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Today's Guernsey: Busy day means simple update.

More setup on the funeral/burial area -- a tree, chairs, and a more modern-looking grave.

One step at a time! 🥾#gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Okay, I lied, a bit more work fixing up the chair.

Now it pops properly, has better collision when folded on the ground, and there's a properly localized localized string for the button prompt.

🪑 #gamedev #indieGameDev #foldingChair

Today's Guernsey: Patched up the funeral folding chair, works like a charm now.

Onward! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: To prep for the funeral, you gotta set up the chairs.

Unfortunately, I'm a bad and sleepy game developer, so every time Guernsey sets up a chair he falls through the world.

I'll fix that! But... not tonight. 😴 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Started blocking out Chapter 6.

Can't make a cozy, lofi graveyard game about death and life without a funeral, can ye?

🪦 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Small, but productive!

🌽(so sick of corn but) tweaked the corn maze walls AGAIN for better visibility
🧭Mapped out chapter 5's overall plot, I think?

That second one's exciting. Let me out of this corn maze! 👻 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Bit of a meandering day, trying to figure out what to do next. But in the process...

🌽Tweaked height of the corn stalks a bit
🗻Terrain tweaks near the corn maze
↔️Little placement adjustments

But tomorrow maybe... the next chapter? 👻 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: Lost in the corn maze again. I tried futzing with layer masks and other solutions and didn't get results. So I did something REAL CLEVER and just changed the size of the colliders so Guernsey couldn't slip on them anymore.

🤷🏻‍♂️✌🏻🚶🏻‍♂️#gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: Well, I failed to accomplish anything! 😓

Guernsey slides when he bumps into the corn, so I tried a bunch of stuff to fix that, but so far nothing works. Think I need to use a layermask but ain't workin'.

Back at it tomorrow... 🤷🏻‍♂️ #gamedev << #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Still lost in this corn maze... Doing tweaks to collision on the corn stalks, smoothing out the terrain a bit, and adjusting the corn stalk heights up a bit now that you can see through them.

'🥱 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Attached the ol' fadeout script to the cornstalks, which now fade away if Guernsey walks behind them. 🤔 Needs some work, but should make the maze a bit more navigable.

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Today's Guernsey: A small one.

🐿️ Tweaked the squirrel's positioning
👨🏻‍🎨 Maze terrain smoothing and improvements
🫨 Plant wiggle tweaks on the false corn walls
🎨 Making color difference subtler on false corn walls

#gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: I carved some "gutters" into the corn maze to make getting an acorn to a squirrel a bit easier,

Also, added a little plant wiggle to the trick corn bits you can pass through!

We call that JUICE, kids. We call that GAME FEEL. 😎 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: Added a little squirrel to the corn maze so you can kick an acorn through the maze for his lunch.

What a great little graveyard keeper you are, takin' care of squirrels. ❤️🐿️ #gamedev #indieGameDev

Sleepy morning Guernsey:

🎨 Tweaked color palette of the ferns to make them more autumnal
🎨 Added two color variations to railroad ties to give 'em a bit more wabi-sabi

#gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Had a short amount of time this morning so did a quick flythrough, saw that this monument could use some touch-ups, and got started with a new plinth, a subtler stipled look, and some texture variation for... well, for texture.

🫡 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Some stuff in yesterday's screen was bugging me...

🪵Log now gone when inside the car
😎Tightened up the darkening blinders
💡Shaders on backpack and walking stick are now lit

This screen is in daylight, yesterday's was twilight ☀️ #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey:

🚂Train car interior lighting and particles
🪴Tweaked orange and brown bushes for contrast
💡Added some lights to the weather manager
🌳Propped the train car to look overgrown

And that's it for tonight! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Bit worn out from a long day, so today I shaped this cliff and added in the art around the top of the train car, to get a sense of what that "puzzle" would entail.

That's it for today! 🥱 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: I wanted more meat on Clyde's interaction, so wrote a back and forth as their second dialogue.

The Guernsey in the Graveyard formula: equal parts collectathon, walking simulator, open world, and reading. 👨🏻‍🍳 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Couple of Clyde-related improvements

💡Lowered sunset lighting, it was washing out too many colors
🎨Tweaked Clyde's skin and hair color for more contrast
🔧Bunch of tweaks to Clyde's placement and animation

And it looks good now! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: A first pass animation on Clyde. Tough, because his mouth is obscured by a scarf!

So his eyebrows do all the talking.

But! His eyebrows don't show up in the lighting.

So more work needed. 🙂‍↕️ #gamedev #indieGameDev

taking a break from making GAME 2 to let you know that venba is 60% off. for a mere $5*, you can:

🥘 cook yummy south indian food
🎶 jam out to tamil music
💔 be emotionally destroyed

*therapy not included

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Today's Guernsey: Concepted a couple of characters!

#1, the enterprising teen who gets stuck in the cornfield and still turns a profit
#2, Clyde, a man from Guernsey's past who's taken refuge in an abandoned train car

#gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Small one, lots going on...

⏱️ Tuned speed dampening when running through leafpiles slightly
🗑️ Placed a bit of hard-to reach litter...

Litter is to Guernsey as coins are to Mario, but also as rubber bands are to that kid from Bully. 😆 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle!

Agh, I never posted yesterday! YESTERDAY'S Guernsey: Added more little pumpkin sprites, made them into proper prefabs and variants, and littered them around the maze as a little treat.

Can't believe I forgot to post! 😅 I took screens and everything! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Easier than expected! When walking or running through leafpiles, Guernsey takes a hit to his movement speed.

Makes them feel meatier, more substantial, which is awesome for game feel.

Wonder where else I could apply this...? 🤔 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Five years in to my cozy autumnal graveyard game, I've made an array of pumpkin sprites to use as lil bits of decor. 🎃 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Fixed a little bug (see previous post) and also made a little backpack and walkingstick to go into the train car interior with ol' Clyde. 🎒 #gamedev #indieGameDev