Hello friends, The last couple of weeks I've been busy drawing pain and death animations for my samurai hero. Once again it became painfully apparent how slow this process is for me. This made me decide to focus on key-frames and use as few in-betweens as possible. By using different duration on different frames and adding some easy in-betweens I still think I can achieve somewhat decent animations. What do you think? There will be four different pain animations and at least

In my last blog post I showcased some of the audio I’ve been working with for my upcoming game 13 RONIN, now it’s time for graphics. But first a celebration. The 4th of October is a day dedicated to the cinnamon roll here in Sweden (yes, it’s true), which we, of course, celebrate by baking, buying and eating lot’s of (you guessed it) cinnamon rolls. Since I’m a fan of the pastry myself, I happily took part in the celebration. But I also had another reason to celebrate. From O

Ester (Eraserhead Animation Editor) is a new tool I've build that will make it easier for me to describe what different animations a spritesheet contains and their different characteristics e.g. how long each frame should be displayed. I can then export the description, as a json-file, and then together with the spritesheet load it into the game and use it to set up my "in game" animations. This is how Ester looks with a spritesheet loaded and one animation created: I'll easi

Here in Stockholm it's been unusually hot and dry for this season of the year and I'm quite convinced that the pharmacies have broken a new record in anti-histamine sales. Last night we were finally blessed with thunder and rain and today the air is cool and nice and the pollen gone. I've sneezed quite a lot the last couple of weeks but I've also done some coding. My primary focus has been building an animation framework for use in intro, cutscenes and background movements an

If I ever was going to write a horror story involving a blogger it would be a Kafkaesque tale about a developer trying to make a decent site using WIX and in the end discovering that the WIX-editor is possessed by the devil. Cool, right? No. Why? Because it's a true story. Anyways, the site with the new hopefully nicer looking and easier to use design is published. I still have a couple of unresolved tickets at the WIX-support, one being the home page automatically being rena