Today I’ve got a video of the new art actually in-game on the iPhone! I wish I had a better way of recording it besides using another iPhone but hey, you can see what’s going on haha The throwing-stars are just automatically deflecting right now to test the animation out. I’m digging how the parallax scrolling came out but we’ll probably have to tweak some speeds down the road. The animation tool has been fixed so the rain is falling vertically like it’s supposed to versus the last video where it was raining sideways haha:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JQmoHN34Bo8

Next up is redoing the HUD. No idea what I’m going to do with it exactly, I’m kind of winging it haha I want to have something that’ll be consistent throughout the HUD, menus, loading screens, etc. And, of course, it’s gotta’ have a bunch of stuff that glows!

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Revamping the HUD is going to be a pain in the butt. I don’t really have any ideas yet, so I’m just throwing down a ton of random stuff and messing around. The final HUD may not look anything like the mockups below, but I always think back to my college Graphic Design classes where for each assignment the first step was fill up like 4 giant pages of paper with thumbnail sketch ideas trying anything and everything…then you take some of those and develop them further until you end up with something you dig. So this is the first slap-down of ideas: