Well I just came down with something and now I feel awful. Gonna have to take it easy for a bit. #nofeed

Experimenting with a new ground pound behavior which makes it similar to the uppercut (but in the opposite direction). It is a good thing this is not purely a combat-oriented game because these two abilities are ridiculously overpowered against flying enemies now.

Orbo's Odyssey is now $1.74 (a whole 65% off) for the Winter Sale! It's been a rough year financially so spreading the word definitely helps!

Testing a new mechanic and enemy for the sugarland zone. Very satisfying to watch! Probably going to want to change the spritework for one of these tilesets though. #gamedev #indiedev

Decided to take an old bassline sketch and noodle over it yesterday... and it very rapidly evolved into a whole thing. This is already working in-engine! Here's the "cave" variant, with extra echo and wider duty cycles. ... at some point I have to name these, don't I? #chiptune #nes

I HAVE A DEMO! You can finally play my weird little retro-ish metroidvania thing! If you have a couple hours to spare, feedback, bugs, etc would be greatly appreciated. #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev chaos-kid.itch.io/dreamscape

By the way, random little music tip: re-pitching your music slightly is a great way of hearing it anew! It's sort of like an audial canvas flip, and it's also helpful for just preventing fatigue.

Wanted to share this cute little room from the forest area. These bonsai trees serve as checkpoints, and if April idles by them for long enough, she'll hop up and sit on them.

My game Scrabdackle releases TOMORROW, Dec 2nd!! I've been trying to explain what it is for years - here's my final attempt before launch. store.steampowered.com/app/1578720/... #videogame #indiegames #cutegame #animation

Player script has almost three thousand lines of code now. Combined with everything else, I've probably at least reached five thousand at this point.

Very close to being able to put together a demo for Dreamscape, a chunky pixel art metroidvania I've been working on since the start of this year. It'll have 3 explorable zones, 3 abilities to collect, and a boss fight, all set to a chipfusion, vaporwave influenced soundtrack. #indiegame #indiedev

The soundtrack I made for CHAOS MAZE is on YouTube and Bandcamp! Made with ReNoise. Kind of synthwave... ish? Probably not vaporwave. It's some sort of wave, though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwsS...

Hi! 👋 I'm looking for freelance pixel art work! 10+ years experience in game dev making lil' guys, big guys, animations, environment, tiles - any style! RTs appreciated ✨ Portfolio below ⬇️

SURPRISE I MADE ANOTHER GAME! This time for the Godot Wild Jam (again). I will upload the OST soon as well, once I finish all the schoolwork that's been piling up because of this... chaos-kid.itch.io/chaos-maze

A timelapse of some game dev work I've been doing, plus a small preview of the game's soundtrack made with ReNoise. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI0k...

Probably one of the more involved backgrounds I've done for this game. I have a timelapse of making it that I might post on YouTube later as well.

My games are on sale! #videogames #indiegames #pixelart #gaming #Steam

I recently played one of my old games again where the whole point is you're trying not to die of the cold, but one of the levels straight up gives you a jet pack. And yet it doesn't warm you at all??

Did some animation and sound effects for this weird crystal thingy that takes you to new worlds. Still has a couple issues for now, but it's coming along nicely I think.

If you have a SubViewport in Godot, apparently you can assign its render to a TextureRect. So I crammed the world into one, and made this really trippy effect by overlaying them. Probably shouldn't use it in the final game. Looks really cool, though.

We are very excited to announce: HYPERBEAT releases October 22nd!

Had time to spare between college assignments, so I could get a little work done today. Got halfway through drawing an outline for the new world map, and spent a couple hours making this movement guide to aid me in level design. Although far from perfect, it works well for now. #indiedev, #gamedev

Alright, so I've been absolutely hammered with assignments, exams, and projects this month. Made the mistake of trying to take an advanced, condensed class "on the side." I don't know when I'll have some free time again. But I promise I WILL be back at some point before the year's end.

Work on Dreamscape is probably going to slow down a little bit. Have a condensed college class I need to spend some time getting ahead on. It's been a kind of chaotic week...

Was curious what would happen if I made the 3D update process rely on RNG...

Pseudo-3D trees. Struggled a ton with figuring out a background for this zone, and although this is totally nonsensical, it looks cool and was way easier to do in this perspective.

Some procedural flowers and grass. I think it adds a dynamic touch to this zone which has been missing, and it's a simple raycast-based scan so it's very easy to deploy. Also, yes, there's no background. I wasn't particularly fond of the old one, so I want to try something simpler.

The demo should hopefully be out by October 25th. Full game is still a long ways away, but progress on Dreamscape is steady. My priority for September, now that UI and save data's been done, is going to be aesthetics. #gamedev #indiedev

Super rough 3D experiment I quickly made last night. Not entirely sure how I feel about the effect, but it could be neat as long as I'm subtle about it.

I know I don't have much of a following here on Bluesky, but I wanted to share this anyway. I've pledged what little I can already. It's not much, but it's something at least.

Finally breaking ground on a pause menu and map system. Might have a short demo ready before October. I find that UI is kind of like a bathroom. It's not what brings people in, nor is it particularly exciting to work on, but I want it to be as clean as possible anyway.

May not look super impressive right now since it's just UI and has no sound yet, but this was a hassle to make! Especially the input remapping. Plus, I had to make my own button object since Godot's was being a little finicky. Still some work to be done, but it's coming along well.

Well that's not supposed to happen...

Main phases of this fight are coming along neatly. Now I just need to implement some way of dealing damage so you can actually progress the fight. And... deal with those awkward blue boxes... #gamedev, #indiedev

Recently started work on another boss fight. Lots of janky test art, but the mechanics are coming along neatly. Got this bouncing attack for phase transitions done this morning. Gonna get some lunch, and then get back to work on the main phases. #gamedev, #indiedev

Those blue boxes are supposed to tell the camera where to move to, room to room. I had to change the base resolution of the game to fit the gameplay better, so the size of a "room" has changed as a result. Meaning the entirety of all these old levels are broken. Guess there's no going back now!

Pixel perfect vines, using individual segments of Sprite2Ds. Works surprisingly well despite its messy implementation. #gamedev, #godot

Quick progress update on Dreamscape: Most of the main mechanics are done, and a lot of artwork is finished as well, but sound and music are critically lacking and there are significant portions of the game itself that I've yet to do. Like boss fights. Overall, probably about 30% of the way there.

Decided to test exporting in advance, and I am quite pleased to find that nothing has broken on either Windows or Linux. Very nice! Though, running around the world I've created makes me realize that, man, this game's a lot bigger than I thought it'd be initially.

I've been trying to focus on this zone this past week, which had been hilariously underdeveloped for a long time. Progress is alright, though there's still a lot more work to do, of course.

Unrelated to the game, but I did another chiptune cover on the YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QyT...

Hey, everyone. Something's come up, so I may be inactive for a while longer than usual. Hopefully I can get back to things around June at least, but we'll see.

IT IS FINALLY COMPLETE! I've just posted a video to YouTube about an interesting little system I built for Dreamscape. It was pretty fun... though maybe a little frustrating... to put together. youtu.be/K7aOye1iAKE

New video on the YouTube channel soon. I've never done a video project quite like this before.

Was trying to make a toggle-able non-pixel-perfect mode, so I could have some smoother camera and parallax movements. I was worried it'd be a nightmare to implement, but most of the game played nice... most of it...

I've decided to do a little decorative work for one of the levels. Background's still a bit empty, but things are definitely starting to look a lot more complete.

By the way, I edited and put out a quick video about Dreamscape, the project I've been working on this year, on my YouTube channel. Here's a link if you're interested: m.youtube.com/watch?v=rly_...

Things are going fairly well on the game. Two zones are mostly roughed out as well as one boss fight, and I've started working on the third zone. I'd estimate I'm about, uhhh, 10 to 20% of the way there? It's a bit hard to say. Anyway, here's an earthworm with a fist for a tail.

This month was a bit of a mess, but I got a fair amount of work done anyway. Got a number of mechanics and enemies done, and I've begun working on level design. Here's one of my favorite rooms so far.

Progress on the game's been going nicely. Most of the foundations are laid, now I'm just adding new stuff. Right now, I'm drawing tilemaps. Here's one of them so far. This is a more ambitious project, so it might take a couple more months. Or maybe even the whole year. We'll see...