It's been a while since I've updated Sunnyside World - other than making it entirely FREE!... But I have a few updates I'm slowly working through at the moment. These include a few small biome / weather tiles, and the major one - NEW 4/6/8-way character movement sprites.



First up, what do I mean by 4/6/8-way...  Currently Sunnyside world has a single angle for all sprite animations - a sideways angle similar to Forager, Atomicrops and some others. This meant I could create fancier animations as I only needed to create 1 version - however, it does mean you need to be a bit more nuanced with how you implement them to make sure they still look as good as  they can.

I've seen a few devs struggle to implement the assets perfectly - and a lot of you have requested 4-way sprites - so as part of the final additions I make to Sunnyside before starting something new, I want to add them in to make this as helpful a package as possible.

Normal 4-way, 'top down' or '2/3' sprites would be; up, down, left, right (like Stardew Valley).  Some fancier games might use 8-way sprites; up, up-left, up-right, down, down-left, down-right, left, right (Baldurs Gate, I think).
For 1-way you only need 1 version of each animation, for 4-way you need to create 3 versions of each animation(left&right / horizontal animations are flipped/reused for all versions), for 8-way you need to create 5 versions of every animation.

What I'm doing with Sunnyside is something in-between. By having the character's left/right sprites turned slightly towards the front, you can use them for both left, right, down-left and down-right. This means we can have something that feels like 8-way movement but only requires 4 versions of each animation! At least that's the hope. 

This is work in progress and a little way off being finished, but I've attached the Aseprite file if anyone wants to rest out the initial character movements. Completed so far are Idles, Walk and Run. Only one hair style has been finished for the character movements. None of the actions have been done yet and theres no exported assets, so you'll need aseprite if you want to export them - but this is just for those that want to test things out.

When I've finished the assets they'll be exported as gifs or png's as per existing assets. 
I've no timeline for completion but hopfully you'll see more before the end of the year!