The arcade game Joust has always been inspiring. By pressing a key, it invokes a wing flap action then an upward reaction, creatively original. Also riding a bird is cool, though a dragon would had been nicer than a stork or ostirich. The game play and mayhem were just perfect; simple elegance and challenging action.

The original game holds up in fun. This remake is in reverence to that classic.

Keeping true to the original cast of characters, but a bit more fuller than the 18 x 20 pixels or so of the original sprite renderings.

The cast of characters as envision by me. At first, the re-imagining was to appear like the original arcade cabinet art but that seem too cartoony. I always seen them as "realistic". So the concepts were drew in that vain.

Each character is not created and animated in one piece, rather by anatomical segments. This approach allowed for a methodical creation and goal objective points. Also the segments can be matched up to other parts giving more variety through varying the combination for a character.

Various parts are being created, and animation sequences are underway. Though the graphics are not completed yet, coding is progressing; the movement, collision and mannerism codes are advancing. The model being used while programming is a temporary representation, it is composed of blocks representing the area that the rendered segments will be located. It gives a blocky test model but will suffice for coding the general behaviour of the character and environment.

Setup of the test environments and interactions with objects. Along with the "blocky" character are simple representatives for the lava, platforms and walls. Gravity, collisions and walking / running mannerisms being tested above. Much fine tuning when the actual graphic, sound and animation sequences replaces things.

Taking flight...key presses to initiate flapping for upward power (z axis) but still deciding on the implementation of the other directional controls. Testing different methods.