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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· 16d

Never tried one of these before, so why not?

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· 24d

Someone dumped a controller in the thrift shop, so I can finally add controller compatibility. Most of the work was displaying controls on remapping. #indiedev #gamedev

Screenshot of the remapping screen with a keyboard. The inputs use text to display which buttons are mapped.

Screenshot of the remapping screen with a controller. The inputs use little icons to display which buttons are mapped.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· Jul 13

Rough practice piece. I saw a pic of some balconies, and I thought they'd look nice in tilesets. Better than the block buildings I was trying before. #pixelart

Two apartment-like buildings with balconies on them.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· Jul 5

After getting into a rabbit hole, trying out Allegro, loving how it handles fonts, and finding a plugin that lets Godot use fonts in the same manner... I remembered that my only multicolor font was designed for 1x, not a zoomed in pixel game. Welp, at least it was fun? #screenshotsaturday #solodev

Exos looks at sand, but the description reading of 'Sand composed of "tasty" materials' is written in a different color.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· Jun 28

Weather's been... interesting this year. But maybe I'll end up with potato fruits? (I have no idea why it's decided to grow AND flower in summer)

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· Jun 24

Fought the engine a chunk, gave up, and made a whole separate font. But I got outlined text looks less like a blurry mess now. Old on top, newer on bottom.

The words "agricultural produce" is highlighted twice. On the top, they're highlighted in a multicolored green with darker pixels around the edges, making it look blurry. On the bottom, the words are in a solid blue with less holes, making them easier to read.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· Jun 18

For all my effort, silliness is why the gold dinosaur nugget might end up being my favorite item in the game.

Malady is looking at a "Gold ore: A gold nugget of the most ideal shape." It is shaped like a dinosaur.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· Jun 17

Somehow, this is one of the more relatable things Gitrah has said.

A screenshot of a pixelart game where a plant-lichen is talking to another plant-lichen. Gitrah is talking to another lichen, saying "...To prevent overstimulation, I am to stay on a plain diet of big brained fish."

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· Jun 7

The queer gamedev urge to make pride flags when placing randomly colored objects... #indiegame #gamedev #pride #pridemonth #aroace

Neon is floating in Svarogi's lab. On the left, there's table full of beakers with the liquid inside them corresponding with a rainbow. In the middle, there's beakers corresponding to the asexual and aromantic flags.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· Jun 5

"If start drawing OCs again, I'll probably drop all my non-undead chars. Except Pan Pan, he stays." "Who's Pan Pan again?" "The pan with the pan as a hat. The cannibal bread?" "HE WAS A CANNIBAL?!" "Yeah? He's a bread that eats bread." (reposting old art) #pixelart

A storefront labeled "Pan's Pans," where a bun with a copper pan hat is selling bollilos, batards, boules, and bagels.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 31

All my OCs with 3+ legs. It was supposed to be a quick silly doodle, but I had fun, so I ended up working on it a bit more. ...Also I see a whole pile of things I want to improve on, so maybe I'll doodle them more since PbP is going to have less art for a while.

A really big beetle looks at a three legged green humanoid thing and a big, kind of gecko faced red thing.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 25

No gen ai in anything, and proud of it. Down to be added if there's room, but saving to browse later anyways.

5 characters saying no genAi was user in writing, code, audio, art, or anything.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 24

When you scare an NPC so much, they despawn

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 23

Lichens are kinda hard to pixel. Maybe I should've tried a few more variants before locking myself into this design... #pixelart #indiedev

A variety of pixel lichens with wooden legs. There's a cup shape and a horn shape with two more mushroomy variants.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 19

Added a tiny bit of juice. Items have an animation picking up/putting down.They have a big animation if they're going to and from your cargo. This is very safe. #indiegame #peddlersbetweenpulsars

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 17

Obviously, they have to

A screenshot of a game. Most of the visible area is taken up by an intersection and a road.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 16

Even if the other plants don't do well, the elephant garlic never lets me down.

A bunch of freshly harvested garlic plants, drying on a bucket.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 14

okay last one, if this doesn't work, I give up, 8x, transparency

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 14

24, 32...

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 14

...16x?!

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 14

5-8x

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 14

1-4x

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 12

The next character to get their lab set up is Aiyo, Malady's friend. They specialize in something like materials science, so no beakers for them. #indiegame #gamedev

A three eyed clam-snail looks at another clam snail. It is sitting next to a pile of silicon boards. Around the room is two puddles of seawater, an industrial 3d printer, and various tools for working with metals.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 9

Finally, the most important researcher in my game has a "lab". They've got a strange way of arranging things, but it's quite sensible for her. Wanna take a guess why? #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

Neon, the gas ring, is talking to Aji, a three headed plant. Grow trays and lab equipment are placed in concerning positions across a mountain. Text reads "Neon: I am confused. Why is all your equipment not in a building?"

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 7

Dumped a lab asset pack on my itch - some basic tiles and a pile of equipment and machinery. It focuses on things I wanted to see in asset packs while making my own game. Maybe someone else is also looking for a 16px eyewash station? tararntula.itch.io/lab-tileset-16 #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

A pixel art map of two labs. One has a light floor, one has a dark concrete floor. Various tools are on desks of two variants - brown ones topped with white, and white ones topped with black.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 4

WIP for PbP, but might be an asset/tile pack. Lab equipment is cool, and I want to see more variety of it in games. Alt text has the list of equipment. Any suggestions for what else might be interesting to add?

Various machinery tossed onto a spritesheet. From top to bottom, left to right: large centrifuge, open and closed autoclave, thermometer, test tube tray, instrument tray, bunsen burner, open and closed small centrifuge, monitor on wheels, seed starting tray, hydroponic seed starting tray using rockwool, fancy spectrograph, scale, soldering iron, wall temperature control, crucible, tongs, monitor, keyboard, microscope, fume hood, another keyboard thing, electron microscope.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· May 2

Me: The interior should be a library for blind beings that rely on smell and touch. They can see when they eat, so there should be labels as well. The beds should be comfy medical beds. ...At least I'm the one causing my own headaches? #screenshotsaturday #indiegamedev #peddlersbetweenpulsars

A pixelart interior with a greenish pink tileset. There's a questionably arranged wall of shelves with colored cylindrical things on them, and some labels. One of the cylinders is on the counter with some paper and a three-wheeled, reclining bed.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· Apr 28

Cleaned up Gitrah's ship! Working on more of their story, and that means I want a finalized ship layout for them to have cutscenes in. #pixelart #indiegame

A ship interior, with mechanically leafy walls and a glowing nodule-like floor. There is a lichen-mushroom thing in the middle.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· Apr 25

(WIP) I've been keeping quiet about planets/tiles outside the first area. But Gitrah's introduction starts on their home planet, so it's not much of a spoiler. #indiegame #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

Gitrah (plant lichen thing) is on a building with questionably made walls. They seem to be overlooking a garden and path area.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars@tararntula· Apr 8

Gotta push myself to get something done today. Non player peddlers have their own inventories and hint at strategies and trade routes. Some strategies will be good, and others... not so much. #peddlersbetweenpulsars #indiedev #gamedev