The title says it all. Each and every major boss for Belgrad: Curse of the Castle is done. Now, I’m working on adding those good little story bits. Perhaps the game will take a few more weeks instead of months to finish. …maybe. Don’t count all your chickens just yet.
…and for those of who are wondering what Belgrad: Curse of the Castle is, it’s a Metroidvania set in a castle, and quite clearly “borrows” elements from Castlevania. …the good ones, mostly.
So it begins.
It doesn't help that the three forms share parts, but not body arrangements, but nobody's perfect.
...hopefully, people will see this guy as an homage, and not as infringement.
It doesn't matter if you're drawing in pixels, by hand, or with polygons. Hands are hard to draw, period.
What do you do when one enemy type you used before doesn't show up well on your new level's background?
Draw new graphics.
It's a good thing the previous variation was already skeletal, so I can just give it skin and swim trunks.
Also not the final boss. Again, I may have gone a bit too far in a few places.
Now that the rigs for this boss are done, I'd better get around to animating them.
Meow.
Tigers are difficult to animate, especially since they have two joints for their hind legs.
Well, it kinda resembles a tiger.
No, this is not the final boss. This is the boss of the last mainline level. There's a difference.
Also, I'm so glad I can pull off stuff like this. There'll be two more forms, though.
If there's one thing I learned from looking at the graphics of NES Batman, it's that they put gray highlights with red shading to make metal look a little rusty.
I'll know if I did my job right when I get to actually making the level.
Testing out a tentacle...
Screenshots for Belgrad: Curse of the Castle
There. The hand is drawn.
...now I've got four more angles for this hand to be drawn in, then I'll copy-paste and mirror them for the other hand.
Also, I've added a timer for scoring and convention reasons.
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