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DAY OFF. Multiplayer testing
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Over the past year, in our free time away from our main jobs, we continued to develop our project. The majority of our time and resources were dedicated to the...
Mac App Notarization
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Another road-block on the way to release... Starting October 14th, 2019 Steam will require all new macOS Applications to be 64-bit and notarized by Apple. If yo...
The Division of Unity
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Oh Unity. How revered you once were. How we praised your democratization of game development, and smiled in wonder as you opened up avenues for game developers...
1.9 - The Summer Update
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Hello today! While this game is technically fully playable, I want to keep polishing the experience of it until I consider it perfect. Since this is a tabletop...
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So, About Unity
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You might have heard the recent news about Unity, the game engine software used to make all my games (excluding Uncleft, that was Gamemaker). It is incredibly i...
The Unity version of DVR Simulator will be soon removed
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Hello everyone, What a side day for us game developers. As you know, Unity has taken a very bad decision about it's new pricing model. You already probably know...
Hey Unity! Maybe you could NOT do that!?
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For those of you somehow not in the loop, Unity has introduced a new so-called "Runtime Fee" that goes into effect starting in 2024. If you're on the Personal o...
Fake scene skipping + Sprite layer logging = Semi-automated visual novel testing!
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The last few days, I've been focusing on eliminating all the bugs I've had waiting in my to-do list while I focused on implementing new episode 2 content. I was...
The Troubles of UGC
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Well, it took THREE years, but Mondrian - Plastic Reality is finally coming to itch.io (among a few other places). So why, pray tell, did it take so long to bri...
In the weeds with flywriting
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In the weeds with flywriting Episode 2 is coming together, but I realized I had a problem when I saw this: (There are several problems on display there, like th...
Mechanical choices: Diceless, Roll for Magnitude, and Roll for Success
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Hi there! This post is about the various mechanical choices made in Valiant Horizon at a very high level. I group these into three categories: Diceless mechanic...
QuestCrawl Roll20 API Scripts Open Sourced
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https://github.com/watcherdm/questcrawl You can clone the code here, add the character-sheet file to your custom character sheet and add the quest-crawl-module...
Forgotten Ballad Third Party License
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This license allows anyone to make adventures, creatures, songs, or hacks for Forgotten Ballad and sell or publish them for free. Rules To publish material unde...
Devlog - Conductor, Music, and Sound
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What's the most important thing in a rhythm game? Not actual rhythm gameplay, but the music. Actually, not really; I just didn't know how to start this post. As...
Custom Lisp hijinx
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I answered a few questions that were asked on TIGSource about how my custom Lisp works and why I made it. Sharing those questions and their answers here, too! D...
while I'm at it
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while I'm at it let me tell you about another embarrassing bug I found in my custom Lisp. Code: (custom lisp test case) (function _testWhile [] (let [max 8 &mut...
Source code is available for download!
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I've just uploaded the source code for version 1.0 in the downloads, so if you'd like to create a mod or just see how everything works, you can do so by downloa...
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Devlog#6 is here!
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Hi everyone! Devlog#6 is out! The features: — Aceleration and desaceleration — New Level concepts style — new HUD — Secondary objectives...
The worst gameplay footage of all time
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A couple days back I was trying to screen-record the first 5ish minutes of episode 1 using OBS to put together a new trailer. I just got let go from a contract...
Making of Castle Tintagel, Part 2
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Finite State Machines Hi, Pixelated Opus here and today I would like to continue the discussion of the development process of my playdate game titled "Castle Ti...
How to add Dynamic Audio in Ren'py (it's easier than you think!)
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A couple people have been asking me about this, so I decided the best thing to do was to write up a post about it! In com__et the bulk of the game has one dynam...
Subtraction was broken
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I caught a very silly bug recently! In Lisp languages, you write a - b as (- a b) which seems ridiculous when you first learn it, but then you learn you can wri...
Save file format (to help add RetroAchievements?)
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We saw that RetroAchievements have been implemented for version 1, a very fun way to compete! A big thanks to RetroAchievement user Sines who appears to be resp...
Making of Castle Tintagel, Part 1
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Motivations Hi, Pixelated Opus here and today I want to discuss the development process of my playdate game titled, “ Castle Tintagel ”. I have always been...
#6 - Moving to UE5!
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I’ve decided to move the game to UE5 from 4. I have been keeping an eye on the features and small improvements they introduced from the very beginning but was...
Report Bug
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Estou criando este post para solucionar qualquer bug no jogo, qualquer problema ou glitch que seja notado no jogo, podem comentar neste post. You can also use t...
Without update this week? What happened? :O
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This week there aren't a new update about #InvisibibleX alpha game. Does mean I give up the game? Or my promise about doing an update every 15 days? In this 8 y...
new update fix proplems in andriod version
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new update fix proplems in andriod version and change background...
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Dialog History
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I don't play many visual novels, but in the ones I have played, I always love it when you can pull up a log of the recent dialog. It's such a great feature beca...
Coding an ad-hoc UI
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I want to talk about the image editor I made for Yarnspin, and more specifically, the ad hoc UI system I made for it. The image editor will let you preview imag...
¿Semana sin actualización? ¿Qué ha pasado? :O
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Esta semana no hay nueva actualización del alpha del videojuego #InvisibleX ¿Significa que he tirado la toalla? ¿He roto con mi promesa de sacar una actualiz...
Yarnspin Code Components
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I thought I’d talk a bit about the code components making up Yarnspin, my story-telling engine. Just a high-level overview, a look at what libraries I’m usi...
Making an Atari ST Game Menu
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My first computer was a C64. But my second one was an Atari ST, and it is the one I have the fondest memories of. It was there I really started making things, g...
Unity, Unigine or Unreal Engine - What to choose?
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The investigation into the three Un-Engines has concluded. Funny, that they all start with "Un"^^ Let me briefly share my experience with the game engines and e...
Level design deep dive
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Insight into the Game's Level Design Bubblegum Zombie Hunter showcases unique aspects in its level design. Rather than embracing the common strategy of creating...
The core of the Lancer Tactics engine.
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Burn it down, start again Step #1 of post-Kickstarter production was to start over in a new codebase. If we're going to be spending the next ~2-3 years on this...
Credits pt. 2
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I took the credit auto-loading system a step further and started making a Firefox extension that quickly downloads and records credit information from various f...
Godot Plugins - What nobody tells you
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This Devlog is about the secrets of making GodotEngine plugins, that I used for the AssetPlacer. Read my first devlog , if you are interested in how the AssetPl...
0.2.0 Dev Thoughts
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Hey. We just dropped the first major content update for Love Exalt 8372! With TWO new beefy scenes, a new minigame, scene selection menu, script import system...
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No VHS filter build
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Hello everyone, a lot of people in the comments have had an issue with the game's VHS filter on the screen becoming white and unplayble. So I've made a no filte...
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Credits
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Who's ready for a boring update about game credits?? I made my last visual novel in a team of 3, and in the end, the credits list was so compact that it's just...
From DAW to Dusk: Why I Personally Used FMOD for My Game Audio
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Written by Victor Ahlin, creator of "Just Keep Running" Before We Begin... First thing first, not sponsored. Despite the name drop in the title of this article...
How To Create Heightmaps for Unreal Engine using Blender and Gimp
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Hey everyone! I recently made a pack of 50 Free .PNG Heightmaps for Unreal Engine and have a Tutorial for you here as well! By the end of the tutorial, you'll b...
Progress of A.I.
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As I mentioned before I wanna finally start working on a major update. But before that, I need to add two updates: 1. Improving AI player; 2. Add multiplayer; F...
Flywriting
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Our hero, after transforming mysteriously into Flyman (a normal-sized fly without superpowers), can no longer communicate in conventional human ways. Spoilers f...
Somnipathy: A new design workflow
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The team continues its work on Somnipathy, as we move into the 3rd nightmare, and with 2 full levels under our belt, it was time for a change of workflow for ce...
Adaptive Music: How the Music System in "Just Keep Running" Works
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Written by Victor Ahlin, creator of "Just Keep Running" PLEASE NOTE: This article contains spoilers for Level 1-3 of the game. You have been warned Intro Before...
Dev Log: Cutscene Editor
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In this video, I show off how I create cutscenes for Super Sol Standard in preparation for the second demo I’m working on in preparation for this Summer. Chec...
Bug fixs
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We are going to fix some bugs , report in the comments any problems you find! We have recently fixed a few bugs <3 - glitchy ladder layer; - some broken sound e...
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