Here's my submission for the #monstercrowndesigncontest 👀 I made a much more detailed sprite of my Lil'gye monster for this

Been following the development of this game for ages! 👀 Can't wait to finally play it! I got it on Switch :)

HP update idea? Maybe change it to 'constitution' and have it sort of like exp, except you gain 1 constitution exp every enemy turn as if taking a hit makes you a tiny but stronger. Now would your HP raise on it's own or upon level up? Would ConEXP reset each level?

Lego have #Spiderverse minifig blind boxes, and mini F1 blind boxes 👀 one of the F1 cars matches Spider-Byte perfectly, and that lead me to making SF1der-Man #Spidersona

I forgot I intended to make a fish enemy for on the beach haha

I wonder if I can make an NPC that tells you what kind of class you are based on your two highest stats? Like melee and magic is a battle mage, ranged and stealth is like a spy or something

⭐Master of None v0.30 Update⭐ New story content New characters, and enemies New sound effects Levels, HP, EXP, and damage reworked Status move fixes Step counter fix Napping added 👇follow the link to play👇 binarynine.itch.io/masterofnone...

Literally on the verge of an update. I just need to balance one boss fight 👀

I THINK it's done? I'll give it a few more playthroughs and see how it goes Somehow the newest quest was more bug free than the other quests? Almost makes me wonder how buggy the previous releases were...

3/4 quest lines are fully play tested and balanced 😭 Getting so close to an update release!!

Playtesting has been going well! I've got a good enough system for what boss' stats should be when you encounter them. Base 5 stats +1 per level above 5 spread amongst their stats. This keeps them a few levels above the player, but the player has more stats because of the intro quiz so it evens out?

Weird to think this was a year ago? Gotta bring it back for Sabrina's Halloween performance

I had my first misingno. style glitch in MoN!! When you take a step in an encounter area, the counter waits until the step is done, but it runs the step counter one tile outside of the area and sets the encounter group to 0 too. You could encounter a Thnake sprite with Pininchilla stats!

Some real nasty bills have hit me and I find myself short a couple hundred to see me through next paycheck. Opening five commission slots, payable via PayPal. A full character render will not exceed $80, other stuff negotiable. Can do characters, robots, whatever the hell. DM VIA DISCORD: @ape-ahab

Important MoN update: You can take a nap

Brought my 3DS with a copy of MoN's rom on it to work 👀 gonna play test during my break

I finished Pokemon Legends ZA's story 👀 Maybe now I'll get back to game dev

I also had an idea for a little pet you can get. For the player it'd be essentially a vpet. You'd get an enchanted snow globe called a Foe-Globe and you can capture a wild creature in it. Got the idea from my current Digimon vpet hyperfixation, and how you can keep a fish in Legend of the River King

Damage calcs are all done :) Was a mix of the engine's rounding, and not having enough brackets 😅 and at some point I had the wrong variable set as the calc's output. Was a mess

This is a reminder to myself to x10 stats in the damage calc and ÷10 the result to get more accurate damage outputs instead of having rounding happen in the middle affect the result 👍

I've noticed all of my enemy damage calcs end up 4 or 0??

Was thinking about low/med/high attacks like on fighting games and thought "what if I added speeds to combat. Like you select before a battle fast/med/slow where fast gets you two attacks but at a lower strength. Med is normal, and slow is stronger defence

I have an idea for an NPC that sells wooden wards And another who calls him out for trying to sell shields at a premium

I THINK I'm at a point where it's just adjusting encounter rates and exp yields so really I've just got to play my own game and see what levels I end up at certain checkpoints Also saving works now 🙌

So my step counter isn't counting steps? It only counts each time the player's direction changes. I'll fix that next

I'm still struggling to wrap my head around this because it's not just a simple colour swap. If the image is too similar in colour it will just assign two colours as one. Sprites saved with colours 3 and 4 get merged into just 4 ;-;

If I were to make my game in colour mode, I'd have to redo ALL the battle sprites because the background is colour 3, and I leave colour 3 as empty on the sprites to show through. I'd have to change the background to colour 1 and edit all the spites to have that colour missing to show through ;-;

I figured out how palettes work 😅

Turns out the calc on the stat I'd use to test the new damage in the game was incorrect and was what a combo calc would look like 😅 had to undo a bunch of changes once I realised haha

I kept going 🧍‍♂️ stat/damage calcs are completely redone. Just need to copy it all for enemy attacks Next update will be big 😅 and to think it was just the next story beat for the longest time. Now it's so much more

I remade the sprite I lost when PS crashed 😓 This is Tarantu-Lad. He's my #spidersona from ages ago. My Reels feed has been showing me heaps of Spiderverse clips so I was in a Spider-Man mood haha. I'll probably make him a gladiator further down the line #pixelart #gameboy #gbstudio #retrorpg

I made a whole sprite and then photoshop crashed and I lost it all... What is the point of having auto recovery set up if it doesn't actually save anything?

I think I've done it. But with this comes having to balance, and possibly working out better damage and stat calcs...

I'm going to be driven mad. This is my pepe silvia

I need to remember to check my other feeds on here instead of just the one 😅

Experience calculations are so tough

They're just lil'guys #pixelart #gbstudio #gameboy #retrorpg

Inspiration struck yesterday and I ended up making my biggest sprite yet. It's my blue relentless Bileat from @monstercrown.bsky.social I can't get enough of this game and it's the one that really made me start making my own game #pixelart #monstercrown

I'm having trouble getting perspective done on a castle-like tower. Pixel art is hard when there's angles involved 😅

Finally started working on the next zone 👍

New enemy idea: Uniquehorns They're unicorns but their horns grow in different ways that dictate that combat style. Sharp, slashing horn for melee, Thick, bludgeoning horn for body, Thin, casting horn for magic, Tiny horn for stealth, How do I represent ranged as a horn?????

What's funny is I put a sign at the current end point of MoN to say "that's everything so far" and I just realised because I never finished the cave for that release, I didn't add the triggers to go through it meaning no one can actually get to the sign haha Anyway I finished the cave

I encountered a ??? when filming a clip to show off the newly added player combat SFX 😲 #pixelart #gameboy #gbstudio #retrorpg`

I added sound effects to the player's attacks, that's 15 different sound effects, and then when you combo attacks it will play the effect for the first and then the second move and it sounds so good!!

Found some sound effects packs 👀 I think the next update will have sound effects added for various things. I think attack types having different sounds will help differentiate and identify types

I want to add another sort of level to stats. Like if you get magic to a certain level it unlocks another tier which changes the attack description and makes it more powerful than just your magic stat. Or maybe after certain story beats you unlock this next tier through training with that character

I am still kicking ✌️ No progress on MoN has be made haha. It's been hectic irl

✨Master of None v0.21 Update✨ Bug fixed where start menu didn't work in later/newer scenes. Experience and level rework. Experience needed to next level is your current level x 15. We'll see how this goes Dev log: binarynine.itch.io/masterofnone...

Found a bug where the start menu isn't appearing in later scenes of the game in it's current state. The bug is I forgot to code it... 😇

I realised I had stat obstacles for Melee, Body, and Magic but not for Stealth and Ranged Melee is slicing a dead tree Body is squeezing past thorny vines Magic is dispelling crystals Stealth is disarming a trip wire Ranged is shooting a target to knock it down