Scenic Route Software
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We believe in making games that challenge you in the most pleasant way possible.
These two are all over the place in Bedbeard's Revenge, complaining about all sorts of things. After the main story is over, they'll have some insightful critiques. #playdate
Follow-up joke in Bedbeard's Revenge. "A flyer says next weekend's service will feature Cool Ranch communion wafers.". #playdate
Bedbeard's Revenge is officially playable start to finish. #playdate
I designed this scene this way just to make a Star Wars joke, but now I really want to make a whole sci-fi adventure game. #playdate
And very dumb mini games like "Don't run over the electric mower's extension cord", inspired by a very dumb real life event. #playdate
If you’re gonna go to all the trouble of grinding your own beans, make sure you do a careful pour-over. #playdate
The mini games in Bedbeard's Revenge aren't just other video games, they are also very dumb things like this. #playdate
Speaking of maps, here’s the actual grid paper map with scene identifiers that I reference all the time while working on the game. #playdate
Here's an example of the state stuff I mentioned in this thread. The whole world is keyed on state, and I have debug methods that force the game into another state for testing. For example, this is the playground before the mailman loses his job, and after. #playdate
Bedbeard’s Revenge takes a snapshot of wherever you happen to be when it saves, and uses that as the background image for the main menu for a nice transition back into the game. #playdate
The inclusion of other video games in this video game is getting a little silly, honestly. #playdate.
In Post Hero 2, double tapping a d-pad button makes the mailman auto-walk in that direction, and very quickly. This is in no way related to negative feedback I may have received about a different game. #playdate
They're not going anywhere until their demands are met, so meet their demands or they're just going to come up with more demands! #playdate
Henry can't catch the bus in this game, either. #playdate
Do you think a robot peeing on things is funny? Have I got a game for you. #playdate
Lousy sense of direction? Pick up a handy map from the Circle J! #playdate
Is there a reason to have the mailman's reflection in the mirror inside the barber shop? No. Is it an accurate reflection? Also no. #playdate
The Crow's Nest is under new management. Still no top-shelf liquor, though. #playdate
I wrote this as a *joke* in the Bedbeard's Revenge pitch deck for Playdate Season Two a couple of years ago.
And just like in the original, dying doesn't matter and is part of the fun. Find them all! (There will be more than five, that's just how many there are now) #playdate
A new addition to the framework is voice bubbles that allow characters to make random quips about the world.
There's also a LOT of new characters, but also familiar faces from the original. #playdate
There's a lot of new places in the game, but locations from the first game have been redrawn completely! #playdate
What do you mean you'd already guessed that those screenshots lately were from a Post Hero sequel? They could have been from anything! #playdate
There is also a whole other place in the video game that has video games that you can play. #playdate