Some new maps put together for Kartomancy! This one's a frozen lake map, with most of the Kard Draws spawning in the middle. Its risky to go for them as you can't brake or steer well on the ice! theinfamousmrmeow.itch.io/kartomancy #screenshotsaturday #halloween #art #gamedev #indiegame

Made a game! Made for a Spooktober jam. Is it N64-ish? I dunno, probably. theinfamousmrmeow.itch.io/kartomancy #indiegame #gamedev

Came up with a little faux-console boot thing. Leaning into a CRT era retro futurism maybe a little too heavily :D #indiedev #gamedev #voxelart

Karotmancy is playable! There's a (co-op!) four match Arcade mode, and local Versus with as many bots as you want. Each Kartomancer gets a little epilogue if you win. #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

Those cowards at nintendont would never give you a Great Old One in a Small New Kart. #indiegame #indiedev #voxelart #pixelart

Little intro story crawl for Kartomancy. Don't worry, holding any key speeds it up and mashing enter skips entirely :D #indiegame #indiedev #gamemaker

Almost feels like a game! Title and character select are still jank, but gameplay is pretty close. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #indiegame

Been deep diving on 16 bit era Kart games while making this jam entry. Kind of an early one that did actually have a battle mode. Is a bit of a straight up and down clone. youtu.be/0vVIiKp6xMs?...

Dhampyr vs. Wraith King! One more character and we'll call it for the jam: The Starspawn. #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

Running out of time, so one of the characters is just a floating hea-- I mean, THE WRAITH KING #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

A Dhampyr Kartomancer! Some slight improvements to the kart chassis itself so it reads a little better. I think I'm done messing with the karts and can crank out some characters! #indiedev #gamedev #voxelart #pixelart

Witchling cyclekart for Kartomancy #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Victory celebration animation and jingle started for Kartomancy! #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Playtesting splitscreen battles! Gameplay is in a good spot. Very real cat and mouse moments. Now we make it pretty. #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker

Got a few of the Major Arcana implemented! Hermit - Invisibility - Can't be targeted by seekers! Strength - Invincibility - Can't be harmed at all! Temperance - Purge all nearby status effects Sun - Blind nearby opponents 4 down, 18 to go! #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #gamemaker

No time to explain, its 2025/1995 and we're having 4 player splitscreen horror lofi tarot kart deathmatch #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #gamemaker

Well I guess I have 4 player splitscreen in my kart-like. Controls work! Now we Deathmatch. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #gamemaker

Hey fixed all the turntabling/billboarding issues! Turntable and Billboard type renders now face the correct camera when rendering in each view. Splitscreen local battle is now possible 🧙‍♀️🏎️🎃 #indiedev #pixelart #gamemaker

Rendering two different 3d views in GameMaker breaks the brain a little bit, but going well! The second view karter still tries to billboard towards the first camera, have to set up some rigging for that. Very close to getting Super Spooky Kart👻 #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

Basic splitscreen is in for Kartomancy! Ignore the crazy rough title screen for now plz #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #gamemaker #voxelart

Tiny site up for ✨Witchling Grove✨ www.witchlinggrove.com #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

One of those things that's not very impressive to look at, but I'm now building maps at run time from an LDTK file rather than using GameMaker's room editor. Next: hot-loading changes during dev run. #indiedev #gamedev #ldtk

Got Kartomancy running in a browser! Also picked up some new Tarot Card art. Started on Major Arcana effects, like the invisibility here! #indiedev #gamedev #voxelart #pixelart

Kartomancy has spinouts! Depending on the Handling of your Kartomancer, holding an extreme turn for too long will make you lose traction and completely spinout! "HandlingStamina" recharges. Its very funny to think of this as a soulsborne Poise mechanic. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #voxelart

Quick doodles for some Kartomancy characters? Focusing on distinct head shapes that'll work well as voxel turntables. #indiedev #gamedev #characterdesign

Kartomancers can now collect the 4 minor arcana cards: Bouncing Swords Seeking Wands Landmine Cups and Jump Stars Its a random pickup now. Next, Kartomancers get their own decks they draw from for a little strategy layer. #pixelart #voxelart #gamedev #indiedev

In the interest of "actually finishing the gamejam", kartomancers are now chibi. #pixelart #voxelart #gamedev #indiedev

Pretty happy with the kart princess here. #pixelart #voxelart #indiedev #gamedev

They see me rolling Almost happy with the kart base, then can start iterating on characters.

Messing with voxel pre-renders for the karter characters. Getting the hang of magicavoxel maybe. Character needs to be wider probably and the shape from straight behind is odd. Gonna widen the kart and push the wheels out further. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #voxel

We're doing SOMETHING. Starting to look like some kind of vaguely spooky lost N64 Kart/Car Combat game? #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #voxelart

Did not have a gokart to test turntable logics with, did have a jeep. Angle is pitched a little too high on the turntables, but the in-game logic works nicely. Next: voxel witch go karts. #indiedev #gamedev #voxelart #pixelart

Mesing with this newfangled "3D render" technology for card animations in Kartomancy. #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

Theming the item pickups as tarot cards! Kartomancy/Chartomancy worldplay. Someone thinks its fun, surely. Surely. Surely. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #spooky

initial experiments with a skybox have failed mathematically lol Conceptually valid though, I think! Want to go for a lot of night-time scenes, little crescent moon with a face visible from certain angles. MarioKart Super Circuit seems unpopular, but the parallaxes are great in it

We're into the less-visually-interesting bits of development for KARTOMANCY. Small 3-slot inventory system for pickups stubbed in, and getting things to render as billboards nicely. #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

The road to battle mode for Kartomancy continues! Did a bunch of work on slide mechanics and tile collisions. I think we're ready for powerups!

Embracing the cozy #Gameboy life! You can wishlist Bugboy on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3095130/... #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Doing a bit more on Kart controls, hops, and physics. Gonna be focusing on getting the feel of Super Mario Kart battle mode down pat! #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

BILLBOARDS CONFIRMMMMMMED We're one step closer to KARTOMANCY world domination. Don't like the camera yet, so will tweak that a bit more too. #indiedev #gamedev #spooktober64 #pixelart

Have I done gone and cooked? 🏎️🧙🏻‍♀️🔮🌙 Still tinkering away at this Spooky Karts concept. Might do spooktober64 jam? I think I accidentally made a dramatic replay camera instead of a 3rd person follow camera, but we're getting there.🎃 #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #mode7

Approaching Kart-like view! Messing with mode-7 style projection in #gamemaker #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart?

I'm something of a programmer myself #indiedev #gamedev

so I have this old codebase where I managed to get a mode 7-ish thing going. However, can't tell what bullshit I pulled to get GM to cooperate. It only works with tiles, and not background layers. Going to hammer this into a Kartomancy spooky karts prototype. #gamedev #indiedev

My toxic trait is that I can't look at mode 7 without immediately feeling a deep compulsion to make a game based on it www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj-t...

The newest demo of Knight George will be released next friday, featuring the EARLYNE OLYMPIAD and its mini-games! Who's ready to go racing like it's 1989? #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Did a ton of systems work today for Grove connections and run progression. None of that is very visible, so also made InteractComponents for dousing/lighting candles, and you can shoot them to light too. Not sure if they'll be for anything, but might do a lightweight lighting? #pixelart #indiedev

Shroomers are explosive mushrooms that detonate when defeated. The explosion damages friend and foe! They're also vulnerable to explosions themselves, so you can pull off these neat chain-explosions. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Slimes, Mushrooms, Ghosts, Skellies, Eyebats! Doing some passes on enemy behaviors to make the roster feel meaningfully different. Skellies charge, ghosts flee, and Shroomers explode. Don't know how to make slimes different yet. Maybe they don't chase you at all? #indiedev #pixelart #gamedev

Pixel minimalism is dead, all hail pixel maximalism #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart