Finished the Riceball and the Sushi, woohoo! Plus the lives counter. Now most of the stuff needed in-game is done–ah crap I just remembered I have to do the deflecting animation. Whatever, I’m close enough to being done that chunk of work to be happy haha Next up I get to finally redo that background scribble and fix up the tree and roof because they aren’t the right dimensions for the iDevice screens. Derek is alive again so this weekend he should be pumping out some cool stuff! I’m psyched! :)

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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.