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I am making a retro video game?! – Day 1

I am having 15 days holiday this new year. After torturing myself with crazy amount of tight deadline projects. Now I can finally use this long quiet time to learn and create something that I like and enjoy. Some likes to go out and have fun. Some likes to sit back and relax. Some likes to connect with peers during this wonderful festive time. For me, I do enjoy stress-free and peaceful time alone.

Last time, it took me 3 days to create a working trading card game prototype. And 2 of those 3 days were designing the cards. So with this rate, I can, maybe, create 5 prototypes during this 15 days holiday. I don’t want to push myself too much and do 1 prototype a day. I wish I am that strong, but I am 30 now, my physical and mental health start to show sign of weakness and I am scared.

Ok so, I have been watching a lot of tutorials about this retro pokemon game on FIgma and I want to try it myself. So, I pick my japanese friend Rabi Rabi kun as the main character in this game.

For the first day, I just finished all 4 directions (up, down, right, left) Rabi Rabi animation and get a head start on the map a little.

I don’t know if I should make the map this larger or want to scale it down. The decoration part might kill me tomorrow 🙁

This remind me so much of Animal Crossing island. I spend hours painting each tile in that game. But hopefully I can get this done tomorrow so I can move to the control and movement stage.