{"id":55720,"date":"2022-09-21T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/?p=55720"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:38:34","slug":"arac-day-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/arac-day-03\/","title":{"rendered":"ARAC Day 03"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A log of today’s activities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. printed from Juan Sketchbook HiRes
    1. tiff files<\/li>
    2. 41 images<\/li>
    3. ganged in Preview print dialogue box<\/li>
    4. 9 images per sheet (layout)<\/li>
    5. Premium Matte Paper (printer setting)<\/li>
    6. nominally 200% scale (preview setting)<\/li>
    7. Kozo paper 18″ x 12″ (Arch B)<\/li>
    8. created custom paper size<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
    9. printed random pixel art from Juan & Beanstalk 2004
      1. colors are off, maybe because enlargement?<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
      2. printed Juan Valdez single frames
        1. PNG files<\/li>
        2. 33 images<\/li>
        3. ganged in Preview print dialogue box<\/li>
        4. 9 images per sheet (layout)<\/li>
        5. Premium Matte Presentation Paper (printer setting)<\/li>
        6. nominally 1500% scale (preview setting)<\/li>
        7. Kozo paper 18″ x 12″ (Arch B)<\/li>
        8. blacks are a little off, maybe because enlargement(s)<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
        9. pinned printouts to studio wall<\/li>
        10. want to find the other sketches<\/li>
        11. Lunch break<\/li>
        12. Learning from Chris Totten
          1. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=emt7BYTBYqI<\/li>
          2. Level Design prototyping in GB Studio (2021) (01:19:22)<\/li>
          3. rationale for prototyping in 2D, with Zelda BOTW as case study<\/li>
          4. rationale for GB Studio in particular (constraints are helpful)<\/li>
          5. “tool for creating (homebrew) retro RPG towns… quest system available right out of the box… block pushing puzzle built in… quest-based, puzzle-based mechanics built-in and available right out of box)<\/li>
          6. Sample project available on itch.io (using v2.0 beta)<\/li>
          7. started demo build with sample project GB Studio 1.0 which is flattened birds-eye POV like Zelda III<\/li>
          8. His game, Kudzu, has combat systems in addition to RPG elements.<\/li>
          9. shares quick demo of Aseprite to make tileset<\/li>
          10. shares quick demo of Tiled to make environment map<\/li>
          11. within Tiled, setting up new map, orthogonal orientation. Fixed 160 x 144 pixels is the stock gameboy window, multiples of tiles (8×8), 20 x 18 tiles for one screen, can then multiply, e.g. 40 x 36 is 4 windows (2×2).<\/li>
          12. load tileset which will behave as a palette. (I’ve experimented with this last year. I haven’t yet dropped the experiment into GB Studio.)<\/li>
          13. shows experiment with repeating pattern for forest creation, 32 x 16 pixels, then another with caves…<\/li>
          14. 36:00 discussion of export as image and ideosyncracies of UI ritual to export at the right size. Make sure view within Tiled is zoomed at 100% so export doesn’t infer a different zoom level intent.<\/li>
          15. back to GB Studio, notices that scenes in UI are like passages in Twine so scaffolding possible (explore further).<\/li>
          16. paints collisions onto an imported image of a map<\/li>
          17. demos the trigger UI, and explains the script “on trigger change scene” which will necessitate some “light” scripting in the Inspector UI on right had side of window.<\/li>
          18. lots of manipulation of variables are needed… he prototypes NPC interactions with triggers and dialogue options. He has — partially — cleaned up the logic that comes with the GB Studio template shell.<\/li>
          19. gets rushed at the end, seems this was a GDC master class from 2021. <\/li>
          20. sigh.<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
          21. Have been simultaneously finding and copying “Juan game sketches” folder full of files from Storage disk to laptop.
            1. placed into \\Pictures\\Fajardo, Rafael game art\\<\/li>
            2. copying .pict files that have no extension into a .tiff format where possible.<\/li>
            3. could not make this conversion
              1. Preview opens .pict images w\/o extension<\/li>
              2. can save as .pict with extension or as .pdf only.<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
              3. PNG: used macOS Quick Actions (control+click file to bring up contextual menu) to convert. .png was my only option, and could retain original size and original metadata.<\/li>
              4. converted (made new copy of) 27 files from PICT to PNG denominated “Juan Sketchbook 1” – “Juan Sketchbook 27”<\/li>
              5. <\/li><\/ol><\/li>
              6. Peter Milko pixel art tutorial, also on YouTube
                1. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mNGnQMPUFxw<\/li>
                2. works in Aseprite<\/li>
                3. how do we decide face size? 16 x 16 pixels<\/li>
                4. want to have some margin for hair details so 14 pix max height<\/li>
                5. at about 5 minutes in he starts sharing theory of composition to promote perception of cuteness (kawai)<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
                6. Print the 27 images onto Kozo paper, there are some inconsistencies in size or pixel density. I used the same techniques I did this morning. I made another custom paper size for Arch B including 0.25″ margin all around so it doesn’t default to borderless printing.<\/li>
                7. Juan Sketchbook 1.png has an upside down thumbnail?<\/li>
                8. The copies of these files that I printed at home may have been converted in Preview on a much earlier version of MacOS, and so may be TIFF files on that machine (basestation)<\/li>
                9. Pinned up the printed images. They improve the feng shui.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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