Hobbyist game dev and composer
Level 3 of #OpenCrystalCaves is fully playable and the game is ready for another release. Progress has picked up so as well as building out features, I've been working on polish as well.
Now that the game allows dying, I actually died several times attempting to record this playthrough. The game can be quite tough!
#GameDev #OpenSource #CrystalCaves #DOS #RetroGames #ScreenshotSaturday
Earlier in Super 2D Noah's Ark I added an antelope, which is just a sheep with longer legs and horns. Now I've added a giraffe, the boss of episode 2, which is just an antelope with a longer neck, and instead of horns they're called ossicones - a word that my spell checker doesn't think exists. The things you learn as a #gamedev!
Also giraffes are so dopey when sleeping
#CDogsSDL #ScreenshotSaturday #PixelArt #RetroGames #OpenSource
@futurebird I once mentored a learning Python workshop and we wasted an hour trying to install it on windows and figured out McAfee was blocking python.exe. The whole experience makes me irrationally angry to this day
Thanks for the tip about thonny, gonna be passing it on!
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@eniko @RandamuMaki VS Code is to Visual Studio as JavaScript is to Java
@JoshJers @grumpygamer it’s rare but I love it because it is genuinely useful
Also made a silly #PixelArt #animation for it. Drawing birds is fun!
This time I decided to take it easy and make a simple tune that's been floating around in my head for years and see how it turns out. It was a nice fun break for a change!
@foone some also used obscure compression formats. I had an important breakthrough once I figured out one game was using some type of self-extracting exe wrapper to run the actual exe
And of course years before stuff like gif and mp3 were available, everyone was homebrewing their own media formats
While updating osgameclones.com I came across xu4, a faithful #UltimaIV recreation. It's quite a unique project, beginning way back in 2002, hitting version 1.0 in 2022 (18 years in beta!) and still actively developed to this day, with enhancements like pixel scalers.
https://xu4.sourceforge.net/history.html
Few open source games have such a history. While early CRPGs are hard to get into, if you do have the inclination you can get UltimaIV for free from EA and play it with xu4!
Implemented a few mechanics in #OpenCrystalCaves, including being able to die (just restarts the level), the reverse gravity powerup, and the stop enemies powerup. To improve over #CrystalCaves, the stop powerup makes enemies blink, to hint that they can't hurt the player - this isn't obvious and may have tricked many new players.
Level 3 may be very linear but it packs a lot of powerups - including invincibility - so it's memorable.
Some tiny cars
#pixelart #lowpoly #lowpoly3d #blender #pico8
Implemented antelopes in Super 2D Noah's Ark - for expediency they are just taller sheep
Also adjusted the sleep animation so that larger animals like camels and ostriches breathe slower than smaller ones like sheep and goats. Realism in a bible game! Yes!
#GameDev #OpenSource #CDogsSDL #ScreenshotSaturday #PixelArt #RetroGames
Wanna try a 8bit #pixelart RTS ?
#picocraft , the warcraft III demake made with @brullov_art, is coming to https://yourykiki.itch.io/picocraft !
Have fun !
Also available on #pico8 BBS https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=148318
Progress is picking up for #OpenCrystalCaves, level 1 is largely done and moving on to level 3. #CrystalCaves has a lot of wacky features, like this air pipe that sucks the player in and can kill you, or this red mushroom which makes the player invincible, so there are still many mechanics to add!
Drew the head and hence (almost) completed this silly ostrich enemy for Super 2D Noah's Ark! Although at these tiny resolutions I've noticed it can also pass as a giant duck. Be afraid
#GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday #PixelArt #OpenSource #CDogsSDL
hey folks, today is my birthday!!
so why don't you get us both a present and commission some pixels from me? 💚
( sharing very much appreciated! )
Found some time to blog lately and wrote about map distances being misleading, how the sense of space is much more about travel time than the physical distance
https://cxong.github.io/2025/04/the-map-is-not-the-territory
This seems obvious but time and time again maps mislead us - the map is not the territory, particularly when modes of transport are considered. There's some useful tips for #gamedev too here - fast travel / shortcuts make players feel powerful, and is a great way to do player progression.
