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PAX Recovery

PAX Recovery
I decided to purposely take a lot of time off after PAX, and this included posting on my blogosphere. I think I can still hit my goal of 12 posts of something or other this month, but four straight days of PAX ended up being more draining than I thought. I think I'm back and ready to rock for real though, so I'll start with a quick recap of PAX.

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So I was able to set up a small demo station of Super Sky Sisters at PAX at a friend's booth. There was no big banner or fireworks display or anything, just me and a TV and two controllers. Sometimes I had a chair to sit down in!

I was fairly nervous about people playing the game but more confident than I ever have been. At this point the game is pretty far along and my real test was to see if people would understand what was going on without me interfering. My main goal for PAX was to see if I could in four days of constant play testing with new people playing the game all the time, and by that measurement it was a pretty big success.
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Posted September 19th 2016 6:56 PM (General)
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Dev Log: Sky Sisters Webzone

Dev Log: Sky Sisters Webzone
With PAX coming up I finally got around to throwing together a quick website for Sky Sisters. It is nothing close to anything fancy, but it will have to do for now!

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Along with the website you can see that I've finally made some sort of logo for the game. I tried a bunch of different designs with halos and wings and the angels themselves but after all of those attempts I settled on just having a simple text logo with a bubbly cloud looking style. Also I think the font I used for "Super" is the only font in the universe that can be used for writing "Super."

Okay now for real I am finishing getting ready for PAX...
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Posted August 29th 2016 4:22 PM (General)
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Dev Log: Menu Polishing

Dev Log: Menu Polishing
Something that popped up on my task list recently was redoing the menu backgrounds in Sky Sisters. Someone in my twitch chat recommended that I do something with the menu backgrounds as they were still using the old cloud background that I had made way back at the start of the project.

When I first started this version of Sky Sisters I made this cloud background that used a fancy shader and did all this cool fading in and out stuff but over time the more I looked at it the less I liked it. I got a lot of feedback that it didn't really match the rest of the game, so I redid the background for the gameplay but left the old sky background as the menu background.

It ended up only taking me an hour to replace the background with something that looks a little bit more like the rest of the game. I also went through and added some typewriter effects to the big chunks of text in the menus so that everything seems a little bit more dynamic.

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The code for this animation on the text is actually really simple thanks to Otter's RichText class.
if (text.String != textBuffer) {

    text.String = textBuffer.Substring(0, text.String.Length + 1);



    var lastLetterTyped = text[text.String.Length - 1];

    Tween(lastLetterTyped, new { ScaleX = 1, ScaleY = 1 }, 30)

        .From(new { ScaleX = 1.5f, ScaleY = 1.5f })

        .Ease(Ease.ElasticOut);

}
And with that I'm now preparing to head out to PAX West. If you're going to be there make sure to say hello! I think I'll be showing the game somewhere near the Indie Mega Booth if it all works out. See you there!
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Posted August 29th 2016 12:40 PM (General)
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Dev Log: Story Arts

Dev Log: Story Arts
Just a quick update with some art from the intro of Super Sky Sisters!

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Working hard on getting stuff together for PAX!
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Posted August 25th 2016 11:49 PM (General)
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Dev Log: New Title Screen

Dev Log: New Title Screen
The old title screen of Super Sky Sisters wasn't really doing it for me anymore. It was one of the first things I did when figuring out the art style, and after the game evolved more and more over the course of a year, it just didn't fit anymore. I wanted something a little more dynamic, and maybe a little artsy fartsy? So here's what it looks like now.

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And when you press a button it does this:

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Hey pretty cool! Now it looks all dynamic and stuff, and I even have a new logo.

I'm getting to the point where I can't remember if I've already done a blog post on something or not... I'm basically working a lot on the game and not really remembering to do blog posts, so hopefully I don't accidentally double up on something!
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Posted August 22nd 2016 10:09 PM (General)
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Dev Log: Cutscene Stuff

Dev Log: Cutscene Stuff
Here's a quick preview of how the story scenes work in Sky Sisters!

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Just continuing work on getting all these dang images done. Oh, and there is a chance I'll be showing Sky Sisters at PAX! So now I really have to make sure everything is squared away by then.
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Posted August 17th 2016 1:35 PM (General)
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