{"product_id":"wardogs-pc-steam-united-states","title":"Wardogs | PC: Steam | UNITED STATES","description":"\u003cp\u003eI believe you can't make a RPG without being able to make FF6; and you can't make FF6 without making at least a dungeon and a dialog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is my attempt at making a dungeon and a dialog (two dialogs even).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was done with RPG Maker MV. My original plan was to use it as a placeholder, then replace evrything with my own assets. As you will see pretty fast, this isn't what happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI realized that making assets was \u003cem\u003ehard\u003c\/em\u003e. Took me months to make the main character, and it killed my motivation when I realized I still had to do the secondary character AND the monsters AND the combat sprites AND the weapons AND the combat animations AND the items AND the tiles. And then I could start coding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo this game has one original sprite. That's it. It's a very good one though\u003c\/p\u003e\r\nWhat I learned\r\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoing sprites takes time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou probably have to do more sprites than you think\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePixelart is great, and is probably easier to start than 3D or normal drawing. But it doesn't scale well: once you get a 3D model, every animation you make uses the same model, and cover all directions. Pixelart means you have to do every single frame of every single direction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt increases exponentially: every character you add means more walking\/running\/idle animations, for four directions, more combat sprites, more combat animations, etc. Even deciding to add a different running animation, or to add one more frames to animation is a significant amount of work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy advice: measure how long it takes you to do a frame, a tile, and take it into account when deciding how many animations\/characters\/animation per frames\/skill animations you want\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGithub project page\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Team17","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67500978241754,"sku":"10000738428","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/2953\/6986\/files\/9b42d34e15c8e1d1_34ce09a2-596e-430f-93c2-bf5416f1c512.png?v=1791290822","url":"https:\/\/altf4.codes\/products\/wardogs-pc-steam-united-states","provider":"Alt F4 LLC | Game Codes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}