP line art for a new room for Gunwale. I'm trying to make sure that each location has lots of detail for you to look at since that's a pretty major point of the game.

I actually can't wait to color the layers and put them in the engine to see them in parallax.

That's the best bit.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 19d

Here are a few more characters - this group hails from the Forlatt region of Astre.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 23d

Some new character bits I did last week.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 23d

Some of the residents of the Black Nest Castle in Gunwale. There are only really two that you'll interact with but I like to create whole worlds for them to live in, because that's heaps of fun to do - the best bit, even.

A lineup of some fantasy costumed characters from my game Gunwale.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 23d

Some new character bits I did last week.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm experimenting with various layout designs for my dialogs. My current fave is this one which uses the cute little Greley head for the cursor. I'm thinking of having various heads to use as emojis to represent the text. It'll look super cute.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · Sep 15

Experimenting with adding animation to Greeley at the tiller that responds to player controls.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · Sep 15

Experimenting with adding animation to Greeley at the tiller that responds to player controls.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm experimenting with various layout designs for my dialogs. My current fave is this one which uses the cute little Greley head for the cursor. I'm thinking of having various heads to use as emojis to represent the text. It'll look super cute.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Been a little quiet here because I've had my head down the last few weeks working on some code for the dialog system. Took me a while to get into it, but I'm firing on all cylinders now and hope to get it finished in a few more weeks.

In the meantime, here's some background Groats I forgot to post.

A flock of made-up farm animals called Groats lazing about and eating the grass.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · Jul 24

Just a slight change to Greeley's basic costume that's a little more summer-y.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · Jul 9

Working on a farm down by the water today.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · Jun 29

Pretty pleased with how Gunwale is looking at the moment.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · Jun 2

I was looking back through the videos of Gunwale that I exported over the years since I first started playing around with the idea back in August 22.

It's come a long way even though there's still a long way to go.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · May 27

I wasn't super happy with the Gunwale universe version of Kit I designed a few months back, so I took another stab at it. Much happier with this variant.