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Update
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New things: - A crossbow has been added - Added a new ability for Bullseye crossbows (increases the chance of a critical shot and the ratio from 150% to 200%) -...
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Addlemoth Dev Update: April 2023
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Wow! It's been, uhhh, a while since I wrote one of these! My life's been incredibly busy! My day job game for the past year has been announced; I've been workin...
Devlog #33 - Fresh Roots
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Greetings Talented Gamers! Time for another round of changes from the last couple of weeks of Talented Development. Here goes nothing... Fresh Routes Since movi...
She walks and has feelings
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I love Stella's walking animations here. Normally this is only used in cut scenes and indoors but I used it outside for this gif. This gif represents work from...
LUNARK: Going Underground
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In the cinematic platformer LUNARK, players will find themselves immersed in a sci-fi adventure as they step into the shoes of a young man named Leo who gets ca...
Beta Version
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I decided to set the Shadow Eyes version as beta, I had some ideas to expand the game, and explain the story better, soon I will release the final update of the...
Version 1.1
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Version 1.1 Update: With some feedback I made an updated version which has some performance adjustments, as well as tweaked steering and car torque to make the...
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Playing Your Cards Right: Inspiration and Design
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Would you believe me if I told you this entire thing was inspired by playing cards? Specifically, it was inspired by the Queen of Hearts, and later: Queen of Cu...
Face picture or bust picture
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I have been questioning myself for a while about this, default rpg maker characters like her have the choice for either the face picture or the bust picture, sa...
Hotfix v0.4.6
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The servers had some issues again, so i fixed them. I also added a new feature to change your color to stand out when exploring the beanrooms...
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Adding dialogue to the game
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Hi there, friends and foes of democracy!! The next version of Socratic Democracy is going to be a true (though humble) visual novel, and that requires dialogues...
Returning to work
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The amount of work was bigger than I expect, But I am returning to this project and I wanna finally start working on a major update. But before that, I wanna la...
LUNARK: The Art of Movement
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Realism has often been a key aspect in video games, from gameplay mechanics to visuals and physics. While certain game genres such as sports or racing have alwa...
Learning how to code QCB/F inputs
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Quarter Circle Back/Forward inputs are the quintessential special move inputs! (QCF + Punch) throws out the legendary Hadoken in Street Fighter In this case, ho...
Do you want to experience our PC game demo?
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Hello, our beloved gamers! As you know, we are developing Into Samomor and considering releasing a demo to introduce the product to you. To better understand th...
Language and Learning
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It’s Spring! The weather is finally thawing everything out, and with the warmth comes flowers and new beginnings. Our team is growing along with everything el...
Cutscene test
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Writing dummy data for the cutscene is almost complete. Now I can say getting closer to an update I guess...
LUNARK: City Living
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In the cinematic sci-fi platformer LUNARK , the protagonist, Leo, will visit a diverse array of environments, from underground caverns to a vibrant forest to a...
Branching WIP
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Another WIP post for this week. A sneak peak at the branching feature for missions! This will be a new option to pick in the mission's ENEMY slot. When the miss...
Tiny Technicalities: The Pronoun Update™ (and an Announcement)
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Before we get started: A super cool announcement is happening next week, so if you don’t want to miss out, be sure to subscribe to the mailing list , follow u...
Devlog #32 - Shroomers Travel Fast
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Hello Talenters! Today we’ll cover some pretty exciting changes to the core gameplay loop of Talented, and show off a new addition to the game. As mentioned i...
LUNARK: What Is a Cinematic Platformer?
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Hi! My name is Johan Vinet, a French game developer based in Canada. I’m the creator of LUNARK, a 2D cinematic platformer set in a future where Earth’s moon...
Saturday Update 15 / 04 / 2023
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Finest Fable's season was never really established despite it being a very important piece of detail. Certain enemies can appear in certain periods of time, onl...
Character Spotlight - Mariella
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Mariella joins the party late in the game, her own story beginning in between acts 2 and 3. I wanted to create a character who bases her abilities on mirroring...
Memory’s Reach Dev Update - April 2023
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Welcome to the first Memory’s Reach Dev Update! This is something I have been wanting to do since announcing the game last September, though it has taken me a...
Meet the new and improved Stella!
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Meet the new and improved Stella! Created by our new artist Maria @toahiddenplace . Development on Comet continues slowly but some exciting stuff is coming toge...
Sneak Peek: Inventory Book!
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Hello, Plant Parents! We have been hard at work on our largest update yet to Plant Therapy, implementing our new Inventory ! This will be available in the downl...
Screencap Showcase (4/9/2023)
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Hey all, it's been a little while since I last posted a dev-log for Atlyss. I've been incredibly busy working on the game and doing other additional side work...
Art Updates
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Small update to share what I've been working on. Over the past few weeks I've been able to get a lot of time to work on tile art and I think It's going well. At...
Creating levels and UI for Raccoon Afternoon
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In this video we discuss about the game's UI and level design and how they came to be...
Performance is tough, game reboot.
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Long time no see people. Not so long ago, I got my Playdate. And unfortunately, Comet didn't run so hot. I thought Pulp Mill might be able to save it, but unfor...
Making our First Mobile Game with a raccoon!
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Raccoon Afternoon is our team's first major mobile game release set to public soon. Watch us in this devlog. You’ll see how fun ideas we created in raccoon ga...
Static Lights
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Been doing lots of bug fixes since I last updated everyone. Two big changes tho. The first is a static light system. This was needed for the start of the game b...
Squashing Bugs and building robust systems.
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I've mostly been fixing up bug lately and it's been REALLY fun! Two main themes 1. Splitting up the state of the player so I can turn player sprite elements off...
Coming soon
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COMING SOON This past month I've been working on an update that will bring with it a new level, new weapons and enemies, as well as general gameplay improvement...
Introduction to the game (draft video)
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Hello, friends and foes of democracy! Today I am sharing with you the Introduction video to Socratic Democracy. This introduction provides most of the informati...
The Tiny Yellow Machine Show
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My interview and hangout with @GantProdux on this week’s Tiny Yellow Machine was a lot of fun. I got to talk about my early love and involvement in indie game...
Full Moon Dev Blog #13 - "First Trailer!"
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Every Full Moon I will be posting about my process and progress on Asterism. Read Issue #13 of the Full Moon Dev Blog - "First Trailer!" - Shimmerwitch ✨...
Art Updates
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@stepepson has been doing amazing work updating the art. We have a new portrait for Stella and some some really nice looks dialogue boxes. And @Drew-Lo has been...
Lost at Sea: Helping Players Navigate the Open Ocean
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It's been nearly a year since this game came out. Rather than make myself reflect or do a more traditional postmortem, I thought I would write about some of the...
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Comet spotlighted in the Playdate update
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I was lucky enough to be asked to share some clips of Comet for the latest Playdate update. I wanted to polish it up before I did and so I asked in discord if s...
The village is coming together
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Hey, long time! I've been taking a bit of a dev break to let life catch up a little. (And help with the playdate wiki's ) Before then, I shared some screenshots...
No network play after all
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I have been experimenting with adding network play to Pixel Wheels, but it’s a Pandora box that I eventually decided not to open. The reason for this decision...
Mini-devlog (4/3/23): Makin' the last puzzles!
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Hey, all! Just a reminder that I'm doing OK. Since the last devlog, I've ended up making some pretty consequential decisions, but not ones that increase the sco...
Comet is born
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My game is now called Comet My wife and I had a great little brainstorming session which actually give me a dirrection to start developing the game. We have an...
Cutscene progress
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Day and Night
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Oh boy, it has been a while since the last blogpost, eh? A few weeks at least! Maybe a month? Welp, that is on us. But we are here to redeem ourselves! We had b...
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