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Thank you very much! :D

🎆 Happy New Year from the climb 🌌
A quiet nighttime ascent through a winding labyrinth town, with small lights guiding the path like stars.

✨ Night climb with layered elevation
🏮 Town lights marking the ascent

Here’s to steady climbs and brighter horizons.
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✂️Updating diffuse map cutting..
..to include structures! 🏡

🪨Structure pixels yeet'ed by asset collision
👀Improved layout visibility

This update is important so that wall/roof pixels inside other assets like the below don't show due to transparency!
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Such an amazing art piece, much appreciation for @bananannertoast.bsky.social 's expertise when it comes to these tiles! ❤️🙏

Was working on another commission for @ss1shadow.bsky.social and I came up with a few different color schemes while making mockups. The palms are just some trees I had lying around from my free time, they're not part of his game.
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🪨 Pick Up. Carry. Throw.
This clip shows the player grabbing a pot, moving with it, and hurling it on demand!

💪 Objects are fully interactive
🎯 Aim/prediction matters
🔥 Almost everything is throwable!

Give players tools -- they’ll invent the mayhem! 😆
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Love this! 4 players is always such a blast 😆

🚀 High-elevation descent update!

Jumping down from way up top -- now smoother, faster, and way more readable on the way down ⛰️

Still squashing a few edge-case glitches…

Next up 👉 multi-light support 💡✨
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🏔️ High elevation hits different
Jumping from way up high all the way down to ground level now feels wild 😤

✨ Full dynamic shadows are in
🌀 Movement/visibility still getting tuned
🐞 A few glitches left

Already a blast, and this system's only getting better!
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Love these colors! ❤️

🏔️ Elevation experiment..
First pass at a high-elevation depth FOV parallax effect!

📈 Objects far below subtly scale and shift, giving real vertical depth without breaking the top-down view.

Still tuning it, but the sense of height already feels good! 😆
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🌊 First pass at our underwater effect!

As your character’s eyes dip below the surface, the world distorts and shifts 🌫️
Cross back above the waterline and the view snaps to normal!

Still early, but the transition feels decent!
🎵 Secret of The Forest ゾの園 Remix
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🙏🙏🙏❤️

🧱 What’s a diffuse map?
Since our game uses an under-the-hood 3D engine, this comes up a lot 👇

🎨 The diffuse map = the pixels you actually see
📦 It includes all sides of a model, even hidden ones
➡️ Shows how it reads in-game from a top-down view!

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🔦 Light vs Shadow
Our cave and over/under system ties directly into the darkness mechanic!

✨ Dynamic lighting
🌀 Layered over/under traversal
👁️ Visibility shifting in real time

Details like this turn simple movement into strategy!
🎵 FF13 "Dust to Dust"
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✨ Cozy desert living gets an upgrade!
Our rich residential district just got a huge visual pass -

🏜️ Warm colors
🍔 Layered spaces
👾 TONS of tiny details!

Massive thanks to @lanawanderwood.bsky.social for helping bring this area to life! 🌿🏠
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🌱 It's the little things.
Sometimes gamedev isn’t glamorous --

🔍 Zooming in 800 percent, fixing tiny model glitches, and nudging pixels no one will 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 consciously notice lol

It's tedious... but it's also love ❤️
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🌟🎥 Mechanics showcase!
Time to whip out that popcorn 🍿

👈 Save/replay your fights as a cutscene like this one!
👉 Shows our over/under + cave depth magic 🌌✨

Every new system is making the world feel more alive! 😄❤️‍🔥
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😆 It's a Tactics Arena Fighter RPG!

Animations heavily inspired by..

Falling+Wallsplat: Dead or Alive
Somersaults: Naruto Ninja Storm
Gatling-dodges: Solo Leveling

🎵 Music: "Penumbra Phantasm" by Toby Fox, remixed by Placek on YouTube ❤️

🎥 Replay Mode will look like this! 🍿
Save/watch your fights as seamless, cinematic cutscenes!

⏸▶️ Pause & play
👀 Switch player views
🧠 Study tactics & movement
🎮 Perfect for breakdowns, content, and bragging rights!

Can't wait to see your craziest battles 😆
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Hahaha that code might actually be in the single player game 😇

⚡ Smooth movement glow-up!

New animations let your character pivot on a dime, and chain multi-dodges like a true arena fighter.

🔄 Direction-switch transition
💨 Rapid-fire dodges

Excited to finally see these in motion! 😄
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👀 Old-school stealth showcase!

Imagine Metal Gear-style peeking, letting you 𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘥𝘫𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴 and shift your line of sight like you're actually standing there!

Perfect for planning sneaky routes… or jump-diving into houses like this 😆🥷💨
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Thank you very much for the compliment! 😄🙏

🌊✨ Our waterfall scene is finally legit.. pixel-perfect tile + asset synergy! 🙌

Seeking approval from senpai #seaofstars 😅🙏

Maybe someday we'll craft something even a 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 as beautiful! 💧🍄⭐
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🌿 Growth update!
We can now add grass directly into rooms -- and even change its color! 💚✨

Every blade reflects perfectly in the main game, tying the world together in real time 🌎

Feels amazing seeing the world come alive piece by piece!
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🌀 Fluid motion test!
Our latest animations mimic the slick backflip and sideways somersaults from Naruto: Ninja Storm 👀

💥 Backflip dodge
⚡ Sideways roll transition
🔥 Testing smooth combo continuity

It's feeling so dynamic already!
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👀 Another behind the scenes peek!
Everything starts inside our custom Room Builder tool 🛠️

🪄 This is how we test how tiles, lighting, and effects blend before going in-game.
✨ Players will get access to this same tool in the 2nd game of the trilogy!

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🌊 Waterfall scene update!
Now with rock tiles and terrain on the left half!

🪨 Adds realism to the layout
🧱 Tests environment interaction
✨ No more "floating" waterfall!

Loving how it's coming together 😆
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