Animation update is out NOW on the patreon!! Remember it’s as little as $3 to play this cool sweet game before everyone else :P www.patreon.com/posts/0-3-0-...

Added code to support animations for weird style mouths like this one and it's sooo fun

The event yesterday was so much fun! Everyone was so nice and shared so much excitement and positive feedback!! Sometimes that validation makes such a big difference <3 Here are some awesome creations that some kids (and non kids) made :)

Might figure out a better way to do fish animations some day, but for a first pass this works pretty well 🐟

If you're in Vermont, I'll have a table for Critterrarium at this event on Saturday! Come by and play the latest version of the game! www.hulalakeside.com/events-calen...

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Sorry that i have to waste my breath and your time saying this. But this project is made without AI ✌️

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Reminder, the weird aliens I post are from my upcoming game Biolune, and it’s wishlist-able here! store.steampowered.com/app/3070190/...

Follow up, got most of these working!! These 5-legged critters all reference a single animation file! (muted bc I haven't fixed footstep sounds for these lol)

Hmm, "5 legs" could mean almost anything, each of these would have different animations... wouldn't be terribly hard, but the scope scales with the max # of legs allowed. I'll have to come up with a system that can make this all work automatically. 🤔 I think I know where to start though!

I might change these later, especially for lizard or bug-like bodies- but for now, adapting "horsey" animations for 6 legs took like 40 minutes and looks great 😲

New patreon post from yesterday shows some progress i haven’t gotten to post here yet, take a look if you want! :) www.patreon.com/posts/animat...

folks we are now COOKING!!

In October we held a 🎃 HALLOWEEN CRITTER CONTEST 👻 🥉 Third Place went to Wampire by Fisher! @stupidmassive.bsky.social This silly goober won our hearts with his big chihuahua head, and a swooshy cape cleverly built from Tentacles 🧛‍♀️ (🥈2nd and 🏆 1st place winners in thread)

Ok hear me out A crab claw is just a set of jaws with no esophagus 🤔 And vice versa!!

Biolune is officially coming soon on Steam! 🌳🐌🌲🌘🐁🌲☀️ Play as a little robot fascinated by organic life. Terraform moons, cultivate ecosystems, and build a strange, beautiful home in an uncaring void. Wishlist now! ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/3070190/...

Whether you are AAA or indie or solo, the US is just a terrible place to make games :) what a wonderful industry, destroyed

Thank you for 1000 followers bluesky!!!

Example in motion These "dino legs" previously only bent at the knee, now all joints bend properly!

finished the custom IK logic for limbs with more than 2 bones!!

sound on lol

We are holding a vote soon for what critter parts we should add next! Patrons of snail role and above get to vote but anyone can submit ideas :) Hop in the discord or leave some here if you want!

Stride length is now based on critter's limb length. This means that long legged critters are faster!

How do you feel about... realistic quadruped animation in your critter creator 👁️ How about TRIPEDS??

#3079 Two-legged snake

Someone asked about centered/ odd numbered legs, and i remembered i can technically support that with the new animation update… it will just take a little more work… i guess if i was someone who took the easy way out I wouldn’t be making this project 😂😭

Just another guy I'm enjoying with animations :P

coming soon: the ANIMATION UPDATE!!! I've finally built a whole system to apply real animations to critters of all kinds. It's soooo fun to play with

Is it bad or silly to simply post “I’m working on SOMETHING and it’s coming out so great you’re gonna be amazed”

My cat has discovered that the power strip my computer is plugged into has a fun little button he can click 😂😭

Wow thanks for all the encouragement!! 😳 a dozen RTs turning into 100+ followers always blows my mind, so huge thanks to new followers & everyone who RTs! Just the boost I needed to keep working on an ambitious new feature I've got cooking... 👀

Oh right, here's a bunch more torso types you can try out in the new Patreon build we released :)

Sk8r G8r ! (from Skator Gator 3D by @weatheredsweater.bsky.social ) I will now post things in the replies cos theres only so much to put in the main caption

creature doodles from 2018

new torso type ISOPOD SHELL

Animals, trees, grass, rivers, wet ground, clouds, rain, and a simple atmosphere all in! Lots more to go #screenshotsaturday

Another new feature, torso shape variants! The "Spine Chunks" can now be swapped out with other shapes, so you can make bugs, dragons, slugs, you name it! Here are some quick examples, but I'll be adding a bunch more shape variants soon :)

First feature I added to warm back up after my injury: huge QOL changes to how parts stick to the spine when you move the nodes around. and you can drag the whole torso around at once now!

Been a long recovery period but my physical therapist is always excited to ask me about my career as a game dev which is nice ❤️ big shout out to Joe for breaking my legs every week

- Announced Critterrarium with first trailer - got 3 months of awesome progress done, got ready to make a new video about it - got injured for 3+ months and couldn’t work 🫠 Finally getting back into it!! But now the brain worms say I have to get more done/ “catch up” before making another video…

My body is just one chunk after another. A large number of chunks

Sorry for the silence, as you may have seen on the patreon I’m recovering from a medical issue and can’t even sit at a desk 😵‍💫 Thanks for your patience!! I want nothing more than to finish the features we’ve been working on smh 🎻

It’s the holidays AND I just moved this weekend 😵 I wouldn’t recommend that combo to anyone else! BUT!! There will be a new demo build on the patreon before the end of the month! 👀 (*YEAR?? lol)

okay @guavagarnet.bsky.social requested some of their favorite bugs! 🦗 I tried my hand at a quick Katydid but the fire alarms in my coworking space went off before I could add Bug Antennae to the game 😂

I'm gonna be crazy busy this week so... please start yelling out what critters I should try making in game, and I'll post my best attempts! That's the social media this week lol

by the way! I've been a full time indie game artist for 7 years now, here's a few titles I've worked on :)

@stupidmassive.bsky.social made this incredible Squidward that you all have to see lol

Perfectly normal Garfield 🥰 🐱

THIS GUY is great. this is what you can make!! he is silly and floppy!! <3