I've been working on improving the backdrop for Hensen Hopper! The way I'm doing it this time is I'm creating a 32x32 image for each texture I want, tiling it to fill the backdrop image, and using layer masks to "paint" where that texture will be visible.

Very unfinished but the backdrop image, as it is in this video, is already leagues better than what I had last weekend! I'm going to work on it incrementally over the coming weeks as I work on implementing the stages idea I talked about before!

The spider is more or less complete functionally AND artistically! I might try to update the enemy spawning algorithm before I release any new alpha builds with the spider, though. I'm on my whiteboard trying to think through that problem.

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I did get a lot more done on the backdrop yesterday, by the way! It's not finished by any means, in fact, it's quite empty and even ugly in some places, but it's beginning to come together!

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I've worked out a process for drawing bushes that I'm using for the backdrop! First I draw the branches, then "paint" where the bush texture will be, copy it's alpha to a new layer in white, then draw it's shadows in a layer over the bush layer.

I've been working on improving the coin animations for Deathly Descent! This is what I've got done so far, I still need to make the sprite-sheets for the gold and platinum coins.

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I've been working on the backdrop today! Among other things I've done, I made a bush! I know, SOOOO impressive lol.