card upgrades show up when playing now

i'm at the "it works through the debug menu" stage of card upgrades. now to create the user interactions ...

picking apart the oldest ability card in the game - Parry - to build the upgrade system into it. interesting times to see how the general code style has developed along with the game

Roughly how many exclamation points per round is good for turn-based combat, I wonder 🤔

having on of those "remind me why i didn't do this earlier?" moments 😅

teenage mutant ninja turntles

excited about the next update coming though.... redefines the game flow to be more rogue than monhun - instead of choosing a job that takes place on a single map, you will choose an entry point into the world and move through a series of maps with optional tasks to complete on each one. =>

need this guy hanging around for when i'm tempted to add new mechanics...

taking care of those last little things i wanted to do with my Card data structure: upgrade paths, applicable to any card, and a generic "Data" field where cards can store any kind of information.

imagining a MTG style game where you points-buy the card text, condition by condition.

Found an old text adventure game i had been pottering about on using Kivy about 10 years ago. Very cool to see that it actually still runs! A fun little project but totally garbage under the hood - the game data is xml files with embedded python, ouch.

So my ascii engine has a big-text mode, and you can get some really lovely effects overlappings glyphs. So far in Grist i've been pretty strictly authentic to the "could it run in a genuine terminal?" ethos. But artistically, I think I'd like to explore these possibilities more.

spending this weekend falling in love with every electronics trainer i set my eyes on

Hey #PitchYaGame, I'm making Crabmeat, a first-person point & click survival horror game where you're a prisoner tasked with crabbing for priceless Southern King Crabs to pay off your debt to the Feudostate. #survivalhorror #horrorgame

Learning that the rerelease of King Crimson's "3 of a Perfect Pair" has a dance remix of Sleepless by Francois Kervorkian. I don't want to be rude to mr. Kervorkian but it's not a great track, and the dance remix i did of Man With An Open Heart some 15 years ago is much better.

Had a weird moment where I realised how much my game is inspired by Frederick Pohl's Gateway, then deja-vu at having thought before, then an unfolding where I realised that like Gateway I also want to talk about "between the runs".

alright yeah i'm daft, but i've been hand-coding palettes, and often drawing art without the right palette loaded then only seeing it correctly at runtime... now i have a palette editor, and finally i can save/load palettes for easy wysiwyg recolouring.

found the forgotten sketches folder, so much gold

an acquantaince is sharing stuff on fb and yeah ok actually this is bad stuff. articles are all- Headline: "Government announces plans to tax everyone 80%!" Body text: "is what some people suggest could be the outcome of tax reviews across the globe!" Who reads the body text? no-one, lol. ;_;

BIG ICON

convinced that most CRT shaders have been created by people who have never actually seen a CRT screen.

when you forget to bounds check damage reduction...

Reminder that this website has NO ALGORITHM a like is nice, but if you want others to see a post, you gotta repost it. Art especially.

Stars (standard) vs Dice (new) to show the "number of rolls a character can make in a skilltest." are the dice readable? i like it being more explicit about connecting the value to rolls, but for consistency every other time you see stat scores they are displayed as stars.

realized that every game i want to play these days can be run on linux, and the sole piece of windows only software i run anymore is Cubase, of which i'm A: still on a 10-year old version, B: don't use as much more than a glorified tape-deck. I should be fine to replace with reaper..

The dark souls of chips

happy wednesday

I'm curious - knowing nothing, what would you think "Score" indicates here?

Every now and then i'll do something in debug which just tickles my brain in exactly the right way. eg checking the clear function on this window was working correctly. part of me would like the whole game to look like that, although i know it would get tiring fast - i might use it as an effect tho.

Tv has three HDMI ports. Two are right angled inside the recess. Third projects straight out the back. All fine and dandy until someone pushes the tv flush with the wall and HDMI 3 snaps. Second time this has happened 🤦‍♂️

Wanna thank Sam Altman personally for making me feel gross now when I'm writing "game AI" Going to have to call them CPUControllers or some shit, JFC.

When playing some orders the text clears too quickly to read what they do - specifically, ones that don't require any further interaction like picking a target. Experimenting with leaving text in the log instead of clearing it, at first it was bad but some simple formatting is getting somewhere.

a gang??? of tripods. what's the collective noun for deathbots?

opened a block of tempeh that was past its use-by date, and while what i ate was perfectly fine i decided to freeze the rest of it. i recommend cutting it into portions before you freeze it.

every single pixel update is now an AI feature. Who wants this. Why are they so desperate to fill out phones with this.

Occasionally wonder if I should have gone with petscii ...

Damn, the Ali Express guitar pedals are getting some serious design

added wild/feral dogs to the game. is it just me or are the sprites a little babylonian?

Been obsessed lately with bringing back the old C64 joystick-snappers like Decathlon, Summer Games et. al. so I had to whip this up today. Just needs a finish line and a couple of obstacles and we're good. 4player split screen is already working!

when stuff *doesn't* work. putting together a visual effect to indicate a kind of forcefield/repair shield thing and this much movement is just too hard on the eyes imo. need a few smaller bubbles emanating off the source i think.

so it turns out if i stream myself working i'm super productive, even if no-one is watching 👀 narrating everything helps catch bugs, too!

Trying out streaming for an hour-ish each day.... www.twitch.tv/asciiwave?sr=a

when the government uses AI bots to enfore laws, that's oppression by state machines

for my music peoples.... jfc roland have eked out this teaser for so long now there'll be tr-1000s on the second hand market before they even announce it.

store.steampowered.com/app/2164660/... Demo is back up after 6 months of hammer and tongs... slightly terrifying but here we go!

full playthrough completed with no stoppages... a page full of minor notes and text changes but yeah it's time to push a build and set the new demo live! i'll continue working on it throughout the next couple weeks fixing any bugs that crop up and trying to smooth out the ux..

sudden desire to port colossal cave adventure to .. uh .. whatever this is

You are suffering

mouse slipped two pixels and now i'm here again

unable to concentrate today. whose got the good concentration juice. the brain fruits. the focus beans. the lo-cal thinking syrup. just a snifter of staying on task would be appreciated. a wee dram of distraction. wait not that one.