Jack is one of the cat pirates prisoners, extremely gentle and kind. Despite his strength and size he refuses to fight and is overly nice to his captors. He helps give the player quests and companionship throughout the level.
2019-07-27 14:54:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Using Ashlees concept art to test some of Fantoccios various expressions on his 3D model
Elsdon is a cat smuggler who works with the cat pirates. He is a neutral party and is self serving. He will sell the player goods and act as a merchant in the cat pirate hub
2019-07-08 22:21:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Ellinia is a new character reveal! The deer are deeply connected with nature and live in tree house cities in the woods. The Princess, Ellinia and her brother (to be revealed) use magic to change the seasons. Here's a speedpaint of her creation process
2019-07-08 22:08:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Aristotle is a magic wielder, they take Billie on as an apprentice after recognising her as a the daughter of their old departed friend, Arthur.
Magic is a force of nature in this world, similar to electricity in ours. However, learning to channel and use this magic has so far been near impossible, until now.
2019-07-07 14:00:00 +0000 UTC
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A costume concept for our pirate themed world, concept by Ashlee Ortiz
2019-07-06 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Lily is extremely shy and suffers with social anxiety, but finds herself at ease with her best friends, Lou and Billie.
Inspired by Psychonauts, goats will have their own lives inside the hub world and will change position and dialogue between each mission. Here's Autumn!
To save on workload all goats share the same mesh, rig and animation to Billie. We use a similar system to "My Little Pony" and swap out textures, accessories, eye shapes, mouth shapes, ears, horns and tails. We would like to also add different...
2019-07-05 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A references for Billies height difference compared to Fantoccio, used to make sure our animator has the correct scale before animating
2019-07-04 13:15:40 +0000 UTC View Post
We try our best to develop each minor character with their own backstory and life beyond Billies. Here is our local shop keeper with his children, making flower wreaths for a lost loved one. Art and concept by Ashlee Ortiz
2019-07-04 01:45:54 +0000 UTC View Post
A character study drawn by Ashlee Ortiz for the villain, Fantoccio
2019-07-04 00:33:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis video will demonstrate our newest features you can expect in this demo as well as known bugs! :)
2019-07-01 22:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I will be contacting people who have unpledged or lowered their tier with unique codes so they can access the June build!
Watch the change log in video form here: https://youtu.be/8jDNV9lGUoY
Change List:
Original video was missing the ending, reuploaded with the rest of the content, apologies for the delay and bug!
Accidentally said it was the May vlog and not the June vlog in the video. oops! This week we cover:
Accidentally said it was the May vlog and not the June vlog in the video. oops! This week we cover:
Brand new version of the Billie Peak a Boo mug, you can use this to print your own merchandise via websites like redbubble. The file attached is for personal use only, do not redistribute or sell for profit.
2019-06-20 20:23:14 +0000 UTC View Post
attached is pdf HD print for personal use
2019-06-08 16:53:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Some finished concept art for a boss battle between Elaine and Billie, will provide HD 300dpi versions for 5$ tiers for personal prints etc.
2019-06-08 16:49:08 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the harder challenges with Fantoccio is his poncho, animating it could be quite time consuming. We're currently experimenting with Unreal Engines clothing physics options, here's a quick test. The textures are placeholder and are usually used to quickly test the UV unwrap
2019-06-08 14:32:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the HD psd files for the pride image! feel free to use on your own personal merchandise but do not redistribute or sell, also comes with Billie blank flag so you can easily edit and add your own pride flags
Art and sketches all provided by Ashlee Ortiz!
2019-06-07 12:46:12 +0000 UTC
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Currently experimenting with UI concepts as we work on the shop and dress up system, although a minor part of the game I believe a lot of players will enjoy customising their Billie and Oscar throughout gameplay.
You can change skin/texture colour with paint buckets (think neopets), add accessories, eye colour, and potentially change horn and ear style too!
2019-06-07 12:32:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Ashlee designed an adorable travelling merchant character, an alpaca! Our newest patch will include a prototype store front for players to buy goods, outfits and more, here's a quick concept I made for our programmer, James, so he knows how to set up the interface.
Different goods will alternate out each day and each store front will sell exclusive items based on their location in the world.
A merchant from the hub world that sells exotic wares!
2019-06-05 14:39:20 +0000 UTC View Post
An alternate design for the dragon concept, in the direction of east asian dragons. Below is the older design that took more inspiration from western dragons.
For Billie to enchant her umbrella to use magic she will need to use rare ingredients from magical beings. Dragon scale, Kraken Ink, Griffin feather etc.
The dragon is very well spoken and hoards information by sitting o...
2019-06-05 13:12:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's some concept art for Fantoccios stage, a character we want to focus on before the Kickstarter. With every level we wanted to try something new and innovate, give each level its own personality. For this post I want to share the concept around Fantoccios level, along with some art and puzzle ideas, this will also be the first time we use the spoiler tag! For those who want to enjoy the game spoiler free:
Fantoccios level consists of changing theatre props, scripts, outfits and sets and mixing and matching these elements to create new "shows" and platforming sections. Fantoccio will work with the player and force you to act alongside him. Due to his huge ego he plays every role (except Billies) and dresses himself up accordingly. Here are some sneak peaks at some of the outfit designs Ashlee has made for him!
Here's some concept art of the WIP characters, the Reapers (working name). They transport souls to the underworld, this WIP level concept will take some inspiration notes from Luigis mansion.
The characters wear masks over their faces when they are working
These wonderful designs and concep...
2019-05-22 14:37:40 +0000 UTC View PostThis is last weeks update! If you have already downloaded this via the launcher this is not a new update. New update will be soon :)
Please download this via the itch launcher! This will support automatic patching, all future updates will hopefully be done via the new patching system, this will make it a lot easier for us to do more frequent bug fixes and updates!
Change Log
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