Today we have not two, but three minigame graphics updates. All courtesy of Astra Wijaya.
First, Super Polygon has been updated to look more fancy:
Similarly, Disco Hexagon, which is now renamed to Power Hexagon, uses a power motif:
Lastly, Dark Tiles is now Dark Tiles. Confused? We’ll let the animation to the job:
Unfortunately, we’re a bit short on time to provide more updates. Hopefully we’ll have more in store next week.
We return to our regular program of Not a Clone updates with two animations: Darumaman and Totemman minigames!
These will take place of Fungusman and Slapperman from the old Not a Clone build. Thanks again to Astra Wijaya for the graphical improvements.
A while ago, we mentioned we were adding difficulty levels to each minigame. Here are a few more changes that can occur on each minigame.
The minigames 2 and 10 now increases the number of tiles the game starts with as the difficulty increases. It was a bit difficult for our programmer, Taro Omiya to put together, but we’ve managed to make all the puzzles the minigame generates to be solvable:
Likewise, Colors! and Neons! got a similar treatment.
We’ll provide more updates as we go along on how other minigames changes as the difficulty increases.
Continuing our updates on Not a Clone’s progress, we’ve got a new mockup for a minigame:
Art, again, is courtesy of Astra Wijaya.
In regards to other updates, there’s been a few small tweaks to the UI. For example, the loading screen now provides the definition of a clone:
A lot of people who play-tested our game didn’t know what a clone was, so we put the definition up on the loading screen to educate our players. Second, the game over screen now provides some fascinating (or depressing) facts about clone-related practices:
Note that neither texts are final.
I figured I’d talk about how I got the graphics on The Sentient Cube. It was surprisingly quick and simple, although it required a lot of tweaking to get it right. In this step-by-step instructions, I explain how I’ve used Unity’s installed scripts to create a stunning toon shading.
Note: this only works with Unity Pro license.
In the menu bar, under Assets -> Import Package, you’ll need to import the Image Effects and the Toon Shading.
Create a cube, camera, and directional light for the scene you’re working on.
Create a material under the Project pane, with the shader set to “Toon/Lighted,” and the Toon Ramp set to a 1-dimensional image. In this case, I created a custom ramp.
Drag-and-drop the new material from the Project pane to the cube in the Scene pane.
Add the “Edge Detect Effect” and the “Contrast Stretch Effect” components in that order to the camera. The screenshot above was the parameters I’ve used.
Change the “Shadow Type” under the directional light to “Hard Shadows.” The screenshot above were the parameters I’ve used.
Just add a few more elements with their own materials, and Voilà!
You can download and import the Unity package I’ve created with the same scene above.