Interactive Project - Production Reflection
- 2. Process To begin my production, I first started by creating a spritesheet for my fighting game. This would be necessary as the characters would need to move and change. I created my spritesheet in photoshop with the pencil tool. I based my spritesheet off a pre- existing spritesheet as making one from scratch would have been too time consuming. In order to stay organized, I had to title all the different sprites so I knew which layer held which sprite variant. This was very useful in keeping track of my work and I was able to make edits to the sprites easier.
- 3. Process • Then, to make the background of the fighting game, I took a real life image and pixelated it (Filter>Pixelate>Mosaic). Then, I edited the colours using a gradient map adjustment layer. I made the image a washed out red. After this, I cut out the background and replaced it with a flat pastel blue background to represent the sky. To finally touch things up, I went in with the pencil tool and touched up areas that didn’t look blocky and fitting.
- 4. Process • And then, to create the animation, I loaded the sprites on top of the background, and created a UI that includes healthbars, names, and a timer. This is where I begun to animate and I did this by starting a timeline. The character on the left needed the most animating which can be seen by the high amount of sprites in the timeline. In order to change the sprites, I placed the different sprite images across the timeline. To make the sprites move in different directions, I used position keyframes.
- 5. Process • To create the character selection screen, I first made a guide layout to help me create the boxes evenly. Then, after this I drew in the boxes with the different characters of my game using the pencil tool. I initially drew them as clipping masks so I wouldn’t draw out of boundaries. After creating all of the characters, I made slots at the corners of the screen to show what character each player was selecting. The graph also includes markers that hover over the characters when the player has selected them. When the selection is confirmed, a green tick shows up beside each player’s icon. I animated this part of the game the same way as the fighting part.
- 6. Process • Then, to finalize my product I used Adobe Premier to put the clips together and add sound. I found sound effects and music online and used them to create hitsounds, victory fanfares, selection sounds, and battle music.
Editor's Notes
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