More TestLab features! This time for the Sit and Eat add-ons. I didn't demonstrate it here, but Eat also has a subsetting for where the food sits when being eaten! #tascots #godot

Oh man it's fun to finally get to test these new features. Certain animations have sub-settings, like where exactly an item sits when your Tascot holds one!

#art #animation #gamedev

#art #animation #gamedev

After a million years of refactoring, I can finally show cool stuff again, like the ability to change your Tascot's hitbox to match their sprites more accurately! #tascots #godot

november kinda feels like this

Button told me I had to draw her at this angle for some reason

finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well

"nobody told me you have to make the whole thing" except it's "nobody told me you have to put it all back together after breaking it for a refactor"

Since I don't have anything visually interesting, I figured I'd talk about the particulars of the latest overhaul of the Tascot's behavior scripting, and the setup I created to handle motives and the multiple steps their programming has to take to achieve their goals! #godot #tascots 🧵

Recently completed a complete overhaul of the behavior trees to make them more modular! Tascots now string different actions together to accomplish a goal. e.g. why sit on the ground if there's a chair nearby? #godot #tascots

I should be working on the meatier stuff, but adding fun little conveniences to TascotMaker2 is more fun. Like the editor showing you how the system uses fallback sprites in realtime! #godot #tascots

Recently added some additional flexibility to the DialogMaker's Advanced Mode. Now playtesting your dialogue's timing and pronunciation is even easier! #tascots #godot

Some nice progress on the sprite Import Menu, which now has enough functionality to easily clip out individual sprites from spritesheets! #tascots #godot

I'm deep in the mines and have nothing fun to show for a little while so indulge me as I repost some of my teaser greatest hits 🛸

In TascotMaker2, CUSTOM animation states have been expanded to have an INTRO, BODY, and OUTRO animation! You can define how many times the middle/body animation loops, or let it loop indefinitely until uploaded audio completes! #tascots #godot

drew this way back before I announced Tascots and then forgot to post it lol. wanted to draw Button like the OS-tan mascots

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

Some nice progress on the sprite Import Menu, which now has enough functionality to easily clip out individual sprites from spritesheets! #tascots #godot

A lot of my focus for TascotMaker2 is designed around exteremely casual and even shitpost-style usage. If you want to make a professional Tascot in earnest, the features are there! If you want to shift-drag a bunch of random jerma pngs into the editor, you can do that too!

I couldn't help myself so TascotMaker version 2 now allows oversized sprites to be imported via a new Import window (WIP) that lets you choose between resizing or cropping the sprite to fit the standard Tascot format 🤌✨ #tascots #godot

Not every game Idea I have is user-creation driven, but Tascots means something significant to me as an artist-turned-gamedev. Art is the single greatest thing that humanity can participate in, and I wanted to make something that inspires people to engage with it, even just a little bit.

Absolutely. Bringing a complex thing like a video game to life requires planning, tenacity, creativity and vision. Gamedev is a form of artistic expression, they are the result of countless individual choices that the developer makes based on their experiences and inspirations.

Recently added some additional flexibility to the DialogMaker's Advanced Mode. Now playtesting your dialogue's timing and pronunciation is even easier! #tascots #godot

TascotMaker2 is also much more flexible with sprite requirements! You can upload sprites within a range of 400x400 to 40x40. You can adjust your Tascot's hitbox to match your sprites, set a global offset for all sprites or even adjust individual sprite offsets! #tascots #godot

The second version of the TascotMaker is coming along nicely! Adding little details like warning the user if they've already added a tag or forcing the user to hear their keystrokes even if they have a silent keyboard (you're welcome)

I should be working on the meatier stuff, but adding fun little conveniences to TascotMaker2 is more fun. Like the editor showing you how the system uses fallback sprites in realtime! #godot #tascots

Recently completed a complete overhaul of the behavior trees to make them more modular! Tascots now string different actions together to accomplish a goal. e.g. why sit on the ground if there's a chair nearby? #godot #tascots

Love to make a System Love to design a Mechanism

Tascots has officially hit its 10th major version! (0.011) Thanks to our lovely backers for helping me push dozens of hot fixes and squash hundreds of bugs, this project runs on your generosity and enthusiasm!! Here's a sneak peek at the new TascotMaker2 editor ✨

We here at Tascots believe in a new, novel concept called "Deshittification". We use this philosophy to do things like upgrading menus with useful, intuitive features and helpful quality-of-life improvements! (Version 2 of the TascotMaker is getting a lot of neat upgrades!) #godot #tascots

For those wondering: A couple of backers have confirmed that Tascots works through Linux using Proton! So while there's no native client yet, Linux users are free to give it a shot if they're interested! 🎉

Recently added a new voice setting: Pip Speech! This mimics how most popular RPGs play audio over text, with a small audio clip played repeatedly. You can add multiple clips, and even set a variance that will play the clip at slightly different pitches! #godot #tascots

Careful with that burger, man. The pickles are all falling out!! #godot #tascots

Hope you're all feeling good emotions, because your Tascots can too! They experience emotional fluctuations based on events that occur to them, their needs bars, or via authored dialogue triggers!

For those asking: sharing Tascots and Dialog is as simple as dropping .tascot and .dialog files into the custom files folders. They act like mods, and are plug n' play! I don't host your files, own them, or upload them anywhere. It's up to you to share what you've made!

Tascots would be nothing without wonderful plugins by these talented folk: TTS by kdik github.com/kdik/godot-t... WAV file reader by Lilith-In-Starlight github.com/Lilith-In-St... ACVoicebox by mattmarch github.com/mattmarch/AC... FriendlyScribbles font by kmlgames kmlgames.itch.io/friendly-scr...

The Tascots have baked me a small cake for my birthday, which is neat but also I never programmed that. Hm. Anyway, while I attempt to dig the cake out of my monitor with a fork, I wish to thank everyone who have supported Tascots so far. its been humbling to see so many of you support my work❤️

this project is WILDLY cool

Our desktop mascots can eat, talk and OH MY GOD THERE GOES BUTTON WITH THE STEEL CHAIR #godot #tascots #gamedev

I am programming the Tascots with revenge mechanics, this will have no downsides for me, their creator, who treats them fairly and justly (imo)

Of course, I almost forgot! Tascots can have any pronouns you like, including completely custom ones that can be referenced dynamically in dialog written in the DialogMaker :)

Tascots have a lot of details you can give them! Birthdays, age, species, favorite foods, personality types and more! You can also make sure to leave your mark with your own personal ~Author Signature~

Another week, another build! 0.003 has fully implemented the CUSTOM menu in the TascotMaker, which synergizes with the DialogMaker to allow you to play your custom animation in the dialog you write! Thank you to all our wonderful backers for your continued support! ko-fi.com/urlgrae

hold the phone...

Happy to announce we have officially hit the follower cap on Bluesky!! What an incredible fanbase we've built together!

Also, we're almost at 1k followers! Thank you so much for everyone showing interest in Tascots so far, I'll continue doing my best to make it a program that lives up to the hype 🙇‍♂️