Comms Closed - Artemis Ainda é a Mais Feliz do Mundo

I thought I'd be releasing a proof of concept build to test of my game by the end of this month, but I feel like I'll have to post pone it a bit cuz if the next weeks are as full of stuff stopping me from working on it as there was this week it's going to be tough to release anything at all really

I can't really show what I'm working on rn but I think I'll be opening a small playtest proof of concept on the game I'm currently making so I hope I can get some insight into how it feels to play when I do that

thank you! I 've been trying to achieve this for a while :)

She got legs #gamedev #pixelart #witch-way

yeah really specially cuz it always was my dream job as I just have so much fun doing it C:

btw just a lil life update for those who wonder why I haven't posted that many changes about the game I'm creating since I started working on it. I got a job as a freelance gamedev for a lil other game so I have less time to work on my own project or come to bsky but I'll try to post more

on third thought...

meu unico problema com o design atual é q sinto q falta personalidade ent sepa se ficar no original mesmo eu tente so dar uns tweaks pequenos pra deixa a personagem mas caracterizada

to chegando a conclusão de manter msm ate agr são 3 a 1 pro design original

I'm thinking of changing the design of witch ways main character so it pops out more but I also feel like it doesn't fit the enviroment what do my 2 active followers think?
current design // potential new

witch way finally starting to come together as a fun prototype, it took me a while to land on how it is right now but now I feel confident that it will be a fun game and might start playtesting soon to see if it's not just me that thinks that

externalizing this actually made me think of an ideia that could work, maybe u could throw random itens you get thoughout the game into a cauldroon at the end of a cleared room to increase the rarity of your upgrade and even reroll the upgrades that apparead if you have a certain combination on you

there is also the lil factoid of the whole ideia of the genre being heavily randomized on your choice of weapons, making it so giving the ability to the player to craft their own weapons to be a bit of a opposion to the path of "each run is different" provided by the genre

I really would love to make it so the thing that stands my roguelike game apart from others was the resource management aspect of creating your potions and all but I'm really struggling to find a compeling and dynamic way to implement this into the avarage roguelike gameplay loop

I still don't know if this is trrully te way to go because I still think it may not land well on the feel good style of gameplay I'm going for but I'll see

now I want to make it so u can get potionsns that have "durability"(kinda like the bullet capacity of enter the gungeon) and use the resources to craft numerical upgrades to the potions, while also adding concoction caldroons where u can combine potions as a source of mechanical upgrades

I was planning on making potions on my game be crafted with resources dropped from enemies and gathered from the enviorement, but now hat it's half implemented I see that this style of resource management doesn't bold very welll with roguelike games so I think I'm going to change it

lil animation for the enemy walking, it ain't the best but I feel like it's servisable enough

for me it is such a dificult slog to do pixel art animation, static frames are fine I'd say I even like drawing tem but animation is such a hassle

I wanted to make this enemy to look sleak and kinda vagabond looking (for a lack of a back word since the word I have on my head doesn' exist in english) but ended up making it so sleek that they just loo like a chill fella

that moment when your enemy's sprite looks like they are the protagonist of their own story

Last few days I realised there is something that is as difficult as making music to me, level design on a top down game 💀

lil snippet of the area where I'll be testing out stuff until I strike something that seems fun to play

made some basic tilemap just for testing and aso a character here I wan't to have a proof of concept fast to see if it's gonna be fun

and I think too I'm going to pick up witch way againbut instead of a fast paced multiplayer pvp gathering game I'm thinking of making it more like a singleplayer roguelike expanding it to the pvp feature as a side thing on the future if possible

I'm thhinking of learning godot, been recently geting into coding again and kinda don't like what unity been doing in the period I've been taking a break from gamedev

I may try to round the face even more AM really trying to go for a almost chibbi like but without looking too childish (not saying that chibi looks childsh it's just that drrawing chibi considering I sometimes do riske art)

Improving on my journey of making my art cuter I think I'm almost there

again at the impossible trial of trying to make a more cuter/rounder artstyle but without making the characters lok like chieldren

since I haven't got a lot of time to draw recently I decided top commemorate my and calíce's bday with some doodles of her