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I can’t believe in nothing just yet.

Okay but what if I tried writing music for TraumaMon that wasn’t gameboyesque? Is it too weird to have, like, strings and piano to accompany pixel art?

Still working on the basics - Pod now "snaps" to ladders when you climb - Ladders belong to their own class - Added a wallslide state - Pod can jump out of a wallslide - Unfortunately, Pod's jump doesn't send them *away* from the wall and I can figure out why #gamedev #indiedev #godot

I guess next I’ll see if I can build a little starter town to wander around in. I need to start working on scene transitions but I’m afraid it’ll break something lmao.

I just got this and I'm kicking my feet all excited to try them later.

Godot makes some of this stuff surprisingly easy. The little typewriter text was simple after a short tutorial. Anyway, nobody loves placeholder text more than me. #gamedev Font used: managore.itch.io/m5x7

Now that I have the little NPC guy moving around, I need to figure out how to get him to turn towards the main character when they interact so we can have a little message pop up. It shouldn’t be TOO difficult, I would think.

I didn't have much energy today so I spent time just using the movement system I made, but for NPCs. Just a little guy hoofing it around town. I wanted to do the message system but I was too lazy to visit a tutorial on that today.

this has turned out to be quite a colorful roster of characters so far... (wip) ( #pixelart #aseprite #gamedev #rpgmaker )

I wish being misunderstood didn’t hurt me so much. But it does.

I think I want to try and do the text system next. But that opens me up to a bunch of other questions. So I want to try and make it a typewriter effect? Do I want a little blip noise? Are we just doing ye olde Pokémon again? I think I might want text effects. So many options, truly.

I got the movement working more like Pokémon! Now taps make it so the main character just switches direction, and the movement is tile based. Y sort is nifty too. Also, here's the asst pack I used for testing purposes, in case anyone is interested in that: n3cloud.itch.io/pocket-creat...

How did I miss these notifications from nice folks leaving me comments? Omg.

map concept #pixelart #ドット絵 #indiedev #gamedev

Now that I have basic movement, it’s time to think about where I want that to go. Do I go for ye olde Pokemon movement? Do I go for something else? If so, what? So many questions in my little noggin.

I officially have a little guy moving around the screen and I got a cheap little asset pack to use as a placeholder. I’ll post a video at some point. It’s nothing special but it’s nice to make progress!

You know, maybe it was a mistake to try and take on the battle system first, given that I am just starting to dip my toes in Godot. I’ll nab an asset pack on Itch and try to just get some simple movement systems and such going. I’m positive I can handle that.

Hmmmm. Yes, I still suck at code. This is what I’m learning while trying to make this game work lol. But! One day I won’t be so bad and I can reply to this post and be like “ah yes thank goodness we’re over this hill now”

I’m really trying to embrace the whole “make it first, then make it good” mentality with this game. Like, if I can get this thing chugging to life with clunky code and dogshit visuals I’ll be happy because then I know it’s only up from there.

Side note, but I love watching little short videos about Godot and learning something new. I’m gonna understand this engine if it kills me.

Bunch of little things tonight - Kicks now go the right direction - Pod "hangs" in the air after stomping - Stomps and kicks attached to markers, not using magic numbers - Pod's deceleration faster on ground than in air - Kicks don't dead stop Pod, but start deceleration #gamedev #indiedev #godot

I’ve been thinking about the starter town in the dream world for TraumaMon. I want there to be a big hole that never goes away in the game, but the world expands around it. I want to communicate the idea that loss is something you learn to carry in life, and the burden becomes easier as you grow.

I’m stuck on Godot just making the fonts readable at a low resolution for TraumaMon lol. I get stuck on the silliest things for gamedev.

Realized my #retroredrawn stuff isn't on bluesky! Here's Route 2A from #kantoredrawn (I think) #pixelart

Hats are an optional cosmetic collectible in my game. But how do you get them? You go into this one cave and exchange tokens for them, of course. A HATOKEN, specifically. Each token is linked to a specific hat, but you won't know which one until you exchange it. #MayGame #indiegame #cozygame

I wish I had the ability to make creatures. I tried making a starter and it looks… not good. I can always use it as a placeholder and try again when I get better, but I doubt I’d be as good as a lot of the stuff I’ve seen floating around.

You know what, life is too short. I’m gonna try making a dream game in Godot that’s code named TraumaMon (yes I am doing this to be funny and YES it’s a pokemon game about loss and grief)

Been a while since I worked on this. Got a functioning double jump. Using a state machine to control it instead of nested control flow statements is *way* simpler. One line, no new variables. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

for Dungeon Freak the ui is going to be a lot simpler, likely something like this. #pixelart #gamedev

New here? I've spent the past two years making The Book of Rynn, a brand-new RPG for the original NES, inspired by Dragon Warrior I-IV! The first adventure is complete and playable, with three more planned! Free demo at sebotron.itch.io/the-book-of-... #retrogames #nes #gamedev #jrpg #indiegames

I’ve had people make pithy comments to me before about how all the games I make are about grief and to them I say… Fuck off. I’ll make whatever the fuck I want. :)

experimenting with overworld tiles. I'll almost certainly need to make my own bespoke tile editor for this. #pixelart #gamedev

I’ve done it… I’ve started messing around with Godot to develop a game. Too bad idk what the fuck I am doing at this moment

I did all the art and systems for this sequence while unemployed, before I got my current job, and this burned me out so bad holy cow. I still think it's a great foundation for a game but I have no idea how I'd juggle this with a dayjob. #gamedev #pixelart

I wonder if now is the time to go through the games I’ve made and find some common issues and pitfalls I’ve encountered among them so that I can level up my game development skills. I’ve been feeling like my work doesn’t reach its full potential and I’d like to figure out why.

Well someone made Unown Message achievements so now that game is getting a lot of attention and some people got triggered by the self-harm scene in the game. I updated the page to make it more obvious that there is upsetting content but I feel bad. I should have put a warning in the game itself.

Me: gosh I want to work on games :) My brain:

Whoever said the road to hell is paved with good intentions was onto something, frankly.

Maybe I just need to make an extremely silly game. Just honk my nose and squirt my flower or whatever the kids are doing these days.