Nostr notes by Brianna Townsend

the stack! we strayed from the stack in our infancy as a people

2026-02-07T04:48:06Z

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the stack! we strayed from the stack in our infancy as a people

its slow

2026-02-07T04:47:09Z

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its slow

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2026-02-07T04:44:20Z

i think malloc was a mistake, just like, as a society

I've been working on adding zones to the world that can ...

2026-01-28T15:11:25Z

I've been working on adding zones to the world that can change the music and show little darksoulsy title cards

Happy #WishlistWednesday! Please consider wishlisting Chronicles IV: Ebonheim today! https://chrongame.com

#gamedev #indiegame #gaming #ultima #roguelike #pixelart

It is time to engage in capitalism at five below ...

2025-11-22T16:14:57Z

It is time to engage in capitalism at five below

we here at marketing company have done the math we've ...

2025-08-27T21:15:49Z

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we here at marketing company have done the math we've crunched the numbers and it's true, the best games are the games that are good. lets make that game good go.

omg its finally happened im a real steam developer also what is ...

2025-08-27T21:14:28Z

omg its finally happened im a real steam developer also what is this man even saying

GOD i love that!

2025-08-19T19:47:50Z

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GOD i love that!

Freeze the ground to redirect your foes and make a speedy getaway ...

2025-08-15T16:29:36Z

Freeze the ground to redirect your foes and make a speedy getaway in Chronicles IV: Ebonheim!

Wishlist at https://chrongame.com

#indiegame #pixelart #ultima #crpg #roguelike #gamedev

A lot of enemies in RPGs are just graphical. Health and damage go ...

2025-08-11T17:00:52Z

A lot of enemies in RPGs are just graphical. Health and damage go up to increase difficulty, occasionally they cast spells, but the most interesting combat in Morrowind is what, the vampires might curse you? the solstheim guys have spell-reflect?

I think about how in Dead Cells each enemy presents a unique threat that can still get you even if you know it. What are some RPGs that have that for every enemy?

Was reading something about how System Shock was going to have ...

2025-08-10T20:37:22Z

Was reading something about how System Shock was going to have NPCs and dialog trees but it felt so bad that they decided everyone in the station was dead.

Realizing video game dialog sucks so much that you restructure your entire narrative and invent audio logs.

Steam Page is liiiiiiive~~ Please Wishlist my game so that I have ...

2025-08-01T21:24:00Z

Steam Page is liiiiiiive~~

Please Wishlist my game so that I have another number to look at while I work very hard ♥

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3919080/Chronicles_IV_Ebonheim/

Boosts greatly appreciated! Thank you for following my project!

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #gaming #roguelike

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2025-07-03T16:06:04Z

#gamedev tip: dont use unity

i don think that spaceballs 2 will be good but mel brooks saying ...

2025-06-13T15:14:30Z

i don think that spaceballs 2 will be good but mel brooks saying "we asked what the fans wanted and instead we're making this" made me laugh

Sneaker stop sneaking #gamedev #sourcecode ...

2025-06-10T21:35:25Z

Sneaker stop sneaking

#gamedev #sourcecode

I think the older I get and the more problems I have and the more ...

2025-05-22T12:10:45Z

I think the older I get and the more problems I have and the more inescapable nightmarish traumas I accrue the less patience I have for:

"You need to know about this"
"Why is nobody talking about this"
"It's important that you know about..."
And my favorite of all
"If you're not outraged you're not paying attention"

Fuck the fuck off

ngl when i first glanced at the video i didnt think it was a ps2, ...

2025-04-29T18:12:20Z

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ngl when i first glanced at the video i didnt think it was a ps2, that game is gorgeous

it lives!

2025-04-29T18:09:05Z

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it lives!

ok took some time to mess around and see what wasn't working. ...

2025-04-22T21:51:17Z

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ok took some time to mess around and see what wasn't working. my nginx and php-fpm are two containers in one docker-compose and my nginx.conf redirects php requests to the other container... and theres the coofy stuff with my server not having http so had to hack around but now it's Actually™ Working

i had messed with the nginx container a long time ago to get rami ...

2025-04-22T17:56:41Z

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i had messed with the nginx container a long time ago to get rami ismail's drop-in php presskit to work so was able to just unzip it onto a neighboring folder and it just worked! Ill have to mess with config later https://brianna.town/kiki

it wasnt me but i did pick up a paid copy and just dropped it ...

2025-04-22T17:52:37Z

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it wasnt me but i did pick up a paid copy and just dropped it onto my stack and it worked great!! Incredible work!

waveform collapse is super neat! speeds up board generation 100x ...

2025-01-31T04:33:15Z

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waveform collapse is super neat! speeds up board generation 100x and is way more reliable for the right answers.

Original implementation did some costly N^2 logic and was capable of violating its own rules

now to rewrite dragonsweeper's board generation to use wave ...

2025-01-28T20:39:17Z

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now to rewrite dragonsweeper's board generation to use wave function collapse 👀

I blacked out for an evening and ported dragonsweeper into ...

2025-01-28T06:42:30Z

I blacked out for an evening and ported dragonsweeper into chronicles

any* time! * until it conflicts with someone else

2025-01-08T17:36:29Z

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any* time!

* until it conflicts with someone else

Please if anything I post is missing exception or acknowledgement ...

2025-01-08T17:25:00Z

Please if anything I post is missing exception or acknowledgement of your own pet issue or experience know that I am fully aware of and in support of your side of whatever it is and that the omission is purely a clerical oversight or perhaps result of character limit

Thought about gifting my nephew a copy of Wizard of Earthsea and ...

2024-12-29T16:04:25Z

Thought about gifting my nephew a copy of Wizard of Earthsea and came to discover that the edition I first read in school that I borrowed from the school library was first edition and goes for $500+ now

Paperback it is

If you're looking for a nice holiday film with the family you ...

2024-12-17T14:44:19Z

If you're looking for a nice holiday film with the family you may have not seen, check out Last Holiday with 👑Queen Latifah

Her insurance denies her coverage of a life saving medical procedure and she ends up fucking with capitalist elites and that's a message we can all come together around

#movies #ChristmasMovies #film #cinema

I've been struggling all year to fill in the UI on the right ...

2024-12-05T20:40:39Z

I've been struggling all year to fill in the UI on the right side of the screen and I think I'm close now. Not final, still needs some tweaking, but I'm the happiest I've been with it thus far.

#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #roguelike

Some dodging, friendly fire, and barrel tossing for ...

2024-11-23T15:47:53Z

Some dodging, friendly fire, and barrel tossing for #screenshotsaturday

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #gaming #roguelike

In 2018 I got really into retro hardware and constructed a ...

2024-11-22T17:31:17Z

In 2018 I got really into retro hardware and constructed a framemeister setup for getting clean low-latency video out of my PS2 Slim.

I was mainly motivated by wanting to play Gitaroo Man again on the big TV.

My only remnant of that time is recording the title sequence from that game which, if you search on youtube, only shitty emulator rips exist for.

Was reminiscing and thought I'd share!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai9cSs2Yq-g

#retrogaming

I've been hesitant to show incoming damage numbers on the ...

2024-11-15T17:26:47Z

I've been hesitant to show incoming damage numbers on the actual map (they show in the turn-order window) but after finally just trying it I think it really upgrades the at-a-glance readability of the field😊

#gamedev #pixelart #roguelike #indiegame #gaming

I've been pondering this for a few weeks and with my current ...

2024-11-14T04:57:26Z

I've been pondering this for a few weeks and with my current big content push it was time to put it into action.

Damage is now split between melee and ranged to apply a little friction to some build decisions, and potentially makes 1-handed ranged items very versatile. Abilities will declare which number they use.

#gamedev #solodev #roguelike #indiegame #pixelart

Two features, two gifs! These were huge pain points from multiple ...

2024-11-05T23:07:08Z

Two features, two gifs! These were huge pain points from multiple testers last October and I've been dreading fixing them because they're very ingrained.

1st: Relative targeting. If you move someone they will play out their turn from the new location, so you can manipulate where their spells land

2nd: complete projectile logic rewrite to be logical and make sense

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #roguelike

Enemies in the game dynamically solve the game state for the best ...

2024-11-04T14:32:22Z

Enemies in the game dynamically solve the game state for the best outcomes from a series of weights to be able to effectively use their different abilities for different situations They're always surprising me!

Here's a mage pushing an oil barrel into a wall to break it which would cause my to take fire damage.

#gamedev #indiedev #roguelike #pixelart #indiegame #gaming

The new ItemSet inventory management system is done. I think I ...

2024-11-01T17:20:28Z

The new ItemSet inventory management system is done. I think I ultimately netted out ~1800 fewer lines of code, massively improved stability around a very complicated genre of interactions, and unlocked a ton of new feature possibilities.

The feature I was dreading adding 3 weeks ago is now trivial to add.

One cool thing is I can make ground-item-searching into a fully-interactive side-by-side view completely arbitrarily

#gamedev #roguelike #pixelart #indiedev

I know that like, this happens, and the more eyeballs I get on ...

2024-10-28T15:26:18Z

I know that like, this happens, and the more eyeballs I get on this game, the more it will happen, but the sort of replies that really grind my gears are the ones that boil down to "hmm sounds shit, are you going to make it good? or will it suck"

And I just take a breath and reply "At this time I currently plan on making it good 👍"

Not subtooting anybody here y'all are nice

Your map knowledge persists between runs, so you can turn your ...

2024-10-24T19:04:20Z

Your map knowledge persists between runs, so you can turn your torch off and get a jump on enemies.

This is great for a sort of hobbit-thief-type run where you might send a weak character in to retrieve lost items

#gamedev #indiedev #roguelike #indiegame #gaming

Avoid enemies lurking around corners waiting to ambush, keep your ...

2024-10-22T17:25:49Z

Avoid enemies lurking around corners waiting to ambush, keep your torch lit, and equip dropped gear to use foes' moves against others!

#gamedev #indiedev #roguelike

don't make inventory for your rpg. Just like, set your game ...

2024-10-21T17:59:17Z

don't make inventory for your rpg. Just like, set your game in a world where there are no objects.

#gamedev

During a run you're not only searching for your own gear, ...

2024-10-19T04:43:51Z

During a run you're not only searching for your own gear, you're also shopping for future runs.

You can offer up items that you can't use or don't need by spending a currency earned from enemies, protecting them from being lost upon death.

Future characters can withdraw these items when starting their runs!

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #roguelike

This week our spooky movie calendar is an entire week of Final ...

2024-10-14T22:34:48Z

This week our spooky movie calendar is an entire week of Final Destination.

If I'm still awake and not terrified of murdered teens I'll begin work on the item dispersal system. When time passes between runs, gear you dropped might move around :D

#movies #gamedev #spookyseason

I'm biased but the game I'm most excited about for ...

2024-10-14T15:34:16Z

I'm biased but the game I'm most excited about for #SteamNextFest is SP | Puzzled Cat Out NOW! (npub1yhz…8ks9)'s Super Puzzled Cat!

I've watched this game grow up for 9 years and it's finally coming out in January!

Solve increasingly-devious puzzles by combining different items and making use of a built-in use-anywhere save state! There's so many secrets to uncover! And it's a very cute cat 🐱

Now in Japanese!

Play the demo today, share with your friends, and wishlist!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3045020/Super_Puzzled_Cat_Demo/

#gaming #videogames #indiegame

I honestly keep forgetting that I can run as many instances of my ...

2024-10-13T20:10:03Z

I honestly keep forgetting that I can run as many instances of my game as I want simultaneously within the running exe, useful for checking a bit of re-used UI code in different contexts

#gamedev #indiedev #imgui

so right now I use a printf-style formatter that is %s %d etc but ...

2024-10-11T04:09:54Z

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so right now I use a printf-style formatter that is %s %d etc but that is prone to an issue where the translated text might need to change the order of the arguments. A fix for that is to use a custom formatting scheme where you mark you arguments as like {0} {1} etc so the text can move them around but still be referencing the same argument list.

As promised, a technical write-up about the knowledge-journey I ...

2024-10-10T23:48:15Z

As promised, a technical write-up about the knowledge-journey I went on to implement Japanese Unicode support in my software-rendered retro game engine.

There's a lot of juicy bits here about Unicode, string parsing, localization strategies, and more! Enjoy!

https://blog.brianna.town/japanese-font-support

#gamedev #indiedev #japanese #retrocomputing #unicode #gaming #pixelart

Was thinking about what it would take to allow Japanese ...

2024-10-10T04:11:32Z

Was thinking about what it would take to allow Japanese characters in the EGA-like framebuffer and fell down a deep deep hole of adding the 8x8 misaki font and then writing code to convert Unicode codepoints to JIS X 0208 2-byte kuten coordinates.

Need to write up a full blog post about what all went into this but here's the final product in all its glory! Special thanks to Nice Gear Games (npub1ey6…585q) for translating my save file deletion dialog (minus the buttons which I googled 😛)

#gamedev

Not final but I'm happy to finally have the run-starting UI ...

2024-10-08T20:19:10Z

Not final but I'm happy to finally have the run-starting UI to select your class

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #roguelike

I once heard that for years people swore that the pacman ghosts ...

2024-10-07T17:59:22Z

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I once heard that for years people swore that the pacman ghosts had sophisticated coordination that would trap the player is complex ways.

It's important to remember that multiple extremely primitive algorithms working in concert can create an emergent illusion of sophistication

Came up with a very low-tech solution to something that I want ...

2024-10-07T17:56:41Z

Came up with a very low-tech solution to something that I want players to think is a very high-tech solution 😈

#gamedev

wow a black-label FFIX, I was waffling over spending $40 on that ...

2024-10-02T23:15:29Z

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wow a black-label FFIX, I was waffling over spending $40 on that at a used store a few years back to replace my set of gem-cases from the original disc-only used copy I had in the 00's

aaah I see so me having a residential ISP with dynu updating my ...

2024-10-01T09:25:46Z

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aaah I see so me having a residential ISP with dynu updating my DNS whenever my IP changes is probably no so good huh

Someone recently told me that it's a constant losing war of ...

2024-10-01T09:18:23Z

Someone recently told me that it's a constant losing war of attrition to try to host your own mail server because you'll never have reliable delivery.

I'm not paying for anything and I want to use my domain for my email and it feels dumb to have that be the thing I have to pay for.

Was going to just spin up Docker Mailserver

I'd be using it for professional communications, admin for other hosted services, and sending newsletters.

Curious to hear first-hand experiences!

#selfhosting #docker

Happy Friday! Otherwise known as extremely-early- ...

2024-09-27T21:44:34Z

Happy Friday! Otherwise known as extremely-early- #screenshotsaturday !!

Showing off the fruits of the last few weeks! Non-combat interactions are really solid and the contextual UI/UX for them is really slick!

Here's 3 minutes of fullscreen gameplay picking up items, opening doors, and then fighting some ogres!

Have a great weekend!

#gamedev #indiedev #roguelike #gaming

Last year amidst the Unity debacle, I collected a list of solid ...

2024-09-23T16:55:59Z

Last year amidst the Unity debacle, I collected a list of solid zero-dependency simple include libraries you can easily integrate into your own C++ game engine.

It's incredible how much you can accomplish without needing to resort to an off-the-shelf engine or, worse, CMAKE.

With cohost shutting down, I've migrated this post to my blog and pinned it!

https://blog.brianna.town/c-custom-game-engine-libraries

#gamedev #indiedev #cpp #opensource

Traveling this weekend and wishing I was able to get more dev ...

2024-09-21T17:51:11Z

Traveling this weekend and wishing I was able to get more dev done, in the meantime here's my long post from last year about the Tandy 3-voice sound chip emulation and accompanying tracker tool I built from scratch for all the music and audio in the game

https://blog.brianna.town/the-big-chronicles-audio-system

#gamedev #indiedev #retrocomputing

They are getting chonky ...

2024-09-19T17:36:07Z

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They are getting chonky

I made a little movie showing off some content creation in the ...

2024-09-18T16:25:14Z

I made a little movie showing off some content creation in the Chronicles engine.

Here I create a new item, give it some existing art with a palette swap, adding status buffs, and then equip it in-game!

All modifications to game assets apply to the live-running game instance using a cascading asset database system that is inspired by the TES Construction Kit.

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #cpp

Sound up for 5-day-old squawking ...

2024-09-16T20:32:59Z

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Sound up for 5-day-old squawking

First pass at a system I've been working on for a while. In ...

2024-09-16T04:38:27Z

First pass at a system I've been working on for a while. In many classic roguelikes, equipping and unequipping takes several turns, and can be interrupted.

Now equipment changes show how many turns it will take and for cases of swapping, the "to be unequipped" gear becomes unused (greyed out) halfway through the delay.

Actors also now have a Donning Speed stat that can be affected by gear to make this faster

#gamedev #indiedev #chron4

#quail #babies ...

2024-09-14T23:19:21Z

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#quail #babies

It's been a wild week, so glad that they're all doing ...

2024-09-13T03:23:18Z

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It's been a wild week, so glad that they're all doing well 😁

Surprise #5 this morning! ...

2024-09-12T14:39:52Z

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Surprise #5 this morning!

Owen inspects the brooder bin, where the newborns will live for ...

2024-09-11T23:37:39Z

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Owen inspects the brooder bin, where the newborns will live for three weeks!

They're sleeping under the heating plate ♥

#quail #dogsofmastodon

When they're trying to get out of their eggs, the humidity is ...

2024-09-11T23:33:17Z

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When they're trying to get out of their eggs, the humidity is very high, 70-80%+ and it gets higher as they start to hatch.

Opening the incubator drops that level which can potentially harden the membrane of not-quite-hatched eggs and shrink wrap them before they are able to get out 😭

We were quick about it but we'll never know if more hatches were prevented from happening because of our error 😢

The four newborns are doing great in their new home! They run they eat they drink they're adorable

Going to start just keeping quail content in this one thread. We ...

2024-09-11T23:30:18Z

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Going to start just keeping quail content in this one thread.

We had 4 of our 12 eggs hatch this morning! I suspect we may have more tomorrow, there's still movement and pipping from at least 3 other eggs.

Two big mistakes were 1) no grippy floor for them to more easily stand up and 2) forgetting to replace the grate over the humidity reservoir.

Item 2 meant they were plunking into the water and at risk of drowning so we had to remove them from the incubator, which put the other eggs at risk

I made a gif to post on bluesky because I thought I saw people ...

2024-09-11T20:38:19Z

I made a gif to post on bluesky because I thought I saw people over there saying they had video uploads working now but it did not work and so you all get to have this fine gif of inventory items zipping around.

#chron4 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #roguelike

One of my favorite #cohost things from the early days was ...

2024-09-11T20:10:40Z

One of my favorite #cohost things from the early days was Gristmill, a longform screenshot let's-play of Pool of Radiance, highly recommend!

Long live Skullcrusher!

https://cohost.org/gristmill/post/34565-welcome-to-the-grist

#retrogaming #heycohost

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2024-09-11T15:18:59Z

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Good morning! #quail #tucson ...

2024-09-11T13:22:58Z

Good morning!

#quail #tucson

I did it I blogged. This post is about how Chronicles does ...

2024-09-10T21:45:52Z

I did it I blogged.

This post is about how Chronicles does turn-based gameplay, by executing all of the turn logic in a single frame and constructing a timeline of render data to play out the presentation of the turn.

There's a lot here about state management and immediate mode presentation! I hope you enjoy!

https://blog.brianna.town/turn-based-gaming-the-atomic-execution-function

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #blog

If you're a #gamedev and looking for a place to land from ...

2024-09-09T21:03:31Z

If you're a #gamedev and looking for a place to land from #cohost, respond to this post with some info about your project and I'll boost you!

Some cohost mutuals did the same for me when I got here (Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place) (npub1jg9…dpmw) 💜)

I hope you find a home here!!

If you're looking for something to play this weekend, check ...

2024-08-30T16:38:03Z

If you're looking for something to play this weekend, check out the demo for Super Puzzled Cat! It's a super adorable game with a ton of hidden secrets, and your save will transfer to the full game!

My good friend SP | Puzzled Cat Out NOW! (npub1yhz…8ks9) has been working on this for the better part of a decade and I'm so excited for it to finally be out there!

Share with your friends and don't forget to wishlist to appease the steam algorithm!!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3045020/Super_Puzzled_Cat_Demo/

#gamedev #gaming #indiedev #indiegame

This ninja-smoke ability was trivial to whip up in my editor... ...

2024-08-27T20:57:14Z

This ninja-smoke ability was trivial to whip up in my editor... just applied a palette swap to the explosion graphic and dropped obscuring smoke behind a teleport... great way to make an easy getaway!

#gamedev #indiedev #roguelike #gaming #indiegame

There hasn't been a lot of new progress since the doors post ...

2024-08-24T19:58:05Z

There hasn't been a lot of new progress since the doors post but it's #screenshotsaturday and there have been so many new faces around here so I made a little gameplay gif!

Sometimes enemies see you from the darkness and are already positioning to ambush you as you push forward

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #gaming #roguelike #pixelart

Doors are pretty much where they need to be now. There's a ...

2024-08-19T22:51:23Z

Doors are pretty much where they need to be now. There's a lot of exceptions and gotchyas and refactor packed into this for a ton of reasons but they look really nice.

They can close too! But that's a bit of a question of UI so might not make the next milestone.

Doors!

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #roguelike #screenshotmonday

It looks like we're going to be raising some quail in our ...

2024-08-19T02:45:07Z

It looks like we're going to be raising some quail in our backyard.

The beginning of my farmer era 👩‍🌾

The Super Puzzled Cat demo is out and free and is great fun and ...

2024-08-12T22:28:05Z

The Super Puzzled Cat demo is out and free and is great fun and you should check it out but don't take my word for it!

Here is a Spanish-language heterochromia cat playing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FYH_g2CK18

#gaming #indiegame #steam #demo

WR Dustforce speedrunner streams free demo of Super Puzzled Cat ...

2024-08-09T16:43:43Z

WR Dustforce speedrunner streams free demo of Super Puzzled Cat for nearly 7 hours, doesnt find everything.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2219559014

I think I can't overstate how great this game looks in motion. Videos and screenshots don't do it justice. It really surprises you with everything it does.

And hey you can leave reviews for demos now so if you try it leave a review!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3045020/Super_Puzzled_Cat_Demo/

#gaming #indiegame #steam #indiedev

Today's the day! @npub1yhz…8ks9's adorable save-state ...

2024-08-08T14:38:16Z

Today's the day! SP | Puzzled Cat Out NOW! (npub1yhz…8ks9)'s adorable save-state platformer Super Puzzled Cat has a steam demo for all to enjoy!

It has a wonderful look, original music, and is packed with just a stupid amount of secrets to uncover.

My friend's game has been in works for years and years and I'm so happy everyone can now see it for themselves. I highly recommend playing the demo and leaving a review!

And please boost to spread the word!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3045020/Super_Puzzled_Cat_Demo/

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Recorded a nice long gif today of some combat testing, painting a ...

2024-08-07T23:54:35Z

Recorded a nice long gif today of some combat testing, painting a picture of the pace of the game.

Need to work on a new tileset soon this one has gotten so stale 😅

https://blog.brianna.town/combat-arena

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this is all designed around the need to be able to modify/replace ...

2024-08-05T20:19:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…9kq7
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this is all designed around the need to be able to modify/replace individual sections via modding, having optional layers for inter-run world changes, and having all then maps on a unified coordinate system, so it's not necessarily what I would recommend haha 😅

a single map is a set of 2D tiles. The way the larger world works ...

2024-08-05T20:17:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…59zq
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a single map is a set of 2D tiles. The way the larger world works is that maps can have child maps so there's a tree where each child's top-left is relative to their parent's.

For z-layers, a whole map is on one z-coordinate, relative to the parent's z-coord.

Eg: A multifloor dungeon base-floor map could have one child for each floor and then you could move the dungeon in 3D and have all the relative children still line up.

Chronicles IV: Ebonheim is a Fantasy-DOS-Era Hacklike that ...

2023-06-21T22:25:28Z

Chronicles IV: Ebonheim is a Fantasy-DOS-Era Hacklike that I've been building solo from scratch in my spare time since June, '22.

This game is filled with all of the things I love about games! It's the most excited I've ever been about a project!

I maintain a devlog index at https://blog.brianna.town/chronicles-iv-ebonheim or you can follow The Ebonheim Chronicle (npub1p6p…4tlq) in your Fediverse feed!

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