With the basic game dynamics working, I started to add animation to the assets. Blender's glTF exporter makes exporting animations to webGL relatively simple, but there were still plenty of Opportunities For Learning (OFL) to occur. :)
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With the basic game dynamics working, I started to add animation to the assets. Blender's glTF exporter makes exporting animations to webGL relatively simple, but there were still plenty of Opportunities For Learning (OFL) to occur. :)
One challenge with working on a project part-time is the variation in the look and feel of the models created. I didn't have a good sense of whether I wanted the game to feel realistic or cartoony. I didn't know if I wanted something that felt modern or pseudo-historical. That generated a wide variation in the assets I created. But I finally found some reference images that were close to what I wanted, so I went back and started updating the assets, concentrating on keeping everything consistent.
With the basic game dynamics working, it is time to get started on the visual elements of the game. The plan is to use openGL on a browser for the interactive/dynamic elements. During the first attempt at creating a game, this was killed the project. This time, I am trying to take a structured, building-block approach. Creating the elements has, so far, been fairly simple!