A husband-and-wife team recounts scoping Scales from a complex adventure to a 2D pangolin platformer, then shifting from Guacamelee-inspired art to pixel art for longevity and lower production cost. The artist sketches in Procreate and builds sprites and tilesheets in Photoshop; the programmer chooses Haxe and HaxeFlixel for a lightweight, multi-platform stack under work-laptop limits. They also cover cutting a bug shop for level goals and dropping stage-jump save complexity.
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