Ukrainian game developer Andriy Kostyushko, who is working on the Threads of War project with his 12-year-old son Askold, published a game development post for World Embroidery Day. He described how he animated the destruction of enemy soldiers, one of the symbols of the Ukrainian resistance.
Ukrainian game developer Andriy Kostyushko, who is working on the Threads of War project with his 12-year-old son Askold, published a game development post for World Embroidery Day. He described how he animated the destruction of enemy soldiers, one of the symbols of the Ukrainian resistance.
Threads of War is a project that combines the mechanics of Battle City (a NES-era game that Ukrainian gamers simply call «Tanchiki») and elements of the rogue-lite genre.
«Most of the enemies in the game are tanks. What’s the easiest way to show that a tank has been destroyed? Make an explosion animation. In addition, we leave the charred remains for a while. For variety, we had to come up with other types of enemies. So we added soldiers who crawl on the ground and shoot at us with anti-tank weapons. The only way to destroy them is to run over them. But how do you depict their destruction?», the developer said.
He explained that the blood doesn’t fit the style of the game, the explosion looks illogical, and the disintegration is vulgar.
«In the end, we managed to come up with a wonderful image. Remember the video where a woman in occupation advises an enemy soldier to put sunflower seeds in his pocket so that they will sprout after his death? I took this idea as a basis and depicted the destruction of soldiers as the germination of a sunflower,» Kosciuszko said.
Threads of War was scheduled for release in late 2024, but now the game’s Steam page does not indicate a release date. Earlier, Andriy Kostyushko said that to create the Threads of War soundtrack, he decided to take famous Ukrainian melodies and rework them for the game in an 8-bit style.
Let us remind you that on May 15, World Embroidery Day was celebrated. dev.ua took a walk through the social networks of Ukrainian IT companies and collected a photo selection of how they celebrated this day.
