Monster Monday 5: Wasp Attack!

Hello, I'm back with another monster sprite for you today!

So today's monster is more of a mini-monster release. Because Monday was yesterday and we had the request thread... I almost skipped this week, so I could put a little more time into a more complex monster for next week instead.

In the end, I decided to throw together a quick one for today, just because I didn't want to leave you hanging!

(The wing animation in-game is very fast and it's a different FPS than the gif, so they look kinda weird here...)

One thing that I want to do with this monster series is to remaster some older patreon monsters and include them in the final release. One of these monsters is the Giant Wasp, which I originally made back in 2018 as a regular patron post.

I thought that this would be a really simple one-- because behavior-wise, it'd just be a faster version of the bat. The idea was to have a weak enemy that would swarm the player.

So I went ahead and made a remastered version of that sprite so we could have a new enemy. But then, when I put it into the game...

Aaah! That's a bit too big! It looks more like a boss or mini-boss! Definitely not a swarm enemy!

So I quickly made a smaller variant of this sprite, and that's the one that you see in the other swarm gif above. For a better quality recording, you can see me fight a swarm of wasps in this webm.

So today's release will include both of these sprites: the giant wasp and the smaller ones. Both of them only have the one basic animation-- because the intent was for these to be really basic enemies.

The sheet has two variants-- there's an alternate animation where I deleted the white from the wings. The idea is to emphasize the blurriness of the wings when they're in motion: the trick is to make sure that they animate very quickly in-game. You can use whichever version works best for your project.

Here's the downloads:

• Wasps - Character Sheet - 100%

• Wasps - Character Sheet - 200% (RMVX/Ace)

• Wasps - Character Sheet - 300% (RMMV/MZ)

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So-- like I said earlier, this was meant to be a smaller release for the Summer of Monsters, between last week and next week, which will be more substantial.

You can think of today's wasps as a preview to show that the full set will include some fun remasters of enemies that I've previously made on Patreon in the past years.

Previous Summer of Monster releases:

• 1 - Simple Bat

• 2 - Crystal Crab

• 3 - Splitting Slimes

• 4 - Wurm Dragon

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I'll be back later in the week with something new, maybe from the new request thread. See you then.

Thanks!