E.T.

Making lemonade - while looking for a designer, adding placeholder skins to the game bsky.app/profile/chai...

Placeholder skin that doesn't hurt. Light blue on deep blue. Good enough to stare at while debugging.

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'Space Scooter' by Matiss

https://blenderartists.org/t/space-scooter/1627699?mtm_kwd=bsky

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Visual docs continue. How purple enemies work—spawn at edges, drift inward, swarm if ignored.

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Wishlisted!

Fog of war. Hardly needs explaining, but documenting it anyway. Filling out the game mechanics visual docs.

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Level design mode. Fast HTML sketches for each tutorial scene.

Works for coding. But does it work as a brief for designers? Genuinely asking.

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Rhythmic shooting inevitably starts to sound as part of the music, then you stop and the next burst breaks the rhythm previously heard. Do you want to add more of the same, maybe connect music and shooting on purpose?

Been done, should be done again! I remember that in Fez

Wishlisted it! Would love to see the demo, if you add Linux or macOS builds.

Played it!

First actual discussion about the game in weeks. I'll take it.
steamcommunity.com/app/436480/e...

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A stone-like succulent in a stone bed, all bright-green.

Looks much like the stone around it. Ok, the stone might not be as green without the green light.

A smiling Bevy maintainer in a nice Bevy t-shirt in front of a window. The t-shirt is femme-cut and fits her well. She looks objectively cute. You would look cute too.

Shameless ad for merch.bevy.org You too can look super cute (and rep #bevy) :3

Disclaimer: this is a super inefficient way to give us money, the profit margin is set quite low!

Soup: the Game - Weeks 5-6: From Tech Demo to Game - Steam News Everything so far was a technical demo. Now game design starts. Shifting to levels and tutorials. Main depot updated.

Done. store.steampowered.com/news/app/436480/view/532121412867984608

Ok here goes nothing. Switching dev branch to default depot.

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Ok I slept on it, and I am still in love with it. That's it, reworking the game to make the #gameboy palette first class citizen.
Palettes in general will be a thing.

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Hunter mode cycling. Default mode: sane. Other modes: chaos.

Work in progress.

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Stay strong 💪 I do that shit all the time too. Last summer I scolded my back by forgetting to close a thermocup with freshly brewed tea in my backpack, then bending over and pouring it onto my waist. Then next day same place, time and situation. Had no skin on a spot the size of my palm.

Pax Britannica controls v2. Still ugly—that's grayboxing. Visuals come when mechanics are locked.

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OMG are you doing all of these? Can't stop looking at your Blender scenes!

Borrowed from Pax Britannica. Hold to select unit, cooldown shown on the same circle. All the info in one spot.

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Much the same. I watched 2 times before I could reliably tell between buildings and landscape. The fact that it all looks cool altogether helped me watch. Blue lights/steam on the buildings helped to recognize them better than edging. I believe edging stroke should have equal thickness everywhere.

Trying the obvious: spawn cooldowns. Like almost every other RTS.

Open question—what happens when you're holding "emit" but the cooldown isn't ready yet? Queue it? Ignore it? Visual feedback?

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Soup: the Game - Week [4]: Dev Branch Goes Live - Steam News New build goes live on main depot. Retro skin system for fast iteration. Hunter prowl and dash working. Skins now react to game events.

Weekly Steam update:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/436...

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working on unit spawning

unit spawning in the works

Dash visuals. Elastic stretch + afterimage trail.

One of the procedural skins. Aiming for that PixelJunk sidescroller vibe—retro-futuristic, clean lines.

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