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☆Heartbeater project

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Overview
HeartBeater is a project I worked on with four other people in my final year of university. This game is a bright and bold beat-em-up side scroller, where you play as the “Cupid of the Month” and defend your title from your jealous co-workers. I worked on the character design and animation for HeartBeater.
I was the Art Lead, 2D artist and animator for this project, and was therefore responsible for not only the character designs, but the creation of the animation sprite sheets as well as the game and studio logos. For a one-semester project, I am very happy with what I was able to contribute to the project.

Character Design
My main inspiration when designing our characters came from games like Guilty Gear/Monster Prom, which have diverse rosters with unique personalities and character silhouettes. I wanted our characters to be visually interesting and easily recognisable while still sticking to our bright and bold "visual feast" game design pillar. When it came to clothing design, we wanted our cupids to be flashy, girly, but also bold and powerful, with each character having their own unique theme and colour palette.

Character Design

My main inspiration when designing our characters came from games like Guilty Gear/Monster Prom, which have diverse rosters with unique personalities and character silhouettes. I wanted our characters to be visually interesting and easily recognisable while still sticking to our bright and bold "visual feast" game design pillar. When it came to clothing design, we wanted our cupids to be flashy, girly, but also bold and powerful, with each character having their own unique theme and colour palette.

Logo Design
for our logo design, we wanted something cutesy and kitchy, very pink and eye-catching. I played around with a set of colours and shape ideas before settling on our final designs.

Spritesheets
this was my first time animating and formatting sprite sheets. there were many iterations before this one that included a lot of resizing and reassembling. I ended up making three spritesheets for the final iteration of our game: one for our mc, one for the boss and one for the minion.
when it came to the animations itself, I went through a lot of iterations as I was learning while animating. I wanted to emphasise the weight of our characters' weapons and attacks, as playfeel is very important to me both as a consumer and producer of games. I want the player to be able to feel the power behind every button that they press.

☆ about

name : Jix.
age : 22.
pronouns : they/any.

Hi I'm Jix, an australia-based 2d Illustrator and game developer who draws mostly fan art and sometimes OCs. I am currently a uni student studying game design at RMIT. I'm a big fan of video games and spend most of my time either gaming or drawing. Your support is appreciated, and thank you for checking me out!
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business email: [email protected]