Got rudimentary swimming working today

Still a little rough but I've got a start on strafing, dashing, vertical/horizontal attacks, charge attack and jump attack

I’ve been making a bunch of small tweaks to things in the Beeknighted prototype. Adjusting animations, playing with speeds and timings, fixing bugs as I discover them. I’ve got strafing implemented now though it still needs work. All basic attacks are in and I started ui/menus. Video update soon.

Metroid Prime 4 thoughts: when it’s being MP, it’s very good-great. When it’s doing anything else, it’s middling. There’s about 5-8 hours of really great game packed into a 20-30 hour playtime. The desert would have been 100% ok if the crystal grind wasn’t mandatory and it was treated like SotC.

Organizing a game jam at @hauntedps1.bsky.social Can't wait! more info on 29th! #Davidlynch #Lynch #gamejam #lowpoly

I got to do vertex color for some custom modded Crash Team Racing levels this year as part of a team, and now that the tracks have finally been released I can show off my contribution! Here's a before an after of Arcane Garden and Kong Dungeon:

New devlog up detailing why Beeknighted went on hiatus and a recap of what I’ve been up to these past few years: microtonalmatt.itch.io/beeknighted/... Also I finally got around to uploading TOFS from Madvent 4 as it’s own page: microtonalmatt.itch.io/this-ones-fr...

Jolly (spooky) season is here! Madvent rises again! More micro horror games for the holidays! (Linkbelowwwwwww!)

"Madvent simply refuses to die." Appreciate the Madvent 5 dev team for continuing this mad event. It's no small feat to organize and ship on time! Since I didn't Direct this round, I'm excited I get to dive into a Madvent mostly blind!

WIP on the controls. Still lacking particles/sound effects/etc. so it's lacking a bit of punch atm but it's starting to take shape.

Basic movement including walking, running, jumping, flying, crawling, and dashing have all been re-implemented. That leaves strafing, swimming, climbing and a few other odd states left before I can begin working on combat and items. Video update soon.

The next Beeknighted devlog on itch (new camera part 2) is not going to go up for a little bit because now that I’m done with the first animation pass I’ve started reworking the controls. Also gifs still do not work on itch atm. Maybe I’ll put up a shorter devlog on something else in between.

Hey y'all, I'm trying to survive the last few months of development on 500 Cal, so I'm looking for work. I can do character models, UI, logos, character design, cover art, music videos, consulting, whatever the hell you need. Dm me or email at [email protected]

💥🙀The BLAST CATS DEMO IS OUT RIGHT NOW! New old-school platformer chaos: bomb-throwing cats, sorceresses and magical wishes gone wrong! Ready to BLAST?😼💣 👇Link below #gamedev #lowpoly

Finally watching Enterprise. Finished season 1. Definitely a lot of very rough looking episodes even for the time and a lot that just kinda don’t go anywhere. There’s a few really good ones, and I generally like the crew though it feels like they kinda forgot about Travis. I like Archer a lot

Got my parents’ Mac SE up and running. Against all odds the 40 year old original floppy discs actually still work. Shadowgate, Uninvited, Deja Vu I/II, and the Hitchhiker’s Guide all still working and playing.

all this talk about ai psychosis reminding me that I sorta made a game about it a while ago. Its called "Remember Places?" maybe check it out if it interests you, its p short and simple

👽 Our ShroomJam 2025 game is now LIVE 👽 For the last 7 days I have worked tirelessly to bring this 2.5D shoot-em-up to life! Play as Gnorts as he enters the twisted realm of Grey Leno and puts a stop to his show once and for all. ▼ Play for free on itch now ▼ sodaraptor.itch.io/gnorts-vs-th...

Really missing Godot 3’s drag and drop asset pipeline rn

Illusory's Wall's debut album, Polychora, is out with cover by me! (link to music following, it's rad creepy dungeon synth!)

Almost finished with round 1 of bee animations - all the primary movement, sword, and injury animations. Then I’ll get the controls tightened up and round 2 is swimming, climbing, and special actions, maybe a weapon or two, and I’ll be ready to start remaking the demo again. Still a ways off though

More attack animations

💥Rematch with the First Demo Boss, only with all the new mechanics and additions online! 🐐🔥 Oh yeah! I'm feeling it!!! #gamedev #lowpoly

Working on some attack animations at last. Part 2/2 of my camera devlog for itch is nearly done I’m just waiting on them to fix the issues with gifs.

🍬🎃SUGAR GHOULS IS OUT🎃🍬 I emerge from underground to bring you a new Halloween platformer I've been working on non-stop for the last 2 weeks. It's got pumpkins, it's got goblins, but most importantly, it has GHOST KID. So grab some candy, a controller, and have fun~ sodaraptor.itch.io/sugar-ghouls

Finally got around to posting a new devlog on itch about how I designed the new camera system and the decisions I made. I’m working on part 2, should be done soonish. Gifs aren’t working sitewide at the moment but hopefully they’ll get fixed soon. microtonalmatt.itch.io/beeknighted/...

House of Necrosis is OUT NOW on Steam! House of Necrosis features turnbased dungeon-crawling as well as a tank-controlled hubworld, complete with pre-rendered backgrounds! This is SURVIVAL HORROR MYSTERY DUNGEON 💀Buy the game now, 10% launch discount!💀 store.steampowered.com/app/2005870/...

Had a couple hours to myself last night so I finally fixed the last three bugs in Beeknighed’s camera system and chipped away at the animation list. These last two months of work have been rough and things won’t get easier for a while.

This creep is here to remind you that House of Necrosis releases in just 11 days (Oct 6th) on Steam! (💀Mystery Dungeon Survival Horror, please wishlist on Steam, thanks!💀) store.steampowered.com/app/2005870/...

picked up the first issue of the rebooted Heavy Metal magazine. I looked into the old magazine recently because it came up with recs I was looking for. I’ve got positive impressions on this new magazine, though not having been a reader of the past one in its time I can’t authentically compare.

Testing some animations I’ve been working on

Heartworm - the retro, fixed camera survival horror inspired game I have been working on for five years is out NOW on Steam. Please check it out if you're into that sort of thing! And if you enjoy it, leave a review as it really helps! Thank you store.steampowered.com/app/1257030/...

Finally making animations: twitch.tv/microtonalmatt

Super 10 Pin is out now on Steam and Itchio! 🎳Bowl like never before🎳 ⏬Links Below⏬

Y2ROLL is OUT NOW!!! 10% off until 25 July! I've worked on this game for about 2.5 years now, and I hope you all enjoy! #y2roll #GodotEngine #gamedev #n64

Finally making animations: twitch.tv/microtonalmatt

Maybe it’s just a deficiency in my programming skills but creating smooth transitions between states is my worst enemy. Also I was not prepared for just how complicated my player script has to be.

Back for my yearly Beeknighted update: Finally have something looking like a more polished camera. There's still work to be done but the core functionality is there and flexible for the future. It has: -Controller/Mouse mode -Auto Follow -Lock-on -Strafe -First-Person -N64 Controller compatibility

I finally got lock-on camera rotation working as intended. This was the big hurdle that was one of the reasons I decided to redo the camera in the first place. Hopefully I’ll get to some animations within the week and then I can finally post video evidence that it exists.

Here's my superman art! He's doing all the things we remember from the movie! ..right?

Managed to make Beeknighted’s camera targeting system functional again so a fully functional and polished camera is finally within reach

behold, the power of vertex color

Back to streaming camera development: twitch.tv/microtonalmatt

Dev stream tonight, probably around 8pm cdt

I thought I would try something different and buy a mystery box of comics. I’ve never read a comic ever so I thought it would be fun to give my uninformed first impressions. Open to my taste being called trash or told it gets better or recommendations for other series.

Got commissioned to paint a Shepherds team for Guild Ball

Today I discovered I accidentally made the main character 3.8m tall. That’s a 12ft tall bee.

For all my bluesky peeps, the Azaran demo is now live on Steam!!!🥳 Let me know what you think if you've played it, and feel free to leave a review! Thanks so much!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3769110/...

My hours at work are getting cut substantially for the next two months which stings a bit but ooough I can’t wait to get time to work on my games again. Gonna be a starving artist for a bit again (good)