more from this Ahra narrator

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title screen randomly displays from those drawings I did a while ago, these ones made me happy lol

deep in the UI mines trying to make a passable end-game summary screen. I think it's the last real screen to make for the time being though

another tablet for the long weekend

Cover for Esca - Thalassophobia Out now, go check it out 👉: escaband.bandcamp.com/album/thalas...

once the starting options are squared up and well-fleshed it will be a good sign the demo is ready I think

from the tablet of ahra, throwing some color on the "gate of death"

not playable until these tabs are filled out a bit

I do this

the humble face of victory

paused....

expanding the PoA batform into a playable thing

adding in more neutral items to achieve some good variegated pools --- teeth, bones, coins, gems

glory to the fighters

again with the combinational summary, getting to a size that is nearly presentable I think

inspired by one of my players

Added item drops to my nameless #roguelike game. I have the basic map generation set up and working, so now I am updating the gameplay. Here are a couple of health boosts dropped by some recently dispatched enemies...

thinking about star-apes...

still need some more variety with neutral factions but wanted to check out the general zoomed out map vibes

doing reptilian stuff

Finally finished this bad boy. "The Hurricane" 22" x 6" Oils and Digital

until the last syllable of recorded time man

jumping around between different areas, everything needs icons haha

so much stuff from path of achra to riff on via the chaos of history, here is a venite perhaps

populating hoverable info elements

buttons and lines, wish I wasn't keenly aware of the days it can take to make a screen like this feel ok

My advice to game devs is to not follow posting trends and instead show off weird shit about your game. Everyone loves when you can do weird shit.

my unbeatable Valr

checking in on the computer players

got excited when I remembered there need to be ape factions

in the course of making these "acts" I'm realizing how much tech-trees function atmospherically. Even if it's supposed to be general to any faction the flavor is still important, icons, elemental categorizations etc. It establishes a lot of the ambient character of the world

for the initial sketch adding Praise Humbaba! and Praise Mardok! into the category of life

I was welcomed to their meal of spiced eagle-flesh, and given water for my clattering gourds, and we partook in the smoking tree, whose tangy sprigs climbed the mountain-wall in the soft lavender of the emptying light, light that walked through the stones like a person, a friend.

rat-kind, fallen to lostness

part of the "world generation" is the computer doing turns before the player appears

Damn! This one?

have to cook up a bunch of skill trees before pinning down the demo version

adding these guys in reminded me that I've been thinking about the flame swordsman for 20 years

more folk for the Acts - once these all get entered in I'll have some cool little tech trees to show

a cyclops of mehtar

beasts were a fun entry point but now I want to do the expected plant stuff

added them in as one of the "act paths" available to anyone, which I'm thinking can function as ways to establish the atmospheric texture of the world as well -- the Beasts are about hordes of tough units, gaining food, enhancing allied armies, and destroying your own cities

thinking about "beasts" as ancient illustrations, in anti-taxonomy, inchoate form or as the fervent aspect of Life

when your life is vitalized by the invati 248 times

Rightsizing my team of monkeys due to rising typewriter costs and sunsetting Hamlet at Act I Scene II

some poison vibes

more UI work, clicking to move along a path

A new dev I’ve been following just put this out in early access, it’s got really cool science-fantasy sensibilities and is a fully traditional roguelike for anyone interested. The speed at which they work is also very inspirational