Matlock

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Matlock@keyofw· 13d

Alright, only 16,999,875 wishes to go until I reach my moderate goal of 17 million wishlists by August! So close! I'm also hoping to get this thing out the door soon, finally! #gamedev #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/4551640/...

A screenshot of wishlists for my upcoming game "Pod's Itty Bitty Adventure." The important bit is that there are a total of 125 outstanding wishes.

Matlock@keyofw· 21d

There are a lot of social media attitudes I despise but up there at the top is the "I posted inflammatory statements and people got mad ohoho! guess this is just what HAPPENS when I state my OPINION. you're all stupid for FEELING things about what I say" weak ass shit

Matlock@keyofw· 21d

just this pic

I'm *pretty* sure it's the same white guy duplicated seven times. Or it's seven different white guys. You can never tell. They're all sitting in a row at a baseball game.

Matlock@keyofw· 24d

You're today's winner of this meme

Matlock@keyofw· Jul 8

Wow, congrats and thanks for the oppo. I'm working on my first game Pod's Itty Bitty Adventure, a retro-themed metroidvania platformer (breaking new ground, I know). Planning to release in a little over a month, fingers crossed. store.steampowered.com/app/4551640/...

Matlock@keyofw· Jul 7

No Hank! Not Yeerks on the brain! That's the last place you want the Yeerks! Hank!

Matlock@keyofw· Jul 6

I've been spending my time fixing up rooms and adding detail which has been a big time sink. Feels like the game is pretty much done - just need to test it a bit more and then get it out the door. #gamedev #indiedev

Matlock@keyofw· Jul 1

Working on a trailer for the game. This might be the right idea but I think I want to tighten up the music a bit. #gamedev #indiedev Find the game here: store.steampowered.com/app/4551640/... Tentative release is the end of August.

Matlock@keyofw· Jun 27

Probably the worst code I've ever written but the game now displays locations of all uncollected treasures - once you've completed the game at least once and "continue" #gamedev #indiedev Check out/wishlist/etc etc here store.steampowered.com/app/4551640/...

The full world map of the game revealed at the start of the game. It's a mess, you're welcome.

The full world map revealed, after the game is complete. It's the same, but with 50 new markers showing locations of gems and treasures.

Matlock@keyofw· Jun 27

I think I won this game

Matlock@keyofw· Jun 25

I'm adding some more button prompts to help new players. Almost all my testing has been done with people familiar with platformers and I thought this all might be useful for newbies. #gamedev #indiedev You can find the game here: store.steampowered.com/app/4551640/...

Matlock@keyofw· Jun 19

Okay, so for my super-secret third ending of the game, which requires collecting every single treasure, I'm going a bit silly with it... #gamedev #indiedev Wishlist this on Steam, and other things indie devs say store.steampowered.com/app/4551640/...

Matlock@keyofw· Jun 18

Added a true inventory display. When the game is paused, you can now see all the things you've collected. #gamedev #indiedev #retro

The pause menu, which reads:

"Inventory: Abilities"

with a single ability, represented by a purple shoe, saying "Press SPACEBAR to jump."

An inventory screen reading "Inventory: Keys" with two items. The first is a red key with a circular handle reading "Circle Key: Opens doors with the circle above them." The second is a green key with a square handle reading "Square Key: Opens doors with the square above them."

Another inventory screen reading "Inventory: Gems." (It should read "treasures" instead of "gems." Oops. There are three collected treasures: a glass gem, a plain rock, and a wood gem.

Matlock@keyofw· Jun 16

Wanting to make video games all my life and never making into the "in-crowd" and finally making my own thing, watching the industry completely collapse and kill itself over the last decade like

Matlock@keyofw· Jun 12

In all playtests, people aren't noticing that you can open the world map at anytime, even with instructions. I've added this wall map which indicates the map button, which should hopefully fix this issue. #gamedev #indiedev Wishlist this because you can store.steampowered.com/app/4551640/...

Matlock@keyofw· Jun 11

Most of my work this week has been on finalizing some back-end things and getting a trailer put together, but I've been updating the decoration on some rooms here so you have something to look at. #gamedev #indiedev Wishlist this game or something store.steampowered.com/app/4551640/...

A screen with the title "Lonely At the Top." It features a couple platforms and lots of open black sky with stars.

A screen called "Fifty Fifty." It features a bunch of garish rainbow blocks - blocks of every color in the rainbow. It also shows the new rainbow stripe background, which are diagonal lines of red, yellow, green, and blue.

The screen called "Gauntlet." It features multiple enemies in a narrow hall that are hard to avoid, as well as new brick background textures placed sporadically for effect. (This is called "good graphics.")

Matlock@keyofw· Jun 4

Had a little time to work today. Did a few little things. One of them was fix this room - this is now version like five or six of this room. Where Pod is standing was raised in order to better guide the player through #gamedev #indiedev Wishlist on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4551640/...

Matlock@keyofw· Jun 2

Haven't worked on this in a while. Here are some new rooms to fill out the map (and take care of fast travel post-game). Gonna take this to Full Indie so people can immediately find all the bugs I missed #gamedev #indiedev

A pic of "The Hub," a fast-travel room with eight teleporters, each of which takes the player to an important in-game location.

An image of a secret room with the title "Now In 16 Colors!" It's a pretty simple room with floors made of all different colors (red, green, magenta, cyan, and blue).

An image of Pod in a secret compartment of the room "Oubliette." This secret compartment contains another teleporter.

Matlock@keyofw· May 29

AO3 has the juice

Part of a summary description of a fanfic on AO3 reading:

"A work of fanfiction based on 'Wuthering Heights', both the Emerald Fennel film and the novel by Emily Bronte. Many things have been changed including the setting, the context, and the fact that it now takes place in the Omegaverse. This is a homoerotic re-imagining that takes"

Matlock@keyofw· May 28

Lots of decoration changes, made some of my levels look nicer. Also got a vid of the animated stars from yesterday. Oh yeah, and the demo of this game is available on Steam right now! store.steampowered.com/app/4551640/... Wishlist it or something #gamedev #indiedev

Matlock@keyofw· May 27

My open air rooms were looking empty, so I added stars, which animate semi-randomly. I want to tweak the number/color/placement but this really helps. #gamedev #indiedev

A screenshot of my most recent build, demonstrating starlight. Pod stands on a cloud in the center, surrounded by white and yellow stars.

Matlock@keyofw· May 25

I have to redraw/redesign the world map because I'm dumb. Originally built all the "rooms" as squares in the map, but they're not squares in-game so everything was out of proportion. Oops. These pics are of the new/correct version #gamedev #indiedev

Matlock@keyofw· May 19

Alright, I've added teleporters to facilitate post-normal-ending travel. And then I immediately found a bug that crashes the game. Woohoo! Now I gotta figure out what I did wrong. #gamedev #indiedev

Pod observing a teleporter with an expression of wonder, perhaps, or dull surprise. It's hard to tell.

Matlock@keyofw· May 14

Working on some "special rooms" - described in Alt text. Also redrawing the entire world map and that is taking me for frickin ever #gamedev #indiedev

This room loops vertically - so if you fall out of the bottom, you reappear at the top.

This moon is now standable. (Previously you fell through)

This room has somewhere you can input a password of sorts. I'm not telling you how yet.

Matlock@keyofw· May 13

Finally got some more work in. Added a special item that can only be collected under very special circumstances (ooooooh secrets!) I feel so close to completion here. #gamedev #indiedev

Matlock@keyofw· May 8

Playtesters were often confused because they began the game without the ability to jump. I've added this tiny, useless jump so players realize that they are intended to jump, but not yet. Hopefully this ends the confusion. #gamedev #indiedev

Matlock@keyofw· May 5

Working on a world map - drawing it is a bit of a pain and I feel like a lot of work will need to go into making it more legible, but at least now you're able to see where you are in relation to rooms you've explored. #gamedev #indiedev

Matlock@keyofw· May 1

Matlock@keyofw· Apr 30

I'm struggling with this opening room. I need the decorations (table, bed, shelves) to visually communicate that you can stand on them but also that they are not fully solid and you can walk through them. This version is a bit noisy but I hope it's better than what I had. #gamedev #indiedev

The opening room of my game, which is designed as a retro platformer emulating the graphics of the Tandy 1000. The objects in question have a solid pixel-thick layer at the top for the platform, but dotted patterns for the sides to suggest they are not solid there. I don't know if this works.

Matlock@keyofw· Apr 29

Bit of a technical, boring update. Changed the options menu to react to changes immediately, instead of after a "save" function. I did this because players were routinely confused by the old method, and rightly so. #gamedev #indiedev