GD Combat Clip and Backdrop Drop!

Yo! I've been grinding away all weekend on something really cool.

GD's core combat system is programmed in and playable-- even though I still have a lot of polish to add. Here's the video, check it out: Link to MP4 video (with 🔫combat and 🎵 sound!)

...but of course, this isn't a dev-log for my game, this is an assets page, so check it out:

Battle Floors and Battle Backdrops

This game project is a perfect opportunity to look into something that patrons have requested for a long time: the battle backdrops. In programing this combat, I needed to put together some background art and I did it by cobbling together the environment tiles into a static image.

(It's not the first time we've played with this idea, although the art quality has certainly improved since then!!)

Here are the ones that I use directly in the video above, I made them to match the Coral Caverns biome you see in the video (it's made up of these cliffs and this coral grass, alongside some odds and ends from the Elements caves set).

The backdrop is a two-part image, with the floor layered over the wall. The idea is that we'll be able to mix-and-match different battle-floors (like grass or other terrains) with different background walls (not just cave walls, but backgrounds such as skies too).

You can download these here and give them a try in your project:

• Battle Floor - Coral Caves

• Battle Backdrop - Coral Caves

Of course the formatting would depend on your engine; these aren't made for a RM-standardized size, and benefit from being contained by the combat-UI, so if we continue with a full set release for multiple biomes, I imagine that it'd include size variants. I'd be interested to know what sizes and formats would be the most useful for assets like these.

Let me know what you think about the idea, and if it'd be worth it to share more battle-backdrops like this.

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By the way, the victory jingle in my video up there was made by my buddy Bert.

One day if I get a sick full budget, maybe I can hire him to put together a soundtrack. In the meantime that short jingle will have to do-- 🙈 or maybe I'll just pillage his audio asset backlog.

I told him that I was gonna share the video because I wanted to flex his work and link back to him, and he put together a code for his patron page for if any of my patrons are looking for music: "I just made the code. If people enter FBB at checkout they can get 25% off their first month or first year of support."

Bit by Bit Sound on Patreon Check out a fellow indie's stuff.

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In the meantime-- that's it for today and it looks like it's the end of the month.

I'll be back later this week with the end-of-month wrap-up and then kick off the new request thread. See you soon.

Thanks!