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YouTube video by Studio Kunic The Best Game Ideas Are Stolen (And That's Okay)

Everyone chases originality in game design, but the fact is, everything’s stolen. So how do we still have original ideas like Balatro and Lethal Company releasing? I try and tackle that conundrum in this video: youtu.be/9xgP8wkYNEs

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Get Lost's auto-localization is complete! 🦾📝

Levels added to the game are automatically translated to 17 different regions. This means that stories from different cultures can be shared around the world 📢 🌎

So what is game localization? [1/7] 🧵

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There are a variety of level modifiers now for the tracks in my procedural racing game

❗ - Increases the difficulty
🔁 - Adds multiple laps
↗️ - Doubles the distance
💀 - Boss node that significantly increases difficulty and unlocks the next section

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YouTube video by Studio Kunic How Limitations Can Make You a Better Game Dev

So I made a 3D game for a really weak handheld to see if limitations really make you a better game developer.

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Respectively, the best armor set is the cat suit

Am workin on the card picking system now >:P Gonna get it done by this Wednesday for the showcase!

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I wish I could be 100% FOSS. The video was edited in Final Cut, Reaper (love Audacity, but it has trouble with VSTs and non-destructive editing), and the Affinity Suite. I think GIMP and Krita have come a great way towards becoming a Photoshop/Affinity Photo replacement, but Inkscape is lacking imo

YouTube video by Studio Kunic I'm Quitting Unity for Godot After 17 Years

After 17 years in Unity, I’ve officially made the switch to Godot. I’ll be documenting the entire journey on YouTube, starting here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgwM...

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1 week into a 2 week jam. Kinda shocked that I made pretty much everything you see here outside of the fonts and animations 😳

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Glad you liked it! Funny how I saw your review and then got this notification at the same time lol.

A feature that got cut for time was the ability to select from 1 of 3 wild cards instead of getting a random one. That would’ve helped the player agency a ton IMO. Might do a post-jam patch.

Unlike Balatro, where you pick the cards you want to play for combos, in Pythia you rely solely on RNG to influence the playing card hand by using a tarot card deck. However, every change you make is permanent, shaping the rest of your run. It’s a constant balance of risk vs reward.

Pythia by kunic RNG-centric roguelite deckbuilder

Almost forgot the link: kunic.itch.io/pythia

Pythia is now out on @itch.io! Built from scratch in just under 1 month, I'm incredibly happy with how this little project has turned out.

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Pythia passed the Steam Deck test! Unfortunately it’s the weakest hardware in my house to test on lol. It actually worked pretty well with touch controls 🤔

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I've seen a recent trend in indie games including every asset they've used in their credits, so I decided to do that here. Keep in mind this is still a solo project, but it really wouldn't have been possible without all of these other wonderful people putting out quality work too.

Wake up, babe, new commissioned music just dropped!

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Took a stab at the main menu. Also here's the tentative title for the game 😉

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I've also hired an artist off Fiverr to create some music for the game. I really liked their sample soundtrack and am hoping they can deliver on my insane request to them 😅

I discovered DoTween and it's amazing! I wish I had used it at the start of this game jam, but just look at these buttery smooth animations!

Also super glad this is a month-long game jam. Took me two days to rip out the old animation system.

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An illustration. Masterful linework colored rather simply with just a few watercolors. There is a crowd of people in a busy market. Triforce banners hang above them, there is a pillared temple in he background and a large mountain towering in the distance.

An illustration of Hyurle in the #Zelda: Link to the Past Player's guide, 1992, by Katsuya Terada

Full scans here: archive.org/details/zeld...

If you didn't grow up in the 80's: this book was the closest thing we had to Creating a Champion. Getting it online is why I had to start my site

.38 detective special revolver for a Doom / Blood inspired FPS in Unity

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This is like a more disgusting tachikoma 🤢

I'll admit that I am using ChatGPT for translations here. If I do take the game to market, I'll hire actual translators. But I figure for a game jam release, some translation is better than no translation.

Spent today adding localization for some reason. I guess because I've never done it before and wanted to try? Regardless, jank #French, #German, and #Spanish now exist in the game lol.

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Tutorial: Eight Ways to Improve Your Pixel Art Characters Lessons Gleaned from Ben ChandlerGreetings all! Some of you may be visiting this blog or site for the first time, so a quick self introduction: My name is Daniel Burke, and I'm the developer of an upc...

A couple of years ago I put together a pretty massive blog post on how to improve your pixel art, focusing on eight lessons to learn from a pro: @threeohfour.bsky.social.

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100% agree on the pitch. Game's only 21 days old so I'm getting there lol.

However post launch I have plans for this to be more akin to Slay the Spire meets Balatro. To that end, like with relics in Slay the Spire, there won't be a cap to how many you can get.

Hah! Not exactly, but close. The Game Jam version will basically be endless mode where you get a new random wildcard after every round (equivalent to jokers). Stay in the game as long as you can with that limitation basically.

So I decided to see what'd happen if I set the game speed to infinity ∞. You know, for science 🙂

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