Of course, I think you should play it!
Lessons Learned
It is a great experience to work on a project that becomes as polished as Grumpy Snowmen. I've been lucky to rapidly develop several game on team projects here at Michigan State (notably, Dust Tales in Spring 2011, Nine Lives in Fall 2011, Wave: A Rhapsody in Cantando in Fall 2011, Out of the Oven in Fall 2011, and Phoenix Friendly Fire a 2012 GGJ game), but the truth is that the development time is so short (not to mention the games are sometimes over-scoped for the time limits), that it is amazing to get this kind of opportunity for polish.
As a 2D artist this meant I was researching photos to accurately (yet simply) portray campus buildings, developing a consistent color palette, tweaking campus buildings, UI backgrounds and logos, conferring with the producer and game designer to ensure that my art was meeting the needs of the projects, and picking up tips from our programmers to ensure art could be optimized for mobile devices. I relearned how to do bleeds with Alpha channels to eliminate ghosting and started to fine tune my workflow from Abobe Illustrator to Adobe Photoshop to Unity 3D.
I can certainly confess that I learned some lessons about art for mobile devices that is going to come in handy for two current projects I cannot yet discuss.
In the Press
This project has been very rewarding, in part because of the way it is being celebrated now across campus. Here are some of the Michigan State news articles and blog entries that have been written about the game!
- MSU’s Sparty takes on grumpy snowmen in new video game
- Sparty takes on Grumpy Snowmen
- Written by Whitten: Get into the game
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