Frontier Planet: Half the Size, Double the Content!

I made the maps 4x as big, but what do I do with all that space … ?

Hello! This week, due to personal and health reasons, I didn’t spend much time on Frontier Planet. (I only spent 2.5 hours, compared to last week’s 6h 45m, which is more typical for me.)

In that time, I realized that making a 720p game is a bad idea. Not only do I find the art size difficult (64x64 tiles are HUGE to draw), the game maps actually seemed cramped. Plus, it looks blurry/weird on 1080p screens.

So I shrank it down to 32x32, and as a bonus, the game area is now four times as large.

Here’s the starting map (old version):

Here’s the same map resized (new version):

And the new maps look great! The energy bar looks decent. While the UI elements (buttons, panels, etc.) took a bit of an artistic hit, all my other art (except cut tree logs) were already 32x32 magnified 2x, so I didn’t lose anything.

On a side note, I’m not sure if I should continue with this project - it’s not terribly interesting to me, it doesn’t meet many/any of my goals, and it’s actually quite large. That said, I don’t know what I should build instead, so I may continue, or take a hiatus from this project, or even from game development in general for a while.

I’m still on Discord (and email), so if you want to chat, hit me up! Until then, stay safe out there!