Alleviating a longstanding play-tester gripe about illegible text, with auxiliary large text that shows what you're hovering over. Great that fonts persist between carts so can offload onto title cart. Apologies to those subjected to font crimes. #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Working on title screen with added attract screen. Ironically, optimizing the title cart as it bloated into being larger than main game. It still needs a lot code to display the tutorial/attract screen, though not the second player/win screen. Hmm, third cart the charm? #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev

Touching up the patron sprites. Also found the space to add four more! #pixelart #pico8

Working on the tutorial with an automated walkthrough. Seemed to be getting basics across at last play-test though clunkily. So cutting down to focus on just the essentials! #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev

Will be play-testing the latest over at @wonderville.nyc tonight! The dungeon denizens are judging books by their cover and there's more counters to help! #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev

Testing if can support widescreen. Seem to be keeping silky smooth 30fps after: 1. Simplifying a costly palette function call for each book to a poke 2. Caching the shelf labels. 3. Making book sprites draw less blank space So uh, widescreen co-op seems to be a go. woot #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev

Working on a post jam update to my library sim Libryinth. Now featuring: two player mode! Testing out ideas for difficulty, such as a timer and complex requests. #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev

You know what Balatro was missing? Gacha. Prototyping out something. #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

The car picks the driver and the driver screams. munro.itch.io/driving-instruction #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev #pico1k

D E S C E N D munro.itch.io/immortal-coil #pico1k #pixelart #gamedev #pico8

Made couple bug fixes and uploaded to Lexaloffle so feel free to check out my tiny librarian sim! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=151... Also thanks all who voted in the jam! #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev

"From Rust to Ash" is out! Roguelike Auto-battler made in #pico8. Go check it out at lokistriker.itch.io/rust #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

My submission to #lowrezjam is out now! Organize a library and help your fellow denizens find books in this dungeon crawling librarian simulator: LIBRYINTH. Play it now: munro.itch.io/libryinth #pico8 #gamedev #pixelart

Added a checkout stamp to catalog cards, a concession to avoid walking all the way over just to find an empty gap where a book should be! Also polished up the animation so you can now flip to your heart's content. #pico8 #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦. Working on the request system, and added more denizens of the Libryinth. #pico8 #pixelart #lowrezjam #indiedev

Made a title screen while work on the data for the random book title generator. #pico8 #indiedev #pixelart #gamedev

Worked on an info screen today with a catalog card for target book and see the cover of currently carried book. Also added a friendly skeleton patron since a drop-off box seemed a bit impersonal! #pico8 #pixelart #indiedev #lowrezjam

Started on a raycast game for #lowrezjam over weekend. Got a special rendering system working. Shelf sprites are generated on the fly in unused space, so each is unique. Started making the basic retrieval task system, moving towards a tiny library sim. #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev

Messing around with parallax pseudo 3D. Tiny konbini shop sim anyone? #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

The question of day: is this too many grenades? The resounding answer: "n o".

Visiting Toronto then so hope to say hi!

Fixed up the modding system so it can detach stuff and works with rotation correctly. Now you can add a billion attachments to a pistol and turn into an oversized behemoth. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #picotron

Basic combat! Starting with active time battle system this time. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev

Added a quick reload system. Might keep some of the process manual though. Art break: added unloaded weapon sprites, liking the extra mechanical detail each adds. #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

The abbreviations are making fun of me again.

Had a bad idea: weapons also have an inventory for ammo. Inventories all the way down! Bug of the day: can fire empty casings as well. Use the whole bullet! Does open up to non ejecting guns like break action shotguns. #gamedev

Playing a lot of Deepspace Emporium, which has such a great core loop that made me straight up jealous enough to pick up development again. Decided need to hone in on inventory as sole mode of interaction, then build the game loop around it. #pixelart #picotron #indiedev #gamedev

The Dead Ring. munro.itch.io/thedeadring The dame left before you could offer a drink. The gesture was as empty as the bottles under your desk. All that lingered was a thick haze of perfume, smoke, and a note with a scrawled number. #tweettweetjam #tweetcart #pico8 #pixelart Code in replies:

The world has been fragmented, reunite it one merge at a time! munro.itch.io/lucky-7 #tweettweetjam #indiedev #pico8 Code in replies:

Messing around with a control panel thing. I wish Steam had a tag for diegetic/tactile interfaces, so many good ones out there (PVKK my newest wishlist). And virtual desktop tag. And little guy piloting big machines. Sigh... simulation tag they remain. #picotron #pixelart #gamedev

Although originally released in the Japanese and European markets, Sushi Belt had a less well known North American release called Burger Belt. It sold terribly. (added a third language mode called USA. kind of hard mode cause recipes make no sense.) #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

Doing stress testing to track down bugs on duplication and placement. Since cig packs currently cycle between open and closed when destroyed, they overtake the other items.

Working on the save system for longform testing and avoid later headaches with structure. Since can only save trees, on save I prune the data, then on load feed the data back into same init functions and regen the non-persistent values with default values. #picotron #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

Tightening up store interactions and item transfer logic. Under the hood, switching to Picotron's gui.lua for the UI. Debating converting inventory itself to gui. I want it to be scrollable for the ground/stores and gui has a lot of that logic built in. #picotron #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev

Implementing shops and loot tables. Also terrible knockoff firearm names. I like Stoneshard's loop of buy supplies->dungeon delve->loot valuables->sell for upgrades and resupply. The way supplies gets used up opens up space for vendor trash works very well. #picotron #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev

Testing out palette swapping for day/night cycle. Seems intrusive so might go for a custom dark draw palette and/or fading the colors more gradually. Enjoying having more purple shades by default, Pico-8's palette is very limited in that department. #picotron #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

WIP title screen. Got combat transition from the overworld down and did rebalancing on the survival stats today. Having a keyboard for hotkeys makes actions real quick to preform! Noticed M1911 is oversized to other weapons so made accurate Glock to compare. #picotron #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

Basic combat encounter prototyped! Tiny detail: firing guns produces shell casing you can pick up. Eventually thinking will use them to craft new ones or sell to a merchant who collects them.🤔 #picotron #pixelart #gamdev #indiedev

Starting to prototype combat, decided to make it turn based, was debating between menu-based or full on tactical movement. I figure combat serves the survival and inventory management, so decided to go with quicker menu-based. Happy new year! #picotron #indiedev #pixelart #gamedev

Finishing edits to Sushi Belt to send off to Magfest usb compilation. Added an attract screen. Since its pico8, I can't fit a whole video so did the next best thing: record inputs and then play back them back with same srand seed. Perfect replication! #pico8 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Implemented basic scavenging, random walk npcs and an equipment panel. Also a minimap! Picotron's map tile scale option makes them super easy. #picotron #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

Improving UX for the inventory and doing a mini stress test with a bunch of items. Turned out quick sort was hogging CPU so switched to insertion sorting. Works great now, tackling the equipment system next! #picotron #gamedev #pixelart #retrogaming

Messing around with Picotron over winter break. Making a Neo-Scavenger style survival sim. Pro tip: always eat a balanced diet, such as cans of tuna and chugged water! #picotron #gamedev #pixelart #screenshotsaturday