Game1, Day 52 – Revamping the background FINALLY!

So today I’m starting to re-do the background. I’m going to be modelling really basic 3d houses and then duplicating them around to create a city, and rendering them with cel-shading. Originally I was actually going to have multiple levels to the game, because having a new background, once the city was made, would just mean changing the camera angle and re-rendering, and there’d be cutscenes in-between each level. But while that’s not necessarily bad feature-creep because who doesn’t love more content/cutscenes, from a gameplay perspective I decided it would break up the flow of the style of game. Imagine if Canabult stopped every 10 seconds for a cutscene, you’d lose your rhythm and the game would have to either start again at a slow speed and ramp back up which would be boring, or it would have to resume at the fast speed you were going at after you’ve sat and watched a 10 second cutscene…it’d give you time to relax, but then throw you to the wolves as soon as the game started again.

So in the end I’m sticking with one background, though I’d like to throw in an intro/ending cutscene of some kind if I can get myself ahead of schedule a bit. Here’s a preview of the buildings:

I’m pleased with ‘em so far! Though I’m probably going to use colored outlines instead of black so they don’t clash with the foreground too much.

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