🔔 Added sounds to platform disappearance/reappearance 🌊
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🍂 Feeling autumnal over here and sketching tilesets rather than doin what needs doin 🍁
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💨 Cruisin around on some floating platforms to find all the holes in my fall/respawn logic 🥚
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🕳️ Trying some new things with pits/falling. Not sure how fun platform dashing is, but the platforms over the ocean fit what I'm trying to do with worldbuilding. Def need a splash animation now 💦
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🏗️ Further room building! Things are starting to look more solid now 🪨
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✨I find it's beneficial to work through bugs 🐛 by testing in high fidelity level layouts. Having to work around a real design helped me to understand falling more completely and to fix a couple of things quickly!
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🎉 Happy (barely) #screenshotsaturday! Here's a side-by-side of level concept art (left) and current state of building it in-game (right)!
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👁️ Keen viewers will notice that this update is SLIGHTLY different to yesterday's! More room building today, jokes aside. Dailies keep me honest, but sometimes I feel like I'm posting the same thing over and over again 🕰️
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🚧 WIP: More room layout. 🌊 I did a concept design for this area before building the tilemap, and it's been really beneficial in highlighting how much more flexibility I've been wanting in my level design (and I still want more) 🌧️
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🚧 More WIP: Ocean animations are varied enough now where I’ve got enough to handle different water-meets-shore scenarios! 🌊
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🚧 Extremely WIP room build. Experimenting with an animated tileset refactor for the waves to make them more configurable 🌊
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🌧️ I'll stop posting rain videos soon, promise. 📢 Now with SOUND 📢 And controller parameters updated to allow for greater variation in amount of rain ☔️
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☔️ More rain! Now that I’m satisfied with the method of doing this, I built a controller for the rain that only creates it within the camera view (with a lil buffer). Also made the darkened sky layer into a tileset. TL;DR: Looks rainier, is more efficient 🌧️
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🌧️ Happy rainy #screenshotsaturday, everyone 🌧️
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🌧️ Had a first go at rain! Areas where it’s raining will have a darker palette than this generally, but all told I think this is working pretty well 🌧️
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🟨✨🕳️Here's the animation cycle I've been working on implemented in the falling platform object in game!🕳️✨🟨
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🐟 🪺 Respawn animation added! (And some real weirdness discovered in my player re-creation code 🔎 to be dealt with soon.)
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🪨Still struggling to find the time this week, but here's another #wip 🚧 shot of some new #Straycloud environment art for #screenshotsaturday! 🌊
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💻 HUD refactor update! I gave the object the ability to switch sprites conditionally, so I've added creation sprites to the spirit gauge (top left) ✨
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I’m refactoring the ❤️ ✨ 🌊 health/spirit/element system to more easily allow HUD animations to be added. The HUD is an area that I’ve been meaning to get to for a while, and it’s sorely in need of some love. Anyway, here’s a buggy in-progress shot of where it’s at (keep an eye on the gauges at top left)
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