maybell🌻
@maybell
video games by may oswald. made satryn, Merp in Merpworld. 🏳️⚧️
there was a period of time when humans collaborated and made things on the machine.
left: incorrect, bad lighting. right: much more realistic. the only correct way to display shadows in a visual medium.
welcome to piss world, my 3d test bed written in bevy, and current source of the crash out i am experiencing. bevy practices a religion called "Physically Based Rendering" which allegedly yields consistent and photo-realistic graphics. but, (🧵 1/6967)
set the player physics to Dynamic instead of Kinematic, became a first person sausage
keep the old ways alive. when nobody else remembers how, you will still be creating worlds, even as the internet is killed.
+ a lovely depiction of the cast by @lurnoise.bsky.social. (please hire her!)
the momentum from simultaneous updates + a sale on all commercial platforms wouldn't have been life changing but it could have been a few extra meals. maybe this is done to prevent spam. maybe gabe could sell 1 yacht and hire staff.
#portmaster enjoyers: Merp in Merpworld is now available as a free, fully-featured, ready-to-run download. (i did this because free ports require much less user effort. 💗) portmaster.games/detail.html?...
looks like merpday was the single best sales day since i began peddling on steam. thank you. <3 i am going to buy calories and gasoline and weed.
@elliesprites.bsky.social created these guys and gave them so much life. please hire her!
making indie platformer number one million and one was probably not a sound business decision, but as a creative brain that yearns to learn it was a DELICIOUS challenge. platformers are so hard to get right, and creating a lot of high quality authored content that doesn't repeat was very tough.
mama trees keep you warm and dry. #screenshotsaturday merp in merpworld releases in 4 days.
#pitchyagame a one and a half minute visual novel about angst interspersed with two hours of annoying platforming. i made the art really charming as an apology.
all you really do in merpworld is jump and throw so i added this slutty little line trace effect to make it as cute as possible. #screenshotsaturday
recording foley by taking all my favorite tiny trinkets and jingling them together like i'm wall-e. the more medals you collect, the brighter the sound. #screenshotsaturday 🔊