Pixel Pastures by James Downs
There’s a new watchface on the Rebble App Store!
Go check it out in the App Store!
Aplite screenshots:
Basalt screenshots:
Chalk screenshots:
Diorite screenshots:
Emery screenshots:
Flint screenshots:
Gabbro screenshots:
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Update alert!
James Downs just released version 1.1 of Pixel Pastures!
Release notes
- Add the ability to set your birthday in configuration for a special season display image
- Extended Latin character support for localized day names
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I was waiting on some sort of approval for distribution from the developer to make the source code public which I got so that’s up now officially.
I had to re-create the sprites quite a few times for the different screen sizes. I ended up not being able to scale anything easily because going from 2x2 pixel sizes to 3x3 would have caused Emery to be too large so I ended up chopping off a few pixels here and there. On top of playing with dithering for black and white support which came out pretty okay I think.
The smaller size font I had to do from scratch which it a lot of why it isn’t quite lined up with the larger font as far as style but I have plans around how to improve it in the future. At least now it looks close, even though a side-by-side reveals it’s a pretty different font. I made two of them because I didn’t want to figure out how to deal with fonts outside of a ttf file but I needed them to be drawn to different pixel scales (one is a height of 12, the other is a height of 16, so the pixels can’t scale up correctly for the same reason above)
Other interesting notes:
- I had to draw the clock arrow programmatically for Black and White because RotBitMapLayer causes each connected point of the bitmap to rotate, rather than rotating the actual image
- The clock hand ticks non-linearly to align with your personal sunrise/sunset. This keeps the asset looking the same as the game while still providing functionality
- The background images aren’t on the Pebble color palette at all. I dithered the black and white ahead of time but for now I just let the background be handled by the OS and I think it turned out pretty okay
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Update alert!
James Downs just released version 1.2 of Pixel Pastures!
Release notes
- Set the app locale to the system locale
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Update alert!
James Downs just released version 1.3 of Pixel Pastures!
Release notes
- Set app locale to en_US when the system locale uses an unsupported language
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