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Monday, January 18, 2016
DevDiary – January 2016 MatchYS and... the sense of life
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Hi everybody, this is Alessandro (and Francesca by the way :D) from CRYsoft Development and this month I would tell to you what's in the Schrodinger's box of our next year.
In the last few months we speak very little on these pages about WHAT we are really doing. Some of you could had read about our next project throught our Facebook e Twitter accounts but this time i wouldn't speak only about MatchYS or development at all.
Many things have happened since this July, some of them have literally changed our way of being, well, US ..
I don't wanna to annoy all of you speaking about the "why" (it'll be too long and it doesn't concern our work itself, but the way we do it), but this speech is about the "what" is changed. First of all we changed our approch to development starting from how we think to it because, although we're all indies and this is really exciting, we have other jobs in our lives. No, this isn't our main job. We do it with all the love we can infuse into it cause we love it much more than our main jobs, but we need "real money" into "real life" to pay food, monthly bills and any other needs. We basked a little in the illusion of being able to disrupt our lives overnight, but now we're back with our feet on the ground. We are ready to make a difference, a realistic one.
Second, we changed our team a little. We met an incredible 3D digital artist on the road and together we'll realize our next step into development: we'll deliver to you new incredible, fun overload and visual jaw dropping games! Yeah, we have just started to brainstorm some really cool games we're going to develop into 2016.
Last but not least we changed our way to think at games themselves. Don't worry, we don't want to destroy the concept and ideas that many of you like. We speak about the general experience that you will have with our next games. It started with Skiddy, we created an essential interface, a fast pacing control system and a much more immersive gameplay without adding unnecessary buttons or complex instructions. You start the game and you enjoy yourself drifting with karts in just few taps. So be yet!
I will not bore you further then i give the floor to my young and eclectic padwan Francesca who will speak to you of our next project to come: MatchYS and maybe something more...
Hi! This is Francesca, now it's my turn to take the floor and introduce you the design of our new project. Indeed Alessandro made an excellent overview of what have been our most important changes within the team, especially of our new gamedev philosophy and I'm happy to intervene to tell you about our project, a pressure puzzle game set in Pauly's bedroom (Pauly is the little star of the game), who will have to tidying up his toys scattered all around, before his Mom come back! It will not be a simple game of pairs or aligning of objects in order to completing the levels; there will be surprises to make the gameplay more attactive and entertaining, with situations and characters which will bring confusion during the game. But about this we'll speak in a more detailed way later.
For now, I will focus on the graphics, which is also my area of expertise, starting by the style made in CRYsoft 100%. We thought of a very colorful graphics as it is our custom by now, very simple minimal and vintage inspired, from the logo design (which refers to the old game of wooden cubes with imprinted letters that helps children compose the first words), to the characters as Pauly for which I took inspiration by old advertising 50's style.
This time we handled the interface, according not only with aesthetics but mainly according with logistic issues, making it completely modular and subdivided in such a way that the elements are manageable on any type of device (although we cannot vouch for the thousands of types of screens and resolutions offered by Android devices :P).
As I mentioned earlier, there will be elements that will bring havoc throughout the game, to enliven it and make it less repetitive and fun, tien we've created the characters that will interact with the player during the game. So Terence, Pauly's little brother, won't wait anything other than entering the room and put it in a mess! If this happens and Loretta comes in for an "inspection", there will be trouble!
As in other pressure puzzle games, time will be important to complete the levels and the "distracting elements" will help to vary the gameplay with their bonuses or maluses. The toys are the protagonists, with various categories from the type, by the colors and the materials they are made of. Recognize them in the heap won't be easy, but with a trained eye, the fun will be assured. Below there are examples that explain how to recognize objects based on their categories.
All of the toys at first sight are extremely colorful and chaotic as you can see in the image, and they are defined so as to have a wide range of objects to play with. We choose the primariy and secondary colours so as to have the main ones and their complementaries exalting each other. The variety of the objects is such that you will have many combinations and difficulties, thanks to the categories of the materials they are made of! We trust that MatchYS will be different from other Pressure Puzzle Games for its spirit and its setting; the mood is always what you would expect from CRYsoft: colorful and light-hearted, just as its members. There have been many changes during the year that has just ended, and lots are the projects that will keep us busy, while MatchYS is in the expert hands of our heroes Aymen and Alessandro. This year will be LITERALLY a bestial for us... from the feathered ones to the most mischievous, not to mention a certain "dirty dozen" that will involve you in a dirty work... but I do not want spoil the pleasure to discover more... I assure you there's lots of things to talk about, but not just yet!
We achieve our dreams, step by step among new and old friends and talking about old friends: there will be surprises for our little Johnny Marble and his gang!
So stay tuned and may the fun be with you 
(sorry... I couldn't help it)!
(sorry... I couldn't help it)!
Francesca and Alessandro out
Thursday, November 19, 2015
MatchYS drafts: Horatio
This is Horatio (some drafts), Pauly's best friend!
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He's the "oh-play-with-me-all-day-long" kind, so it is difficult sometimes obey to Loretta and make tidy the room while this huge fur ball is around! I named Him after my favourite character of the Crime Drama CSI: Horatio Caine... this is a play on word only for italians, 'cause in italian language the word "Caine" sounds very similarly to the word "Cane" = "Dog"
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Friday, November 13, 2015
MatchYS: Starting a new project!
A little preview of CRYsoftDev's new project... I'm the solo artist once again!Emoticon heart Emoticon upset
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
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!
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)!
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.
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.
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.
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| 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 ;)
Saturday, May 16, 2015
CRYsoftdev's brand new Logotype & about Skiddy
It's been a while since the last time I posted in my own blog!
The thing is that we were so busy during the realization of our brand new game Skiddy, that we forgot to spread the news about it...
With Skiddy we embarked on a new path, since our projects on Rolling Legend as a console game are still fresh on our minds and we're waiting to start, we worked hard on a new game on commission: Skiddy for Neveplast® to be precise!
So we thought to give a radical change to our previous life as group and teamwork.
First step was the restyling of CRYsoftdev's logo, reviewed in its colours and shapes, but with the same soul of the old one.
The second step was not a change of style neither a change of direction or purposes.
We will always devote our brains and our efforts to create smart games with clean and simple graphics and music but in more lighthearted mood, thus we decided to accept every challenge and also work for others!
So we started to design Skiddy about six months ago, with Neveplast®'s advices and worked on it for two and half months. A very smooth, clear, and fast job... the best clients! They knew what they wanted, always confronting with us with sense and intelligence! I accepted the challenge and I really had fun in drawing it, even if I'm not good with technological or mechanic things :P
So what comes next is the release of the game on the App Store first. It'll be available for Android and WP afterwards.
More details to come in the next blog entry!
The thing is that we were so busy during the realization of our brand new game Skiddy, that we forgot to spread the news about it...
With Skiddy we embarked on a new path, since our projects on Rolling Legend as a console game are still fresh on our minds and we're waiting to start, we worked hard on a new game on commission: Skiddy for Neveplast® to be precise!
So we thought to give a radical change to our previous life as group and teamwork.
First step was the restyling of CRYsoftdev's logo, reviewed in its colours and shapes, but with the same soul of the old one.
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| CRYsoft Development Logotype 2011 |
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| CRYsoft Development Logotype 2015 |
The second step was not a change of style neither a change of direction or purposes.
We will always devote our brains and our efforts to create smart games with clean and simple graphics and music but in more lighthearted mood, thus we decided to accept every challenge and also work for others!
So we started to design Skiddy about six months ago, with Neveplast®'s advices and worked on it for two and half months. A very smooth, clear, and fast job... the best clients! They knew what they wanted, always confronting with us with sense and intelligence! I accepted the challenge and I really had fun in drawing it, even if I'm not good with technological or mechanic things :P
So what comes next is the release of the game on the App Store first. It'll be available for Android and WP afterwards.
More details to come in the next blog entry!
For now, enjoy the prototype of the Home screen!
Stay tuned and do not forget to keep Rollin' ;)
CRYsoftdev's brand new Logotype & about Skiddy
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