Update 27: Started actually crafting the very first fight in the game: The tutorial spar with Dup Stuntley, the 1st party member! #indiedev #pixelart #rpg

Update 26: Finished some lighting, Y-sorting, and tiling fixes, and noticed that the game looks a bit like how a real game looks sometimes,, neat #indiedev #pixelart #rpg

Update 25: Finished the system for econ collection! "Zorp Grower" produces these gooey bubbles of Zen, and you have to mouse over them before they dissipate! #indiedev

I know what I'm going to be using as a shader when I get to the horror game segment of my rpg #indiedev #pixelart

Shaders are awesome because even when you mess them up you get to look at some thing cool or scary

Update 24: Created a robust system for managing entity events + animations! Here's "Paul Debug" starting his walking "animation" when the player gets close to him! #indiedev

Update 23: Made enough progress on my overworld room editor to finally commit to making rooms that will be featured in the TDRPG! Here's a look at a couple rooms from the "prologue area." #indiedev

Update 22: Added an in-battle dialogue UI for engaging in conversation while killing your opponent. #indiedev

NAMBO IS RUNNING SUPER MONKEY BALL STARDUST AT SGDQ This is one of the best Monkey Ball level packs ever created, and this run is packed with absolutely ridiculous and precise stunts. I'm thrilled that this finally got in!

This week: @peterinc.bsky.social made one of those silly "fling a thing a long way" games for the Lame Jam! And won! Congratulations! petres.itch.io/ocean-bound-...

With the SGDQ Games List tomorrow, you have to remember how few people really get into the event. They accept ~200 runners into SGDQ. Compare that to the 8 billion people who live on earth? You have just a 0.0000025% chance of getting in. Might as well win the lottery

Update 21: Varial, the star, in her tower form! She shoots bullets in all directions and can sacrifice other towers. #indiedev #pixelart

Update 20: Dian, the Dynamite-Tower, in their tower form! #indiedev #pixelart

Update 19: Dup Stuntley, the Wall-Tower, in his tower form! #indiedev #pixelart

good bug

Update 18: Any towers you place during the Tower-Defense phase, will be used in the attacking phase! #indiedev #towerdefense

Update 17: The awesome part of the RPG where the numbers go up #indiedev

If I ever found out my wife glitched on me I'd be devastated

make video game

Update 16: Sprited the 1st follower you find in the story, Dup Stuntley! He's a shielding tower. #indiedev #pixelart #art

turns out it WAS true, the best game dev advice actually was to spend 6 years making a 100+ hour RPG with infinite variety

Update 15: Added the micro-game you play when you ATTACK an opponent during the battle - kill people by assaulting them with pucks! #indiedev

Update 14: Added overworld enemy behaviour; they see you and run into you, which puts you into the RPG battle menu! #indiedev

i dont know what. im doing

Game dev is really just you saying “Man I love video games SO much that I think it’d be sick if I played them 10x less than I want to”

Update 13: Started the follower system for my TD-RPG! Your chosen active follower will follow you around and offer personal insight into objects you inspect in the overworld! #indiedev

Update 12: improved the system for spawning and despawning animations, and polished the animation for the 1st tower in the game :) #indiedev #art #pixelart

I think about Mega Man Legends drawing the mouths at different angles relative to the camera about once a month.

Update 11: WIP idle animations for a tower in the game; she dance #indiedev #pixelart #art

Update 11: Tested using really ugly stand-in wall textures, wall texturing confirmed functional! The overworld now can be covered in pretty things #indiedev

Update 10: Improved the look and functionality of the explosion effect some towers have. Also added a map preview that shows what your board looks like while in the RPG menus! #indiedev #td

Update 9: Enemies can be encountered in the overworld now! Also in the Tower Defense-segment, foes and towers completely interact with each other! Stopping, starting, damaging each other, the works! #indiedev

Update 8: Made a guy who explodes. His full function will be a bit more complex, but for now all the systems are in place for future explosion guy to be real! #indiedev

For my GDQ submissions this year I'm going to keep working on my games daily so that one day they can be run in a GDQ event,

Some general fixes mostly related to the post-game of TTtM were pushed today!

Update 7: Added the score system, which serves as the de-facto hp of my TDRPG; if you let the opponent's score get high enough, you game over! #indiedev

Update 6: Replaced the stand-in sprite with my first attempt at a serious walk-cycle for my protagonist: Kiki! #indiedev #pixelart

Update 5: Fully implemented entities in the overworld, which can do a variety of things. This one is a person who's name is Ted. #indiedev

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Update 4 FINAL: The editor successfully exported the rooms and the entrances and exits work!! #indiedev

I return from a multi-day quest to make an editor that supports interconnected rooms! Lots of work has to be done to save me workload later, but the skeleton is there! #indiedev

Update 3: Fixed the overworld collision to be completely smooth when running against walls, and added economy, tower placing juice, and the ability to load several unique towers into your belt #indiedev

my first monkey ball record in 6 months! i am the first person to complete the TAS strat on this level, beating the previous record by over 2 seconds

One week until the start of LÖVE Jam 2026! Be there! itch.io/jam/love2d-j... OBEY

Today I made good and efficient code for calculating collision between enemies and bullets NO LAG! even when i summon a ridiculous amount of entities

Game#2 Quote chain is GO! Today I implemented a menu way more expandable than the one in TTtM lol It also serves as your dashboard for choosing attacking options during the "battle" state! #indiedev #gamedev

Alongside "THE BIG TTTM UPDATE" I've been getting started on my game #2: it's a big RPG with tower defense mechanics woven in. I'll be posting very frequent updates on this as my passion has never been higher #gamedev #indiedev #rpg

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Browser Super Monkey Ball now has online multiplayer! (And a few other things.) Play now!

A somewhat medium-large TTtM Update: