Another video progress report after 12 years. I wanted to show off 2 of 3 re-writes that I worked on for the past couple days. (Footage by my bud, Huisti.) youtu.be/tp2K-RDR-4c #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamemaker

In honor of Sonic Rush's 20th anniversary, we dug into the archives and found some original concept art of Blaze the Cat! Enjoy!

If you missed it, for Rush’s 20th anniversary, we put out a new demo with a bunch more content! We’ll be going on break for the holidays, but we’ll be back at it soon! And we hope you’ll all be here when we get back.

Check out our new Overworld HUD! Pretty cool looking, right? We're definitely going to further tweak the animations and polish it all up later, but what matters now is another core component of the gameplay is already implemented - we're moving at a great pace! youtu.be/SCEzPu4iqhk

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Addin' full Spanish translation with the help of my bud, Huisti. This (plus some other shit) is the current progress done on simple words. (No dialogue changes for now.) #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamemaker

Makin' semi-progress on the Story Mode again. I made a bunch of black 'n' white versions of a lot of the colored UI elements so they fit the aesthetic that the MIND area has. #indiegame #indiegamedev #pixelart

I just did. SO much pixel art in the past hour and a half.

I need to start adding stupid comments in my code again.

Finally got enough visual progress to show this off. I'm completely re-writing the character select menu. It's less messy (visually), all the characters appear instead of simply switching them, and overall it feels better to use. Left: New Right: Old #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamemaker

Been a minute. Started working on some visual improvements. Namely, rn, OTHERTOWN Night 1 no longer has a giant wall of stars. OTHERTOWN's BG altogether has better parallaxing as well. #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamemaker #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

still working, just on pixel art >:) #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart

New TBAHS update out now. It ended up bein' a bigger update than I thought. It's also up on itch as well. sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showc... kappa-nerd.itch.io/the-boy-and-... #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamemaker

Did a lil' thing that I've been wantin' to do. Doin' a Rush Trick Finale now has my 3 cats jump in celebration. Currently, they have 4 formations that they could jump in. (Inspired by the animals jumping from the same mechanic in Sonic Rush.) #indiegame #indiegamedev #pixelart

Got a LOT of the score functions done today. All that I gotta do now is set the score requirements for each stage, which I'll do later. #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamemaker

Been doin' some stuff. Decided the Speed Stages could get a gameplay glow-up to incentivize more proactive engagement. Inspired by ULTRAKILL. (Only got the HUD done. None of the new gameplay mechanics.) #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamemaker #pixelart

Hope y'all enjoy the SAGE demo for TBAHS. I've got quite a bit planned for the near-future of this game. But for now, gonna take a lil' break.

Workin' on a pre-SAGE patch again. Originally wasn't gonna, but then I got the trick sound effects from Sonic Rush and I just NEEDED to put 'em in. It'll also include 1 extra thing.

Made a longer SAGE trailer for my game. Go check it out. youtu.be/KRWEvbwKei4 #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamemaker #SAGE2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwZd... THE SHOWCASE TRAILER IS LIVE! GET IN HERE

SONIC RUSH RERUN - COMING TO SAGE 2025!!!

I hope you're also ready to ride the wind! The SAGE 2025 Showcase Trailer drops soon! Keep an eye out!

Went and got somewhat old footage so you guys can hear one of the new tracks in full as this level's track is one of my favorites that I composed. (Gameplay by my bud, Huisti.) I'll see y'all at SAGE in 3 days. #indiegame #indiegamedev #SAGE2025 #sonicrush youtu.be/6-E2QY1t4xI

New goal thing. It changes based on the character you're playing too. #indiegame #indiegamedev #pixelart #gamemaker

Workin' on some post-SAGE stuff. The current build of the game uses Sonic Rush's Goal Ring, but I decided to work on my own that changes based on the character you're playing. Got Kappa and Sarah's stuff done. #indiegame #indiegamedev #pixelart

You got less than 8 hours left before entry and trailer submissions close for SAGE 2025! We've been getting an explosion of new submissions all morning! sonicfangameshq.com/forums/ams/s...

Forgot to say anything about, but I made a Fiverr account. You can now commission me for hand-drawn art, pixel icons, and video game music from there. For the music and art, there's more examples through Google Drive in each of their descriptions. www.fiverr.com/s/5rBQRev #commissions

Just put in some final touches for the SAGE demo and I got my trailer ready. I'm pretty much good to go.

That Sonic Rush Rerun teaser was fuckin' bonkers. I can't wait to see where this project heads towards.

Made a little update today No cat's were harmed in the making of this animation, except Malo. #pixelart #ドット絵 #art #indiedev #gamedev

I'll be seein' y'all at SAGE. #SAGE2025 #indiegame #indiegamedev

Originally planned to have 1 new level for SAGE demo, but I really wanted my nighttime versions of the day tracks to be in as well, so I made some night assets and fucked around with the hue. So y'all get 2 new levels for SAGE. OTHERTOWN (Night) Level 1. #indiegame #indiegamedev #pixelart #gamemaker

A full video of OTHERTOWN Level 1. youtu.be/ksnJltMihqo #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamemaker

First look of OTHERTOWN Level 1. #indiegame #indiegamedev #pixelart #gamemaker

Been keepin' my mouth shut and sayin' nayfin for a good bit, but I've been hard at work on the new level. Its basic level design and gimmicks are completely done and I'm about to start tiling the layout. By far the longest level in the game at the moment. #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamemaker

New icon commissions are up. Request icons in the style of my indie game's life icon, inspired by Sonic Rush's life icon. #commissions #opencommissions #pixelart #art

People really seemed to like these. I might open up commissions for people to ask me to make these type of sprites. They're not hard to make at all, so I can price 'em pretty cheap, and they're completely yours once you're handed 'em, so you can do whatever you want with 'em.

I'm so tired I haven't gotten good sleep in days #yumenikki #ゆめにっき #KIKIYAMA #indiegame #pixelart #art

Sketchin' up some concepts. The most difficult thing for me is makin' Hometown's environment lively through buildings and NPCs. I'll figure out the building shit, but I'm damn-near completely dense on NPC designs. #indiegame #indiegamedev #sketch

New V0.2.6 patch. Many changes, saving system upgrade, and various bug fixes. This SHOULD be the last update that forces save data deletion. itch: kappa-nerd.itch.io/the-boy-and-... Newgrounds: www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/... GameJolt: gamejolt.com/games/the-bo... #indiegame #indiegamedev #indie

I should be able to release the patch sometime tomorrow. It might take a bit 'cause I also gotta test it on GX Games. (With the best of my laptop's abilities.) This patch is bigger than you think, but smaller than the Rush Update, since it revamps a lot of the more technical stuff.

The illustrious Saturday. I don't have anything in video format to show, but I got a couple things. #indiegame #indiegamedev #GameMaker #ScreenshotSaturday

Boosted Speed. Whenever you have boosted speed from the boost powerup or from springs, you can attack enemies by rushing into them! #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #indiegame #gamemaker #gameboy #screenshotsaturday

Currently changin' up each of the save and load systems. The old one was God-awful because the game would crash upon trying to get new data that doesn't exist inside your old files. I've already changed this with the options code and it seems to be workin'.

Started playin' Pizza Tower a couple days ago. Needless to say, now the game's inspired my game a bit more beyond pixel animation. What's the inspiration? Idk.

While workin' on fixin' a buncha stuff and overall makin' things better, I added a new thing: Dash Pads. Simply, they launch you at a character's max speed in the direction its facing. Blue = Slower Orange = Faster + Automatic Speed Break Mode #indiegame #indiegamedev #pixelart #GameMaker

hi redirect your attention to this post please, the other one failed 🙏🏼 @kappanerd.bsky.social

New rank sprites and new health bar. (Both inspired by Sonic Rush.) #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamemaker #pixelart

You should check out the new opening that we've made for the game! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1EK...