Isometric - Blog Posts

Isosprites

I call em isosprites since they are isometric sprites. Off all the art in my game I like these the most, yet I never want to spend time making more of them. I guess ill get all the time in the world to make them if I can get passed this project's pre-production phase (I'm sorta close... maybe I should make a checklist...) sneaky peeky behind the scenes

WIP ui stuff

^ popups for damage context

^ new status effect badges (used to be just text) still wip

^banter boxes... suppose to give room for side comments in a way, might still be annoying to the player

^ side box for less important dialogue, maybe ill have it come out of the speaker like cross code

Jun 18, 2022

OptOut encounters. I need to add more sound effects, an alarm sound for when one of these pops would be fitting.

Jun 11, 2022

voila, house. These ones are pretty simple but now I understand what my workflow is for when I make a nutty one. The tall one needs a balcony 100%. I should make that... but then do I have to let the player onto the balcony, and if I let the player on the balcony, do I let them jump off it into some hay on a horse cart conveniently placed below the balcony? decisions decisions.

May 7, 2022

trapped chests, I want to also have a teleport chest but I need to add additional zones to implement and test that, which requires me to save the state of the scene or area streaming. Yea... I have a lot of work to do.

May 4 - May 6, 2022

New dirt path tileset, some mockups, and a door.

April 30, 2022

Chests! Normally they won't initiate dialog but inventory isn't set up so yea... I'll be real with you it's almost been a year since I put chests in and inventory still isn't set up... I got started a few days ago tho, maybe it'll be ready before this summer, fingers crossed.

April 27, 2022

Added some trees, They sway slowly so I sped up the gif.

April 6, 2022

isometric perspective was a mistake, it took me a year to draw a nice chest, don't question why they look slightly different. I'm not going to change the game's field map perspective though since iso is hot.

Development Update

Hello, I made a post on TIG just now. It summarizes some future progress that hasn't been posted here. Check it out if you feel like it.

Mar 26, 2022

Bam, isometric character controller with followers (the followers aren't all that cool and I had to make compromises, but whatever)

Nov 5 (2021) - Feb 16 (2022)

image dump, uh yea... sorry?

New Isosprites

Hello, this is Ali from the future just checking in to show off these amazing new isosprites. Now you can see Jordan and Phoebe on the overworld. Way better than Alice and her two doppelgangers. The hardest to make had to have been Phoebe tho. Her hat is nuts.

Feb 22, 2021

Time to begin a shit ton of reposting. The title is the date of the original post. If you don't want to wait for it to appear here you can try and find my Twitter. No, I will not link it for you lazy bum. I will link discord tho

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I'm Ali. This is a blog for my video game, I usually do this on Twitter but you know, rich dude wants more money. Welcome! I usually just post stuff about the game. My game is a JRPG-inspired exploration game called pearlessential. It's made in Godot Engine.

Website: pearlessential.webflow.io/

Itch: https://alkaliii.itch.io/

and since you read this far, I have an empty discord server waiting to be populated that you can find here: https://discord.gg/UZ3DCZXmr9

Not sure what else to say right now, other than be patient lol.

14/365 - crypt and the last of isometric buildings for now (I’ll do more some day ;D) 

13/365 - another render practice :)

12/365 - render practice and another isometric building, this time a blacksmith shop ;)

11/365 - fisherman house

10/364 - wizard's house

9/365 - not exactly a building but still a house :p

8/365  - I'm planning to try something new each week and for this week's theme I've chosen isometric buildings ;)