Apocalypse #9: Merry Hero and a Happy New Year!

He was pacing up and down a dark room, the only light coming from a computer monitor. On it, a blinking cursor felt like a ticking clock. Judge and jury. He knew he had messed up.

“How did this happen?” he thought. “When did time disappear?”.

Outside they were celebrating the turn of the year but he was restless. He could feel the coming storm... three months without an update. He was the worst.

He inhaled deeply and started typing... let's appease the gods. Let's reveal the new hero.

Finally an update. What happened to the old hero?

He thought of Penny, the very human girl. How out of place she felt in the new, magical universe that was being magically created with code and electricity.

Are you referring to yourself in the third person?

He nodded as his face darkened for dramatic effect... the first attempts at updating her design failed. Miserably.

Yeah these look not good. What happened next?

It was a time of despair and sorrow. Trying to save the animation work was a shackle that had to be cast aside. And cast it aside, they eventually did.

When that happened, everything changed. The face of a new hero shined through. A hero both fragile and strong, a hero destined to fight legends. He got goosebumps.

Everything started moving faster now. Finetuning the details, sculpting the model, these were but droplets in the river of time, rushing towards the inevitable conclusion.

A hero had been born. They cried tears of joy as the screenshots instantly improved by its presence.

And then, they saw him coming alive. An arsenal of movements that's constantly expanding as a torrent of abilities and events get added in the game.

basic idle animation

run animation for a chase sequence

"That's our (still) unnamed hero! I hope you like the design" he shouted to the void and logged off. See you soon (-er than last time).

-- John K, Novel Writer