I’m currently working on a little Bomberman clone because I wanted a small project that I could finish quick-ish. Something I couldn’t overthink and overscope.
I got all the basics working: Movement, bombs, random generation of breakable blocks and some basic power-ups. So I decided to work on replacing the bomberman graphics with my own.
The first thing I did was make a little character. I decided to go with a “Mage battle” theme for this:
I then started working on the map. I’m an artist first, so I wanted to make something fancy and so my first instinct was to try and add as much as I could to make a little “scene”, maybe a river?
After some experimenting I realized that with the little space I had around the Arena, it was hard to compose something interesting while still keeping balance. So I decided to go with a symmetrical map and save the river idea for maybe a variation of it.
Next I experimented with some Arena blocks and borders, as well as some trees.
In the end I was spending a bit *too* much time on this, and I still needed to do the rest of the sprites and menus. So I simplified and this is the result so far:
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