PhoenixDragon Games - The Curse Of Slimetopia

I love how powerful animation is in Godot but it takes a good amount of time to get right! It's taken me about 3 hours to do an 11 second animation for a new level on Slimetopia and it's not quite perfect yet. #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #godot #gamedev #2Dgame #2Dplatformer #wishlistonsteam

Win11, latest build. I tried the different capture modes as having it on 'auto' for both game and window capture didn't pick up Godot at all.

Interesting. I was having the exact issue that you described when trying to stream Godot dev yesterday. Both pop out and embedded tests were just grey screens for OBS. Monitor Capture was the only way around it for me but far from ideal.

I did it. Yesterday I launched my first game!
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Not sure if it's just me, but I like to come up with ideas for potential future projects as motivation to finish my current one.

I want to try 3D next time so something small will be ideal. I'm torn between a short JRPG or some sort of driving... or maybe both? 👀😂

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Hallucination - WIP A short sample that I made. Likely to be used as boss level music if I decide to continue with this.

Haven't touched the music production side of Slimetopia in nearly a year. Made myself an interesting sample that I think may be fit to be the 'Hallucination' world boss song if I go further with it. A haunting sense of urgency!
soundcloud.com/phoenixdrago...
#IndieDev #GameMusic #SoloDev #GameDev

Going down into the sewers for this level. Done some more art so I can start to get a feel of what the level may look like. Need to think about the sewer floor and platforms next.

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Developer Screenshot from The Curse Of Slimetopia showing the start of a new tilemap, background and some lighting.

Well I managed to make a small start on my first attempt at making some art for my 'Neonscape' levels. This will require a tonne of work but will certainly push my current artistic limits. Hopefully I'll learn some good lessons.

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Showing off the Discord Presence at work.

I really need to up my social media game at some point and posts updates from my game more than twice a year 😅.

Recently tackled the tasks of figuring out how to implement localisation and setting up Discord Presence.

I could do with my creative juices starting to flow again though!

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I want to start posting more so I decided to challenge myself to a character every day!

Today's character is the one and only - Alien!

#CharADay #pixelart #ドット絵

In the image, the left side is before and right is after. It's most noticable with how different the lighting is working. The right side is a lot more subtle.

A before/After comparison showing the difference between not having a WorldEnviroment node and having one.

Recently discovered the power of the WorldEnviroment node in Godot. Looks like an essential for 3D, but even in my 2D game it's had a big impact on blending the colours together to make it more cohesive. As a newbie pixel artist, this is a godsend.

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I would say, as long as you have a good small slice of your game that you are happy for people to form opinions of your entire game from, then absolutely go for it.

If you game isn't going to be free then this is a way to potentially get some 'on the fencers' to buy it.

Waaaahh!!@ I officially have a steam page up and running!! 😲🤯🥹

Check it out! I have the link in my bio and I will post it in the first comment below!!

(feel free to wishlist it if you're interested :D)

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I managed to complete my very first #lowpoly #3D model on #Blockbench!
I'm not very good with textures yet but I had a lot of fun 🙂

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Resharing this post with proper tags in hope it reaches more devs :)

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Question regarding your localisation. Was this just a simple Google translate job or did you have/seek native speakers to assist?

Certainly something I want to have in my game/store page at some point and I guess sooner rather than later would be beneficial.

Wearing all the hats is both a blessing and curse.

It means I can usually get something done even if I only have a small amount of time and I can do something else if I feel blocked.

However it also means that I HAVE to do a basic amount of everything to feel any progression.

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Absolutely loving the art!

It’s gonna get sticky!

Help keep AfterQuest development unstuck. Wishlist today:

store.steampowered.com/app/3484950/...

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YouTube video by PhoenixDragon Media Play The Curse Of Slimetopia Now! (Level 1 Comparison updated)

The Curse Of Slimetopia is my Indie game/ hobby project. You play a humanoid slime that is looking to break the curse that hinders slimecieties progression. Playtesting is avalable on Steam and Itch io.

youtu.be/uilek9vQphw

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A partial replacement of the placeholder tilemap has been done and the level starts to come to life slightly!

Art isn't my strong suit, but I'm getting better with practice. It's nice to start replacing some of the placeholder tilemaps with something that brings the world to life a bit. Like this picture... Just seeing actual buildings give me a motivation boost.
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Gernerative AI will never know the wonderful feeling of creating something for people who matter to you.

Let this feeling be your fuel for your art, games, code, music, podcasts and you will be allright - I promise!

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I'm hoping to do another level or 2 before I'm back to work on Saturday. I intend to push out whatever I get done to the steam playtest on Friday.

As a result, I have now finished roughly half of the normal mode levels. I intend to finish normal levels first, then normal bosses and then follow up with the hard modes.

I have reprioritised the order I want to develop things in order to get the actual playable content out to any testers first, and then work on the story, artwork, sound, music, polish, ect... Afterwards.

Feeling good about the progress I've made in the last 2 weeks after a really slow end to last year and start to this year. Taken full advantage of the 12 days off of work for my birthday.

Side note to self. I need to sort out the mess of colours on the main menu! 😅 #indiegame

Spent a night awake with a fussy newborn. Somehow managed to export my game onto Android. It was more of an exercise of 'can I?' as opposed to 'will I'.

It would require more work than I can realistically put in to get it done on mobile properly. Good knowledge for future projects though! #indiedev