sabs, like "sobs"

I made this ultra-scuffed .gif editing script to help me make my videos for Being with Beau. When I record my screen as a gif, I explode it, pick just the frames I want, and then reassemble it. gifsicle beats magick -coalesce.

sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #ruby #linux

Staying up with Beau too late may make you lose track of time... concept art later implemented in the final release.

sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev #pixelart

In the final release for Being with Beau, I gave his food can a brand-new label, which came out great! FEAST 4 BEAST is cute and tasty.

sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #godot #gamedev #pixelart

Everyone wanted the clock on the back wall to work. Now it does!

sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev #pixelart

My favorite change for Being with Beau's final release is how I redrew the room! There's a bathroom door, a cute calendar, and a shoe rack. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev #pixelart

I fixed a little bug exclusive the web version (shown here without sound) where the can-snapping audio clip would play twice. Godot's "end offset" for the audio samples didn't seem to work.

sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #animation #pixelart #gamedev

There's not much more to say other than "Being with Beau is out for real! Go play it!" It's been six months since I started.

Go meet Beau at sobs.moe/bwb! It's free, over in five minutes, and will definitely make you smile.

#gamedev #cats #pixelart #godot

Beau's inhaler was causing a bug that made his paws flash on the text box after he got his medicine... must have been a bad shipment, eh? Now it's all fixed.

sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #pixelart #gamedev #godot

Being with Beau feedback highlight: my VN wasn't up to standards. In the full release, text advances when you hit or hold the space bar, and when you click anywhere---not just on the text box.

sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot #visualnovel

Godot is grabbing Beau's paws!

Being with Beau first draft highlight: Beau's nondeterministic paws. Sometimes he's on the chatbox. Sometimes he's behind it. Sometimes his paws flicker like a strobe light. Why?

sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #gamedev #godot #pixelart

Being with Beau feedback highlight: the Windows desktop icon works. Wow! This actually wasn't easy to do in my Linux flatpak environment, but I got it working with no post-export steps.

sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot #linux #windows

Being with Beau feedback highlight: EVERYONE wants the clock to be accurate. The clock WILL tick... and maybe drive you crazy.

sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot #pixelart

How horny is Bluesky? I'm building sobs.moe/btag to sate my curiosity.

sobs.moe/btag / #buildinpublic #bluesky #rails

Really happy to announce that the preview release of my little VN about a cat, "Being with Beau" is out now on Itch, for Windows and Linux!

Go try it out at sobs.moe/bwb! It's free and will make you smile.
#gamedev #godot #pixelart #visualnovel #cats

Three dozen clone layers are tougher to manage than I thought, argh!

sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #krita #cats #pixelart

I can't imagine doing dialogue trees for a game that's longer than five minutes, sheesh! #godot #gamedev

Godot's animation editor doesn't show my "RESET" frame in the Animation track since it's microscopic in length. Now I can't grab it. Argh!

sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev

Look at him appear! And zoom! I'm gonna make him fat...

sobs.moe/bwb / #animation #gamedev #cats #godot #pixelart

It's a right-click on all my files thanks to Gnome's scripts feature. Executables in ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts are available on all files.

Very proud of my trim-and-process-social-videos script. #ruby #linux #gamedev

Reflex Royale is an offline reaction time game for any number of players! Each game takes about 15 seconds and you can play over and over again. I made this ... What is Reflex Royale?

Reflex Royale, my offline multiplayer game for quick reaction-time battles, is out now on Android AND iOS! Hooray!

Check out the game on sobs.moe/rr and the how-to video on sobs.moe/rrh!
#gamedev #ios

More on the power of clone layers. I use Krita's Batch Exporter plugin to export a bunch of almost-identical sprites easily. There's a bug with invisible clone layers... but it's better than re-exporting manually.

sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #krita #pixelart #animation

I'm a lazy typist, so I made my own abbreviations for Godot Dialogue Manager

sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot

A muted, complimentary palette combined with color tinting (i.e. not simply adding more black) in the shadows are what identifies these colors as "appealing" to me. And I like your mix of curves and angles too!

I get a lot of mileage out of clone layers in Krita while doing similar sprites for gamedev: with transform and transparency masks I can update lots of sprites easily

sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #krita #pixelart #animation

The Animation Editor (in Godot 4.4) was showing dots instead of previews for my AnimatedSprite frames. Turns out it's because I added another frame animation into the sprite! Simple answer but really hard to discover, as it's not documented.

sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #animation #godotengine

Krita crashed while I was working on this... I was certain it had time-of-crash autosave files, but it doesn't. Really cut me down that morning. #krita

FEED HIM

sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #animation #gamedev #pixelart

Reflex Royale is an offline reaction time game for any number of players! Each game takes about 15 seconds and you can play over and over again. I made this ... What is Reflex Royale?

By the way, Reflex Royale is free! Won't you look at the trailer...?

sobs.moe/rrh / #gamedev #godot #animation

The grim atmosphere is so good! Really love these ones.