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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 07:26 UTC

kobolds in space

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:53 UTC

also it may seem weird to say that i didn’t have much time but designed a bunch of characters, but i’ve been thinking about how i want them to look since i started. it was really about just getting that information down

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:52 UTC

the more i use trenchbroom the more i love it, it has everything i want a level design program to have and it keeps it all super simple. i’m not doing them this time but i’m excited to try trimsheets and nice baked lighting for my next game

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:50 UTC

i didn’t have a ton of time for the jam game today but i managed to design all of the enemies and their key poses. i’ll be spending my next day off animating them. tomorrow i need to program a couple of small things, but after that it will be level work, maybe making textures

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 05:53 UTC

i’ll be doing another test soon, but most of what’s left is just art and levels. which is good, because i’ve only got about another week

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 05:51 UTC

i got a lot done today on the jam game, but the biggest thing was working out a mechanic i’ve had since near the beginning that i could not get integrated. when i started viewing it from the clarity angle i came up with a solution really quick that made it feel better to use and easier to understand

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:47 UTC

robot!

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 07:26 UTC

jsr only uses it for larger graffiti which means it’s less frequent, but it honestly feels like an even bigger interruption because i’m never sure which ones are which, there’s no indicator for it. still though, i do like the inputs they chose at least, it really goes with the motion

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 04:03 UTC

for a game that does the same concept right check out deeprock galactic

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 04:02 UTC

it doesn’t matter what it set out to do, it’s a critique of capitalism from a viewpoint of someone who is immensely privileged by it and so wants to believe that the only thing that needs to change is something simple and individually actionable, like replacing a single person in charge

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 03:29 UTC

i think this works better for jams specifically, because nice art is sort of a luxury in jams. the most important thing is a good game, but part of a good game is being clear about what you want the player to do and what all they can do and clarity leads into art very naturally

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 03:27 UTC

there are panels you can shoot in the environment to open doors that need to be clear before you reach them for instance, so i also made some art for that. the ui is mostly done now but i still have quite a bit of clarity related work to do. one mechanic has no visual at all right now for example

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 03:24 UTC

i’ve been trying to think of ui as less of just number output and more about clarity, and just one part of clarity at that. so today i did a bunch of stuff to increase clarity, some of it is ui but it’s also about adding art that will help visually separate important things in the environment

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 01:25 UTC

"Bill!"

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:47 UTC

robot!

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 05:22 UTC

by modal switch i mean that the mode of play changes, your controls do something different than they do during normal play. in this case you have to use the stick you usually move with to input commands that fill out the graffiti

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 05:21 UTC

i'm going to complete jsr, jsrf and then play bombrush to figure out which of them works better, but i really can't imagine a modal change working better than the simplicity of futures system where you just have to hit all of the marks. maybe tho!

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 05:19 UTC

now i play jet set radio. i started playing it because i saw that in bombrush cyberfunk there is a modal switch for graffiti and i wasn't sure why they would do that, much to my surprise it was because the original jsr had a modal switch too. future didn't, and that's what i was remembering

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 03:02 UTC

i also figured out how the levels need to be built, they need to be small with lots of bends and breaks, flat for the most part but with lots of objects for enemies to stand on at different heights. it's like a weird high speed version of skeet shooting

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 02:58 UTC

i was there and i don't understand it tbh

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 02:52 UTC

also it supports 4k!

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