Get Lost

Neat! Should the sprites be some uniform grid size? In my game sprites can be pretty big. I could pretend they are smaller chunks though using the mask though.

AI bros have the highest intelligence to wisdom ratio I've ever seen.

If you're not proud of your decision, you should be. It's never the right move to sell out your principles. That eats away who you are and makes it easier to do it the next time. You can't buy character, but you can sure sell it.

I really just did the colors and dithering. The flickering that you two made is awesome. If you have source somewhere I'd love to have a look :)
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The tasteful subtlety of it. I have to add this to my gameboy shader.

However I found a bug! It's easy to get into the situation where the character is blocked trying to get back to the old path, but not far enough away to trigger a new navigation 😅

Any ideas of how should I fix it? 🤔

I'm also detecting when the character goes too far off of the path. When that happens, we don't try to make it back to the old path, we simply calculate a new path.

🧭Navigation updates. Added resiliency to character navigation. Specifically, when a character is knocked off of a path, it should find its way back to the nearest point on the path, and continue towards the goal.

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Congrats on sticking to your principles. I've never had an offer like that but every few months I get a crypto bro hounding me to put crypto in my game. They are so exhausting.

Night music just hits different

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Finished the pathfinding system in WebAssembly (via Assemblyscript).
3.2k nodes and 21k edges crunched in under 20ms(!) with a Web Worker. Fast enough for realtime movement updates.
Soon NPCs will have autonomy... 🏃💨

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After:

I've been working on an Aseprite animation plugin to add subpixel interpolation frames. No AI, just good old fashioned programming. Interested? #aseprite #pixelart #Superman2025

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Charlie stepped on a wasp today 😭🐝

The second one was surprisingly good too. Then there's the David Lynch movie, which is its own separate thing...

[7/7] Most games do the localization once because their text never changes. Get Lost is different because new levels are added continually. The auto-localization makes it so level authors can effectively speak the native language as all players! 🗣️

Play: getlost.gg

[6/7] Some languages require special handling. For example, Arabic and Hebrew are written right-to-left! 🤯 If your UI does not take into account directionality, it's going to have a hard time with these languages.

[5/7] Dialects matter! 🇧🇷Brazilians use Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR), which has significant differences from 🇵🇹Portugal Portuguese (pt-PT). And in 🇨🇳China they can use Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) or Traditional Chinese (zh-TW).

See the differences below:

[4/7] Gamers in other regions can be much more forgiving. For example, in 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪Scandinavia and the 🇳🇱Netherlands, English locales are often fine. Same with 🇮🇳India, where English is the official language and gamers are accustomed to English locales.

[3/7] Some gamers care more about localization than others. For example, in 🇯🇵Japan, 🇰🇷South Korea, 🇧🇷Brazil, 🇨🇳China, and 🇵🇱Poland, gamers prioritize localized games. If your game isn't localized there, it's going have limited impact.

[2/7] Localizing your game means making it feel native to a group of people in a region. This means changing the language, using regional dialects, and changing date formats (DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY). People LOVE when a game feels like it was made for them.

Get Lost's auto-localization is complete! 🦾📝

Levels added to the game are automatically translated to 17 different regions. This means that stories from different cultures can be shared around the world 📢 🌎

So what is game localization? [1/7] 🧵

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Can you get all 8 gifts🎁 before time runs out? ⏳

🕹️ PLAY NOW: getlost.gg/994021540/main

Music by Janne Seppänen and @benburns.bsky.social
Winter tiles by @franuka_art
Character by @snowhex.bsky.social

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Summer Sale Music Bundle Fantasy Fanfare by ELV Games A bundle by ELV Games, $34.99 for 113 games

Do not sleep on this music sale... this is crazy value. @elvgames.bsky.social itch.io/s/87704/summ...

Guessing the player's sunrise - Get Lost Docs An unobtrusive method of estimating a user's geographic location.

Here's how Get Lost syncs the virtual sun with the player's real location. #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

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The subpixel jitter is

YouTube video by dkellerm Sasquatch music festival 2009 - Guy starts dance party

Time to dance 🕺
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Get Lost An ever-changing, user-generated experience where you explore a mysterious world, make choices, and uncover secrets.

GAME LAUNCHED
👉 getlost.gg

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I think it really is the edge