⭐Astropods 2: Unnamed⭐ - In Development!

HP Bar Portrait of Hemi. Hemi is sitting amongst the stars with a relaxed expression.

HP Bar Portrait of Acro. Acro is pointing his kunai at you underneath the night sky.

This #screenshotsaturday, new portraits have been made for each character!

I wanted their icons to be more "artsy", to better showcase their personality! How did I do?

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HP Bar Portrait of Hemi. Hemi is sitting amongst the stars with a relaxed expression.

HP Bar Portrait of Acro. Acro is pointing his kunai at you underneath the night sky.

This #screenshotsaturday, new portraits have been made for each character!

I wanted their icons to be more "artsy", to better showcase their personality! How did I do?

#indiegame #gamedev

Screenshot of Astropods 2: Unnamed, featuring an updated sky sprite. It looks more wisp-y and mist-y, and features light hatching and dithering for some layers.

Old screenshot of the sky, with the old HP bar designs and old sky colors, which are darker towards the top.

Revamped sky background! 2nd image is before (old screenshot bc lazy sorry!)

I recently got a dither brush, and I plan on getting a lot of mileage out of it! It's pretty fun to use as well.

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Screenshot of Astropods 2: Unnamed, featuring an updated sky sprite. It looks more wisp-y and mist-y, and features light hatching and dithering for some layers.

Old screenshot of the sky, with the old HP bar designs and old sky colors, which are darker towards the top.

Revamped sky background! 2nd image is before (old screenshot bc lazy sorry!)

I recently got a dither brush, and I plan on getting a lot of mileage out of it! It's pretty fun to use as well.

#indiegame #gamedev

I may have not been there to witness the waiting period between 2005 and 2011 when Return to Dream Land came out, but this game still lives in my head rent-free. A mix of Kirby 64 like environments, alongside 4 player Kirby Super Star gameplay? I really would've loved to try it out, but such is life

Wheelie Rider Kirby look into the distance towards a dark castle with a purple sky.

Kirby, Knuckle Joe, Chilly, and Bonkers in a glacier environment.

Fighter Kirby and 3 Knuckle Joe helpers beat up one singular Scarfy, who smiles through the pain.

Concept arts for Kirby GCN. The giant ship octopus actually shows up in Return to Dream Land.

Kirby GCN!

Who knows how good it would've been, but it was looking to be one grand, ambitious game. Too much for its own good most likely...but I would still love to see more of it resurface in some way. I love its well shaped environments and its exaggerated animations (see Chilly)

Thank you! This design was very easy to animate, so it was fun making its animations

In today's #screenshotsaturday, here's gameplay of the new enemy Seedrift!

It flies slower vertically, and if it lands an attack, it will be sent flying far away, due to its low poise!

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In today's #screenshotsaturday, here's gameplay of the new enemy Seedrift!

It flies slower vertically, and if it lands an attack, it will be sent flying far away, due to its low poise!

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A classic enemy is returning!

Seedrift is a pretty fast flyer, but it has a hard time adjusting its height. Gameplay will come soon!

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Say hello to the new and improved attack swing animations!

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Kirby attacking Nightmare with the star rod as they give him a detrmined look! Nightmare sinisterly smiles as he charges up one of his star attacks.

The games are just getting started star child!

#art #fanart #kirby #星のカービィ

The game with the best sound design within Smash and maybe in general, at least the international version! What a lovely game indeed, with so many design oddities alongside strokes of genius!

Initially, I planned to make attacks 4 frames (w/ 2 smear frames), rather than 3 frames w/ 1 smear frame, but it felt too big of an ask, esp when this new art style is already a huge investment, so that's why it is the way it is.

I would love to experiment w/ more frames for future games tho!

Thank you! I quite like them myself, glad to see you on board as well!

Say hello to the new and improved attack swing animations!

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At night, Dummy and Hemi are lit up by Hemi's natural lighting from her orbiting stars.

This #screenshotsaturday, here's Dummy being "illuminated" by Hemi's natural lighting. It's pretty cool, isnt it?

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I am begging you. Please learn about stress/discomfort tolerance. Practice raising it. You need this to survive. If someone online can ruin your day with a throwaway comment, you desperately need to understand discomfort tolerance and consciously, systematically build that shit. Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks! Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you. No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset. It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast. Letting your discomfort dictate your actions and beliefs about things is a great way to become a terrible person. Learn. Discomfort. Tolerance.

Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.

Hemi, from Astropods: Starside Glaze

Triple Star Kirby from Kirby Squeak Squad. I love the visual theme of this ability, the 3 orbiting stars, but I found its ingame use to be quite underwhelming, so I wanted to use a similar theming to make more satisfying abilities and narrative out of.

Mordekaiser (2015 Rework version) from League of Legends. This might seem weird, but I love this rendition of a medium-ranged juggernaut who refuses to back down. His Q and W abilities in particular were heavy inspirations for Hemi's Up Tilt and Down Special respectively. I hate to let this secret out, but I miss this version of Mordekaiser so much (he has been reworked since 2019), I was trying to recreate my favorite parts of him into Hemi.

Bobble Hat character from the Splatoon manga. I love her attitude and consistency, which Hemi has mostly adopted. Though Hemi didn't end up as unbreakable as Bobble Hat, it serves the narrative better that way.

One of our main characters, Hemi, and 3 characters that inspired her!

Check alt text for more details!

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Hemi, from Astropods: Starside Glaze

Triple Star Kirby from Kirby Squeak Squad. I love the visual theme of this ability, the 3 orbiting stars, but I found its ingame use to be quite underwhelming, so I wanted to use a similar theming to make more satisfying abilities and narrative out of.

Mordekaiser (2015 Rework version) from League of Legends. This might seem weird, but I love this rendition of a medium-ranged juggernaut who refuses to back down. His Q and W abilities in particular were heavy inspirations for Hemi's Up Tilt and Down Special respectively. I hate to let this secret out, but I miss this version of Mordekaiser so much (he has been reworked since 2019), I was trying to recreate my favorite parts of him into Hemi.

Bobble Hat character from the Splatoon manga. I love her attitude and consistency, which Hemi has mostly adopted. Though Hemi didn't end up as unbreakable as Bobble Hat, it serves the narrative better that way.

One of our main characters, Hemi, and 3 characters that inspired her!

Check alt text for more details!

#indiegame

Holy craps Shigeo Ralts, that's epic

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Thank you! At first, I found the outline to be a bit strange, but it has grown on me quite a bit since.

It will also be potentially helpful for a future thing, so I think Ill make future attacks like that!

Hemi swinging her globe-hammer downwards as her Jab 2. This swing effect has paler inner colors, and a dark outline for the base part of the swing.

Hemi swinging her globe-hammer downwards as her Jab 2. This swing effect has richer inner colors, but lacks the outline for the base part. This is closer in style to Astropods: Starside Glaze.

Experimenting with a revamped, more manga-inspired VFX. Having the luxury of color of course makes it feel different, but I'm really fond of manga's black & white philosophy for maximum clarity, so it's smth I wanted to try out.

How does it look to you?

#indiegame #gamedev

Hemi swinging her globe-hammer downwards as her Jab 2. This swing effect has paler inner colors, and a dark outline for the base part of the swing.

Hemi swinging her globe-hammer downwards as her Jab 2. This swing effect has richer inner colors, but lacks the outline for the base part. This is closer in style to Astropods: Starside Glaze.

Experimenting with a revamped, more manga-inspired VFX. Having the luxury of color of course makes it feel different, but I'm really fond of manga's black & white philosophy for maximum clarity, so it's smth I wanted to try out.

How does it look to you?

#indiegame #gamedev

This #screenshotsaturday, a new special attack is born!

Hemi's down special is a more defensive skill, but one that can be charged up for respectable all-around damage!

When at full Aura, it also heals per units hit. Thisll be one of the only ways to heal in combat!

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This #screenshotsaturday, a new special attack is born!

Hemi's down special is a more defensive skill, but one that can be charged up for respectable all-around damage!

When at full Aura, it also heals per units hit. Thisll be one of the only ways to heal in combat!

#indiegame #gamedev

Today, ill get to try out my friends copy of pokemon legends za. Theres no way id buy the game myself, but who knows, i may like it more than I expect.

Modern gamefreak loves to disappoint me, so lets see how this goes.