Worked on the static effect for conversation startup and ComsTalk stuff a bit. Instead of wiping up, which I always thought looked weird, it slowly fades now. I did leave just a bit of the effect to give more of an analog feel to the communication. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

A planet in orbit follows its delicate and mathematically perfect orbit to serene music. (First pass at planet gen! Wish I had gone with URP in the first place... had to hop over to it today and it was a pain). #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Very much wish I had started with the URP for graphics in the first place... losing so many hours to converting. ^^; All for the planet stuff, though. And this will allow me to have access to other cool aftereffects as well.

The scan menu exists in alpha form! Obviously much more polish to do here, but it's something. Also refined what buttons look like when deactivated a bit... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Had to scrap a bunch of work on the Scanning Menu today after realizing it wouldn't work. X| It just be like that sometimes. It'll be cool when it's done, though! ^^ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Getting back to work on the cockpit mode, and working on some of the menu systems now.... here's what it looks like from way outside the typical player view when some of them pop in and out. #gamedev #indiegame #indiegame

Still a lot of boring internal work going on, but I'm figuring out what the scanning menu will look like in the cockpit as I swing back to work on that area of the game... #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #hyperadvancedbrick

No media to share today, but as a little update, the short cut scene for New Game now exists in its beta form, and I’m now moving back to battle mechanics and CockpitUI work, including System Navigation. #gamedev #indiegame #indiegame

Zap zap! Electricity is what ships run on, right? So this is probably a good thing? Look at all those good volts doing what they're supposed to! #indiegame #indiedev #spaceship #malfunction

As peaceful as this feels, I can't help but feel that something's gone wrong... #indiegame #gamedev #music #space

I KNOW this doesn't seem a lot different than before, but the intentionality and power of the tools I'm using now are something more than just random values XD. The Jackalopes are the first race to have a voice mutation system that I would even classify as beta. #indiegame #gamedev #jackalope

More work on the voice system. Learned a ton about synthesizers, and slowly going through data that looks like this, reworking it into something much more sane... Hope to have something good to listen to very soon! #indiegame #indiedev #synthesizers

Spent the last few days working on pre-cacheing assets to prevent places I had found where it would lag things visually... Not a lot of visuals to show from this unfortunately, but it will ensure the game is nice and smooth! Currently working on the New Game intro sequence...

1/2 Working on the Zoccoli writing script for their interstellar language of trade, Overspeak. This is my first time trying to make more traditional letters, and a script font, at that! It's definitely a bit tricker than I had anticipated! #indiegame #fonts #scripts #conlang

Finished the language font for The Congregation! I'm really happy with how this one came out! I kind of wanted to make it fully tessellating, with all of the characters fitting vertically into one another perfectly, but there's no good way to do that. #language #indiedev #indiegame #conlang

Not a ton today! You can see that another working version of the new ship is in the game now, and I'm making more progress with controller integration/iconography, even if controls change, as I'm doing in the video. #indiedev #indiegame #UI #UX

Preview image for a member of The Congregation! This is a race based on bees/ants, and I really think they're a lot of fun! The look you see here will be a little different in the game since they are an energy race, and will be slightly transparent... #indiegamedev #indiegame #bee #ant

And the revamped Title Screen! This is by no means complete, but after some great mock-ups from Brendan and the new player ship he's made, this is way closer to a final for this screen! Very exciting! #indiegamedev #indiegame #indiedev

There is a chance that She is not the final boss. There is also a chance that her ship is not the best ship. A possibility. She is, however, the lady that keeps popping up, no matter how much you wish she wouldn't... #indiedev #indiegame #furry #hyena

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