#MoGiSho

[lightspiritdev]

Early evening drawings of other devs’ characters. Characters by @vampiredev and @thirdkeyofsun

A while ago, @thirdkeyofsun gave me permission to have Lore be a guest character in Project Light Spirit. You will see her if I ever return to working on the game again.

(It seems fitting for a moth to be attracted to a light spirit...)

[thirdkeyofsun]

Testing out new dialogue system that should be more flexible than my original.

[greenstack]

Lore: a lazy, wandering, deity of death.

I need to stop fiddling around with this, otherwise I’ll never get it done. (There’s a lot of things I’d like to change, but isn’t it pretty much always that way?)

Here's @thirdkeyofsun‘s character, Lore, from MoGiSho (thanks for the follow!). It’s been really fun to see how the game’s evolved over time, so I thought I’d do this. I’ll probably end up doing more fan art soon, too - it was fun and a good learning experience. (My classes just started up again though, so updates will be sparse, but that’s par for the course, isn’t it?)

[johgames]

Hi all, I mentioned I wanted do more art, no artist but got to start somewhere!

@thirdkeyofsun ‘s Lore Fan art from MoGiSho

Hopefully the first of many! 

[gnatink]

Who knew that a Death God could be a real cutie! @thirdkeyofsun is a great developer working on MoGiSho, a SHMUP with cute moth girls!

[thirdkeyofsun]

Unfinished battle animations for Nemu. There is still a considerable way to go but she is slowly getting there. (**she still animates as a box in some parts of her fight). Wings and wing animations will come near the tail end of this process.

[thirdkeyofsun]

I have started preparing the background for the next stage. It is the forest outside of the shrine gates. It is also probably haunted by wayward spirits.

[thirdkeyofsun]

I have been making adjustments to the current stage. Currently I have increased the speed of the stage itself and as a result adjusted the way enemies time their attacks and the frequency at which they attack. I also changed their health and movement speeds. The stage does feel better to play now so that is a positive! The background is still incomplete but as far as layout goes the stage is almost done. I can then move on to the next stage and worry about polishing the background at another time (likely before a demo is released).

[thirdkeyofsun]

Fleshing out Nemu’s attack phases for the end of the stage.

[thirdkeyofsun]

I set up the ‘candle lantern’ enemies in a section of stage to see how they feel. Sorry for the incomplete background work, it has taken a backseat to finishing out the enemy placement and boss battle work.

[thirdkeyofsun]

Color and outfit reference for stage boss “Ghost Eater” Nemu. I iterate over design a lot before I decide on something I really like so it takes up a lot of my time. Now to start working on her sprite!

[thirdkeyofsun]

Slowly making progress on the background art. I start by blocking out the entire stage in simple shapes the way I see it in my head. This lets me start to place enemies and time the stage encounters without having to finish the art first. I then return later to begin adding details over time and eventually the whole will be complete.

[thirdkeyofsun]

Starting to form the massive shrine gate where the midboss fight is initiated.

My PC took a dive early into the new year but I have since gotten replacement parts in and everything is back in order. Development now resumes in earnest!

[thirdkeyofsun]

Cherry blossom bud enemy animations currently being made! They are a popcorn type enemy meaning they are destroyed in one shot.

[thirdkeyofsun]

Continued stage background art. I would like to get a sunbeam effect from the trees above if possible but I am clueless when it comes to shaders lol.

[thirdkeyofsun]

I am finishing up the last few enemies that will appear in the stage. These ‘shrine candles’ become possessed by rampant spirits and attack anyone who happens to come near them.