Art for biomes is being a massive block... So I'm skipping the biomes for now. Going to finish the game with album-like display with options to add descriptions/journal entries on to shareable designs. Scrapbook style. Might add biomes later, once everything else is done. #indie #gamedev

What the crochet drawing game can do now vs how it started. #indie #gamedev #art #crochet 🧶

Well, in art progress today, I now have seven failed attempts at getting the vibe I like for the background. I was expecting this to already be done. Maybe the newest idea will look better in the game. We'll see. #indie #gamedev #art #crochet 🧶

Doodle. #indie #gamedev #art #crochet 🧶

I have clouds and ground ready. Going to put it together for a first solid version of the biome and see what needs to be fixed/added. #indie #gamedev #art

Full two minutes of doodling in my WIP crochet drawing game. #indie #gamedev #art #crochet 🧶

FINALLY making some progress. I was trying to do the whole environment as one thing. That was a mistake. I can make the little pieces separately and then bring them together in code. And here's a landscape. What the game can already do is pretty awesome and fun. #indie #gamedev #art #crochet 🧶

Starting work on shaders for the first biome. #indie #gamedev #art

Community results released for one of my game jam submissions. Some judging still pending. 17 out of 347 in creativity is pretty good. Awesome experience and got some great feedback for the future. matchstick345.itch.io/the-hidden-r... #indie #gamedev #jam #puzzle

Tried three backgrounds. Hated all of them. Thought I might have to procedurally generate them for a hot minute there but nope. They'll be hand-drawn assets with shader effects. And they will be shareable soon. In the meantime, here's two weird seahorses. #indie #gamedev #art #crochet 🧶

Added scaling. I will do the art today. I will totally have at least a half-decent version of the background today. It will happen. #indie #gamedev

Little pop happens when you move the designs. And every layer of the environment will put different lighting and color effects on the art... soon. as soon as I get the art done. Should've tried the teddy sooner. The squiggles made the idea look bad on this screen. #indie #gamedev #crochet 🧶

Today's doodle. I felt like something other than random curves were due. That background is all I have for backgrounds so far. They technically work as fore-mid-back ground except without any art. Will tackle that dragon tomorrow. #indie #gamedev #crochet 🧶

Small upgrades made for the biome. Saved designs can be assigned to foreground, midground or background parts of the environment. Got some technical issues worked out. Haven't started art yet. Art is scary. #indie #gamedev #art #crochet 🧶

Super basic first look. Saved designs can be stored and moved around on... this screen, which will eventually somehow turn into a beautiful live biome. I got this far. I can do that probably. #indie #gamedev #crochet 🧶

You can make custom brushes FROM custom brushes and end up with some really strange results. Yes, I'm procrastinating on art for the game by playing with the game more. Seems easier than wrapping my head around the problem of creating environments... #indie #gamedev #crochet 🧶

The custom brushes do lace aesthetic very well. Fun to look at. #indie #gamedev #crochet 🧶

Doodling with custom crochet brushes 🧶. Working on the first biome today. #indie #gamedev #art

More custom crochet brushes. Cannot stop playing with this feature. 🧶 #indie #gamedev #art

Custom stitch brushes are super fun to experiment with. #indie #gamedev #crochet 🧶

Now you can create whatever stitch you want and use it as your brush. #indie #gamedev #art #crochet 🧶

Cleaner UI. Next, adding the ability to make custom brushes. #indie #gamedev #art

Added scaling options. #indie #indiedev #gamedev #art

More doodling with the new animation. #indie #gamedev #art

Simple tween added to make everything pop. #indie #gamedev #art

More doodling. #indie #gamedev #art

Today's doodle. #indie #gamedev #art

Testing out a new brush. Looks good so far. #indie #gamedev #art

Progress. Gonna make maybe three more stitches, new trees, all the backgrounds and buttons. Long, slow art days coming up. #indie #gamedev #art

I was worried the game would be too weird or out of place in a sea of bullet hell games. The theme was invincibility after all. My first few ideas were combat-based too. Feedback has been awesome. matchstick345.itch.io/the-hidden-r... #indie #gamedev

Ok. Okay. Feedback's pretty good so far. Consensus: It's a lot of new mechanics to take on at the start but a fun, relaxing game overall. I need to learn how to explain things better. matchstick345.itch.io/the-hidden-r... #indie #gamedev

I figured it out finally!!!! Only took 20 tries. I only thought about quitting the project for like one day. Idk how well it shows in this quality but I got realistic stitches finally. #indie #gamedev #art

Sometimes art is fun. Other times you spend a whole day trying to get something just right and contemplate scrapping the whole game because of how much pain the main assets are causing. Such is life. #indie #gamedev

Back to this project again. Added rotation with each stroke. Little glitchy still. Also introduced this weird bug that just sort of happens now. No clue what's going on there. The spiral-looking things are not on purpose. Wrong rotation calculation somewhere... #indie #gamedev

GAME IS PLAYABLE!! Haven't submitted yet. I'll be playtesting and updating tomorrow as needed before I finally submit to the game jam. #indie #gamedev #puzzle matchstick345.itch.io/the-hidden-r...

Caught an embarrassing bug where every element was creating its own random seed instead of working with a single global seed to the solution. Broke the whole puzzle. Took me two hours to actually find out why results were just sometimes broken. Oops. #indie #gamedev

Doodling before I start finishing touches on the gems game. #indie #gamedev #art

Final final final version #indie #gamdev #art

Posted it and immediately hated thee shadows. Tried to fix them... #indie #gamedev #art

Cover art for the itch page. Almost done with this project!! #indie #gamedev #art

Today's doodle. 2 more days and I can return to fixing this prototype. I learnt so much from the other project and there's so much about this that I now need to change. Missed working on it. #indie #gamedev #art

New gem designs. I didn't like the last ones much. 2 more days and I have to submit this game. I feel like I have a million things still left to do. #indie #gamedev #art

Adding more descriptions and win/loss conditions finally. Music next! #indie #gamedev

Binge watching Dimension 20 again. (Unsleeping city season 2). 4 days left to submit to the game jam. It'll be fine. Everything's gonna be fine. I just have final touches (about a hundred of them) to add. I'm nervous about this one. #indie #gamedev

Fonts, music, and so so much bugfixing left. #indie #gamedev #puzzle

Woo-hoo!! Great result for two days of effort in one of my first projects. Overall rank 11 out of 72. Rank 1 in Innovation. #indie #gamedev #gamejam matchstick345.itch.io/rock-papers-...

Today's doodle-- snowfall. #indie #gamedev #art

Five hours to go for the result of this game jam. It's a rock paper scissors survival game. matchstick345.itch.io/rock-papers-... #indie #gamedev

Tiny steps at a time. Added all the currency logic. Added the new icons. Finetuned a few other things. #indie #gamedev #art

making more assets. almost done with this project. I have 5 more days to go and mostly just polishing left. Might replace some assets with better versions. #indie #gamedev #asset #art