When you pet your cat before he ignores you and the concept of boundaries #indiedev #casualgames

What's happening? Please stop! I'm going camping for a few days and I will miss the big round number if y'all keep going like that!

Dragonsweeper. I think that's my best time on a full clear :

Just received this comment on Deep Forest. 😭

I've put Mega Drill on hold for weeks. 1) I was working on another project and 2) I didn't know what to do with it anymore. It has way too many moving parts and a confusing UI. I've worked at simplifying the mechanics and UI and I think I'm on to something. #indiedev Left is new. Right is old.

Cat design clearly needed more work. Look at this guy now! 🙀 #indiedev #clipstudiopaint

This going to be my haul for this steam summer sale : #imtotallyplayingthisforresearch #indiedev

Yeah, wash that face you dirty little cat! #indiedev #gamedev #clipstudiopaint

There's a cat in the garden! And sometimes he gets a bit crazy. #indiedev #gamedev

Progress on my little old-school jRPG style fighting system. I'm using this project to do a lot of R&D on some animation and sequencer components for Game Maker. Yes, I'm using a FFV sprite sheet as a placeholder #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker

The gardener's cat, taking a walk. #gamedev #indiedev

Cat! He'll be a little garderner helper in Greenpatch Garden. #indiedev #gamedev

Cat! He'll be a little garderner helper in Greenpatch Garden. #indiedev #gamedev

Adding some fun user interactions with the plants in Greenpatch Garden. We went through a first phase of playtests lately and are adding several small improvements like that. #gamedev #indiedev

Progress has been made on my jRPG combat system. Next : make the enemies attack and die. End combat.

Last thing : what is fun with the "update" call is that I can easily create a "fast forward" feature by just calling it more than once per step. Example : game_speed = 4; repeat(game_speed){ mv.update(); } Tada! Four times as fast! Next time I'll talk about my new state machine "component". 7/7

Quick and easy to implement! This is the result of the few lines of code above: 6/7

And now for the good part! Add the component to any object with one line of code: mv = new comp_mover(id,{ }); Then add an update call to the step event: mv.update(); And that's it! You got movements and collisions on your object. Just have to add a tile layer to draw collisions in the room. 5/7

The idea with the re-write is to recreate these features as pieces of code that are easy to add to any Object. Something like "components" in Unity (I think?). The first part I did was a "mover" object that handles movements and collisions. Here's a part of it : 3/7

Day 3 : Got a basic turn going : choose a weapon to attack, select a target, the turn starts with you attacking the target and enemies attacking you. Next : having the enemies die and ending combat.

Been casually working on this for the past two days so I guess my progress is not too bad.

New animation! Relatively simple one, but I actually used reference images for it (thanks to my girlfriend!) so LOOK AT THOSE HANDS THEY ARE SO GOOD! #indiedev #gamedev

"The Princess and the Porcupine" dialog mockups. #indiedev #gamedev

New animation. #indiedev #gamedev #clipstudiopaint

Experimenting a potential pixel art style for Mega Drill. The current graphics are very much "placeholders that are a bit too pretty for placeholders but not good enough for the final game". It's past time I think about how the game should look like. #indiedev #gamedev

Working on the writing for Greenpatch Garden. Sometimes informative, sometimes funny, sometimes self-reflective. #gamedev #indiedev

Unexpectedly good thrift store haul today. Two classic rock vinyl in very good condition: Led Zeppelin - Presence Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request

Trying my hand at a pixel art witch house and a tree. How am I doing? #indiedev #pixelart

I did like 10 minutes of playtest for Mega Drill and it confirmed that it's overly complex and needed some redesign. It also confirmed that the action phase is fun but that the meta game should serve it better. Here's the new WIP UI (new on the left, old on the right). #indiedev #gamedev 1/5

WIP: end of turn feedback for building effects in Mega Drill. #indiedev #gamedev