It has OFFICIALLY been 1 year since the release of the first Mellow Minds game, Tomato Clicker. This post serves as a way for me to post some other behind the scenes development doodles that I never shared on my Twitter.
TOMATO CLICKER
Originally Tomato Clicker was going to be in a collection of 52 microgames (some of our future games might also have been from this collection). We had started working on another game as a class project but the development of that game was rather slow, so, one day after work I decided I wanted to release something soon and began working.
First ever sighting of Tomato Clicker
I figured Tomato Clicker wouldn't take more than a month or 2 to develop but my work ethic is fairly abysmal so it took about 5 months.
Cut Harlequin Tomato made by The Red Weirdo
I would like to thank all of Mellow Minds for helping me with the process of making Tomato Clicker that includes Ape Jones, The Red Weirdo, Octopus, and Mighty Oreo
Concept drawing for the credits before we added fan made tomatoes
The idea for the Tomato to change each click was taken from Pico Clicker by Jack. The idea for funny cartoon sound effects was just because I thought it'd be cool, originally it was going to just be a clicking sound but I thought sound effects would be more interesting.
Photo of Tomato Clickers first form
Some behind the scenes for the Newgrounds Direct Trailer. I forgot to do 1 part so we didn't end up submitting the trailer until the fairly last second. LUCKILY the directors of that direct were quite lenient on submission so we were perfectly fine.
Tomato Clicker thumbnail sketch
The rest of this post will be dedicated to various behind the scenes things but I'd like to thank YOU for either playing Tomato Clicker or reading this. Mellow Minds wouldn't be possible without freaks like you!
Accidentally made it +2 when it's supposed to be +1
Concept of the hard mode teaser (still working on the hard mode)
First sighting of the iconic "From the creators of" by The Red Weirdo
Mspaint sketch of the tomatonomicon