Devlog 17 - Movement Animations and Animation Tracking zurl.co/XlYnV

I just got incorrectly charged for Linkedin Premium. I went to check transactions to see how much this dark pattern cost me. €82.64 euros per month! What the actual fuck?! This due to how they show buttons/information, but also, what the hell is that price? shame on you @linkedin.com

I know X isn't everyone's cup of tea 😅 But if you're still there, feel free to follow me there too. I cross-post most Jackstrap updates, and sometimes things show up there first. 👉 x.com/moochigames

Jackstrap Devlog 16 - Website, Open Development, Shadows, and Translation zurl.co/UxWZV

Jackstrap Devlog 15 - Larger Sprite Canvas and Open Dev Decision zurl.co/EZ44z

introducing: the nutcracker legion. the very serious, and totally mature enemy faction for Jackstrap, the game about a living jockstrap. #gamedev #jackstrap #indiegame

Jackstrap Devlog 14 - UI Variations and North/South Attacks zurl.co/EqBFn

After intense, high-level game design thinking, I have identified the perfect enemy faction for my game about defending testicles: nutcrackers. Yes, this is the level of maturity we’re working with. #indiegame #gamedev #Jackstrap

Adding tiny variant-specific details is dangerous. Now I want every version of Jack to die differently. #indiegame #gamedev #Jackstrap #handdrawn #2Dgame

Jackstrap Devlog 13 - UI, Family Jewels, and New Animations zurl.co/CUc28

I'm at a music festival for the first time in a long while. Things I would pay for now: - a no smoking zone* - a seat - a massage - better food - glass cups * Better yet, have smokers pay more for the privilege to be in a smoking zone. Fuck I'm old now.

Jack is a living jockstrap. His mission is simple: protect the Family Jewels from the Nutcracker Legion. JACKSTRAP is a hand-drawn top-down arena survivor coming soon to Steam. #Jackstrap #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #handdrawn #2Dgame #survivorlike #Godot #Krita #MoochiGames

If my games ever sell well, expect optional boxed editions, printed manuals, maps, weird inserts, and all the stuff we used to find inside game boxes. I miss that era. #gamedev

Jackstrap Devlog 12 - Outfit Export and Animation Cost zurl.co/GJy4h

I finally admitted I needed an animation tracking table and an attack table. Seeing what’s done, half-done, and still missing in one place is already making a huge difference.

I really underestimated how much animation work a hand-drawn 8-directional game would need. I’m new to animation. This game is literally the first thing I’ve ever animated.

@ZohoSocial is the best socials manager I've yet to try- believe me, I tried many: metricool, postiz, postiz selfhosted PITA, mixpost, buffer... weirdly though, their SEO is bad. I didn't find them until much later in my r&d. hence this post (...and also to get 100 free days)

Jackstrap Devlog 11 - Fire, Electricity elementals and Export Tools zurl.co/h5Q06

no outfit detected #jackstrap #gamedev #indiegames

some of the first run animations I was experimenting with a while ago

Humans are odd. Ever since I started making fighting outfits for Jack, my jockstrap character, seeing him without one makes him look naked. But he’s literally a piece of cloth. He can’t be naked. #jackstrap #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev

Jackstrap Devlog 10 - Element Types, Progression, and Outfits zurl.co/wbOUl

I'm such a noob. I was drawing all my sprites in 2000px x 2000px just in case. it was taking me forever, and since they get reduced to like 150px (+ margins) all that detail wasn't necessary and took me much longer to draw.

I’m pretty generous with follow-backs, as long as a very quick peek at your account shows some actual activity. ...just putting that out there.

I don't use stabilizer on my drawings, not because I'm a purist, but because I haven't found a method that doesn't just get in my way. Anyone have tips on Krita's stabilizer?

Devlog #08: This update focused on the first main-menu direction, using a gym scene and punching bags as interactive menu elements. moochi.games/jackstrap/up...

He recibido esta carta de LaLiga después de publicar que mi web de gamedev indie se había visto afectada por bloqueos de IP/Cloudflare. Mi web no retransmite fútbol, no aloja partidos y no facilita acceso a contenido pirata. 🧵 hilo:

Wizards get so mad when you kill them with a gun. All like “ahhh I thought we were doing it magic style” or “this was supposed to be a magical duel this was your idea glggh ack” it’s like dude I’m not dueling you with magic you get a good grade in magic I am bringing my Sig

Jackstrap Devlog #07: moochi.games/jackstrap/up... This update focused on rough enemy concepts, including urchins, a snake, a cactus, and a porcupine-like enemy...

This was the first animation I ever made. Jack running in an 8-direction loop. The run animation is 12 frames, closely following the classic 12-frame run cycle from Richard Williams’ Animator’s Survival Kit. #Jackstrap #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #animation #handdrawn

I updated moochi's website. It’s not fancy yet, but it finally has some actual Jackstrap content on it. I’ve got a backlog of devlogs and artlogs ready to go, so I’ll be posting those daily for the next couple of weeks Once I catch up to #16, I’ll switch to 2x/week schedule #gamedev #indiedev

🤦 omg... I just realized I can pop the timeline out in Krita and move it to another monitor. turns out that’s pretty useful when you have hundreds of frames and dozens of layers. #Krita #gamedev #indiedev #animation #handdrawn

Protect the family jewels. Roast everything else. #Jackstrap #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

I've been thinking about how to give back to the open source tools I'm using to make Jackstrap. Most of the game is being made with free/open software: - Krita - Godot - Inkscape - KDE/Linux tools And it got me wondering:

Are all multilingual people as bad at idioms as me? I mix them all up and combine words from them so that the meaning is still intact but the different words make them unrecognizable.

I can’t believe my website, the site of a small indie gamedev, may be affected by absurd anti-piracy football blocks in Spain. I thought my site was down. I wasted time debugging DNS, @Cloudflare and deployments. Turns out it may just be this mess.

No puedo creer que mi web, la de un gamedev indie intentando trabajar, pueda estar rota por bloqueos chapuceros contra el fútbol pirata. Pensé que mi sitio estaba caído. DNS, adguard, @Cloudflare despliegues... todo revisado. Al final es otra decisión torpe que rompe internet para usuarios normales

I've made 3 games, and I still have a hard time judging how long it'll take me to make anything game-related. We humans are just really bad at that, raccoons would probably be better at it.

wasn't feeling too productive today, so I decided to work on the UI for the tooling I've developed for jackstrap. this is the before/after of my spritesheet/GIF exporter and a screenshot of my layer/frame guard. #jackstrap #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #GUI #ADHD

Scorchyuken! #Jackstrap #gamedev #indiedev #gameart

Hot hands, fast feet! #Jackstrap #gamedev #indiedev #vfx

threw a whole bunch of Jackstrap attacks and VFX on screen at the same time just to see how they feel together. ...kind of beautiful. #Jackstrap #gamedev #indiedev #gameart

"Thus with a kiss I die" ̶R̶o̶m̶e̶o̶ Jacques #jackstrap #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Who is moochi? I'm an ex-designer, turned developer, turned gamedev. ...same desk, different problems.

turns out my son constantly asking me to draw lightning bolts was actually solid training for Jackstrap's electric punch VFX ⚡ #jackstrap #gamedev #indiedev

In case you were wondering what Jackstrap actually is: It's a game about playing as a living jockstrap and defending the family jewels. Just a normal, serious videogame. #Jackstrap #gamedev #solodev #indiegame

"Stay a while and listen..." ...awesome guitar stringy devil town song

wa-tah! 献丑了 jack's shaolin-inspired poses #Jackstrap #gamedev #indiedev #characterdesign

very rough pass at a new enemy for Jackstrap. need help naming this guy: - porkupain - spike tyson - roundhog - ...? Which one fits best? #Jackstrap #gamedev #indiedev

Stress testing Jackstrap's enemy count before any optimization work. Right now it starts getting messy at 350 enemies on screen. Not bad for a raw pass, but there’s clearly a lot of optimization ahead once I add enemy types, behaviors, animations. #Jackstrap #gamedev #indiedev