Typing Hazard

Trying to upgrade my floor tile assets that dictate who can walk in certain areas. I think I like the patterns on the grates, but I'm not a huge fan of all this grey. I think I have to start looking for colors outside the default LibreSprite palette 😬

Trying to upgrade my floor tile assets that dictate who can walk in certain areas. I think I like the patterns on the grates, but I'm not a huge fan of all this grey. I think I have to start looking for colors outside the default LibreSprite palette 😬

Self-reporting into the void of Bluesky on my #indiedev #pygame hobby learning project wherein I decided I was just not going to use Tiled like a smart dev, opting for raw-ass JSON files of my own design

They mostly read like old GameFAQs ASCII maps of Zelda dungeons, or like a very visually busy NetHack level Any non-layout entities are described in a nested object format in an "entities" array, it's maybe a little disjointed but it works for me. Feels cozy and I need cozy rn

"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost."

b) upon reading this awful vision of the near-future I immediately thought of humans at their computers trying to craft a perfect reality through AI slop video games, VR headsets at the ready, and thought of the pods when Neo first emerges from his own pod, and heard Smith's diatribe in my head

"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost."

It turns out, designing levels that can't be softlocked isn't just tough af for my smooth as a chicken breast brain, it is a design constraint I'm unwilling to work with given all the time I spent to add multiple "bridge-able" tile types. So! I landed on a workaround; pay X HP, restart level

It turns out, designing levels that can't be softlocked isn't just tough af for my smooth as a chicken breast brain, it is a design constraint I'm unwilling to work with given all the time I spent to add multiple "bridge-able" tile types. So! I landed on a workaround; pay X HP, restart level

I did not realize how my #indiedev #pygame experience would change when I moved from building game systems to building the game IOW shifting from coding game mechanics to making the actual playtesting levels and discovering a new perspective from which to gage what the game needs

And yet within the same file, I have a long-winded method for assigning "goals" and "rewards" to my levels and somehow there's no central "level solved!" event to call when the level is, like, solved Too much data to describe the wincons, too little data to describe the levels. lol, lmao even

I did not realize how my #indiedev #pygame experience would change when I moved from building game systems to building the game IOW shifting from coding game mechanics to making the actual playtesting levels and discovering a new perspective from which to gage what the game needs

I assumed level design would flow naturally from those systems as long as I tested them for completeness in isolation It turns out emergent behavior goes a little beyond the boundaries I'd anticipated. What do you mean knockback + blockpushing = softlocking levels due to unexpected position changes

I did not realize how my #indiedev #pygame experience would change when I moved from building game systems to building the game IOW shifting from coding game mechanics to making the actual playtesting levels and discovering a new perspective from which to gage what the game needs

Starting on "real" levels for my hobbyist #indiedev #pygame project and I think I need to kill some darlings I already removed inventory; I roughed it in, realized it was extra and distracting for a blockpusher, cut it. Feelsbads minimal, 10/10 choice

As a hobbyist I'm not operating under a strict deadline but neither do I want this to be a perpetual project with no clear vision or end date. I could just keep everything and build forever, but eventually I'd like to make something besides this and to me that implies a certain "done" state

Starting on "real" levels for my hobbyist #indiedev #pygame project and I think I need to kill some darlings I already removed inventory; I roughed it in, realized it was extra and distracting for a blockpusher, cut it. Feelsbads minimal, 10/10 choice

On the fence big time - I want to be able to rescue/discover characters with their own abilities to allow for rooms to be solved in different ways and with different rewards. Similar to nonlinear progression in its reqs for advanced level building, haven't decided keep/cut on this yet

Starting on "real" levels for my hobbyist #indiedev #pygame project and I think I need to kill some darlings I already removed inventory; I roughed it in, realized it was extra and distracting for a blockpusher, cut it. Feelsbads minimal, 10/10 choice

This just in, hobbyist #pygame #indiedev adds splash screen and game over state to pet project