Turning Handmade Clay Sculptures Into a 2.9D Indie Game 🎮 | Solo Dev #indiegame

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Hey y'all. Today we're doing a little
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unboxing or technically unbagging of our
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homemade aird dry clay sculptures. These
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are going to be physical base materials
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for some of our future 2.90ish character
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experiments. First, we made this basic
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humanoid body. Our creatures normally
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have increasingly unreasonable anatomy,
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which is fun until you introduce them to
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conventional character rigging systems.
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And the computer basically says, "What
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is this?" So instead of spending days
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finishing another character before
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discovering that the pipeline hates its
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bones, we are building a simple humanoid
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test body first, we can study
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proportions, joints, and movement, test
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our rigging workflow, and then gradually
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mutate it back into our own creatures,
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and then remember the peanut boat. Well,
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we haven't actually opened our game
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engine for a while because we've been
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concentrating on building the assets and
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figuring out the pipeline. But I've been
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thinking, what if the peanut boat
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permanently becomes one of our sea
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transportation vehicles? And that brings
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us to another problem we've been trying
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to solve. Sprite sheets. We want our
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handmade 3D characters to eventually
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live inside a 2Dish game world. But I
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also don't want to manually redraw every
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single animation frame. Imagine we
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eventually have 50 characters and even
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just 20 basic movement frames or poses
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for each. That's already 1,000 character
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images. And our universe is not getting
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smaller. So, we're experimenting with
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what I'm calling our Squirreling Street
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2.9D pipeline. The basic idea isn't
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magic, and we're certainly not the first
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people to render 3D characters into 2D
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assets. There are already clever
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workflows where creators animate a
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character in something like Blender and
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render or capture those poses into
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sprite frames. RPGs, pre-rendered games,
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and VTuber style workflows also give us
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lots of interesting ideas to study, but
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we want to build our own version around
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our particular creatures. physical
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sculpture, 3D model, rigged character,
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reusable animation, controlled camera
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and lighting, 2D sprite output. That
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way, we're still designing and sculpting
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our own characters, but we don't have to
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redraw the same body hundreds or
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thousands of times just to make
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everybody walk around. And because our
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characters refuse to have normal
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anatomy, apparently, we also need to
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figure out approximately 17 ridiculous
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workarounds along the way. That's the
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experiment. Not press one button and
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make a game. More like build one
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reusable system so our handmade work can
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travel farther. Eventually, we'll bring
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the peanut boat, our creatures, and all
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these increasingly questionable
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sculptures into the actual game world.
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And maybe you'll even experiment
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alongside us and invent your own
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ridiculous pipeline. Anyway, see you all
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in Squirrelink Street. Admission
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requires one sufficiently sweet soul to
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pay the toll. Hava.
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See you.

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