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LiquidMetal wrote:

Should I go comment on their projects asking, or have you taken care of that already?

I haven't started yet. Let me know who you notify!

LiquidMetal wrote:

EDIT: OK, everyone has been notified.  Most of these people have their newest project submitted more then four months ago (except for pokemongardevor), but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.  What do we do if nobody responds?  (At a brief glance, most of those people look very inactive.)

Thank you very much! 

I'm almost done with a newer draft of the boss battle.

LiquidMetal wrote:

silvershine wrote:

I'm almost done with a newer draft of the boss battle.

Should I stay up for it, or wait till tomorrow? 

Wait for tomorrow. 

I'm almost done with the new version, I'll upload right when I finish it.

Also, I'll be in an airplane for seven hours tomorrow, so I'll be inactive for a day or so. Sorry about that!

Finally, I was looking through my files, and I found this shadow sprite. Is this the one we made last year?

LiquidMetal wrote:

Ok, I'll check for your project tomorrow.

Have a great flight!

The shadow looks big and scary!

The one we made last year was more of a square or two, similar to the way my orbs work, which rotated a little bit.  Maybe we can use variations on this shadow for something in animation? or some sort of attack?  Or maybe not. We will see how it goes.

Anyway, I'll try to work on the force field and health bars tomorrow, and I might try fishing around the member's projects for that shadow sprite. Come to think of it, there should be a link somewhere in these 24 pages...  I'll take a look tomorrow morning.
Good night!

Good night!
I had to go to bed, so I just uploaded what I had. It's not completely debugged, so expect some issues. I also haven't completely finished adding your new sprites. 

Here it is!

See you guys in a day or so!

Hi guys, I have kind of quit scratch, so it would be great if you could replace me as the animator. Thanks. 

Alright, I'm really tired, but I'm back. And my hotel has internet.    I won't be nearly as active as normal, but I'll do my best to keep things organized.

chipguy wrote:

so now we'll finish the story up... well anyways, i cant wait to help

Great to have you back!

gerbils800 wrote:

Hi guys, I have kind of quit scratch, so it would be great if you could replace me as the animator. Thanks.

Ok, thanks for helping out! I really appreciate it! 

LiquidMetal wrote:

silvershine wrote:

PLEASE DELETE EVERY PROJECT ONLINE THAT YOU HAVE THAT IS RELATED TO BUTTERFLY TREE EXCEPT LIQUIDMETAL'S PROMO.

Well... That might make it hard to find the project with the shadow in it.

By the way chipguy, in case you didn't read rest of this page, our leader was traveling, so he was not on today.

Opps.... 

We may have to make a new shadow sprite.

I've updated the member list, and I added "make a new shadow sprite" to the to-do list.  Does that sound about right?

Okay, I may be able to help.. still pending though.  I will not have much time but I am 99.9% positive I may be able to contribute.  Extremely busy, so I may need some help! I may be able to do it on weekends (when I am not at the beach... :p) But I have 3-4 weeks of practice from 7-4 starting next week.  However, I will have downtime whenever I can find some to help! So just let me know what to do, and I will see if I can contribute in some form. I may be a little rusty...last time I did this was probably last summer. I accidently clicked scratch and saw your message so you got lucky! Haha. I haven't been on in months!!

LiquidMetal wrote:

Ahh before its too late - MKR - quick - make us an enemy shadow (boss) sprite!  I think we had a good one last year, but it might have been deleted.

Thanks!

Excuse my absence.. but I am so behind I have absolutely no plausible idea as to what an enemy boss shadow sprite is... I will look into it, however, it is midnight here so I may not get to it tonight, but possibly tomorrow... I am kinda really behind.

What should I be doing at the moment?

I suggest getting someone for the sounds - and telling me what to do for graphics.

silvershine wrote:

Sound has always been of importance to me; sometimes I'll find a good game, but stop playing it if the sound isn't right. I should clarify, by sound I mean both the background music and the sound effects.

Sound is important, but I don't usually pay attention to it, because the sound configuration is not behaving on my computer.

silvershine wrote:

The current Butterfly Tree game has music I chose a while ago, but now I don't think it fits the personality of the game. Unless anybody else objects, lets (or a new member of this collab) find new music for the main game, and some darker scarier music for the boss battle, but pay a bit more attention to it. (Granted, I made most of the sound selections for the current game, so most of this is my fault.  )

I think we should get it made, or you could make it.  If you can't, we can try to get someone who can.

silvershine wrote:

As far as graphics go, we need:

• Shadow monster
• Perfect shadow blob-things

It would be nice to have:

• Creepy moving fog/shadows
• Maybe dead/haunted butterflies? Or would that be too creepy?

I will add all of these to the to-do list and clarify which ones we don't necessarily need.

I just uploaded Butterfly Tree Graphics pack 1.1.  It includes a draft of the shadow monster graphic, and new health bars.

I can try to make fog and ghost butterflies.  Do we still have the sample butterfly project?

Last edited by LiquidMetal (2012-06-29 12:03:15)

silvershine wrote:

Instead, could you use the butterflies that are on the butterfly tree sprite?

Ok, I'll try.

If you like the shadow boss graphic I just tried to make, I can update the shadow orbs to use a similar style.  If not, let me know what would make it better - or what is wrong with it.  (eg; shakes too much? Sprites different sizes?)

Will we use the health bars? Right above each thing with health measurements (leo, boss, orb minions)? In a corner for just Leo and the Boss? Not at all?

Last edited by LiquidMetal (2012-06-29 12:17:29)

silvershine wrote:

Ah! I knew I was forgetting something! Those graphics are fantastic!!! The health bars are really cool too, I think we should definitely use them.

Thanks!    Should we use them right above Leo and above the boss, or in a corner?

silvershine wrote:

I believe we have an orb misunderstanding: I thought of the orbs as the shadow monsters bullets, and they would be shot at Leo like the black and red thing in the draft.

Oh?

silvershine, in a comment on my "graphics 1.0" test project, wrote:

I agree, they should be the minions, and they look fine for now.    I've been working on a newer version of the boss battle, and I'll upload it soon.

What did you mean by that then?

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Uploaded the latest Butterfly Tree Graphics Pack, version 1.2.  This version includes dead butterflies and two more shadow monsters - I found one in the butterfly tree project when I went to get the butterflies - It is the one I remembered.  The other one I made by editing that one a little, and we can choose the best of the three.  I might be able to scale down either of these two boss sprites to make new orbs.
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silvershine wrote:

...and they would be shot at Leo like the black and red thing in the draft.

Wait, so you knew about the black and red "thing" in the draft before I found it just now? That was the shadow boss, wasn't it?

Maybe we should use the all black version as the boss, and then scale the flashing red one for the orbs?

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Where are the dead butterflies and the fog going to go? I might try to make the fog differently depending on what will be done with it.

Last edited by LiquidMetal (2012-06-29 13:07:50)