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There's now a money label and a tally for earning money at the end of the round that resets if you lose

* Targets now do a little spawn animation instead of pop into existence
* Set up a system for certain targets to make them spawn after destroying X number of targets that seemed unfair advantage to put on a probability because it could help a lucky player immensely

Thing of the Day™️
* Fixed some problems with pausing by making a script specifically for managing time
* Added a round goal and denote if you hit it by the end of the timer
* Spent a couple of hours planning the project

Almost able to get to the "here's where it gets weird" part

Refactored start behavior to be triggered by a "Round Start" event and then used that to set a start and end screen. Also refactored handling of cursor locking and pausing to provide an infrastructure for more screens.

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What you are passionate about, you will seek out, obsess over, and willingly explore for decades until no one else could have ever possibly forged far enough in the direction you went.

Like for me, my style tends to be about color because I love color. Saturated color. The tone of my concepts are always deeply psychological and my music bittersweet, because I absolutely love that stuff.

Bring to the world what only you can because of who you are and what you love.

I find art style (and abilities) comes from passion. Passion comes from personal history. You have to be real with yourself about who you are and where you came from and what is deeply personal and passionate for you and you can channel that.

Save 20% on Atomic Owl on Steam You are Hidalgo Bladewing, a bird with a beef. Hack, slash, platform, and soar through a beautifully chaotic pixel-art neonscape in your quest to save your feathered friends. Elegant roguelite element...

Just finished patching this one last night as part of my work for the client!
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Great to be able to watch streamers on launch and get a wide array of bug finders and frustrations to add UX layers for.

Added hitscan aim (feels amazingly more accurate) and added a damage bonus based on how close to the center of the target you shoot.

Various experiments and fiddlings today

Test toon shader on the walls where I've customized 12 thresholds of color for different levels of shadow, with an outline post process on top from flatkit. And then the pink cubes are using the deformation shader with basic unity lighting.

Good enough environment lighting for prototype vibes: flat kit shader for the walls and distributed some colored point lights around the world.

Also decided to test out arranging the world more like Neon White. I like the idea of rapid movement through an FPS environment with quick draw targeting.

New movement mechanic?

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.

This is a major win for public health.

Cubes swap to a new material on death that animates being destroyed by dropping the faces off the cube. Created the world out of these cubes.

Tried some subdivision stuff but it created a giant white fog around the block and turned the block itself black. Cool effect, at least. I'll re-approach this one later.

With a vertex shader the cubes can now deform slightly when being shot.

Not much time today so quick cube flash added.

Basically a coroutine with a while loop on a timer swapping between two colors on the material. If the coroutine is still playing when you hit the cube again it just resets the timer without restarting the coroutine.

I made the 100% size for damage numbers based on the highest number seen so far, indicated by orange text. Normal numbers get smaller over time as crits come in.

Size is mapped along an exponential animation curve: 100% is highest number seen to minimum size of 25% of full size.

The numbers were hard to see because they kept going inside the models, so I gave them their own camera. And then I gave them their own physics so they could knock each other out of the way and bounce on the floor.

We took the stage at Summer Game Fest today to unveil a world premiere for our upcoming game, Mina the Hollower. Leaning into Mina’s gothic horror roots, the top-down action adventure game is set to launch on 10/31/25. Play the demo NOW on Steam!

Early concept screens of Final Fantasy Tactics from 1996, when the game was a RTS more closely modeled after Ogre Battle. Uploaded to X by Yasumi Matsuno last year.

CEREUS by Boz of Aesth Roguelite arcade base defense enemy clicker with permanent and in-run upgrades.

Just released a desktop version of my first mobile game on itch while I work on updates for it boz-float.itch.io/cereus

I said "without any help", but there was one bit of advice I needed from my Dad. "What does North, South, East, and West mean?"

The original Legend of Zelda is how I learned cardinal directions.