Huge update! (Pt.1 : Waypoint)

Whew! past month or so has been stressful as hell. So why let's get started on the updates! Well firstly I kind of took over as the pixel artist for the team. Nic has some family problems and stuff so yeah... I hope I can at least do something for the team (visual wise) So here we go! Firstly I thought we should have animations so that the prototype would look more alive. so.... since the last update, I have been doing quite a bit of animation :D

So yeap! This is the waypoint animation. On every island, there will be a certain amount of waypoints situated across the island. The expedition crew will then stop at every waypoint and the player can then choose their next action :D So for the waypoint, I wanted something really easy to distinguish from the rest of the environment. So i decided to give it a different feel as opposed to the surroundings. At the start I only drew the middle crystal but I felt that it was pretty empty and lacks the 'waypoint feel' so I added two little crystals floating right around the main crystal. Oh and we have 5 continents and... this greenish waypoint is actually for one of the continents (The forest one) and so we have 4 others...

Desert

Dystopian

Icy

Lava

So yeap! :D 

This is the waking up animation for the waypoint :D it plays when the crew arrives at the waypoint!

I wanted the waypoint to have some form of feedback for the player to notify the player that the crew has arrived at the location and awaiting further instructions.