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After some thinking, and given the way it'll be played on #playdate, I should ensure visibility of gameplay

Thus, an external view would be even better, more appropriate without sacrificing too much

I get to keep the internal view for some sequences

#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #driving

I need to think about some trade-off design wise

Testing for a "behind the car" view and it's a bit more usable, but the immersion is not the same

Maybe I could reserve the inside view for some sequences ingame

We'll see

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I did some tests, and I feel like either the crank should be used sensibly & you can then allow the screen to be readable (more or less static position) or you use the screen with a lot of motions for a short burst & not bother with readability

I still do wonder if people play using the emulator

I still feel the screen being lit indirectly play some hard part in it

Anyway, I do like browse for fonts and circumventing this point

I put it along the creative constraint one must use while making game for this system

I will move some UI elements taking this into account, and transform this small "problem" info a feature, as any #indiedev should do

There's a gigantic disparity between graphics on the actual #playdate and the emulator, and not only in terms of fps (idc): (Really) small text is barely legible on real hardware

I know (or think?) it's surely mentioned in the design guidelines, but still

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Got the road displayed, somehow correctly

Still have some quirks to iron out

But the core is here

Next: road generation (procedurally, obviously), the different mission types and the transition between them (amongst a lot of things)

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STAR BENTO! 🌟🍱

#Playdate #Gamedev #Pixelart #ScreenshotSaturday

It can't be helped

#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #playdate #screenshotSaturday #screenshotSunday

The year is 2048, and the in the last version of Windows Infinity™, the next paused copied/moved file/folder will automatically resume

It was worth the wait

#solodev #windows

Ah, the Mandelbrot effect

Am I ready for screenshot saturday, well, of course not, since I splitted the driving part, to do it properly, and I'm struggling

I won't be able to have anything to show: It's mess, a lot is broken

So no screenshots tomorrow

#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #playdate #driving

Well, maybe sunday

A damn driver! Get it? Because I'm not sure I do.

I have spent the last 24h thinking (and tinkering) about making a "driving rogue-like" game out of the driving part of the game I wanted to make initially

Like a spin off

This could be a good idea, I'm not sure

#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #playdate #driving #rogueLike

starts working on a game -> spins out a smaller game as practice for the prev game -> spins out another different smaller game as practice for the practice game

twitter user @uckersket They need to invent the opposite of a gym. You go there and you just get more frail and sickly. Maybe instead of lifting you just sit in a cold dark room and starve

gamedev

I added a small display inside the car because I'd rather have related missions details displayed diegetically

I'll now switch to the core aspect of driving : 4 types of missions while outside the city, in glorious fake 3d

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irving from severance painting study

irving study

'Tis the season

Got the snow effect updated to take into account driving direction and speed

I also got to stop spending so much time on it, so I think I'll move on to some other part of the game

I'll post it saturday obviously

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X countries, Y last names and Z first names

And generate "identity" in a for loop based on seed

I won't do random, but rather procedural

Each player will get a variation of the default hash

Total chaos for NPC names, limited variation for story characters, same protagonist for everyone

'Got some name for the characters, but need some for any npc

Thinking about first name basis, but then, what about last name? Last names and countries of origin

Any first name with any last name?

I need to write generation script with weights

#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #playdate

Accurate…

Trying out some pyrotechnics, too.

When designing a map that had to be navigated through, experienced and even felt, without being accurate, fully perceived or even understood

And I won't even talk about the subway

#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #playdate

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

—Marilyn Monroe

#gamedev #indiegame #games #art #digitalart #artist #artwork #MondayMotivation

This is an image from one of the cutscenes of the Amiga OCS game I'm working on.
The game really should get a name at some point.

#art #digitalart #pixelart #retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputer #amiga #commodore #gamedev #indiedev

Just prepared the CrowBrella itch.io page :D
Here is a screenshot of the game cover as a pixel cartridge (still Work in progress)

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Pixelween challenge week 4!

#pixelart