Richard Jordan

Retro Gamer magazine with Melkhior’s Mansion on the cover.

Aces to see a Melkhior’s Mansion screen on the latest Retro Gamer subscriber cover. The love that went and is still going into the making of that game could power a 1st world country for decades.
You’ll also see those characters again soon as they’ll be appearing in Melkhior’s Tower.

Thanks Chuck. I was watching a video of your project today, looks really cool, I love that retro skewed viewpoint that you're using. Reminds me of some really old ZX Spectrum games.

In Melkhior's Tower, Lester the Serf will have the special ability of being able to fire weapons. More info in the devlog: itch.io/dashboard/ga...

#melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Well you've got 9 spares if it doesn't go to plan. 😀

When I did it, after finally removing the splint, my finger felt solid, like there was zero movement in it. Bit of a shock, but it eases up over time. Good luck with yours. Damn useful these finger things!

It's the hardest part of game dev. You get 90% of the game done, and then there's just the final 90% to finish off. 😀

Haha! Been there, done that, prefer doing it the modern way to be fair. 😆

A behind the scenes demo of the map editor used to edit the Melkhior's Tower game world. Written in C# using Monogame. #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #monogame

More info here: bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-to...

Never heard of the word, just got lucky by getting all the letters.

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Pressing the A Button With three different characters to control, each with different abilities, and two fire buttons available, I've spent a lot of time thinking about what each button should do. I initially had some func...

Melkhior's Tower dev log update: bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-to...

#melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Thanks. Yeh I'm hoping to get the game into the Playdate catalog.

Do it! 😀

Got a load of work done on it over the Christmas break. Back to the daily grind now though, so the fun stuff slows right down. 😐

Thanks. 🙂

Playdate is a great little console, you're gonna love it.

Each object in Melkhior's Tower now has a weight property. This is to facilitate Sir Stamperlot's special ability of strength. #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

More info here: bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-to...

#C64 #Kouyate #RPG progress: here's a short WIP video clip showing the end of The Hidden Way, and a quick visit to Pirate's Cove (it's still a bit empty for now) to visit some vendors who are none too happy... They suggest visiting The Captain, arr...

Thanks. These are all hand drawn pixel art sprites, there are no 3D textures involved, it's all just good old fashioned 2D. ☺️

You can never have enough crank in your life.

Melkhior's Tower Playdate by BitGlint Games A Playdate exclusive Melkhior's Mansion spin-off

My new Playdate project, Melkhior's Tower, has a new home on Itch, where I'll post more frequent dev updates to avoid spamming the socials with too many updates. #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-to...

Yes, I know the ones. It's a spin-off of my PC game Melkhior's Mansion, which was inspired by the ZX Spectrum games from Ultimate Play The Game. It was a kinda mashup of Atic Atac and Knight Lore.

Started working on locked chests in my new game, Melkhior's Tower. Clues to the combination will be hidden somewhere around the place, and only Princess Ashby will be able to crank the locks. #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

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No it's all done with 2D graphics. For my PC projects, like Melkhior's Mansion, I do use pixel shaders for fast masking, but whether shaders are used or not, the technique is the same. All inspired of course by those Filmation games. Loved them. 🙂

Hard to say really without knowing how Ultimate did it, but I do know that Knight Lore isn't perfect, there are ways to move objects that create rendering problems. I developed my own technique, it's documented here: www.bitglint.co.uk/Iso/default....

Levels in Melkhior's Tower (as it's now called) will be traversed via one way trapdoors. Not quite as easily as the video shows, this is just a test. 😀 #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

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Each episode is full of pointless filler scenes. Getting very bored with it.

Bit of a longer gameplay video that shows progress so far on Melkhior's for Playdate. Merry Christmas.🎄 #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

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They're ace.

#C64 #Kouyate #RPG progress: not much to see; I'm working on a new dungeon, last one in the desert area. First level is roughed out and working in game, with a few more to do...🙂

Had an issue with my ladder code as return to surface was broken due to some optimising, changing an LDA to an LDY.😖

Character collaboration will feature in many of the puzzles in my new Melkhior's Mansion spin-off for the Playdate. A quick turn of the crank switches between characters.

#playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart www.bitglint.co.uk