💫 ✦ Vela Cosmos ✦ 💫
@velacosmos
Hello! I'm Amy, an indie dev currently working on the fan game "Freedom Planet Architect", and helping make mods for Freedom Planet 2! Email: velacosmos @ proton . me
I just finished polishing it up! 💙 My hope is to make a vendor in the Shang Mu Mall that sells the girls' furniture and toys for the treehouse, too
A couple of weeks ago, I tweaked the backgrounds for two of Freedom Planet Architect's stages. This helps support the game's theme of reconstruction after the invasion 💙 I realized it would seem a bit silly if the game talks so much about rebuilding, but you don't see much evidence of it- le whoops
Lilac's treehouse lives once more in Freedom Planet Architect! Soon to be available by train in Shang Mu Railways. 💙
Some time ago, I realized Final Nightmare being forced exclusive to Milla would be disliked for two reasons: Forcing Lilac/Carol mains to play as an unfamiliar character, and missing an opportunity for storytelling with all three girls. Which means uhh, *this thing* needed to exist. You're welcome!
This is fun timing! 💙 I was also working on Lilac's treehouse for FPA; I should have this in-game soon. Official games didn't have a chance to explore it, so I thought, why not have it in the fan game? (And let people buy extra furniture at the mall.) Y'all click zoom on Wacky's version too! 💙
It's still one of my all-time favorite SNES games, 30+ years later 💙 It was the first game where I got to play as a girl character too, so it holds a special place in my heart for more reasons than one I have the US and Japanese versions now because yes
Getting there with my hair length goals. It's touching my hips now 💙
Indie game dev controller support testing these days is getting out of hand:
What it feels like paying for an estradiol prescription, spironolactone, and generic Crestor out of pocket:
How timely of @yamino.bsky.social's sticker to arrive on the same day I see a crescent moon that night 💙 So happy to have it on my laptop, thank you!
As we work on the late-game parts of Freedom Planet Architect, we're still refreshing earlier parts of the campaign as we can! 💚 Toxic Tunnel is getting a refresh with its tile set and music. Thanks to @firetea-chilly.bsky.social for our newest piece in the OST, a new Shade Armory arrangement!
I need to redo the stage layout for Taishan Mountain, but I've finally fixed the runaway NPCs gimmick: They display their text like everything else in FP1 does, instead of with the slower NPC dialog box. Most of the time, the dialog box didn't finish scrolling through text before disappearing, lol
It's a simple change, but feels more natural. While coding our most recent cutscene, I realized there was a way to also have NPCs stop moving their mouths after the text is done scrolling. Have a look ^ v ^
How about a new cutscene for the first time in a while? o v o This will be the scene that plays after defeating Beihai Bay's boss, and is meant to trigger a tonal shift for the game's story.
Last fan game post for the day: I've been considering a project rename for some time. How does this look? o v o Shang Mu Architect / Freedom Planet Academy is clunky and confusing. And Spade's campaign will encompass three kingdoms, not just Shang Mu. "Freedom Planet Architect" seems more accurate
How about some big changes to one of Freedom Planet Academy's early-game cutscenes? o v o
I decided to get some new frames recently, what do y'all think? o v o Doubling down on the teacher / librarian look people IRL say I have
More thoughts about the fan game's Spade and Torque campaigns We can still squeeze in Spade. His gameplay is already well-tested and works alongside the framework for the girls campaign. (And he only needs 3 new tile sets + bosses + gimmicks.) A Torque prologue however, needs a different approach.
I recently pecked at code for my next game, and ported over SMA's NPC system. While expanding it to meet the game's needs, I realized it's easy to extend the NPCs This means with some work, I could remove the 2 page limit for NPC dialog in the editor, and allow player characters to talk back! ^ v ^
So, my doctor prescribed progesterone for me last week. I thought the (initial) side effects would be funnier than what I got: Being very sleepy and nearly tripping down the stairs a couple of times, lol I've never been that kind of dizzy before, it was surreal, but I'm adjusted to the intake now 💙
Here is an uncompressed PNG. Apologies for the image above 💔 i.imgur.com/Fn2para.png
@23lief.bsky.social and I have finished the sprites for the Spade mod for FP2! The rest is up to Kubo, the mod author. I thought y'all would like to look at the spritesheet itself. It was a team effort with our friends! 💙 @treylina.bsky.social @alestance.bsky.social @cb90productions.bsky.social
Coming up with camera selfie poses for the Spade FP2 mod is fun (˵ ¬ᴗ¬˵)
It's been so long since I sketched on paper, but I did the other night with some IRL friends and it was a great time! Each of us working in different mediums 💙 Have a rough Blaze the Cat
