Taking a small detour to make the game handheld, so I can hand it to locals for testing...

Getting that feeling that I might have just added the most important item in the game

Was hunting for sound effects when I realised I have a microphone... I can just do the sounds.

It's a fun puzzle to think of one, but what this really highlights for me is that 90% of great games have beloved music!

Great cover for anyone releasing an album named HEAD DEMAGNETIZER

I spend a lot of my time strapping a bunch of debug stuff to the animals and watching them move around the world in slow-motion. That's proc animation for ya!

Monkeys will steal items from your inventory now! (You can get them back)

Monkey chasing gameplay is in!!!!!

More game footage tomorrow, so in the meantime here's the bunnies eating lunch

The very first prototype of the first monkey is in!!! It looks hilarious today, but once I spend time smoothing things out, seeing a dozen monkeys flowing around you in the environment is really gonna sell the game.

I've painted the squirrel now. Get ready to catch these guys around the world!

Always coming across work I never planned in this game. Like writing a dictionary of animals who sit, and animals who usually don't sit.

Kojima Productions has done very well to integrate product placement as part of their whole style over the years

The Game UI Database Summer Update has arrived!! Filter by colour harmonies, copy or translate text directly from images, compare UI across multiple platforms, filter by PEGI/ESRB ratings, create your own grid systems, and much more! www.gameuidatabase.com

I watched every E3 showcase, and happy to report that nobody else is making a game about real animals! Completely open water for me to dive into 🤩

Today I'm begging players to look up

Gamespot's coverage of the Nintendo Wii launch in 2006. Console releases used to be pretty hype

My game is obviously (???) inspired by: -Metal Gear! -Monster Hunter! -Ape Escape! -Livin' my dang life!

Wow, making an open-ended game takes so much design work to just tell the player that every feature exists, and how they can use it. Then reminding them every few minutes. Don't forget you can fast-travel! Don't forget you can sell items! You have optional quests btw! You CAN increase stamina btw!

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was released 2 years ago! Art for the spectacular visuals can be found in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie! Credits below 👇 #artbook #SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse

I'm trying out using real footage in my game, and browsing stock video archives is so fun. Thousands of videos of guys pretending to do science! Yeeeess look at the test tube...

In the game I'm working on, resources will grow and fall from trees when ripe. Again please tell me if there's a game that does this because I can't find one!

Playing with photography controls. To be honest, I thought this was a slider on every photo camera. I started using a camera recently and found out this is a video effect achieved by running backwards while zooming. So... I guess doing this should not be a feature?

New painting! I don't really understand cats, but my mum asked to paint her friend's cat.

Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?" Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.

Clair Obscur Babies: Expedition 2

Laying out the wetlands biome today. If atmosphere feels right with the prototype models, then it should be great once the final stuff is in!

I'm researching geography and I'm surprised there's no "Geologist reacts to videogame maps" video out there. Then I found this angel of a guy who breaks down how rivers and mountains form perfectly! Only 100 subscribers?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Qd...

Happy Easter from the bunnies 🐇🐇

The Life Detector is a gadget I've been wanting to add for ages. You can drill one in the ground and it'll point towards the animals.

SpeedRunners 2 was announced in the Triple I Initiative last week! I was the lead artist on the original, and it was almost my first game project. Seeing all those characters and places come back through such a pro team like FairPlay has felt so bizarre!

Getting a bit of tunnel-vision and can't tell if my UI is cutting it yet or not. Is this a finished game, or am I still in the prototype zone?

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

I'm making an open game with a lot of non-linear goals, so thought I'd research how objectives are usually pinned to the HUD. I was surprised at the variety! Here's a thread with some examples 🧵

Polishing up art direction this week, making sure light, color grading and VFX all look like a game someone would buy.

After a lot of thought, I've decided to let players throw items. It opens up the gameplay. I'll just... ask them to please not.

Another dog painting complete. A labradoodle named Abbey. Yes she does look like a muppet in real life.

Implementing photo bounties has been awkward, but trailing an animal, waiting, and catching a bunch of shots as the sun comes down is such a fun experience I can't believe this isn't in more open-world games.

Today I had to figure out how to check if a photo contains a list of items. I have to loop through a loop full of loops that get smaller as they succeed, it was such a headache for me I had to start drawing it.

Curing every animal on the island going great today

HOPE PUNK

It looks like MGS Delta is adding some kind of in-HUD solution for changing camo. Cool design update. I remember this being some people's biggest complaint!

Every time I come back to the soundtracks for Bionic Commando ReArmed 1 and 2, I'm just knocked flat on my ass all over again. It's so good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=91wT...

Chinese Alligators are so cute!

Trying out first-person hands and everything just got 100% more sinister

Cloud gaming

Models prepped. Child and adult foxes are done today. I enjoy working on art, but will contract someone else to do it in the summer.

No new features today, just jamming the Camera Perspective button

In my animal game I'm giving animal shaders a Muscle map, so that they'll grow outward in the right places as they go from child to adult. Exciting to think how easy it is to do the same for chubbiness! Or I could give them tumours🤔

I avoided buying a PS5 all this time only to finally download FF7 Rebirth... and find out my graphics card is too old 😭