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Published: 2019-06-25 09:25:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 405; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 2
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Huzzah, I got the golden opportunity to charm a mobile game company a little while ago. They gave me this drawing test where I had two days to create some assets for their garden game. Also had to set them all up in a nice little scene. Thought I'd just share the assets here, not the full thing I turned in.
I really really enjoyed making these! I was nervous about it (especially since the first half day was spent battling technical issues with PhotoShop. Now of all times, Adobe!?), but it was more fun and excitement than nerves and once I got started I loved the work! Unfortunately there are a few things I'm very displeased with. The birdhouse is the main-piece and I could have shaded it better and added more detail. Speaking of shadows, I completely forgot that all my assets were supposed to have cast shadows on the ground, so I had to quickly throw them in at the end like an afterthought, so they're not all good or even aligned properly...
They didn't allow me to use the line tool for this test, so you can imagine the time I spent on the birdhouse. Actually you don't have to imagine, 'cause I'll tell you: some 11-12 hours, which is over half of the total time spent. I wish I had been allowed to use the line tool 'cause that would certainly have saved a few hours and I could have made things even better. But oh well. The birdhouse didn't turn out completely terrible despite the lack of easy linework.
Oh and then there's the water. I messed up bad there. I forgot that I had already seen what water looks like in their game. For some reason I thought I had never seen water in-game before, yes... So I just made my own guess as to what water might look like, and the day after I turned this in I suddenly realized that I HAD seen water in-game before and it looks NOTHING like what I did! o______________________________________________________o Being able to adapt the style is obviously essential, so that one's gonna cost me.
Despite these things I was actually quite pleased with myself for getting this done. Not horrible, not horrible, ey...? Perhaps I bit over more than I could chew in an attempt to impress...?
Welp. It's been about 10 days since I sent it in and I haven't heard anything, so I'm pretty sure it's a no. I'll bug them for a reply if I don't hear anything by next Monday. They don't seem busy getting back to me, so at this point I'm pretty discouraged.
Creating assets was definitely fun though! I haven't applied at any other mobile game companies, so I think I might go and do that! After this test I know I would LOVE to paint these tiny things all day! I'll do a lot better on the next test for sure. Better time management, won't mess water up, may even be allowed the line tool (or just decide NOT to do a freakin' birdhouse again).
Whoa this got long... Thank you if you read all that.
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Dude, NICE. Cool that you took this opportunity and did so well with it. I really think these all look amazing and would make for a sweet mobile game. I hope they're just busy looking through submissions and they get back to you soon. Good luck!
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Thank you so much! Would be incredible to work for this place, but each day without a reply I feel like a lower and lower life form. But ey, gotta keep moving on, right? Perhaps I can charm another cool mobile company. Plenty of fish in the cooperate industrial puddle.
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Rejection and being ignored is haaaaard that's for sure. I'm not sure what's worse... Us low life organisms gotta stick together until one day WE'RE THE ONES WHO RULE THIS WORLD. And then we can do evil evil things like make our own mobile games.
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The zombie apocalypse should start any day now, so we'll get our chance to take over soon. So long as zombies can still play mobile games we'll have our market!
Speaking of games, ya playing Crash Team Racing yet? I got the Switch game, yeehaw! That game even made me get a Nintendo Online sub so I could race other people. And I'm getting my ass kicked. I paid money to lose every race. Wonderful.
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Bruh mobile games create zombies, that's how it all begins!
Hell yeah I'm playing CTR! IT'S AWESOME. I'm so happy with it, they did a great job. I'm still working on unlocking N.Tropy though, haha! Will take a while... I heard there's going to be more DLC characters in the future and some site said Spyro is going to be a playable character, which I'd be totally happy about if that's true!
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BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUH if they do Spyro I'd be all over that!!! No idea how he's going to awkwardly sit in a car. Perhaps they'll make a special vehicle just for him. Or better jet, no car, you just fly or super-charge through the race. I'd actually really love the super-charge, haha!
Man, I haven't even started Adventure mode yet, I've been playing the hell out of my favourite tracks in Arcade mode and unlocking a few things in the Pit Stop. The Electron Aqua paint job was glitched... Hope they fix that soon 'cause I love those Electron paint jobs. But I hear the PS4 version has some save corruption glitches going on, so they're probably busy fixing that first, which is of course more important....
Did you remember to get those early purchase skins for Crash, Coco and Cortex? I'm looking forward to more! I hope that Nitrox Edition thing isn't going to stay locked behind a paywall forever and eventually becomes free too >O>
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Have you seen how Zam drives a cart? I imagine Spyro would be like that. Although I don't even know who Zam is, haha! I don't know half the characters...
I've done a 100% adventure mode run, WOO! One day I'll go back to it and go for that 101% thingy.
I'm not sure, I got a leaflet thing when I bought the game and it has a code on it. I haven't checked it out yet because I'm lazy. Maybe it's those early skins though? I don't even know what the Nitrox Edition thing you're talking about is... I'm obvs a Crash n00b.
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Huh, that could work too. Personally I'd prefer to super-charge and ram every other player with my horns for for dem sweet chaotic lolz, but that might be because I have VERY serious anger issues 
Damn son you're fast! Then again, I guess that's what the game is about, ey? You could probably troll everyone online and become one of those bastards who steal ALL the points, lol!
Yep, that's it! I got the same thing! You gotta go to the e-shop and redeem it. I think it expires in 6 months. The Nitrous Oxide Edition (misspelling on my part, pft) is basically the Bragging Rights Edition. It comes with Oxide and his hover craft unlocked from the beginning so you don't have to beat Adventure Mode to get them. It also comes with exclusive skins for Crash, Coco, Cortex and Oxide and I think some other stuff that's unobtainable right now, but will HOPEFULLY be released to peasants later. It costs £20 more than the vanilla game and people generally agree that it's not worth it at all
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I never played Nitro Kart either. I also didn't play Twinsanity or the Gameboy game though so WHO KNOWS?
Nah I'm honestly not that good. When I play races against the hard cpu I still get beaten sometimes. On bad days they totally kick my ass, haha!
Woah, I didn't even realize such a version existed! Perhaps they'll release it with the new characters as DLC or something.
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Didn't even know there were GameBoy games... I suppose there would be and I'm just not paying attention. I tried Twinsanity once years ago, but I only got to play less than an hour at casual speed. Borrowed it from somewhere.
Get. Beaten. Sometimes. On Hard mode!? Dude, I tried Hard mode and quickly nope'd out of there. I can win 50% of the time on Medium difficulty, haha! I'm juuuuuuuuuuust starting to get the hang of the Power Slide stuff.
I hope they do! I don't even particularly like the extra stuff, but I GOTTA HAVE IT CAUSE I'M A COMPLETIONIST DAMMIT! I NEED IT TO ROT IN MY INVENTORY FOR EVER!
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You basically have to be power sliding all the time when playing against hard mode cpu. They're so fast at their normal driving speed it's insane. I like it though because it's a nice challenge, especially compared to Mario Kart where the cpu on hardest difficulty is super easy and races aren't that fun when you're winning all the time without effort.
DID YOU SEE ALL THE COOL NEW STUFF IN THE UPDATE!? I can't believe they made a whole animation with those chicken newspeople dudes to introduce it. That was a nice touch. And of course I really like the trophy girls and Tawna. I'm still working on unlocking them all. The new achievements are pretty hard!
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My dude, do you have an online subscription!? You could dominate the competition, haha! I've only gotten 1st place once (in Roo's Tubes) and 2nd and 3rd a couple of times each. (Well, actually a fair few 3rd places, but most of them were in races with only 3 humans, so I'm not counting those.) With your power sliding you'd get piles of Wumpa Coins raining down on your nitro filled a$$!
THAT. WAS. SO. SWEEEEEET. I think the chickens are from another old Crash game, but I don't know which one. As for the Grand Prix challenges...... They're awesome, but there are at least 5-10 that I know I'll never get. Come in first in Twilight Tour? I almost get lapped by the winner every time. Win Twilight Tour THREE stinking times? Ha. Ha. Ha. And all the 'online with firends' stuff? I ain't got no local friends..... How are you doing with the challenges on your end?
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Nah no online sadly. I don't want to pay for Nintendo's online. I've played on it on friend's consoles and it seems laggy and unreliable, at least in Smash Bros. I don't wanna pay for a crappy service.
The Crash universe seems a lot bigger than I realized, which is super cool! So many characters that are new to me. It's fun discovering them all! Yeah I basically can't get any of the online achievements sadly. It's a shame as well because this whole weekend you got double Wumpa coins online. There's also lots of the challenges that are too hard for me, eep.
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I get ya, it's a very disappointing service. Haven't had much lag myself, but the overall things you can do online don't seem like much for the price. Apparently I still enjoy it enough to pay for it, haha. I'm also still hopeful that some of the future games I've got my eyes on will have some awesome online stuff!
The double-up on WP during weekends is just frosting tbh. The real juice is that for the first 30 minutes of playtime every day you get 5x WP! And that's pure racing time, waiting in the lobby for a race to start doesn't count. I try to play for at least that long every day. You can get like 200 WP for not even finishing a race, lol. I think the highest you can get is 800 by coming in first on Tiny Arena and Electron Avenue, not sure.
Which challenges are you having trouble with? Perhaps I can help. I cheesed it as much as possible
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WHAT!? 5x WP? Dude. Suddenly I want to pay for Nintendo's online. Hehe, not really, but that is super awesome.
Oh man I can't even remember tbh. Some of the Pro Challenges are just difficult and time consuming, I'm too lazy to try particularly hard to complete them, haha!
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And that's on top of the 2x during weekends, so that means you get a whopping 10x for the first half hour during weekends, yayayayay! And somehow it's still not enough to buy everything you need in the Pit Stop, pft.
A lot of the seemingly difficult ones can be super easily cheesed by selecting 2 player mode with no AI and playing against no one. Stuff like driving the last lap in reverse, winning without getting hit and the Kamikaze one, etc.. That's how I got a bunch of them, haha!
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Wow. Even more reasons to love weekends!
OH MY GOSH I never thought about that. I was getting so close to completing the driving the last lap in reverse one too but I could never quite do it. It was so frustrating! You have saved me hours of pain. Thank you dear friend.
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That reverse driving thing is still quite trolly, 'cause you CANNOT let go of the reverse button. Bumping or even just standing still for a fraction of a second counts as "leaving reverse" and then you'll have to start over. Also you need to keep the rear view button held down to see the road ahead of you. I did it perfectly three times without using the rear view and it didn't count, which is REALLY cryptic! Had to look up what I was doing wrong. But yeah, some of these are gonna be a breeze that'll take a few minutes if you use 2 player mode, haha! Hope you'll do awesome!
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What? That's ridiculous that you have to reverse perfectly and use the rear view mirror. I wouldn't have gotten it even if I had managed it because I'd flick back and forth between rear view and normal view to see how far away people were. That's stupid. I would've been so mad.
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Hell yeah it is. I was so mad when I found out the view matters. At least you don't have to worry about other players without AI, but it's still super dumb! Shouldn't matter how you view the thing as long as you do the thing!
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