Megaman Unlimited Design: Showing Concepts Using Animation
107(!!!This video contains SPOILERS of the game!!!)
Since Megaman Unlimited is a video game project developed in our free time without anybody in the team having ready access to each other to discuss, people can't always be available to discuss how game objects are supposed to behave in the game. To communicate what I had in mind, avoid wasting time and allow Gab, Jansim and myself to still have fun doing this, I have animated in Flash mostly all of the enemies and bosses in the game early in development to show their behavior and at the same time, testing out my sprites as I could see them animated.
This saved us a lot of time, as Gab or Jansim could start working on game objects implementation without me having to be there to explain. Evidently, I would answer any questions they have through chat iwhen they had some. Of course later, once things were in the game, some ideas wouldn't work so well so things changed as we went. That's why the animations you'll see here are different from the final game.
This method of work is very time-saving to design game mechanics and enemies. Animating in Flash might seem like a waste of time, but it really helped us develop the concept without doing too much back-and-forth and while also focusing on our different personal lives and real jobs.
Enjoy the madness! ^_^
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List of songs used in the video:
- Devil Hunter Yohko Episode 6 - Ayako
- Viewtiful Joe 2 - Memoirs of an Invincible Monster
- Ranma 1/2 The Movie 2: Nihao my Concubine - Great South Seas Battle III: Toristan
- Saber Marionette J - Formidable Enemy 1 Dark Chaser
- Devil Hunter Yohko Episode 6 - Demon Battle 1 バトル・オブ・デスティニー
- Devil Hunter Yohko Episode 6 - Demon Battle Climax バトル・オブ・デスティニー
- Saber Marionette J - Now! Be Pure-Hearted and Fair!
- Ranma 1/2 OVA - Team Ranma VS the Legendary Phoenix - Houou Kyouhu no Kyodaika (Phoenix Frightful Gigantic Change)
- Ranma 1/2 OVA - Team Ranma VS the Legendary Phoenix - Hakai (Destruction)
- Saber Marionette J - Disturbed Cogwheels
- Ranma 1/2 The Movie: Big Trouble in Nekonron China - Kessen! Hashi no Kabe
- DeathSmiles 2X - Visitors from Hell