Many levels have the same background, and some separate level themes use the same tileset.

Let this be a lesson to always use absolute dogshit art for temporary assets, lest one get used to them and publish a plain looking game.Īnd fifthly, some of the art has simply been reused to save development time. For example, the Hammer Toads didn’t really look like Toads the details were all wrong. But as time wore on I simply got used to the subpar art. Hopefully all this new art will make the wait feel justified.įourthly, a great deal of the game’s artwork was made with the intention of replacing it with something better later. I’ve had some setbacks, and suffered from the usual feature creep. Thirdly, a fresh look will really justify the long wait for this update. I just used prerendered verisons of the existing simplistic art. But what I didn’t do was take advantage of the image complexity allowed by prerendered art. But at some point I realised that I would need to prerender the tiles and backgrounds to get a decent performance out of the game, so I rasterised them. This resulted in many flat looks and simple shapes, as was necessary to render effectively. Secondly, I made most of the game’s tiles with the expectation that they would be rendered in game as vector art. Firstly, some of the art is just not up to the standards of the rest, leading to an overall lopsided experience. There’s a number of reasons why I’m doing this. As well as many sprites and most of the backgrounds. Almost every tileset is receiving a makeover. But this update is going to go above and beyond in that regard. I added quite a bit of visual polish with the 2.0 update, and those before it. That means it’s focused mainly improving the existing experience, rather than adding new experiences. I’d like to start by reminding everyone that this is largely a polish update, and not a content update.

It’s been quite a while so here’s an update post on the progress of the upcoming version 2.1 update for A Koopa’s Revenge 2.

A koopa's revenge 2 unblocked