Character Switching

Feb 27, 2022

ngl these old mockups are cringe. What's worse is, I know they're cringe since I end up redesigning them in the future... but the redesign isn't in the game either (although I'm working on it so I can push a new build) Speaking of builds if you join the discord server you can play them (if I haven't switched anything up by the time you read this) you should join and watch me get the slowest percent speedrun world record for indie game development. I would put a link here but it's 1 am and I have like 30 more twitter posts to push over onto here.

i feel like Mario as a metroidvania is a concept that hasn't been explored as much as it should

i feel like it's rich with potential for that

I don't think you could implement anything like the standard upgrade treadmill without doing violence to Mario's basic idiom. When I picture a Mario game with a large interconnected world, I see something less like a metroidvania and more like the sub-game "The Great Cave Offensive" from Kirby Super Star; i.e., there'd be no permanent upgrades, but a wide range of temporary, mutually exclusive powerups, most of which can only be obtained in particular regions of the map, with the open-world traversal being purely a challenge of routing – identifying an obstacle at point A as requiring a powerup which can only be obtained at point B, and figuring out how to travel between those two points using the capabilities that powerup provides.

Inventory UI

I did get to implementing it before porting the game over, but I realized the box to the right of the list could probably look a bit better, so it needs some tweaks. As I mentioned earlier I decided to port the game to Godot 4 which I thought would be fine since the project is mostly art and not much code. But then Godot failed to convert the old project. I still believed it would be fine since there was only a handful of features in the game anyway and it wouldn't take too long to rewrite them from scratch. Plus I could just look at my old code. Then I started the rewrite and... rewriting code is really boring

HI I literally just commented on your YouTube lmao but your game has a cool concept and your vibe is just really calming and nice. you're a huge inspiration!! that's all lol

Thanks for the praise and thank you for watching my video!

Pause Menu

I kinda of want to tweak it a little, don't mind the placeholder icons lol. As for what I've been doing up until now. I was working on this back in March and uh since then I've been tweaking the game here and there. As for the lack of posts... I just got lazy I guess.

Battle Scene

Since I had to rewrite everything while porting to Godot 4, I decided to make some tweaks to the battle scene. The UI changed a bit but float text is mostly the same...

WIP results screen

I feel like i've posted these already. Sorry if the image quality sucks, I'm kinda just copying old stuff I posted on discord so maybe it's getting double compressed. I'm preemptively apologizing cuz the preview looks super blurry but I'm too lazy to do something about it. Maybe I should apologize for that instead.

Overworld Attack VFX

ended up scraping these and changing the system...

Jun 27, 2021

reposting everything kinda sucks, but like I haven't been making a lot of new content while I've been focusing on the story so hopefully, this will hold over? maybe. I should work on my game more.