Welcome back followers of the fearsome!
We hope your week has been going by well as we here at Slick forge out the remaining bits of Viking Squad! We’ve been testing the online and it’s feeling really great as well as diving into our “Hard Mode” end game content and getting those final fights challenging!
This also gives us a chance to go over some of the levels with a bit of cool polish and artwork now that everything is in the final stages. One of these areas that I wanted to touch up with some new art was the Snowclaw’s basement. This area is cool because it’s darker and has these neat hot coal vents in the floor that glow orange and send embers up into the air. There wasn’t a lot of supporting artwork there but we liked the idea so much we decided to make it a boiler room! The Snowclaws need a lot of heat to get their fish bier just right!
Above you can see the steps and how great it is to be able to just snag screenshots and start adding elements right into the game! We are also lucky that the lore is fuzzy in Viking Squad so complicated plumbing systems still feel alright in our weird and wacky world. the slots in the boilers and stoves also allow us to have interesting pools of light and gauges offer some fun places to add small bits of animations!
here’s a quick shot with some lighting and an idea of the modular pieces we can use to mix around and make whatever pipe patterns we want. The boilers really add a bunch of interesting shapes to this area so I guess they’ve done their job! As usual the images are drawn at a pretty high resolution so they can be scaled and twisted around to get more mileage out of the elements.
And remember that we’ll be Dev-Streaming today at 4pm PST! We’ve been having a blast interacting with our viewers and working on the game with an audience so be sure not to miss it!
So that’s this week’s Dev-Blog! Thanks for stopping by as we sail ever closer to shipping! Keep those blades sharp and until next time, keep those boiler rooms interesting!
-Jesse
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