Don't Tell Hawk!: The Unofficial Hydration 2 Devblog

Spoon Weaver · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 421 Location: @home

There's no transparency in OHR. That's most likely scripted sprite changes triggered by walking on shaded tiles. Though..... That's more impressive honestly.

Gizmog1 · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:00 am Post subject:

Spoon Weaver · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 421 Location: @home

That does explain the weird screenshot size.

Gizmog1 · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:48 am Post subject:

Tryyyyyyy iiiiiiiiiiit

http://www.rpgmaker.net/games/1223/downloads/1271/

Gizmog1 · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:40 am Post subject:

Gonna post the demo here, and see if maybe that's the cause for some of the skittishness. We've posted it to 3 forums, 2 of which are usually pretty nice for Hawk, and have gotten pretty much 0 response. Not even "YOU GUYS SUCK!". Hawk's talking like he doesn't want to keep on working on this.

So, if this is the end of Hydration 2, what's next for those lovable developers?

Hawk's making music for a semi-secret project that doesn't involve me, and I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to work on next.

Gizmog1 · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:33 am Post subject:

Rumors of the project's death were greatly exaggerated. No real news yet, but we've had a few meetings to sort out what we can improve, what we need to change, and what needs to be accomplished to finish this thing. Seems to be equal parts programming, equal parts art. [/img]

Gizmog1 · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:04 am Post subject:

What's this? A new interface? And is that Marcus actually being displayed during the battle? Remarkable! I wonder if this means someone has to draw battle backdrops...

Moogle1 · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:23 am Post subject:

I love your innovative rock-paper-scissors-brick-poop battle system.
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Gizmog1 · Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:39 am Post subject:

Pepsi Ranger · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:19 pm Post subject:

Hey Giz,

Thought you might like to take a break from Hydration 2 slavery to watch the trailer of Don't Push the Button: The Movie starring Cameron Diaz.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thebox/

They're not calling it that, of course, but we all know that's what it really is.
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Gizmog1 · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 10:27 pm Post subject:

That settles it. Whatever I do after this is gonna involve the button. I've ignored that cute little fellow for too long.

Have kinda been ignoring the forums and internet in general the past few weeks. I think Hawk wants to have a second demo out by the tenth, but I'm not sure I'm gonna keep my end up. Wasted a bunch of time on what I'd term an "Impressionistic" desert, but it doesn't look right, and hte focus should be on the sun rather than the sand anyway. Got a much better start going using Paint.net's ability to do like a percentage based dithering, though I'm still debating how exactly to do the sand. Might just reuse the maptiles.

Gizmog1 · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:01 am Post subject:

Okay, first day back on the job. Since I last posted here, I've got the battle backdrop "Good enough" for our current state of development. I used a zoom filter to give it a sense of action, while also muddying the details of my really bad backdrop sand. Been sick the past week, so things have been really slow, but this morning was a breakthrough: THREE new enemies, all of 'em pretty good. Might need a little polish, but that can come later. I think I'm gonna start working first thing when I wake up all the time, seem to be more productive. Still dodging the cave backdrop, maybe I'll put a little in on that tomorrow.