Latest Posts by alkaliii - Page 5

Pause Menu Implementation

I decided to stop tweaking the look and actually start putting it into the game. Exporting assets is a lot of work so I just kinda put placeholders in...

Csprites

Csprites, aka Combat Sprites are the counterpart to isosprites. They show up in the battle scene. I don't really like the look of them and I dread coding for some reason. So lets redraw them. new base

Test sketch

alice head

yea she frowns underneath the mask

looks okay I guess, but still feels off, might redraw again later... (I did redraw them again later, I know since this work was done months ago)

Emotes

since my game doesn't have character portraits I have to find other ways of emphasizing my really dry writing... maybe I should just learn to draw character portraits...

Push...

I think this is an excellent example of why I dread implementing things.

BOX

...box

Banter Box

Implemented! I like it but it does add extra button presses to something some don't enjoy while in the middle of gameplay... maybe I should save it for cutscenes?

Dashing

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rip another imgur link, I'm not even gonna tag this lol

Discord Rich Presence...

was this necessary to add right now, no was this easy to add and another means of attaining validation and visible progress... yes

Isosprites

I call em isosprites since they are isometric sprites. Off all the art in my game I like these the most, yet I never want to spend time making more of them. I guess ill get all the time in the world to make them if I can get passed this project's pre-production phase (I'm sorta close... maybe I should make a checklist...) sneaky peeky behind the scenes

More WIP Inventory

I spend a lotta time tweaking designs instead of coding, which I feel guilty for... probably because my project's viability suffers a bit each time because I want it to look perfect before the first implementation... maybe ill spend a month doing quick and dirty sprints where I implement features in a week... maybe

WIP Inventory

specifically the list... My item categories have icons now. Icon design is hell but it's satisfying to have a finished set. Maybe I should try spending time brainstorming on ben and baber.

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.

WIP ui stuff

^ popups for damage context

^ new status effect badges (used to be just text) still wip

^banter boxes... suppose to give room for side comments in a way, might still be annoying to the player

^ side box for less important dialogue, maybe ill have it come out of the speaker like cross code

WIP status effect vfx

Game World

a few locations to say the least. I think there are 9 major cities, 10 small towns, and a lot of dungeons... I might cut some towns...

Overworld Attack VFX

ended up scraping these and changing the system...

Overworld VFX

might get rid of the half circle on the bottom.

Oct 22 - Oct 29, 2022

some art stuff, this more or less has caught the blog up with my posts on Twitter. Time to say goodbye to daily posts, and hello to inactivity!

Oct 15, 2022

UI revamp. Yes, I revamped the look without implementing any of them, no I will not explain myself. We're getting kinda close to the future... I'm gonna run out of content to post daily lol.

Jun 18, 2022

OptOut encounters. I need to add more sound effects, an alarm sound for when one of these pops would be fitting.

Jun 11, 2022

voila, house. These ones are pretty simple but now I understand what my workflow is for when I make a nutty one. The tall one needs a balcony 100%. I should make that... but then do I have to let the player onto the balcony, and if I let the player on the balcony, do I let them jump off it into some hay on a horse cart conveniently placed below the balcony? decisions decisions.

May 7, 2022

trapped chests, I want to also have a teleport chest but I need to add additional zones to implement and test that, which requires me to save the state of the scene or area streaming. Yea... I have a lot of work to do.

May 4 - May 6, 2022

New dirt path tileset, some mockups, and a door.

April 30, 2022

Chests! Normally they won't initiate dialog but inventory isn't set up so yea... I'll be real with you it's almost been a year since I put chests in and inventory still isn't set up... I got started a few days ago tho, maybe it'll be ready before this summer, fingers crossed.

April 27, 2022

Added some trees, They sway slowly so I sped up the gif.

April 23, 2022

took about a year and a half but now you can do not battle things and switch to battle things.

April 16, 2022

For the first time since the battle system, I actually programmed in an important feature. Now I can tell a story! IF ONLY THE STORY WAS WRITTEN.

April 6, 2022

isometric perspective was a mistake, it took me a year to draw a nice chest, don't question why they look slightly different. I'm not going to change the game's field map perspective though since iso is hot.

April 2, 2022

sorry about this, uh ill edit it later after I compress the gif. just pretend the twitter wrapper isn't there and it doesn't get worse every time the owner tweets

Development Update

Hello, I made a post on TIG just now. It summarizes some future progress that hasn't been posted here. Check it out if you feel like it.