Heal Pick-up

I've had a "heal 1 point" pick-up in School Rush, and I was quite happy with it. The only issue is that everybody always mentioned it as "a 1-UP". I guess when your main character is a blue ball with hands and feet, a pick up that looks like a smiling blue ball will often be perceived as a 1-up...

I've been toying with the idea of making a "blue patch" collectible (see the bottom sprites in the screenshot nearby), inspired by the red dots of CoolSpot. I did my best but ... well... it just feels wrong when I animate it. It doesn't convey proper shape or coherent motion... and adding sparkles to it didn't help either.

Quelques petits pixels que j'ai rajoutés un peu plus tôt dans la semaine et qui serviront de points de vie pour le prochain jeu de Bilou. Pourtant j'aimais bien la balle bleue souriante utilisée pour ça dans School Rush ... mais voilà, j'entends vraiment trop souvent les joueurs en parler comme "la vie". Au point que rajouter un autre dessin pour les 1-UP, ça n'aurait pas de sens.

So I went for something else, using that same blue ball as a base, but trying to get some circling drop... it's not as smooth and convincing as I hoped, but it's doing a fair job anyway. I had tried to make something more elaborated by adding sparkles, but it feels like it doesn't work: it catch the attention along a triangle that competes with the circular motion ... or something alike. I'd love to have the wayofthepixel board to ask and get advice, but those times are gone...

J'espère que vous aimez ces espèces de gouttes-de-yin-bleues qui tournent... je pense que je les ferai sans les scintillements: ils me semblent casser la fluidité de l'animation comme ils sont là.

Ce n'était pas mon idée de départ: je m'orientais plus vers des pastilles tirées de Cool Spot, mais ça, ça s'est avéré encore moins réussi ^^".