More ship stuff! This is way closer to the finished thing! And I have been doing some serious redesigns on the Title Screen after seeing some solid ideas from Brendan. Excited to show folks that! #indiegame #indiedev #space #rpg

So what if warp travel involved chasing a receding event horizon from the perspective of the traveler? Cool thought that might make it into the game... something I threw together which I think is neat here. ^^ #warp #indiegame #indiedev #transience

Not a ton today to show, just a cool glitch logo animation and better quality sound capture of the sound sample that plays with it. Lots more cool stuff in the pipeline, though! #indiegame #indiedev #logo #darisadesigns

Ugh, who's ratty kitchen is this? At least the view is nice... and duct tape is airtight, right? #indiedev #indiegame #space #GOMBONE

Minor thing, but a lot of people requested the ability to skip past startup animations for the game. This lets you do that either with Esc on mouse/keyboard or the south face button on controllers. Just a little convenience, tweak! #indiegame #indiedev #UI #UX

The player ship is much farther along than a few weeks ago, when I posted some of the initial sketches! This is one of the mockups from a version with a general shape that I'm really happy with! #indiegame #gamedev #spaceship #lowpoly

Ben revised the music for the title screen a bit, and I think it sounds a good bit cleaner now. Still need to tweak some of the slide in motions, and the ship itself will be updated sometime next week. After that, more work on the combat system to come! #indiedev #gamedev #furry #rpg

Nothing big to today. Been working on a LOT of bug/polishing the last week. But I've done one thing that'll make a big difference! This is the dev view of voice mutation settings and phoneme counts for a race. More variety in conversation speech! #indiedev #indiegame #bleepbloops #rpgvoice

Been refining voices a bit more lately! Since the last time I posted anything with the Y'tori, I've cleaned their speech up a lot, and put some work into better understanding the sound board I'm using to generate voices. As before, different moods affect speech. #indiedev #indiegame #rpg #furry

The first look at Anne's Hynäe sprites! Not ready to reveal accesssories yet, and ship interior are still in the works... but say hello to Gombön! She is your rival (she is not your rival)! The main antagonist of of our story (she is actually quite empathic)! #indiegame #gamedesign #furry #rpg

Got temporary mood tags put together, allowing me to swap out the displayed mood of a character mid-line. This is nice because it doesn't actually affect their real mood, which can trigger various things. Also experimenting with different fonts! #indoedev #indiegame #furry #dialog

Please be patient with Sershel. It is so excited to finally get to do a good job for you. The last incident with the curse block was a fluke. This time will be great. #synth #indiegame #indiedev #furry #ohnoitwasnotgreat #toaster

I know this seems incredibly basic, but due to how I put together the graphics manipulation and processing... it was not. I present character sprites and background sprites which can be... FLIPPED HORIZONTALLY! I make problems for myself please help me. ;_; #indiedev #indiegame #synth #furry

We are redesigning the player ship, and these are some of the concepts for it! More of this to come as the process continues. We're trying to make it both true to the material that inspired Transience and distinct enough that it is instantly recognizable. #3dmodeling #shipdesign #indiedev #indiegame

Nothing huge today. Got the selection dialog much smoother/playing nice with multiple levels of selection. Also fixed a gross bug where it would show all available button choices for one frame, even the ones that were our of appropriate rendering range. #UI #furry #indiegame #indiedev

Nothing huge today. Got the selection dialog much smoother/playing nice with multiple levels of selection. Also fixed a gross bug where it would show all available button choices for one frame, even the ones that were our of appropriate rendering range. #UI #furry #indiegame #indiedev

Introducing the first sketches of the Hyäne! These are Anne's initial sketches, and I love the character you can already see in them. The Hyäne are not well like in most of the galaxy and largely unwelcome due to actions of their ancestors in the last few hundred years... #indiegame #sketch #concept

New conversational music from Ben, the composer from Transience! Just showing it off here with some actual conversational play. You can see how anything referenced in conversation is added to your knowledge base, and can be referenced in conversation afterward. #indiegame #indiedev #furry #adventure

I want to show folks what our Pixel artist, Anne, has to work with for examples of my thoughts on the races (Zoccoli here). On the left was what showed up in ship conversations before she came on board. The transformation into something actually good is amazing. ^^ #indiegame #indiedev #furry

Ok, I've heard what you're all asking for. You're bored of "game story" and "new assets." I know what you've all been... *really craving*. That's right. Platform and IDE integrations with the developer tools! I'm sorry, more interesting stuff soon! XD #indiedev #indiegames #devtools

Introducing the curse block filter! I thought I should offer a way to block curse words, and I settled on leaving them untranslated. I was going to turn it off by default, but ended up liking it. I might add in bleeps too, though they aren't actually speaking ... #indiegame #indiedev # furry #synth

Today I'll talk a bit about the Y'tori! We've already saw a few. They're an avian race, originating from the world Taima. They are very free spirited and open to long discussions of philosophy, religion, or which flowers to eat to most vivid colors melt down the walls. #indiegame #indiedev #lore

Nothing huge today, but I got text to play nice with transparent shaders that it appears behind. It's tiny, so I made the tab object huge here, but the sheen passes over the text, rather than the text sitting on top, as it was before. #indiedev #indiegame #UI #shaders

The alpha title sequence for Transience! I've been so excited to share this! If folks could share this post and check out the discord (discord.gg/C8FpnRW7f5 ) I would be so appreciative. This is when I start community building in prep for the demo and the Kickstarter. #indiegame #indiegame

Heyo, all! Tomorrow, I'll be releasing the alpha version of the Transience title screen tomorrow! This also marks the point where I'm going to try to boost socials more actively. It would mean so much to me if folks could share this and the discord link (in profile) tomorrow! #indiedev #indiegame

I seriously cannot wait to share all of these characters with folks! Ilverosë has a great story, and before it's over, I think players will feel a lot of different ways about her and the decisions she makes. She's a complex gal. #indiegame #indiedev #furry #furryart

And the final character portrait (for now)! Introducing Ilverosé! She is here, she is tired of everyone doing things complete wrong, and she is going to *fix* it. So stay out of her and her servant's way! #indiegame #indiedev #furry #furryart

And the completed portrait of S'asu! They're someone who seems to need a few lifetime's worth of help... might be something you can accomplish in Transience. There's one more character bio to show, and after that, we'll be showing off the beta Title Screen! #indiegame #indiedev #furry #furryart

Introducing S'asu! They're a Y'tori who saw something which they can't forget and can't possibly comprehend. You meet them along the way as you explore the galaxy in Transience. Finished portrait on Monday! #furry #furryart #indiegame #indiedev

Button glyphs in text now auto update when a change in control is detected! This was a fun one to implement! Oh, and you can also turn translations on or off at any time in game (provided that you have the right translation module...) #furry #furryart #indiegame #indiedev

Integrating graphics per controller/keybord and mouse. Nothing's automated yet, but that comes next! Any time a different input is detected, all icons should shift to the appropriate graphic. #indiegame #indiedev #menus #ui

And here's the finished portrait of Brin'kif! This will be appearing on the title screen, but I was excited to show it off now that one of the big players is visually fleshed out! Artwork by Anne #indiegame #indiedev #furry #transience

New star twinkling patterns. Diagonal twinkling for stars larger than extra small, and now they can twinkle for more than one cycle at a time. Just little things to make space backgrounds more interesting! #indiegame #indiedev #transience #animation

Introducing Brin'Kif! This li'l Jackalope is the first face you see after a long, LONG trip to a new galaxy... He's a chipper bastion of positivity and endless force of will. I'm so excited for everyone to get to meet him and all the others! Sketch by Anne. #furry #furryart #indiegame #indiedev

Introducing Brin'Kif! This li'l Jackalope is the first face you see after a long, LONG trip to a new galaxy... He's a chipper bastion of positivity and endless force of will. I'm so excited for everyone to get to meet him and all the others! Sketch by Anne. #furry #furryart #indiegame #indiedev

First big character reveal tomorrow! Going to be introducing Brin'kif, a big player in the story of Transience! #indiegame #indiedev #furry

This is the mockup of the Title Screen! Right now, Anne has begun work on the logo and character drawings, Tye is working on the player ship model, Ben is hitting the title music hard, and I'm working on the mechanics of the screen itself. Exciting! #furry #furryart #indiegame #titlescreen

Dynamic nebula stuff complete… very excited to show it off! Other atuff queued up in the mean time, though. One more piece of the title screen complete!

Design concepts for the player's ship. I think this is ultimately what we're going with! Designs by Ty, who's doing 3D art and modeling for the game. There's another sheet of prototype designs which eventually led to this one that I might share down the road. ^^ #indiedev #indiegame #art #artdesign

As promised! Check it out! Seeded random positions for stars visible in each star system, bumped slightly as you move from one planet/location to the next in that system... nice, clustered positions via some Poisson Disk Sampling + jitter... #graphics #indiedev #indiegame

Dynamic stars! I whipped these up today and am pretty happy with how they look (though the outer pixels are squished... gotta figure that out!) On Wednesday I'll post the look of the full starfields as they appear in gameplay and some commentary on them. #indiedev #gamedev #wip

I unfortunately can't post a video of resolution/fullscreen changes because that makes OBS lose its mind... but you can do that now! One more basic feature added. Also! Antialiasing is working now! Just need to add that as an option to change in the menu here... #indiedev #indiegame #graphics #UI

Well this one took me a bit! The Engineering menu is mostly done now! Some additional graphics in the lower right panel later, but those assets don't yet exist. I hope that the glitch-text looks like in-universe, and not just buggy? I tweaked it for a good minute. #indiegame #indiedev #space #UI

A new animated background Anne made for the Helpers! They love conversation pits! Please be careful! Organics seem to break their ankles around the a lot! Sorry for low resolution, posting while on the road. ^^ #gamedev #indiegame #furry #synth

Engineering menu has all basic functionality here... just need to toss on a bit of polish and I can move on! Summer stuff is starting to pop off, and getting distracted here and there, but progress continues! #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #ui

Took a bit of a break from menu work to implement lightening layer support for my sprite shaders. Here's a shot of a helper with both holographic hair and a floating HUD in front of its face. Minor thing, but it gives some cool freedoms with designs! Sprites all by Anne! ^^

Everything takes longer than it should. Blorf. Anyhoo!! More work on the Engineering menu. It's slowly getting to a place where I want it to be! Learned a few more Blender basics, so I might eventually go back and apply some of that to prior interfaces as well eventually. Blue menus for engineering!

Everything takes longer than it should. Blorf. Anyhoo!! More work on the Engineering menu. It's slowly getting to a place where I want it to be! Learned a few more Blender basics, so I might eventually go back and apply some of that to prior interfaces as well eventually. Blue menus for engineering!

Workin' on nuts and bolts! I was hoping to have a preview of a finished menu for you today, but got tied up with all the bits'n'bobs of code! So here's the sketch that I'm working from! When I do post the it, you'll get to see how it goes from sketch to complete! #game #indie #UI #indiegame

No huge update today! Just worked a bit on revamping some of the way that sound effects are handled in Transience. Streamlining things a bit and making it easier for default settings to exist for standard items and menus. Music teasers soon! #indiegame #coding #games