Posts from date 2016-5:
Weekly progress post #15: Lots of new rooms! Tags: Games, ESA 2, Plans, Cloud Realm, Regular updates, Streaming Weekly progress post #14: Slow but steady Tags: Games, ESA 2, Cloud Realm, Plans, Regular updates, Streaming Weekly progress post #13: They work!! Tags: Games, ESA 2, Regular updates, Streaming, Cloud Realm Ludum Dare #35 results! Tags: Games, Ludum Dare, Small games Weekly Update #12: MOVING PLATFORMS!! Tags: Games, ESA 2, Cloud Realm, Regular updates, Streaming, Plans New watercolour!!
Posted on 2016-05-27 02:13
Today’s stream was extremely productive in terms of ESA 2! I implemented the basics for 3 new rooms and finished one I started last time, along with fixing tons of little quirks and bugs (and encountering new ones on the way!) There are a couple design issues I’ll need to decide on really soon and a new boss right around the corner; in general the game’s progress seems to be really nice! I also did a little run of the game as it is right now and it took me half an hour to get through it all, although I did spend some time just chatting. I’m not sure if that time is reassuring or worrying. Time will tell.
No work on Snake Game tonight because there’s a problem I can’t do much about that’s causing crashes and I really want that one squished before I continue.
Posted on 2016-05-20 01:42
Early day tomorrow so I had to keep it short. Nevertheless, in ESA 2 we’ve now reached the hookshot powerup once again! Some implementation problems arose, though, and I’ll have to look into those before the next stream. Similarly, in Snake Game progress was slow because of a LUA-related thing that I need to look into which is way too boring to stream. Oh well!!
Posted on 2016-05-12 01:16
Fixing the moving platforms turned out to be surprisingly trivial! I’m glad. I implemented the basic structure of this weird vertical, moving room and the one after that. I feel that the new rooms have been slightly too bare-bones but at the same time I’m trying to be extremely careful not to fill them with too many hazards.
Progress was also nice with the snake game; the new snake needs some more design thought put into it but I have a very good feeling about it!
Posted on 2016-05-10 13:35
Here we go again! Cavern of Flight didn’t fare quite as well as some previous entries, but all in all I’m nonetheless very happy with the results. Out of the 1118 compo entries, my game was
#6 in the ‘mood’ category
#20 in the ‘graphics’ category
#48 overall
I’d call that a fairly successful result! As usual my entry ended up being too hard and finicky to control, and those are things I’ll keep struggling with in the future, too, but it was a lot of fun to make a game and that’s all that matters. I’m really happy that I had the time/energy to enter the compo.
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Posted on 2016-05-09 03:16
Pictured here is mild frustration. I thought I had fixed the moving platforms, but as it turns out I only fixed them when they’re moving vertically! I’ll have to do some extra fixing for horizontal movement and during today’s stream I basically just gave up and decided to tackle that later.
On the other hand, I got surprisingly far with a first test of a new snake in the Snake Game, so that was great! No gifs because I’m weird like that. All in all I’d say that the stream was fairly successful despite my tiredness. Hopefully I’ll be able to fix those platforms by next stream.
Posted on 2016-05-06 14:23
Woo! After nearly a year of no watercolours I finally got back to it after having a very cool discussion about painting. You can really see that I was a bit afraid of messing it up with how few colours I used, but I’m nonetheless very happy with this piece, especially considering that I made the lineart last Autumn! >:I
I’ve been busy this week and thus been unable to stream but I’ll try to get the stream done someday before the week is over!! Sorry for the delay!!!