Three, two, one... IT’S SUSHI TIME!

Three, two, one... IT’S SUSHI TIME!

• 20 settembre 2017
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Francesca Velenosi

Art Dictator presso CRYsoft Development

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This time, we fly to Japan! Our secret dream: my own, in particular! We're waiting for our Computer Genius to return to full-fledged work and since we just cannot stay without doing anything, in less than forty days we managed to produce a new little game! A month of work on my part, to draw the general concept art, the assets, a clean and functional interface, japanese themed icons and buttons and, of course, our mythic Sushi Master, Hidekazu Sensei!

After a rapid breafing (with coffee and cookies) we decided to mix our love for Sushi and Japan with a classical amongst puzzle games! 

The result is a fresh and funny manga-style puzzle game, apparently with a gameplay very easy to manage, but hard to master! 

Under the strict supervision of the sushi man HIDEKAZU, have a good time in realizing fast combinations in horizontal, vertical or oblique to clear the dishes on the table! Show to the Sensei your culinary skills and recreate the typical Japanese food with fish, eggs, Nori algae and vegetables. You can also invent YOUR OWN sushi and try to surprise Hidekazu. More trio you get, more combos (therefore more points) will be gained. The Sensei will gifts you with the precious wasabi, soy sauce or the delicious ginger from the Lands of the Rising Sun. Be a disciple is only the first step. Work hard, gain worthy aknowledgements by the Sensei and deal with who want steal your title on the billboard in order to become the MASTER OF SUSHI!

Available for iOS and Android!

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Three, two, one... IT’S SUSHI TIME!

DevDiary – July 2015 Skiddy teaser

“Skiddy is a product designed to simulate driving on ice or the drifting style of driving that is now becoming popular in racing. It utilizes the same Neveplast Np30 product currently used for Alpine skiing and Tubby tubing slopes. This surface is designed to have a low level of friction contact area and a slippery surface.” - Neveplast - 

Now you can challenge your drifting abilities on your smartphone! 

Hi all! This is FranzinaV, CRYsoft Development Graphic Artist and I’m here to introduce you Skiddy, our latest fatigue!

It’s been a while since we posted something about CRYsoft’s activities. The thing is we were so busy during the realization of our brand new game, that we forgot to spread the news about it properly. We are still here, working for the first time, on commission! Now we’re ready to dance with Skiddy on the new path we’ve chosen to step on.

Neveplast s.r.l. the italian creator of artificial sky slopes, entrusted us the realization of its first entry in the App’s world and as game artist and art director of myself, I am quite satisfied about it. This is an important statement since we all are hypercritical about our own work!
I have to spend a word to thank Rolling Legend first, for the way this job teached me how to free my imagination and grow in self-confidence, besides the fact to having made known our work to Neveplast’s guys of course. They agreed on the fact that my style was suitable for their project, so they decided to see what we could have churn out with a mock up. And so our adventure began with few simple slides of presentation.

Mockup for the presentation: Just a few sketches to show the potential without going into details: only colors, simple shapes and a hideous prototype kart that makes me shudder watching it now (thank goodness, this slide is not in High Res)!

 

As it happened with Rolling Legend, the focus is once again on the relationship between the colours and on the way in which they influence each other. We choose a strong colour impact; mainly primary colours and their complementary pure and “flat” which, in my imagination, they return a little the idea of old arcade games (a little bite of the “Kyoto” track, my favourite here).

Skiddy is a quick and immediate game without pretension of realism, so the style of the assets had to be very simple and immediate as well, keeping in mind that it is a 2D game! As a non game designer, I usually do not participate to the “analysis phases” and I’m not even much of a help in logistics. But sometimes I’m truly happy and satisfied when my graphic solutions support some practical options of the game itself. I’m always glad to help even when I should not :P

the “Savana” asset

Very amusing was the making of the karts. For I’m not a real designer aaand… my technical design skill really sucks! So it has been a kind of a wager to give shape and character to things never seen nor piloted, which were waiting for me, challenging me (sketch me, if you can!), from the photographs I received for inspiration.

The example of customization - from the presentation

As you can see by the video, we decided to cut short the pleasantries, and draw entire blocks of mechanical parts to facilitate the vehicle settings before the race (and by the way, it is even easier for the Code Master, to manage the kart issue this way!).

A special mention to the music. On the video, you can listen the HOME track of Skiddy, part of the OST composed and mixed by our Music Baker Cristiano “Tecnyoh” Chikikatomo… it simply Rocks! \m/

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I told you that Skiddy was not intended to be a realistic game, yet we still tried to give the impression of depth despite its being a 2D game with top view. So I drew the assets with a false perspective (any architect or true designer, could mow my hands at the mere sight of it, but my motto lately is: “To hell the perspective!” in a “gracious” manner of speaking) and static translucent shadows which integrate well with the land and the assets with a decent illusion of natural light. I hate the flatness, so the dilemma was great: I tried in every way to apply shadows to all assets but some of them had been created to return a different light conditions, to give the idea of a change in position of the source (the sun), then some shadows have warmer colors, just for this reason.

As for the logistics, and as some of you already know, we always do our best to create games and Apps with the maximum attention for details, therefore everything you see was created by us, each element has been hand drawn, from the panels to icons to the buttons.

No pre packaged assets: all made in CRYsoft!

The false perspective and the shadows :D

One more word about the special track we have dedicated to our beloved small town San Benedetto del Tronto.

A tribute that we hope will lead one day the true Skiddy, the one of the real world created by Neveplast, also here and maybe see our karts (with the special design made by us), whizzing by the sea!

Skiddy may be the nth Racing Kart Game, but don’t be hasty in judgments and classifications, I love it also for its being a borderline! The fun is guaranteed, and the challenge will satisfy even the veterans of Racing Games.

So stay tuned, the release day is approaching!

FranzinaV out ;)

Rolling Legend Official FB Page

Finally Rolling Legend has its official FB page!
Follow us to have news about JohnnyMarble and his friends; explore the world of Rollywood to discover endless landscapes in which fight against the weirdest Bosses and their strange Minions!
Don't forget to collect as many "shinies" as possible and that it's a race against the clock... will you be brave and fast enough to reach the finish line before your friends?

Rolling Legend Official FB Page

Thanks for watching and Keep Rollin'!

#imindie

Source: CRYsoftdev/DevDiary

Have you ever wondered what the word means?

Oh of course we all know the meaning of "independent", but what does it really means, feel indie?

For us it is work 16/24 7/7, be in five and do the job of 15 people, eat a lot of junk food in front of a poorly performing computer, have fun planning the next devilry, to draw or to encode. Working with passion and always having your brain in motion, even while you're asleep and, of course, it means wasting hours and hours of sleep.

But above all, it is a way of being... being a part of a community made ​​up of unique and unconventional identities, proud to belong to themselves.

For this reason we want to leave our mark, our sign, with the #imindie tag and Colorado Johnny seems the perfect testimonial to spread our message, what do you think?

Be proud to belong to yourself!

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stay tuned and keep rolling!

Monthly Showfloor - Fart

 

Showfloor

Ladies and Gentlemen, this month we'd like to talk about Fart, the friend of Johnny who most of all loves to "travel"!
He is a quiet guy, the guy with the classical motto: "don't worry, be happy!".
He loves Mexican food, especially: beans! A thing that sometimes causes embarassing and funny anecdotes of which we can't speak about, for now...
The last time he has been up on a ship during the Holidays with his friends, he went on to roll with the boat for days, without being able to stop himself... The poor one has been sick because of all this Rolling! In the end, Johnny said to him: "What are you complaining about? Are you or are you not a marble? Then Roll!..." 

From sketches to colorz :)

 

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Rolling Legend Showfloor

Hi folks!
In the past months, you have seen parading down the red carpet Johnny's friends as you would expect in a great kermesse.
A group of pranksters who knows how to stand on stage with ease, in perfect Rollywood style. It is time to reveal another character, but before that, let me show you another time the members of the gang presented so far! ^_^

So, Give a warm welcome to Sheldos!
What can we say about him? Well he is a geek, but one of the good ones that always helps Johnny during the hour of computing. He loves science fiction movies and video games, don't call him Nerd. He also loves to hunt down the last edge technology to impress his friends. His favorite movie, needless to say it is "The Matrix".

Talking about Brad, the cool guy. Beloved by the Rolling team and… by the girls! How could it be otherwise, with a smile like that!?
Although Johnny often beats him in "coolness", he doesn't mind, they have always been great friends!
He loves the competition, and faces every challenge with a sporting spirit and with his phenomenal tuft always in order. But above all, he loves to be in the spotlight. His motto?
- I'm like a bad penny, I always turn up-

And now, guess what is his favourite movie ?!

Someone once said that "men prefer blondes..." and Johnny?!
Well, Marilyn is definitely, "the blonde" and even though she appreciates very much Brad's enjoyable company, Johnny doesn't gives up (lately he is even managed to get a date).
Marylin loves to spend hours preparing her make-up, she is a real admirer of nail art and literally adore Pilates. She's never been a great movie lover as much as she loves the television series, but after met Johnny she started to appreciate in a rather unexpected way, some movies definitely out of her standards...

Her favorite quote: "When something must exit, must come out!"
 

Cleave is the earthquake, so to speak, of the group.
With his eloquence would be able to sell refrigerators to Eskimos and convince Willy Wonka to launch himself on pretzel's bussiness... His favorite subject is astronomy and Johnny, jokingly calls him "the Starman", a thing of which he's very proud!
He loves cinema to madness, especially science fiction (and how could it be otherwise!), and often his imagination leads him to wander in galaxies far far away...
He talks in his sleep and, during camping, Johnny would swear to have hearing him mutter: "The coolest, my father is!"

Here's the "sweetest" character of the wacky team of Johnny, we're talking about none other than Donut!
Our fluffy hero is the first and dearest childhood friend of Johnny since the time of Ridge Racer School for Gifted Marbles. Donut has always been a playful and also quite lazy lad, and perhaps because of his attitude wasn't well accepted by the other students. One day, Johnny found him sitting on the edge of the training track while (very sadly) he was devouring dozens of glazed donuts. Johnny looked at him curiously and said something that sounded like this: "Hey, if you keep that way at the end, you'll roll away!" For a moment they stared at each other, both quite surprised, then the two of them burst into laughter. Since that day Donut became the shadow of Johnny, following him in all his reckless adventures. Surprisingly, Donut is a really brave. He loves his sweets and never misses a chance to eat as much as possible. He loves the cinemas halls with large comfortable seats, where you can sink and eat popcorn in peace.
His favorite movie? The Lord of the Rings.

The strange and unusual -,-BGCC^_^
The most sensitive and delicate friend of Johnny... She can become very touchy and cut your head off if you dare to offend the things she loves most: her roses and her friends...
So, beware, keep your hands away from the roses if you care that your head remains attached to the neck!

The veteran of battle tracks, Sven!
He doesn't like to talk about himself, he's the Action Marble, the silent one, the keeper!
He's in love with a Queen and he doesn't even know it...
His battlecry: "Less talk, more rolling!"

Here we are to present you "The Artist" of the craziest marble gang ever seen!
Guess what is J.J.'s greatest passion? But the music, of course! He may seem a bit eccentric, even crazy, but he's just a maverick who pays no attention to form, but only to the substance! The only gang of which is at the lead is "The Rollings", his unrestrained rock group! Get ready to go crazy over the notes of his piece de resistance:
"Keep Rolling!"

May I introduce you the CRYteam?

Ladies and Gentlemen,
allow me to introduce you the craziest teammates ever seen!

This curious group of marbles, half humans, half gamers, half creatives (three halves are perhaps too many, but not enough, especially because they are half crazy too), which last year met to create the most ramshackle team of developers, is very small but it has all is needed to ensure the fun! 

This is +Alessandro the "first half" of Rolling Legend's brain; the most efficient and fussy guy I've ever met. Although he is a man all of a piece, his brain is divided into 20 and this allows him to live days of 480 hours. Don't ask me how. Every crazy idea comes by him (and Cristian of course, I'll talk about him very soon). He's also the Level Designer, which means, he tries to content me and keep up with my whims and this is something extremely difficult! :D

There's Cristian, the dark (and elegant) side of the brain. 

The Graphic Engineer... his task is not only place in the right place (a play on words ha!) all my messes and give them sense, in fact, he keeps upright the logistics and the graphics architecture of our beloved creature! As the dark side, he's always ready to conspire in the shadows, with his other half, to drive me crazy... But he's a nice guy and a very good artist, despite what he says about himself! :P

This is Aymen-Pure Architect.

He knows no other way than this one: "01100010011010010110111
0011000010111001001111001"...

You can try to describe to him the beauty of a color or the feelings that arouses you in a thousand ways, and he always will look at you as the cow looks at the passing train on the prairie! The beauty of the "01" is above all! But he's the Master of the Code! He's also a faithfull mouth of truth! And with him, the fun is guaranteed!

What can I say about our Cris (Tecnyoh) "The Music Baker"? He's a volcano! I'm proud to say that our musician rocks! Rolling Legend soundtrack rocks! Rolling Legend rocks...! Ehm... anyway... The nickname is not a mere coincidence! He churns out, fragrant, piece by piece, original music and not prepackaged assets! He and his headphones are one thing, as you can see, and they are doing an amazing job!

"And now, for something completely different" (thanks Pythons <3)...
The Hand! The labor, the low-rank manpower, even if I'm a delicate girl actually... I am the Pencil. So, if you have the urgency to insult the Art Director, feel free to talk to me! >_<

Now you can easily understand why I love being called Frandalì  (after a friend gave me the nickname for the first time), in honour of one of my favourite artists from whom I can dare to "take" only the mustache...

So, are we or are we not the most ramshackle team ever seen?

 Thanks for watching
Frandalì