This Just In! Game Development Blog
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Hilda is one of the three playable characters in This Just In, a video game that I’m doing art for. It’s a horizontal shooter for the PC and Android, it also doubles as an RPG. Hilda is a demon, and she is the Power Type in the game. I just needed more practice drawing her because she has a pretty complicated design.
While designing Hilda, I was very inspired by Disgaea. Some of you may see that in her design.
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This Just In is a game that I am proud to be a part of. It is going to be a horizontal shooter for the PC (and Android).
Our team has recently started up on the project again; we never actually stopped but we are going faster now than ever. Since I’m done with my second comic book I have more time to work on the art of this game. Above you can see a sketch of the main character Gabby, she’s like falling or something.
The sketches below her are of one of the bosses in the game. He has a Majin-buu kind of vibe to him but this will change when I draw him more.
Here are some more concept arts.
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This will not be in the game but…
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Sketch Dump
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This Just In! is an upcoming horizontal-shooter/RPG hybrid being made in our own custom game engine. This is a low quality video, there will be a HD video in the near future.
This is a very early sample of what the horizontal shooting gameplay will look like. We have a very simple bullet pattern implemented for demonstration purposes only.
You’ll notice the health bar on the top and avatar of our character Hilda. Hilda will blink occasionally, and will flinch when she is hit by a bullet. Right now, bullets do a random amount of damage, just to show the effect losing various amounts of health will have on the health bar.
We want to stress that this is in very early stages of development, so nothing here is close to being finalized.
Our game has more to offer than just the horizontal shooting action. And we are using a newspaper front page effect to transition between different modes. Here, it happens to transition into one of our dialog scenes.
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Concept art of the three worlds of the three main heroins of the game: Hilda, Alice, and Gabby. We have big plans for these three environments so be sure to keep an eye out for them.
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Go-Go
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These expressions will be in the “This Just In” video game. She’s Alice, one of the three playable characters. The expressions will be during gameplay not dialog scenes.
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Okay, well here’s the Hilda flying animation that will be present in the current demo of the game. There will be more animations when the player moves Hilda up, down, or back. This is just the neural position. There is a good chance that the animation will change in the final game, but this works very well for now. We want to make a pretty visual horizontal shooter game.
