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The original Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age games were released back in 2001 and 2002 for the Game Boy Advance. Since then, those titles have yet to be remade or remastered. This project reimagines the game's UI elements and art within a quick, 40-second, battle screen example animation.

 

Tools Used:

Adobe Photoshop - Creating background art, sprites, and sprite animations.

Adobe Illustrator - Creating UI components and iconography. 

Adobe After Effects - Building and rendering out the full video with animations.

Font Forge - Update to the characters "I" and J" in the font Taranis.

Figma - Mapping out the flow of the battle screen.

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Fonts Used Within Project:

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Taranis

For headers.

 

Tiempo

For body content and description strings.

 

League Spartan Bold

For damage number indicators.

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All art and design is fully my own, apart from the official "Golden Sun" logo (on home page project card), and sound track and effects (included in video). 

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artifacts
artifacts
attack
attack
battle
battle
buy
buy
coins
coins
continue
continue
copy
copy
cure poison
cure poison
defend
defend
djinn
djinn
erase
erase
fight
fight
flee
flee
items
items
lucky medals
lucky medals
new game
new game
options
options
psynergy
psynergy
remove curse
remove curse
repair
repair
repel evil
repel evil
revive
revive
save
save_focused.png
sell
sell
sleep
sleep
status
status
summon
summon
transfer file
transfer file
daedalus_unfocused.png
daedalus_focused.png
haures
haures
azul
azul
ulysses
ulysses
moloch
moloch
maegera
maegera
flora
flora
coatlicue
coatlicue
charon
charon
iris
iris
zagan
zagan
catastrophe
catastrophe
eclipse
eclipse
mars
mars
mercury
mercury
jupiter
jupiter
venus
venus
kirin
kirin
nereid
nereid
atalanta
atalanta
ramses
ramses
tiamat
tiamat
neptune
neptune
procne
procne
cybele
cybele
meteor
meteor
boreas
boreas
thor
thor
judgment
judgment

More sprites (apart from what is shown) for Isaac and Saturos featured in the video, which include attack, cast, and defend states.

Isaac

Garet

Ivan

Mia

Saturos (Boss)

In the video, the layout of the battle HUD is kept mostly true to the original games. Apart from all featured art assets receiving a remake, UI components and widgets are placed relative to their original locations.

 

Almost all features were kept with redesign, with some notable features added:

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  • Damage number indicators when characters are attacked. There are two states shown, for critical and normal attacks. Replaces the passive, narrative string text in the original games to feel more relevant to newer RPGs and immediate.

  • Character shadows that move with their actions. This gives the environment a more active feel, and ties "flat" sprites within a realistically painted world. 

  • Pulsing UI replaces original fast-blinking UI widgets, creating smoother interactions that are no longer frantic. 

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More aspects of the game, such as the main menu, pause menu, and settings, will be added to the project in time. 

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