Spiritual successor to Vermintide with massive hordes of enemies? Yes please!

One game. Millions of possibilities. In this roguelike science fantasy world, creative solutions are the only way you can survive. ➡️ Play Caves of Qud now on #NintendoSwitch: https://ninten.do/6010QrROG

god bless py-spy. Holy shit

A bold new direction for Delve

Maybe. #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #snow

Maybe. #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #snow

Fooling around with colors for the snow biome. Making the background really light, and then bringing down the colors of everything that's on top of it. It's kind of weird because the negative space is all bright, but idk, interesting #gamedev #roguelike #indiedev

Here's a mockup of some game art with the CRT shader. I'm not sure if I want to go this direction or not, but it is compelling #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

We might have a CRT shader working here, haha. Bluesky might compress it too much to see the detail, but it looks great on my monitor.

Doors today - My process always seems to be: first pass (terrible), second pass (hey, there we go) and then a bunch of fine tweaking.

Unicursal maze time

OgreLore is built atop the corpse of every project that came before it. OgreLore contains every emotion I've ever felt, every dream I've ever dreamt.

Here's another of these, just for good measure. This one has the connections fully working. Today I'm hooking up preliminary versions of all those creatures I was doing art for, so get ready for that. #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

Big day today - I got a ton of new monsters into the game, and they're all mostly working! Here you can see them attacking each other (and me) in the test arena. The colors look so lush - I couldn't be happier with the new colorspace. #roguelike #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

Big day today - I got a ton of new monsters into the game, and they're all mostly working! Here you can see them attacking each other (and me) in the test arena. The colors look so lush - I couldn't be happier with the new colorspace. #roguelike #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

Here's another of these, just for good measure. This one has the connections fully working. Today I'm hooking up preliminary versions of all those creatures I was doing art for, so get ready for that. #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

Test output for ice caves - featuring open sections "*" and smaller caves. It's still not 100% there yet, but it's a work in progress. #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

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Alright - that does it for tonight. A bunch of minor fixes to graphics, and the new tiles are in. Look at those mycelial walls - so nice. Have good night. #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

Alright - that does it for tonight. A bunch of minor fixes to graphics, and the new tiles are in. Look at those mycelial walls - so nice. Have good night. #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

There is always still an option to turn the pixel graphics off and render in ASCII mode! Here is ASCII mode working in the okHSL colorspace. #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

The new colorspace - okHSL - is now working in-engine. The lighting system now scales along the L axis to light the scene. #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

But wait... what's this? A Valentine's golem? Here to love and care about you? Happy Valentine's day from OgreLore #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

Stone golem and clay golem. Honestly they look somewhat kind. #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

An ogre battles a gang of oozes, smearing pink goo all over the arena. This is a mockup, but all of these systems are in the game already: combat, multi-tile creatures, blood splatter. In March there will be a big push where I will be adding the new content. #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev

Ooze and ooze golem #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

Here's an attempt at creating a "cracked lava field" sort of tile. The orange is brighter than it's supposed to be according to the game's palette rules, but I'm thinking that this could potentially be a case where it's worth it for an emissive lighting effect. #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

For real though

A deranged woodsman. Perhaps he reminds you of someone? #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

Here are four more monsters for Ogrelore: ooze, goat demon, death knight, and blood knight. #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev

Here's an attempt at creating a "cracked lava field" sort of tile. The orange is brighter than it's supposed to be according to the game's palette rules, but I'm thinking that this could potentially be a case where it's worth it for an emissive lighting effect. #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

Why switch to okHSL? The intention is to assure continuity between the colorspace coordinates and the the visual brightness of the colors. If you've never seen a colorspace optimized for visual evenness, you might take it for granted, but when you compare the two side-by-side, the banding is clear

Here you can see some of my drafts for the "cleaver crab", a flanged juggernaut of a beast. Don't let it hear you, and don't let it catch you in the open. Death knight for scale. #roguelike #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

Here you can see some of my drafts for the "cleaver crab", a flanged juggernaut of a beast. Don't let it hear you, and don't let it catch you in the open. Death knight for scale. #roguelike #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

Why switch to okHSL? The intention is to assure continuity between the colorspace coordinates and the the visual brightness of the colors. If you've never seen a colorspace optimized for visual evenness, you might take it for granted, but when you compare the two side-by-side, the banding is clear

Here are the two colorspaces side by side. The left is the old one, plain HSV, and the right is okHSL. Looking at this, I feel like there's a bit of a tradeoff - miss that darker mauve on the left, but the more goldenrod yellow and the more solid red are welcome. #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev

I'm experimenting with the okHSL colorspace in OgreLore. Why that one, specifically? Because that was the oklab offshoot that had a plugin for aseprite, haha. It does feel a little cleaner. This isn't in engine yet, though, so we'll see what it looks like with lighting #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev