player collisions janky in that moving corner? no problem!
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player collisions janky in that moving corner? no problem!
this is why I only trust people also named Sean
we can't call it a psx because of the short-lived japan-only ps2-based dvr that sony released under the same name!!!
player collisions janky in that moving corner? no problem!
slow going on work with a sick kid at home (feeling much better today), but this cam(?) shaft is quite fun to traverse. time to overuse the concept
Making good progress on Remy's Flippin' Dungeon, now with an event system that will help you shape your runs! Always choose wisely though! #pico8 #indiedev #gamedev
It's a neat pattern regardless. Reducing a stuct to values
An inverse curry?
*gently taps* This good boi right here is the definition of "skedaddle".
learning a lot about what not to do
really wishing that at some point in the past I had written myself some sort of linkage calculator
Kill The Music is still on sale for $7.99! We're a small team with no marketing budget so if you're enjoying the game, reviews help us a ton on the Steam Algorithm! store.steampowered.com/app/3093050/...
Really just looking for a reason to use my static mesh that acts like a conveyor tech
You don't have to do anything special with the uvs? A very clever technique
it's getting elaborate again
technically two! there's an air scrabble you do by holding jump again in air that slows your descent and recharges over time. There's also a more difficult stall that involves canceling a ground pound with a dash.
I shall be turning 39 for the third time with none other than Kazuma Kiryu
buying myself the RGG collection for my birthday
I quit following a lot of news types for that very reason
I've been putting so much work into bespoke interactive elements in the level and yet "big cylinder that turns around you're meant to climb on" remains a perennial winner
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uncanny grass
if you want the game to take a whole extra year at least
I may double things up at some point but this is what i was actually working on
double vision (a bug)
Nah I've got some platforming to add and collectibles to scatter
As a pre-birthday treat I am absolutely not working on UI tomorrow.
It's my birthday. I'm 45 today. A tranny and a dyke. A persistent (although tired) human rights advocate. I'm also one of the world's best pixelartists, with 20 years of experience. Ex-Minecraft. I'm looking for studio work. If you know anything, let me know, my DMs are open.
everything about this
a guy can dream
Unrelatedly: I am fairly certain the only way to check if a dropdown is open is to check for the presence of a child of it named "Dropdown List"
Someday I will run out of jank to fix
The number of times I thought the game crashed when the game was keeping the menu open off-screen and I selected "Exit" is more than one
very funny how many gotchas I have had to overcome just to get here.
I did try it and it did not look good, I think I just need to tear another page such that it doesn't have such a wide ragged fringe
it's actually a scan of an actual piece of lined paper, I think if I made it a bit more translucent around the torn bits it might be a bit less uncanny
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Only true sickos liking posts of images of pause menu mock ups
I think this is inoffensive
more suffering of my own design? don't mind if I do!
It took me a damn week to finally separate the tutorial into its own scene so I don't have to do a movement tutorial before testing any platforming but I've done it.
productive week so far, I've been crossing things off my to-do list almost as fast as I've been adding them.
Quite a jaunty bounce!
realizing about 9/10 of the way into this that the teleport was entirely unnecessary
I swear this box was a lot bigger before I pressed that button
Ughh now you need me to tell you which way gravity goes?
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I was seeing like 10x the fixedupdate calls one frame and I knew at least enough to know that something huge and synchronous had happened the frame before, it was unity trying to cram 17mb of audio data into its mouth while nobody was looking.
@glassbottommeg.bsky.social I was pulling my hair out trying to diagnose a hitch when I remembered your ancient tweet about playing every sound silently at the start of the game to avoid hitching and you just saved me hours of work.
There are sounds missing for sure, but I'm glad it reads
Thank you! I really hope it lands well for people playing
Haha, I was more just trying to ward off people coming to say it was missing sound effects or that a transition isn't to their liking. I'm glad it works for you
posting because I'm excited. please don't tell me what you see missing or want changed, it will spike my anxiety.
I love vfds. So bright.
It's very clearly old Twitter being worn as a skin suit and has been for a good while now. There's no dignity in fighting online in the best of circumstances, let alone when it's over a smoldering husk.
Yeah I'm also not completely sold on them switching live, it was mostly for the video. I do still need to add control remapping.
there already is, I just didn't track one down for the post
Yeah the keyboard binds are kind of booty
Yeah, it's kind of just roughed in at the moment. Wanted to make sure it worked in broad strokes and how hard the technical transitions were to pull off mechanically
just in case you can't decide between a ps4 controller, an xbox controller and kbm I guess?
You need it to be there for people that need it, but understand that most people will at best tolerate it
that [missing] at the beginning was just due to it technically not having a mapping for movement on the mouse, the keyboard is an entirely different controller why on earth would we be querying that?
you can't even skimp on it, you have to make it robust, it sucks.
you would be shocked at how much of development time is dedicated to truly mind numbing, finicky things like input prompt display for exactly 10 seconds of the game.
i made a giant cartoon boulder conditionally traverse a navmesh, therefore I am pro ai i guess??
they start by asking public ai booster personae about it and then ask actual industry people as an afterthought. I also wonder if they ask their questions in such a way that they don't distinguish between "actor/traditional" ai and genai.
noooo you can't just add vertical space in your text without a newline!!! html: brbrbrbrbrbr
todo: assign some random key to boost for keyboard
It was a team effort! I think nearly every member of the team contributed at least a bit to it
and for the record I hope it is very good!
that's why I added "maybe"
It's incredibly short because we all know you just want to get into the game. The only expressly telegraphed one is going to be the ground-pound as it's the only modal one, and also the only one I've observed players never figuring out on their own.
Incomplete tutorial where we just want to make sure you're aware of all of the buttons that do things, it'll be up to you to discover and decide what they're for.
In their defense it does sound very fun and exploratory to do that except for the producer(s). I also can't blame them for realizing they have so little hope of living up to the unreasonably high expectations.
It has taken 7 years because expectations are incredibly high, they have tons of money, and metroidvanias are astoundingly heavy games to make.
absolutely love to have the air sucked out of every event with thousands of people asking "WHERE'S SILKSONG" as thousands of indies attempt to get a single moment of their attention
I can't wait for silksong to come out so maybe folks will shut the fuck up about silksong
sort of? It's an integrated tutorial just to make you aware of what buttons exist, and one further task that introduces the only modular action. the idea is the whole thing is under 3 seconds if you want it to be.
the last step in this is going to be the real magic trick
it's much bigger on the inside it seems
same, I'm glad they kept a lot of the feel from that in the steam deck
shuffling through a box of cables, searching for a sata cable, I hear the cheerful boot sound of a steam controller hidden somewhere under a pile of junk and sigh.
Not the best timing since it's Gamescom but hey.. it's out!
what's in the box
some quick screenshots ! 🤗 #Gamedev #LevelDesign #Unity3D
This came out of an incredibly productive standup
hitching a ride
only work I spoil is my own!
Someone just shared a pretty rad piece of fan work with me, I won't spoil it, but they nailed it.
babadababadababadababada wheeeee
This will be more or less just me posting a link to join it here, so don't worry about not being cool enough (unless that means you're not gonna be nice to folks in which case sit this out please)
I'd honestly been looking for a reason to buy it, so it's a win-win regardless. Glad you like it!
Many of them are licensed from the Hanna Barbera library
get back to work drew!!
craig making me have to add a whole 'nother system just to make the pitch go up because it worked so well in the dub mockup
"new sounds day" is always nice
I'll just be posting a link, not going to be playing favorites.
might need to reopen discord invites to start with a smaller group