Getting more strong urges to rant about game maker changing esoteric things my game relies on

Brrrrr

“Now’s your chance to become a fan!” #elpheltnation

Been playing a lot of ZeroRanger and thought these dorks would look good in green and orange

Rock Paper Scissors is really boring to me as a mechanic in video games and I feel like it's the biggest thing that bothers me about both Mega Man and Pokemon

Thinkin about ZeroRanger again 💚🧡

"hmmm. maybe I should play [new game]" *new game is $70* "maybe i should not play [new game]."

Something I love doing in arcade games is jumping to the highest difficulty or skipping to the next loop to get a taste of what the game's like at its most unhinged

This feels like cheating, steam

Just spent nearly 3 hours playing through all of BUDD earlier trying to write up a gigantic list of dumb nitpicks I want to change

I'm the type of girl that buys any type of game collection and dumps all her time into just one game

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I should do my own top 5/top 10 of things I played this year

A very Saturn Christmas Patreon comm for @arrietty.itch.io

I firmly believe the best way to design anything is to come up with the most unhinged version of it possible, THEN sand it back town into something reasonable The sanding is inevitable, so If you try to come up with something reasonable first you'll just sand it down to a nub

I think there are some characters that work way better as blank slate player surrogates than trying to turn them into actual characters But at the same time that feels incompatible with modern franchise games that have to overexplain their plot, characters, and world with cutscenes

I kinda miss passwords in games Obv dedicated save files are better in almost every way, but it's cool having a physical way to store game data that you can share and copy freely

birth....................

If your level doesn't wiggle what's even the POINT

It's that time of the year again

Taking a moment to appreciate how monumental of a task emulating a game console is, and how its library can have thousands of little edge cases that each need to be ironed out Undefined behavior, weird peripherals, weird mapper chips, weird co-processors, I love hearing about Weird edgecase games

Anyone else feel like you have to do some fancy introduction for OCs before you're allowed to do stuff with them?

This was supposed to be a silly little warmup doodle, how did Blender get involved

Alis Landale #ファンタシースター #セガ #PhantasyStar

something tells me it's not healthy waking up and immediately injecting myself with the several hours worth of social media posts and the dozen or so discord chats that we missed out on when we were asleep

Sometimes forgetting stuff is fun, like forgetting we drew a thing and being like "huh! that's kinda neat actually!!"

Consider that maybe instead of constantly reworking the same portion of the game, you can come back to it later once you have more experience, a clearer vision of the game you want to make, and a fresh perspective removed from noodling away at the same thing for days

dragon quest is pretty nifty i think

OH NOOO! Quan Chi trapped Sub-Zero in the Comix Zone.

Hydlide Jim PC8801 2025

big things happening

Really nice test of a low poly Ridge Racer running in full 3D on the GBA. From Gustavo Valiente's RR project: gvaliente.itch.io/rr-project

I feel like lately all my takes on video games are boring old lady curmudgeon takes

I feel like people sleep on the shading ink type in Aseprite. it's really fun painting, layering multiple tones, getting fun textures as each brush stroke is layered, easily being able to adjust the values of an area Sometimes I'll make textures with it just for fun

BUDD might be peam actually.......

I'd like to mention that to PAUSE the game in Game Maker, your options are still: - Storing a list of every instance you want to deactivate - Sticking an exit condition at the top of every step event - Give every object it's own unique update method that's called from a different object's step event

It still bothers me any time I see someone act like Undertale is unique in how jank and amateurish its code is An indie game made by someone who hadn't coded a large project of the sort before, made in an engine that at the time lacked many features that are standard (and still kinda does tbh)

I like doodling Eris when I don't feel like drawing anything else

Decided it was time to give some of the BUDD sprites a makeover, to better match how we draw them and to make them a bit more interactive ingame (Here are some of Boxer's)

There's something uniquely satisfying to me about spriting rotation frames, creating the illusion of depth......

Random pet peeve of mine right now, when people rip the soundtracks to older CD era games, but don't include the sequenced songs that aren't played through Redbook audio I get that they're often just incidental tracks and jingles people aren't as interested in, but they're still neat to me.........

Been hyperfixated on Metroid again, so wanted to try spriting a mockup of a Metroid game as if it were on the Sega Genesis. 4 palettes with 16 colors each (including transparency) #pixelart

I think the biggest thing I miss from CSP moving to Krita is the close gaps setting the fill tool has, coloring always feels so time consuming and tedious when I'm not just making a sketchy mess

One of my favorite mechanics in games is when your character can deploy a tinier character to explore places the regular character can't

If I released a steam demo for BUDD that has less content in it than the SAGE '23 demo, would people be disappointed by that? This is mostly because certain things are balanced differently now, some story scenes are different, and some extras are unlocked by different means in the full game

I miss the art of bosses that are just Some Guy sitting in a room that you can demolish like instantly if you know what you're doing

Any game with text, past a certain size, eventually becomes a visual novel

Silly retro ARPG type thing I've been messing with in Godot Another one of those things where I don't know how much I want to do with it, especially since we should probably be working on BUDD still

Rolled a random fg girl and landed on Mai Ling from Red Earth I know everyone loves Tessa but i think she's a really cool design too