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...

One of the enemies from a game I've been working on this past month.

...sorry, there we go. The gif wasn't playing for some reason. I made this simple effect for a game I'm working on right now. I think it turned out pretty nice.

squares!

chaoskid1024.bandcamp.com/album/whoops... I've been meaning to put all these old ReNoise works onto an album for a long time, so here we go!

I mentioned it on the YouTube already, but I'm switching over to Linux from Windows. So things will probably be a little weird for a little while.

Oh right, I have a Bluesky now! So anyway... I recently participated in the 76th Godot Wild Jam. After nine days, here's the results of that endeavor: chaos-kid.itch.io/mikecicle