Assets, Assets, Assets!

Now that we have a general idea, we need to bring it into reality with the help of….you guessed it, assets! This is quite obvious, that’s not problem. The problem is where to find assets and good ones too. Which brings us to our next big part of development, the researching. Since this is a UCF course project, the professor allowed us to use any assets we can find. However, even with this freedom, we wanted to use assets that were royalty free so that maybe after we’re done with this project, we’ll upload it to Steam and what not. Who knows, but the choice is ours and thus scouring the web we did!

One of the first places we looked at was the unity store. However our theme for this game was to be a pixel 2D side scrolling platformer. We chose this because one, we love pixel art and working with 2D in a linear fashion seems to be the easiest route for us to learn Unity (as we were all knew) and have a working project in due time. We would loved to progress further in 3D but maybe after our course ends.

Now going back to where I left off, the unity asset store, while nice, doesn’t really have the assets we were looking for that could fit our player aka ninja and enemies. There wasn’t much pixelated sprite-sheets that we can use to give our player and enemies that retro look, and the ones that do costs money. And we are not about that life right now, college already got our pockets drained as is. Eventually, we had a breakthrough, as we found some sprite sheets that we liked for our ninja, behold!

This was perfect! It was exactly what we were looking for and better yet, this company also has enemy assets of the same type! It was like killing two birds with one stone.

In addition, we also came across a wonderful site that provides free sounds and musics that we can use as our assets within our video game!

Behold! (For the second time…): https://freesound.org/

Now…I am sorry but I must behold you one last time as on top of all this, we found our level assets!

I guess Unity assets wasn’t as bad as we thought 😛