Jakub Wasilewski

Been working on an unlock system for #Solitomb the last few days! A nice mix of design, coding, graphics and UI work 😇

Ways to go still, but happy with this initial stab at a demonic seal that you'll get to break! 🤗

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*watches announcement*
So yeah, looks like I have to finish work on *my* game before September 4 😆

You know when you start the run: either because it's a campaign scenario whose whole point is him breaking the seal, or you rolled him as a special mechanic for your single run (as opposed to a collapsed room with boulders, an antimagic crystal that prevents abilities until destroyed, ...etc.)

Currently trying to resist adding a cute animation where he drops his book and falls off the card when hit.
(lots of other prototypes to do before I can fully focus on visuals!)

Meet the Occultist! In this scenario, you need him to decode a demonic seal in the next room, so don't let him touch any monsters! 👈

Undo will mostly save you from obvious mistakes, but don't do what I did here and let a monster flip up under him 😅

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I left little critiques on lots of game trailers so here's a thread with the most common issues (and additional reading) 🧵

1. Don't put logos at the start. It's just dead air that could be gameplay, which is 100000000X more interesting.

www.derek-lieu.com/blog/2021/3/...

Assault: 1

Demolisher: 8

Droidmaster: 4

Elite: 10

Grenadier: 3

Knight: 7

Medic: 6

Pathfinder: 5

Psion: 9

Sniper: 2

Individually, the sniper and elite icons were a bit less obvious - the sniper because of the eye dominating the icon, the elite because it's the "smallest" feeling icon.

Not yet! *scribbles*

😇

I used to laugh before about making the first solitaire game with cover-based mechanics.
Well, today I made it (the first?) solitaire game with an escort mission 😅

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#pico8 0.2.7 is up!

Blog Post: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=150...

Awesome! As a person who has shipped an outlined-print function with every single one of my PICO-8 games, I approve of this update 😁
Though don't tempt me with the 32 carts, I'm in enough scope trouble as it is! 😇

Back from holidays and hard at work on Solitomb! 💪

Mostly behind-the-scenes progress in August, but today's thing is quite visible: "environment" cards tied to dungeon locations.
These boulders get in the way quite a bit, but you can also use them to your advantage... 🧠
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Oof, been making invisible progress on some things as well!
Worst kind of progress if you ask me! 🤗

Most of my work on this effect today has been making it subtler so it does not obscure gameplay 😅
Everything's tradeoffs, but it's nice to know I might have overdone it in this direction.

That's the crux of the question - do you expect a timer like this to tick down (two turns left in that case) or tick up (three turns to fully charge).
It's a bit more obvious when you're actually playing, since the meter starts full/empty, but I'm still curious which one people expect.

That's the question though - do people intuitively expect it to tick down or tick up?
When you can actually play the game, both are easy to guess because the meter starts full/empty leading you to the right interpretation - but I'm still curious which one people expect to be the default😊

Still not quite done, you might have time for another one! 😅

My notebook!

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Noted! Maybe not quite to the level of the HP/power bottles, but there's sure room to spruce these counters up a bit.
A lot of the game is still very, very WIP lookswise 😇

Indeed I am!
If I enjoyed marketing the game as much as making it, things would be very different 😇
But hey, I got the word out to at least one person today 😁

We still don't have polls here on Bluesky, right? I've been away for a while 😅
Replies appreciated! 🤗

Happy with the mechanics for the boss battles now, still working out the interface ✏️
Quick question here to help me out: the boss is targeting one of your cards with a move that charges over time. Can you read from this UI how many turns until the card gets hit? 🧐
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Nope, don't think so! Just some "demon face" references from various places, though I can't rule one of them being a 90s thing 😊
It's a quick sketch anyway for until the real art gets there 😇

I spent so much time prototyping with nothing coming out of it the last few years that I'm actually super-excited to take a project all the way this time 😇

Yeah, a boss fight just would not fit in the PICO-8 version, no matter how hard I squeezed 😅 I'm glad it's working out as I'd hoped for this one!

(next next step: make it look nice! 😁)

A prototype boss fight in progress with a placeholder demon sketch in place.

Prototyping boss fights for Solitomb this week 🛠️
Very WIP sketch, but already plays quite well - whooping the demon's butt feels *so* nice after it's been harassing me throughout the entire run! 😤

Next step: make the mechanics readable to people who aren't me! 😅

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Quickly throwing together a new arena so that I actually have room to prototype a boss fight! 😅
For now, just imagine a gigantic demon looming in that black void 👿
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