As I mentioned yesterday, our lead animator has left the project. The fact that this keeps happening—that we get some great out-of-this-world talent, then poof! He or she moves on to bigger and better things without warning—has led me to re-evaluate what we’re doing here with this little project.
Honestly, I’m tired of having to put the game on hold every time we need to find a new professional-quality animator. So I’ve made a big decision.
We’re going old school.
King’s Quest I-style old school, to be exact: Goodbye millions of colors and 1024×768 screens. Make way for Rise of the Hidden Sun: Retro Edition in all of its 16-color, 320×200-pixel glory! I’ve already converted two screens to the “retro” format and plan to have the whole game reformatted by the end of the month.
Temple of the Golden Vulture
Entrance to the Haunted Mine
From there, it’ll be a piece of cake to animate the thing myself.
What do you think? Click here for an extended preview.
Curses! I fell for that!!!!! LOL!
Nice one bro!
I fell for it too. DAYUM! Nice one Josh!
Thanks for being such good sports, everyone! We *are* still looking for a new animator, but we’re not even toying with the idea of scrapping these beautiful background screens. (Although it was a lot of fun to re-do them retro style.)