Kryptic Studios: Star Dancers Dev

I feel like there's a lot of wasted potential in having space COMPLETELY or mostly empty? Why not have its own ecosystem and life? Mobs and behavior will change based on the Star Type visited. Pls forgive the super simple placeholders. 😅 #Coding #Godot #StarDancers #Indiedev #solodev #gamedev

I may or may not have slept well the past few days because my brain was like "You know what? Screw sleep. You need to work on weapons or I'm going to make you feel like a failure for no reason." Thanks brain, I guess? #coding #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #indiegame #StarDancers #Godot #pixelart

Here's the current "Charge" weapon concept, plus a placeholder 'ariel' type enemy that wandered into view so functional planetary combat preview I guess? IDK, I was too lazy to re-record it. #coding #StarDancers #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #pixelart #Godot #indiegame #HammerTime

I've been drafting out weapon mechanics for a while and recently had time to start cobbling them together. I'm STILL fine tuning classifications, but here's the current concept for the first type of weapon. #coding #godot #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #StarDancers #indiegame #pixelart

Past few days have been a blur while I've been getting feedback from my latest #StarDancers release, but in-between playtests and notes I've been working on the game's Mob system! But now I must sleep. Goodnight @everyone! #coding #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #solodev #godot #indiegame

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Whenever I get messages on Discord I just aggressively advertise my game to them until they either block me or I get bored and start ignoring their replies. I usualy hate pushing ads, but for scammers that morality just flies out the window. tenor.com/view/james-l...

I recently finished a game jam with a team of people, which we unfortunately got disqualified for accidentally breaking one of the jam rules due to something we missed in the last moments of the jam, but I'm still pretty happy with how it turned out! revmagames.itch.io/gold-diggin-...

Me: *Finishes the current test/stability build of #StarDancers and announces public playtest this Friday and swears to take a break until then.* Also Me: "What if I started working on mobs?" #coding #gaming #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #pixelart #Godot

The new testing build of Star Dancers: Seeds of Eternity v0.0.12 is FINALLY finished, and should be ready to release October 2, 2026! I could TECHNICALLY release it now, but I want to schedule play tests on release and that's my next day off from my real job. 😅

Biome detection and background swap framework is in place. I plan on having more dynamic backgrounds later down the line, but that's a WAY future me problem. My current hyper-fixation has been elsewhere (cough cough #Valheim), so progress has kinda slowed. 😅 #coding #gamedev #solodev #godot #indie

I have no idea what caused this bug yet, but once I do I'll probably implement it as an actual feature later down the line. Loving the vibe here. #coding #bugs #gamedev #happyaccidents #solodev #indiedev #godot #StarDancers

Death just didn't feel 'deathy' enough, so I redid the whole death sequence. #coding #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #gamedev #godot #StarDancers

That's a fair point, satisfied players don't request refunds either! Legit tho, I love this. 💕

Started to put a checklist of things I needed to add before the next release and noticed it started to sound more like a threat than a to-do list. Dead players can't request refunds. #StarDancers #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #meme #funny #gamedevelopment

I've been working on the Star System Map, adding in sounds and transition effects. Sounds are a mix of different paid and free packs, and they likely won't stay, but it gives off a general feel I'm going for. #coding #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #StarDancers #Godot

I've made a LOT of progress on #StarDancers over the past year, so before I get TOO ahead of myself in development I've decided to pump the brakes and polish up a rough development build to get some feedback before continuing!

Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens, I Hate Doing UI But This Menu's Bitch'n. 🔥💯 Spent the past few days hyperfixating, trying to impliment as many QoL improvements as possible without it being overbearing. #coding #godot #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #StarDancers

I'm trying to keep everything as simple and intuitive as possible. Gonna organize it based on alphabet, rarity, material type, and crafting station next. I had a similar system from another project I made, so I just cleaned it up and ported it over. #coding #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #StarDancers

I'm revisiting the crafting system, you guys have any tips, ideas, or sins to avoid before I get too far into it? I've got an idea of what I want to do, but I'm not the one who's going to be playing this at the end of the day. 😅 #coding #godot #StarDancers #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

I've mad a LOT of graphical improvements to my game recently, but visual progress is probably going to slow down again while I refine new and old systems and prepare for another test launch. There's a LOT of backend stuff that needs to be done beforehand, but I'm still pleased with recent results!

Ores not only lights up 50% more than it's host block depending nearby lighting, they also sparkle now. Eventually you'll be able to craft accessories to make spelunking even easier! #coding #godot #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #StarDancers #gamedevelopment

At one point while tinkering with the trees, I noticed that they weren't spawning as often as they should despite the Print logs telling me they were. Apparently 3/4 of them were spawning in the planet's (horrendously unfinished) core, whoops. #coding #fail #StarDancers #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

I've been sharing #StarDancers for a while and it seems like a fair amount of people are interested in the progress. After I do some optimizations I might spiffy up my #Discord server for people interested in chatting about the game while I develop it.

All of that work I spent on Galaxy Generation at the start of this project is starting to finally pay off. A lot of this was fairly plug and play, outside of the atmospheric fog and eclipses. It's slowly starting to look like an actual game now. #coding #godot #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

The last preview image was BAD bad, so here's an update of the day/night cycle in MUCH better quality! I should really consider some form of quality control. 😅 #coding #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #StarDancers #godot

The GIF sucks more than the world's current economic balance, BUT I finally implimented a basic day/night sky system! I'll grab a professional editing software eventually, but not today. 😅 #coding #godot #solodev #StarDancers #indiedev #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegame #indiedev

I'm lazy as hell, so instead of drawing background walls, each exposed wall piece combines parts of their block-tilesheet to generate new background tiles. This was a nightmare to put together, but so worth it. #coding #godot #solodev #indiedev #gamedev #StarDancers

Finally got auto-mining prioritization working. I tried doing it a long time ago, but finally came back to it after my two braincells collided for the first time in eons. #coding #indiedev #gamedev #godot #StarDancers #solodev

So I WAS going to have a better animated player for Star Dancers, but I QUICKLY discovered why #Terraria does their animations like they do. Unlike Terraria though each limb is it's own layer, with only 1-2 frames each. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #coding #StarDancers