Dusk Child HD!

So I know I’ve already given you Curse of Greed Ultimate and Curse of Greed Festive this month, but hey do you want a HD version of Dusk Child? 😀

Download links are below as always, and here video of me talking about it.

Hope you’re doing well! 🙂

Spooktober 2nd – Enid is in unity!

Woo, I have a version of Enid running around in unity! This isn’t going to be her final look though, but it is enough for me to animate with and tomorrow I can start on testing that all my old adventure systems still work, and start adding new stuff that I need to them too.

Here’s some skeleton animation in blender for you too 😀

If you’re wondering why skeletons have a “breathing” idle animation the reason is… I have no idea lol 😛 maybe it’s just a tough habit to break?

April Update

First up: I’ve sent out steam/itch keys for the cubes app to everyone in private messages, if you didn’t get yours, or your keys don’t work – let me know and I’ll fix it for you 🙂

OK so the actual update: April has been tough.

You might have noticed a lack of screenshot updates and the reason for that is I have very little visual to share. Unless you’d like a screenshot of a twine graph? OK you can have that:

It might not seem like much but making even this much progress on a project was like pulling teeth. The world is just so absurd and hard to comprehend right now, combined with one of my regular downer periods it’s meant my productivity outside of my own head has been… less than stellar.

But hey I’m starting to feel better, and find new ways of coping, so I’ll talk about what I did do this month:

• I’ve gotten some of the way to adding tutorials to my cube app, so you can use it to learn how to solve cubes!
• I’ve planned out a huge amount of a vampire gamebook thing which will consist of a bunch of one-page-dungeons (I guess that is bascally a book of dungeons?). That’s what I’m blocking out in twine.
• I continue to make progress on the lore and characters of my RPG. I know I’ve said it before, but it’s really benefitting from having time for the ideas to come together.
• I finished playing Final Fantasy 7 Remake. It’s fucking wonderful and I super recommend it. I have no idea how I’d have coped this month without it tbh.

Anyway, I’m still finding my energy so I’m going to have to call it here for now, but hey if you want something, here’s a letter from a young vampire to their maker.

I hope you’re doing alright with everything that’s been going on. I love you!

Curse of Greed Ultimate – Talkthrough

Hey! Rather than write for ages about the game, I’ve talked about it for ages 🙂

Links:

• Game link for patrons 
• Non-patron, non-ultimate game link 
• Pico-8 
• Gabriel Crowe’s pico-8 vector animation tool/code 
• Video of my actually beating impossible/ultimate 

Timecodes for stuff in the video:

• 1:16 – Intro
• 7:40 – Game systems overview
• 27:30 – Jumping/Wall jumping
• 32:08 – Outlines
• 38:50 – Fill Patterns
• 42:32 – Vectors
• 47:30 – Playthrough 

Sophie’s Screenshot Saturday #9

 Another belated saturday update, sorry about that. Unlike last time where it was my ISP’s fault, this was just because honestly I’m having a hard time keeping on top of stuff lately.

My main focus this week hasn’t been work but my mum’s birthday. We’re in lockdown together and her birthday was a BIG one, she’s much more social than me and was hoping for a large get-together with a lot of friends and family but thanks to the virus she was stuck with me. Anyway I did what I could but things are really disheartening right now.

I did get some work done too, my cubes app is basically ready for release at any time (oh it has store pages now too, on itch and steam) but I want to add a “lessons” feature with some tutorials before release but I am struggling to make any progress with that. The truth is I’m tired and angry and just… super overwhelmed. I think I’m just going to release without that feature, I really want to be all “I am going to be strong, I can do it!” but honestly I think the more difficult thing that requires real strength is to say “fuck it, now isn’t the time to burn out, and this is absolutely not the thing to burn out on”.

As always, I continue to make notes on my RPG project, it seems the longer I stall it, the more coherent the overall idea becomes so I think I might work on another light project in the meantime following my cubes app. I have plans for a kind of gamebook that is made up of linked one-page-dungeons. I’m pretty keen on the idea partly because most of the work will involve being away from screens and just doodling on paper. Things are so rough right now, less screen time is probably something I need…

Anyway, I know that I can’t be the only one feeling all of *gestures at the entire world* this – I wish I could just spontaneously have something new to give you all to help deal with everything but I don’t have it. So instead I’ll just point to my list of all the stuff you can get as a patron, maybe there is something in there that can help.

Whatever though, I want to say that I know you’re all helping me when things are really hard for everyone, which I really appreciate. And so I hope you’re looking after yourselves too. <3