Progress post #141: Some ESA 2, too! Tags: Games, ESA 2, Baba Is You, Streaming, Regular updates Tesseract Tapa! Tags: Art, Paper puzzles, Other Baba & Pride Month & Racial Injustice Tags: Games, Baba Is You, Art, Other, Plans, Happenings Progress post #140: Choo choo Tags: Games, Baba Is You, Plans, Regular updates, Streaming Progress post #139: Feelings Tags: Games, Baba Is You, Regular updates, Streaming ISIWANYWT addendum Tags: Games, Small games, Paper puzzles, Art, Other, Browser games I Solved It Wrong And Now You Will Too Tags: Games, Paper puzzles, Small games, Browser games Small website thing! Tags: Games, Excavatorrr, Plans, Other, Small games Progress post #138: Awards and stuff Tags: Games, ESA 2, Baba Is You, Happenings, Other, Regular updates, Streaming Baba Is You patch notes (March 14th) – version 1.0.7 Tags: Games, Baba Is You Pages
Posted on 2020-06-28 11:50
Streamed some 5 hours tonight, fixing a whole bunch of issues in Baba Is You, but also taking the time to implement a bit of stuff for ESA 2 as well! I’m trying to avoid the issue I ran into previously where my enemy designs are overly complicated and all-purpose and as a result the level design becomes difficult. I’m still kind of learning the scale of the new 8×8 tile size – I haven’t fully internalized how high the player can jump and seeing which passages will feel too cramped and which in turn are too open is tough. Still, progress is progress!
Posted on 2020-06-24 04:57
I was recently introduced to the slightly picross-ish pen-and-paper category of puzzles called Tapa. They’ve been a lot of fun to solve, and way more satisfying to me than, say, sudokus. You can find a lot of them here, with instructions on how they work!
I recently saw someone make a 3D version of a Star Battle, another pen-and-paper puzzle type. Being who I am, I found the concept really intriguing and started pondering if it’d be possible to add one more dimension to the deal. I’m not good or familiar with Star Battles, so I went with the more-familiar Tapa ruleset and did some research & Love2D coding during the midsummer holidays and ultimately ended up with what you see above, the Hypertapa.
Due to how 4D works I had to devise some rather awkward extra rules to make the challenge make sense on some level, but I’ve now confirmed that the solution works so that’s great! Thanks to Deusovi for showing tapas to me and being the first to complete this.
So yeah. That’s how I spent my midsummer holidays (I did also sauna a bunch, visit my parents and eat good food & scratch a dog!)
Posted on 2020-06-17 23:30
I made a whole bunch of Pride flags in Baba Is You! If you’re interested, you can see & download them here (imgur album)!
Baba Is You is also part of the Humble Fight for Racial Injustice Bundle, along with games such as Spelunky, FTL and Hyper Light Drifter! Click the image below to check it out :)
Posted on 2020-06-09 02:19
More streaming! I really need to set up my standing desk again, these past days have caused stomach pains possibly partially because of all the sitting.
I managed to fix a whole bunch of small issues and add handy hotkeys and other quality-of-life features for the editor. The editor is actually starting to feel pretty nice to use, I’d say, and that’s exciting! I also added the train sprite above; not sure why, exactly, but it felt fitting.
Posted on 2020-06-07 11:45
Took a bit of a break from streaming! Got back to it a week or so ago, although I’ve still been somewhat low on energy. Today I did a longer 6-hour stream and got a lot of stuff done in Baba, including the above word “Feeling”, some additions to the object colouring system, bugfixes, and more. There was a nicely active set of viewers throughout and that helped a lot with motivation, too!
Posted on 2020-05-09 00:09
Posted on 2020-05-08 02:34
Hi! I just added a new game to the website, called I Solved It Wrong And Now You Will Too! This one has a funny origin story: I was linked to a cool logic puzzle called WITLESS – A Puzzling Journey where the idea is to deduce the rules of the puzzle from the puzzles themselves, with minimal information. I proceeded to solve the puzzles all wrong by making a very fundamentally wrong assumption about what the puzzles were expecting of me, but did “finish” them with a coherent logic system.
After understanding what my problem was by discussing the logic I ended up with with other people, I started pondering about a similar logic puzzle, except built around the flawed logic I had used. And so, in a moment of inspiration, I spent ~2 days building such a puzzle, and the result is here.
It’s very crude/rough and clinical, and based on tentative feedback the logic is way way too hard to get into, but I’m very happy about the result nonetheless. If you’re interested in logic puzzles, do give it a try!
HTML5 version (no saving)
Windows version (2,1 mb, has saving)
Posted on 2020-05-01 21:53
I had removed a couple games from the main webpage some years ago; they’re now back. The main titles this has affected are Cwoun, Excavatorrr, Paradise Fort and BulletZORZ (which was entirely unlisted.) Masjin is still out-of-order but I’ll get to that soon.
I haven’t been posting because I haven’t been streaming lately; I’ll try to do a general “what’s going on” post soonish.
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Posted on 2020-03-24 07:10
A couple streams have gone by without me having the energy to make a blogpost. Anyway, here we are again!
ESA2 hasn’t been progressing quite as swiftly as one could hope, but the basic framework is looking very promising. I’ve added some of the first enemies as seen above, started implementing the map and in general tried to keep everything going despite lapses in progress.
News on Baba Is You follow a very similar pattern – the level editor is getting close to being feature-complete apart from a couple potentially-extremely-troublesome features. The annoying thing is that most of the level editor work isn’t very screenshot-able! I’ll have to be happy that I have ESA2 to showcase instead. I did add a new word, Nudge, and make a gif of it, though:
Also! Baba Is You won the Best Design and Innovation awards at the Game Developers Choice Awards, at which I would have been weren’t it for the looming threat of COVID-19. The talk I was going to give about Baba’s rule system was also broadcasted as a “virtual talk”, so that’s neat. Baba also received the Outstanding Game Design award at the D.I.C.E Game Awards, cool stuff! Soon there’ll be the BAFTA awards, let’s see if Baba can keep it up with people appreciating its design.
Posted on 2020-03-14 08:43
– German translation added!
– The Portuguese translation had some English bits due to a mistake by me; this has now been fixed. Apologies.
– The level selector turned invisible at odd points when beating a level
– In certain languages the post-victory “congratulations” -text had the letters too close to each other
– The displayed a mysterious error in certain cases when watching the intro cinematic
– There’s now a clearer distinction between Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese in the translations.
– Fixed a bug that caused the language menu to break on gamepads after changing language
– Fixed a bug where watching the intro cinematic broke save data
– Small errors in a couple translations were ironed out
Level adjustments:
– Platformer (found in Rocket Trip; the old level was very fiddly)
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