Class 63

Today I made the shotgun sprite. This sprite has always been kind of challenging because its very simple which is super easy to do in pixels, but not quite what I want. So I changed it up by giving it a tiny little stock thing out the back. Also I added lines on the stock implying it has a grip, so its a pump shotgun now. I used this random picture of a sawed off double barrel shotgun for reference. It helped me get the generic shotgun shape, which is really hard to show at such a low pixel count.

 


Then I went and talked to Justin about what we are doing, I also asked Howie if he needed help with anything. Hes currently working on some HUD for our game, that will require little mini sprites. I'm looking forward to helping him with that. That's what I will do tomorrow if he has finished the coding on the HUD. We also decided to have the character always equipped with the machete. It cuts down on some of the coding Howard has to do, and makes more sense gameplay wise.

After talking to everyone I came back and decided I could make the Shotgun better then it is, so I decided to extend it making it longer, I did this because it was kind of short compared to every other gun. Like i'm pretty certain the pistol was longer. Anyways I made the barrel longer and added some strapped on shotgun shells to the side. You know, like you always see in movies and stuff. I also made the stock a little bit bigger, because extending the barrel would make it heavier and make it *EVEN* more impossible to shoot with one hand. So adding the stock adds a tiny bit more realism then no stock at all, in my mind anyways. Either way our main character is some badass terminator or some shit who can hold a shotgun with one hand and shoot stuff. Not what was necessarily intended, but whatever. Basically he means business, whoever he is. Which leads me to my next thing, we still need some kind of story for our game, our main character doesn't even have a name.


 In case you don't understand what I mean by looking at the new shotgun sprite, here is a picture of the actual thing.