Animation First Look

Lately a lot of work has been going on for the visuals of the game so I thought I’d share a first look of these things coming together. Our illustrator Alex has been drawing all sorts of cool stuff for the past month and new animator Aden has just begun to bring some of it…

Magic Stone?

I created this magic stone today for the RPG.  I had something in mind for it, but what do you think it should do?  Comment below or join the discussion at Spellbind Facebook or Spellbind Twitter page.

Enemies

When I started this project over a year ago I really thought I’d just make one enemy for the game and stick with that until I could get real art made. However, there’s just some game systems that are impossible to iterate on with just one bad guy, so over the past two weeks 7…

A Skeuomorphic Love Affair

Sounds juicy doesn’t it, but first let’s get the terminology straight. For those of you that don’t know, Wikipedia defines skeuomorphism as: A skeuomorph is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues from structures that were necessary in the original. Examples include pottery embellished with imitation rivets reminiscent of similar pots made of metal…

2D Skeletal Animation with Spine

Today I thought we’d talk about the animation systems that we’re using for our upcoming role playing game. The game is being developed using Unity, and Unity provides all sorts of support for 3D models, textures, and animation … but our game is 2D, so what can we do? Well, if this were 20 years…

Behold the Candelabra

This just in … programmer discovers that making art can be fun, who knew? Since most of my time is spent coding, artwork is not something I ever spent a lot of time creating myself.  Sure back in high school the design and painting classes were fun, but I never really looked further into the…