Little clip of Moonbeam Mayhem gameplay for #screenshotsaturday! I have a handful of segmented-type enemies planned and the green Wyrmlings here are the first test. #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #shmup #roguelike

Finishing up the new Lightning Serpent scroll for Moonbeam Mayhem, heavily inspired by Raiden's Noodle Laser. Throwing the Firestorm was completely unnecessary. Gotta do a gif with all 3 scrolls soon 🔥⚡❄️ #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #shmup #indiegame

Trying to do the Raiden Toothpaste Beam for the last scroll in moonbeam mayhem. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

I think that might be it haha. Blizzard Scroll damages all enemies on the screen, and turns any it defeat into Ice Blocks you can shoot to shatter into more ice-shots! #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #shmup #indiegame #gamemaker

0.2.0 - ICE TO SEE YOU - Moonbeam Mayhem theinfamousmrmeow.itch.io/moonbeam-may... New scroll, lots of playability / sound / particle / visual feedback, and lots of small tweaks based on player feedback. Thanks a ton to everyone who has playtested so far! #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegame

air-to-air combat #blooddungeon #boneup store.steampowered.com/app/2431080/...

Working on some vfx for the Blizzard Scroll! I think it needs to clear bullets too, or maybe convert them to YOUR bullets? (ice-spikes?) Enemies killed become Ice-Blocks? #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #shmup

Pretty happy with where Moonbeam Mayhem is! You select a stage from the world map, fight through waves of shmup enemies, select upgrades, collect Familiars and consumable Scrolls in a bid to make it to the final Moon battle! #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #pixelart #indiegame #shmup #stg

Moonbeam Mayhem demo is up on Itch io: tinyurl.com/3rmbcp6w A witchy shmup where you traverse the (flat?) world, clear stages of Moonbeast invaders, choose upgrades and prepare for the final battle on the moon! Any feedback helps a ton! #shmup #roguelike #indiegame #gamedev #gamemaker #indiedev

juice for the juice god

OK! The Witchling will get three types of scrolls, here I'm testing the Inferno scrolls, very inspired by Raiden's bombs! I think I want an elemental Fire / Storm / Ice for the 3 scrolls maybe? #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #shmup #stg #roguelike #indiegame

Alright, the game is taking its final shape here! The Witchling has three major tools - Wand, upgradeable firepower - Lantern, a regenerating shield/bullet crash/bullet sealer - Scroll stack, bombs for all occasions #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #shmup #stg #Nintendo #console #indiedev

0.0.1 - Hello Moon Update - Moonbeam Mayhem theinfamousmrmeow.itch.io/moonbeam-may... Patch notes! Feedback forms! MM has it all, if it all is those two things. Trying to get a feedback and iteration rhythm going, starting to use itchio as the hub! #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

EYYYY! theinfamousmrmeow.github.io/asteria2/ Rigged up github actions to spit out patch notes when I update the codebase. Eventually this'll move to my raspberry pi Jenkins + theinfamousmrmeow.com Now to rig the game-client side check + update check #gamedev #indiedev

FACT: Commit history serves to make you chuckle a little bit when you check it years later, and no other purpose. These are the sort of high-quality, descriptive commits you can expect from TheInfamousMrMeow #gamedev #indiedev

BACK AT IT AGAIN Some player feedback! Made the Shadowbats easier to see with a little spooky purple outline Castlevania 1 style, made the DANGER indicators bigger and louder, and fixed a bunch of bugs! ITS ALMOST A REAL GAME FOLKS #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #shmup #stg #indiegame

It was a bit of an "eat your veggies" task, but got the Danger! indicators working as single-point rather than whole-side-indicators. Works better for the way monsters actually enter in this game. Now to make them bigger and flashier! #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #shmup #stg #indiegame

Shoutout to the time I figured out how to do XBLA-era bloom + blur in GameMaker lol. Might do a more subtle version of this for the Moonbeam Mayhem world map. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #2006

I had a sort of epiphany about this game the other night. I think its pretty alright actually, it just needs to be about 5 times as kinetic, and I need to probably abandon the deckbuilding idea. Give it more chaos, more bounce, more energy. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #indiegames

Continuing to to build out the world map for my shmup! Needs more oomph, but have a "Stage Start" + Stage Name toast now. Need some kinda big fancy script for the Stage Name I think. #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #shmup #stg #indiegame

Back on Moonbeam Mayhem! Continuing to make the world map more grokkable. There's now some simulated gravity so you can't just fly off into the cosmos and get horrible, irrevocably lost. #pixelart #indiegames #gamedev #shmup #stg #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Got Quest for Camelot working! Man, I despised this game as a kid. You had a save item you could use from the item menu at any time, but it costs 30 coins to use. Also it has an attract mode, for some reason. Cave tiles are not bad tho #retrogaming #gameboy #gamedev

Got kinda stuck on how I might handle the outer loop in Moonbeam Mayhem, and how to have it be diegetically grokkable. I think I like the Moondrops idea, we'll see how it looks in game. #indiedev #gamedev

Good news! Got a setup working to play my GB collection on a real SNES! Bad news: only Caesar's Palace and Wario Land work. Off to YouTube to figure out how to clean contacts to save Final Fantasy Adventure #retrogames #gaming

Well well well

Catch a gander at this pose 🤠 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #Godot

Took longer than I thought, but got some Danger Indicators working! No more getting ambushed by side/rear spawns. Can't decide if I want them to be Eyes or Skulls though. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #shmup #stg #indiegame

OK! World map to shmup feels way smoother now. You can complete Stages in any order, but it gets harder each Night that passes before you approach the Moon! #ShowMeSunday #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker #ShowYaGame #Steam #PixelArt #PitchYaGame #shmup #stg

Doing some HUD/UI work for the World Map. I think I still want it to be pretty lean but trying to make it easier to understand. Little animation where you zoom into the location is kind of fun. Need some kinda banner/scroll for the place names though. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #shmup #stg

New demo out! It's Burn-9! store.steampowered.com/app/4377480/... It's described as a 'Reverse Metal Gear' because you play as the tech in the chair supporting a soldier fighting for her life in a secret military base. The demo is a big mood. Wishlist it! #godotengine #indiegames #pixelart

I think I'm finally happy with my little Fire Mote's behaviors. They're a pressure enemy, wiggly skirmishers that force you to give ground and deal with them. They're very fragile, but they launch a final revenge bullet on death! #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #shmup

Iterating on feel and enemy stuff. I like having more shooters, but I think I need more projectile types that are visibly recognizable when the field gets dense. More variation in their movement speed too maybe. #indiedev #gamedev #shmup #indiegame

Did a pass on readability, feedback, and some general cohesion! Hopefully the game is a little easier to read during frantic gameplay now! #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #shmup #indiegame

Ahhhhhhh okay, I think this is the way. Don't rely on hard-banding in the light cookies, let the dithering do the work for me.

Working on making the moment to moment gameplay slightly less noisy! Did some dithering on the light layers, but looking at it here I think it needs to be softer, more subtle overall. Getting there! #pixelart #indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #shmup #indiedev

Art by • Gage Lindsten

Like 7 days before I'm supposed to have this Steam NextFest demo ready to go, hold my mead #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #shmup #stg

Added a ton of new monsters, enemy spawn groups/formations, and improved the spawning algorithm for pacing! These guys are the new Carrion Birds, undead vulture spreadgun helicopters. Huge shoutout to Faultbox for most of the art you see on screen here! #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #shmup #stg

Its rough but it works! World map level selection roughed in. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

I was chatting with someone the other day and in-game bestiaries came up, thought I'd give it a try. Fortunately I purposely did data-derived content for this game so it was super straightforward! Now I gotta make it look nice #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

OK! disk-world map is starting to take shape. Nodes don't have an enforced order or adjacency, but difficulty increases each Night that passes. You have to clear at least 3 nodes before you can attempt The Moon and finish the run! #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #roguelite #shmup

So per usual I was having an existential crisis about game structure and loops etc, but its fun to scoot around a little star map and do things so I'm gonna go with it. The game's a procgen-ish rogueliteish shmup #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

POV: You're making a small shmup but you have a crippling addiction to world maps. You have a psychological condition that forces you to put world maps in all games you make. The thought of a game without a world map confuses and frightens you. #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

I'm sure this has been done other places but it felt neat to me. At the end of each Night an Upgrade Triskell appears, and you can collect 1 of 3 Upgrade Orbs. Neat how there's a bit of crossover really between shmups and roguelikes. #pixelart #indiegame #indedev #gamedev #shmup #stg #roguelike

Since it has a tiny bit of roguelite DNA, Moonbeam Mayhem has procgen levels. I overhauled my spawn manager, giving the spawnGroups roles, power levels, and some sequencing rules to make sure they're fun to play against. #pixelart #indiegame #indedev #gamedev #shmup #stg #screenshotsaturday

OK, some proof of concepting here with my background systems. I can now set target scroll speeds and the bgs lerp to the goal. Testing it out here by having you zoom out into the Ether after protecting the city! #pixelart #indiegame #indedev #gamedev #shmup #stg #screenshotsaturday

OK, tested out my Tilemap importer and it works! I can now queue up maps and repeat sections etc. Now I can start building out the Witch's entire flight from the besieged Twilight City to the core of the Broken Moon. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #shmup

So my buddy pointed out the lack of texture in the HUD panels was kind of disorienting to the old eye orbs. I need to mask the texture off of the edges, but basically I really dig this. Now I can make little insets for the health/focus etc.

OK, HUD's getting there. It does at least now have all the parts it is supposed to. Ultimately I want a more interesting way to communicate the Focus Shot than the bar, but we'll get there. Need some texture on the panel too. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #shmup #screenshotsaturday

Working on HUD stuff today, just playing around with how things can look. I might segment the "widgets" with their own boxes too. I think I'm gonna collapse the HUD into one side panel per-player, and have some art in the unused side panel. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #shmup