Welcome to “Moonbug” Development Progression Log, also known as “Moonbug” Archive!

Starring MisterMC… and “Moonbug!”

Hello! And welcome to this development forum where I share my progress on “Moonbug” to Planet Virtual Boy.

This is a follow up to this forum – https://www.virtual-boy.com/forums/t/a-new-vb-game-coming-soon-from-mistermc-but-will-he-promise/

For this topic, I’m going to show you my progress to this game to either you see how far I can try, or you’ll feel interested into it.

So if you wanted to check it out often, it goes like this…

Whenever I go work on this project and saw what I’ve done with or having difficulties. I’ll share it to this topic for you to simply read, give feedback or give help.

Enjoy the archive!

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I’m on Virtual-Environment window.

I have an picture of a construction map with Moonbug here as a palette practice.

At first I’ve tried to colour Moonbug BMP file with Virtual Boy’s ingame palette, but as I convert it to map contruction, it looked very dark. (so dark that his eyes were gone to blackness)

But as I realized, the original Moonbug BMP file doesn’t need to have the exact same Virtual Boy’s ingame palette, so I’ve tried to brighten up the colours, then when I convert it to map contruction, it’ll look good and have it’s proper Virtual Boy look.

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   constructionmaptestmoonbug.png
   

Looks cool!
Out of interest: have you seen that in the VUEngine studio preview 5 there is a an image editor which takes care of such things?

VUEngine Studio Preview 5 is out

“…and the new image quantizer that runs before conversion. Previously, images had to be indexed PNGs using the correct palette. Now, users do no longer have to worry about such things. In this context, the entity editor now also allows you to create HiColor (7 color frame blending) sprites.”

(Abarth)

Thanks! It does look cool, but that’s just the beginning. As it progressed futher, it’ll look even more cooler! (I hope)

Yes, I heard about the VUEngine studio preview 5, I even downloaded it. But I was somewhat confused, because it was like an amazing advanced engine, yet with so much brilliant details that I found out I wasn’t really an expert for this yet.

So I guess I’ll start with what I call it a “beginner’s start” on Virtual-Environment. Is that ok?