Alex & Arty - Restoring planet Earth · published
Hi, Gamers! RolldBox Games development team Today with Ferran, one of our Co-Founders, as well as the Game Designer and Creative Director of the studio at RolldBox Games 👋
We are continuing with our "Making Of" video series, where we show you everything behind the creation of Alex & Arty! 🔆
In this eighth episode, we focus on the Ionizer. How do we clean the pollution on Gladness? What could be effective?
We played around with the concept of "disintegrating" the pollution based on the matter it's composed of. There’s nothing better than doing it with a beam of light! With this concept in place, the next step was imagining different ways to interact with the pollution, since there are various types of slime across Gladness. Not all of them dissolve easily or equally. So, we had to figure out how many types of light beams to include, their different impacts, how to acquire them, how and when to use them, and how to clearly show that they are working... Ultimately, we came up with quite a few types (8 in total!) that we hope you’ll discover and try out in Alex & Arty, allowing you to see firsthand how we designed Alex's interaction with all of them.
It hasn't been easy—we even changed the hand she uses to hold the Ionizer! You'll see this in the Making-Of video. Why? Thanks to various private playtests we ran, we realized it was much easier to visualize the full impact if she, Alex, used her right arm instead of her left, simply due to the camera position. So, we made this small adjustment, which also meant moving Arty over to the left side.
As always, we are super grateful for the feedback we get from our playtests and for all your comments.
We hope to see you there! You can see a bit of the before and after in the video. We’d be thrilled if you gave it a watch and left us your thoughts in the comments!
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The launch is getting close: September 16th!
We will be sharing more "Making Of" chapters soon!
Don’t forget to join our Discord server. Let us know what you’d like us to talk about next from there!See you in Gladness!