Working on the design for the item bank! Getting all the details and features I want from it written down, then I'll draw a layout of the interface based on those needs. I want it to be as easy and snappy as possible to organize and manipulate your collection of doodads!

Shout outs to this soundtrack! Very Grabbus... it's got the vibe. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This image, which metadata indicates is from 2009, is the first drawing of what would become Morris and Grabbus!

Here's a video showing off the improved tiles for the world map in the newest version... if you're curious to see! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmnd...

Thinking on boss battles, a far off feature. There's two things I know I want each boss to have. 1. Makes use of weapons, using their aspects in their own way, adding variety to repeated attempts 2. Something that involves using the ability to grab, throw, and/or pull to help defeat the boss.

V0.2.5 is now live! store.steampowered.com/news/app/351...

New update will be today! Patch notes soon...

What they said! I'll be showcasing this game, among a couple others for my 2hr segment of the charity stream marathon!There will be donation incentives as well, for crafts, of different degrees of being hand-made! Come swing by! Schedule provided below #charity #Palestine #Lebanon #Jordan #Anera

A new update for Grabbus will go live by Saturday! I can release what I have now, but want to see if I have time to throw anything else in before the charity stream. These won't be the beefiest patch notes ever in terms of content, but the fixes to loot are significant!

Just had a good extended play session to get a feel for where balance is at with the new fixes and features! With the fusion potency preview and loot calculation improvements, Grabbus feels better than ever to play! I can safely say that the loot is now working as intended. For now...

Grabbus will appear on a charity livestream on Sunday the 11th around 1-3AM EST! tiltify.com/+flat-friend...

I've gotten all the world map tiles I wanted to rework fixed up. Already looks better than before between that and the new foliage! Also just found an oversight in the calculation for loot drop potency. It went up exponentially with difficulty... way too OP items! Fixed it! Normal loot! Patch soon!

This morning I started another pass on some the worldmap tiles to improve the ones that feel least-fitting. A few more of those and it'll more slick than ever! After a few of these smaller tasks on the to-do list and a testing session to give me an idea of where balance is at... a new patch!

In the next update, see a preview of the resulting potency of a fusion, with a warning symbol if one/ ! \ or both/! !\ of the items you have highlighted for fusion have a potency above your containment stat. Also just fixed a mini-worldmap bug caused by the rotation optimization I did earlier!

Just succeeded in isolating fusion potency calculation to its own function, used by the fusion script. But NOW can also be used to tell you what potency a item fusion is ABOUT to be, helping you to plan your combos better! I still need to add that info to the inventory UI later, but that'll be easy.

Looking at the item fusion code to see how I'd like to approach the rework of merged potency calculation. It needs to be extracted to its own function that can be used to predict fusion potency outside of the act of fusing. Doesn't look like it'll be too hard though.

I've decided on what list items I want to include for next minor patch. One that has been asked for: previews for item fusion potency level, and weapon fusion shot-patterns! It requires a slight rework of fusion code, but should be possible.

I'll be attempting to wrap up the new world map foliage sprites today! Later, they will have more uses, but for now, just cosmetic. I'll try addressing a couple other smaller to-do-list items ASAP and package that into the next minor patch. I want to push this out soon since it fixes a data error.

Heya! Been taking a bit of a break after college classes, got all A's! Just checking in to let you know that I'm still here and working toward the next update! It's still a question as to whether I can afford the next semester, but if I can't, I'll certainly be prioritizing back to Grabbus!

If you get a crash that says: "Data structure with index does not exist. gml_Script_game_database_refresh (line 29) gml_Script_config_reload (line 165) gml_Object_Game_Create_0 (line 168)" A fix has now been thrown in for the upcoming patch! Stay tuned!

Two more plant sets left to draw! Almost there!

And I'll reiterate, no matter how much I get delayed by college, Grabbus remains AI-free!!! No point in the process involves any input from a computerbrain. Real code and art only!

Status update: Things going well! Homework is still taking up a lot of my time, but I'm still trying to get a moment to finish up the rest of those plants for the world map. At least I'm making all A's and keeping up with my studies!

Why be a gummillionaire when you could be a grabbillionaire?!

Tonight's new plants!! 5 more to go!

Got into college! But don't worry, it's just a couple classes to start with. I still have plenty of time for drawing plants, and adding other bits of content too! I'm excited about the next few items on my to-do list after the plants are all drawn... Just letting you know development is still on!

Also just got around to properly testing the new spatial hash formula used by the infinite grid data, found plenty of collisions, so I'm switching to a better, maybe even faster formula! Now it has no hash collisions within a generous range around the origin! Bitwise operators can be useful...

Tonight I'll be marathon-ing as many of these plants as I can! Each one has five variations, so it takes a second. I've also written down names and lore for each plant as I go, gonna organize that into a section of my design docs.

I've been trying out Unicorn Overlord. I may have to steal some of this!

New mushrooms! Half of the biomes now have their "foliage" sprites done! They aren't very hard to make, so it shouldn't be much longer that I can finish these and move on with the to-do list.

Immediate to-do list: -Finish drawing plantlife for all map biomes -UI Backdrop for the build menu -When looting "pickup" type items, condense them with larger versions that are worth more, so that huge loot rewards dont cause a flood of items that slow down the game -First NPC, the Trader!

We did it! The angle vector lookup table for optimized map rotation WORKED! This optimization will appear with the next update, whenever that's ready... along with the other optimizations I did a few weeks ago to the "infinite data" fetching. Welcome us to the 60 FPS club! 🏅

Today I'll be working on more plants! A nice relaxing drawing session would be... nice right now...

Today, I'm adding support for font switching for other languages. Shouldn't take too much effort, in fact I'm already pretty much done adding it. It turned out to be a simpler thing than I assumed. Just need to source some good fonts. But more exciting, a Russian translation file is now on the way!

Great success! The profiler reveals that with the new array optimization, the game is 5-10% faster now than BEFORE the new lighting was even added. Applause is most welcomed!

I'll try switching from using a queue to an array for the lighting mask, it should eke out a good amount more performance. Every drop of FPS I can get!

I did it! A new selective lighting layer that allows buildings and other things to glow at night! And I got it running without *too much* of a performance hit. You may need to lower your map size by one or two notches, but it works! This is gonna look so cool with more buildings...

Visiting Paris!!!

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

Just managed a few things today! Got more building sprites! Added a lighting layer that allows buildings to erase shading over them in specific areas, to appear brighter at night To compensate for the performance hit, I did some extra optimization on GridMap data

A cool trick that has saved me a lot of UI dev time in Grabbus is the "time layer" concept built into the game's logic loop. I take direct control over what objects run their step code and when. Only objects matching the highest existing time layer value from ALL objects have their code run.

Coming soon... -Sylvia the Trader: Can be found in towers and will sell you random items or allow you to convert certain resources or currency into others for a markup. Duplidragon: Allows you to "favorite" a limited number of items by feeding them to him. Create copies for a fee.

Been meaning to do one of these!

With hard work and persistence, I now have this impossible-feeling opportunity to lift up others to make them a part of something significant. Each team member or contributor deserves a chance to shine - to be kidnapped into the creative world where they belong, if only for just a glorious moment.

Oh shoot, one thing I need to get on top of is adding new fonts for other languages. It is actually already possible to load a language file labelled for a variety of countries I built-in. The only thing missing is to have them switch to a new set of fonts, which will take some minor surgery.

A new little gif for the website!

www.Grabb.us Patch v0.2.4, the World Map Overhaul, has been released to the public! If you want a chance to provide feedback as the game improves, head on over to... store.steampowered.com/app/3516160/...

www.Grabb.us Patch v0.2.4, the World Map Overhaul, has been released to the public! If you want a chance to provide feedback as the game improves, head on over to... store.steampowered.com/app/3516160/...

Updated these buttons to be more translation-friendly with symbols and a tooltip rather than drawn-in text. Also made it more obvious that they are like "tabs" for switching modes.

The plants I'm drawing for the world map don't need detailed descriptions, but they are getting it anyway! I'm coming up with biology for each plant that will help establish how nature in Skixx works. Once I add the Skixx Codex to the game, you'll be able to find info like this inside!