Check Out Slashing Dragon’s PixelWorld Android Wear Watch Faces

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Slashing Dragon has been doing some refactoring on Ananias Roguelike in recent weeks, which is why we haven’t seen many updates from that project of his. However, he did recently put together and release a small app for Android Wear smartwatches:

Aeons ago, while developing the world browser for Pixal, I thought on adding a graphical indicator of the current time of the day inside the game world. Denzi then sent me something some pretty cool art, but since Pixal never saw the light of the day… that art was never used.

Some months ago I got my Moto360 smartwatch and as expected the first thing I thought of was, what can I develop for this? I did some tests and created a sample watch (Which I may eventually polish a bit more and release). But then I thought… I really need to use the sun-and-moon scenery from Pixal for a watchface!

The idea was simple, basically to show the sun and the moon cross through the sky as the day and night went by.

The current result is a bit different than what was planned, but I decided to jump on it and create something simpler; I required some additional art assets from Denzi which I could never get, and I also thought this simpler design without animation works better for battery consumption.

So, if you happen to have an Android Wear smartwatch and want to dress up its face with some delightful, fantasy-inspired pixel art, head on over to the Google Play store and grab PixelWorld Watch, for the low price of $0.99 USD.