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Mood Analysis
Concept Art
Sprites
Level Art
- Level 1
- Level 2
- Level 3
- Level 4
- Level 5
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Mood Analysis

Last Resort's mood is a very clear futuristic apocalyptic sci-fi(science fiction). In addition, in some levels have sad or epic tones. Obviously, as an arcade game it's made as with pixel art, and as a sci-fi, it have a very important technological theme, so the game shows a lot of spaceships, turrets and robots.

In this game we can see impressive pixel art although for the age the game was released. The atmosphere and graphics we think drink directly of its contemporary pop culture of the 70-90s.

Keeping in mind the clearly storyline of the game plot, we move to a post-apocalyptic-cyberpunk theme and if we compare the other similar games of the moment, this game contrast of the others with one awesome visual section. The plot of the storyline always happens on night and predomine dark tones, perfect to transmit the big danger wich the humanity stands on.

CONCEPT ART

We found what could be called concept art sketches on one japanese game manual pdf, nice draws:

SPRITES

The big deal, the 95% of the efforts and time of the assignment is here. We make at the start of the assignment a "howto" to work all groups together and following the same workflow to avoid or improve doubts and several problems.

You can see the how to tutorial here

And you can see ALL the sprites and spritesheets here and here

Level art

Level 1: City Wasteland

The beginning of the game, the middle of the story. The journey starts with you and your ship flying over a highway. Enemies suddenly appear to fight you, shoot them in order to get points and the chance of getting a valuable pick-up which give you weapons boost. You will get a big enemy that appears from the back rather than the sides, this enemy will take you extra time to take down. There are some harmless cars that will provide you extra points If you shot them. Once you get the tunnel, you’ll reach the first checkpoint. Inside the tunnel, the enemies will appear very quickly and it will become crowded very quickly. Some enemies will appear within the air and others from the right side. After a few waves of enemies, you’ll reach the level one mid-boss. The mid-boss is a huge tank, it will fire bullets at you and there will be other enemies that will also try to take you down. After this boss, you will have to battle more enemies until you reach the final level one boss. The final boss consists of a half-destroyed metal skeleton. His most powerful weapon is as well his weakness, an eye located in his crotch. There may be another opponent that comes with the skeleton that will support the metal skeleton.

And the tilemaps here:

Background tilemap:

MidGround tilemap:

ForeGround tilemap:

And full spritesheets here

Level 2: Flooded Wasteland

At the beginning of the stage you can appreciate how the previous stage city has been flooded and destroyed. It is raining and new enemies eventually will show up in waves. Like the previous level, you will have to fight stronger enemies and in this case are the large flying snakelike robots. These are invulnerable to your shots all over their body but their head when it opens. Before reaching the second part of this level, you will encounter a mass of enemies and more attackers. The second part consists of the city ruins where you’ll find enemies attached to walls besides the common level two enemies and small tank that shoot autotargeted missiles. Finally, the boss is a flooded trash heap that looks like an engine. This boss has a big flamethrower besides his common weapons that shoot green projectiles. Before the fight, two enemies come at a huge speed from the be behind to support the final enemy. These supporters cast grenades that follow your position and they seem to heal the boss.

And the tilemaps here:

Background tilemap:

MidGround tilemap: In this level the midground is composed by par and non pair rain particle effects

ForeGround tilemap:

And full spritesheets of background here

Level 3: Cave Lair

In this level you start in a cave, and suddenly a bird-looking enemy spaceships attack you. When you defeat them, a flying bot and a giant boat appears from behind the water. You keep going forward while fighting new enemies and this giant boat. This bot will constantly spawn bots and shot you with cannons.

When you reach land, more enemies appear around you and try to hit you and new enemy tanks and turrets keep appearing. You have to keep fighting for a while until the mid-boss spawn. This mid-boss is disc-formed and it opens to shoot you. It shoots lasers and spawns little spaceships.

When you defeated this boss, the sky turns into red and the level final boss appears. It’s a giant robot which has canons in its arms. First, you have to fight against his stage 1, this stage spawns enemies and shoots you rockets and bullets, and for beat it you’ll have to shoot him right in the knee.

The last fight of the level is against his stage 2. This stage will shoot you rockets and lasers and continues spawning enemies, and you have to shoot his eye to beat him.

And the tilemaps here:

In this level design we do not find any midground, however, it's have sea or "river" waves and so on.

Background tilemap:

MidGround tilemap: this level does not have tilemap here
ForeGround tilemap:

And full spritesheets of background here

Level 4: Volcanic Lair

You appear in a robotic cave with magma at the background. Flying robots and mechanic spiders spawns and you have to defeat them.

After a while, you’ll find platforms that open themselfs and shoot, they are unkillable so you’ll have to avoid their shots. If you shot them, they’ll close shortly.

Then, you’ll find a giant rotating ball, and when you pass throught it, you’ll start to find enemy towers.

After a while avoiding this towers, you’ll reach a moving platforms zone which you’ll have to avoid too, where the background turns into a completely mechanical wall. Then, you’ll arrive to new enemies.

When you defeat them, you’ll have to enter in a room where you’ll have to fight against a boss. This boss is cercled-form who expands vertically and shoot you bullets and homing spheres and spawns enemies.

And the tilemaps here:

In this level design also has seems to do not include any midground too.

Background tilemap: part1:

And all iterations here

part2:

MidGround tilemap: this level does not have tilemap here
ForeGround tilemap:

part1:

Part2 (boss aproximation):

And full spritesheets of background here

Level 5: Outer Space

At the start of the level, you appear in the space and quickly enemies come around. After a couple of seconds a giant spaceship appears from upside the screen and start shooting you bullets. You have to shoot the downside of the spaceship down while more enemies continues appearing. Once you defeat it, the spaceship goes down while shoots big bullets to you with its drive.

Then, you have to keep fighting in the upfront of the space ship until you enter inside it, where you have to keep fighting robots that keep spawning.

After that, you have to keep going around the spaceship until you reach the motor, that you have to destroy. Once you do that, you have to get throught a Asteroids Cloud until you get to the final boss, which is inside a spaceship corrupted by the virus completely full of enemies. The final boss seems like the virus himself. His face look like a reptile and he shoots you spreading bullets and spawns enemies.