Rourke || Lazy Bones 💀

Excited to also be taking Pinball Hero to the Indie Debut Festival 😁

The festival season is truly underway - you can also catch me at NZGDC and PAX Melbourne if you're in the oceanic region 🌊

#gamedev #indiedev #debutfestival

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Gotta throw a follow to my fellow pinballer, looks really cool man!

Pinball Hero has been officially selected for the upcoming Yogscast event!

Show your support for small indie #gamedev during The Tiny Teams Fest by tuning in.

If you love pinball, goblins, roguelikes or loads of unique builds, give us a follow 🙂

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Cheers! I'm just surprised Steam don't automatically deny exact names. Maybe I will rename my game to Counter Strike 😆

I was surprised today to find out that an AI-slop game copied my name and is releasing their game in less than 72 hours of it's creation on Steam. I am also surprised that they called it 'Pinball Hero' when the game is clearly Peggle and not Pinball 🤨
#pinballhero #legaladvise #indiegame #indiedev

The whoopie cushion item reduces your dash cooldown but also adds a farting noise to it which was extremely important and I am unwilling to budge on

#pixelart #gamedev #indiegame

Occasionally as a balance tweak I need to change item dimensions. For example the 𝙛𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙙𝙚 was updated from a 1x1 to an r-block inventory shape.

#pixelart #gamedev #roguelike #indiegame

The 𝕯𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖛𝖊𝖓 𝕷𝖔𝖓𝖌𝖇𝖔𝖜 is a ranged item that excels at killing large monsters - hitting up to 3x times depending on their size.

#roguelike #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart

Going on from my last post, when you use the elixir of great fortune you roll some pretty OP loot in the shop!

#indiegame #gamdev #pixelart #roguelike

The potion of great fortune can be found in the claw machine event and grants 99 luck for one round, if you use it right it leads to some pretty funny possibilities.

(all random events, loot rolls and secrets are based off luck)

#pixelart #roguelike #gamedev #indiegame

One of my personal favourites. The repair hammer is a throwable item that does damage to enemies but repairs your slings on contact.

#pixelart #gamedev #indiegame

A magic quiver item that boosts ranged damage for each 'bow' or 'crossbow' in your inventory.

#pixelart #gamedev #indiegame

The Elven Quiver adds +1 projectile to any bow.
Interestingly for the Master Bow volley effect, it basically does a double volley which was unexpected but cool.

#pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #pinball

My students told me about this guy called Tung Tung Tung Sahur - He's not going in the game, I swear... (unless? 👀)

#indiedev #cursed #brainrot #gamedev

Pinball Hero by Lazybones A pinball roguelike game

My Pinball Roguelike; Pinball Hero - has a web demo now live at the-lazy-bones.itch.io/pinball-hero.

If you like roguelites please give it a try and let me know what you think 😁

(Epilepsy warning BTW!)

#gamedev #indiedev #pinball #roguelike

The Five-Clover Blade adds damage based on your characters LUCK stat.

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

New (left) vs old (right) UI panel for Pinball Hero.

The stats were particularly lacking and I felt that they needed a glow up so that people can more easily track how their stats are affecting the game.

#indiedev #indiegame #pinballhero #pixelart

The Chalice of Sorrow (rare item) allows your pinball score to overflow into the next level

#gamedev #pixelart #indiegame #pinballhero

Every Robin needs his Hood.

#pixelart #roguelike #indiegame #gamedev

Adding a couple of capes as general armour items to the game. First one is the Wizards Cloak, because capes are in.

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

The Horn of Heroes calls in another class hero to come and help ya out! It's the only current way to have more than one hero in on the action.

#pixelart #roguelike #indiegame #gamedev

'The Collector' converts your highscore (a.k.a souls) into magic damage. For every 20,000 score you gain 1 Intelligence.
It's kinda like going to school.

#pixelart #gamedev #indiegame #roguelike

99% of claw machine operators quit before they strike it big

#indiegame #gamedev #clawmachine #pixelart

No pets or beasts were harmed in the making of this item. That's a Grubfoot Co. guarantee.

#pixelart #roguelite #gamedev #indiegame

An offer you can't refuse!

#humor #gamedev #indiedev #meme

A meme of indie developers getting no sleep

No regrets tho

#indiedev #gamedev #meme #humor

The Angel on my shoulder tells me to stop adding new items (at about 170) 😇
The Devil on my shoulder tells me to keep going 😈

Who should I listen to? 🙏

#pinball #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev

Exactly this ☝️

I'm not a trained programmer. Sometimes I get multiple programming friends collectively scratching their heads as they try and figure out HOW and WHY my code is even working 😂

#gamedev #indiedev #programming #gamedevelopment