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YAL's Pixel Font Converter! This tool takes a pixel font as an image and makes an actual TTF file out of it!

i did not finish the inventory, got distracted shortly after starting by this: yal.cc/tools/pixel-...
couldn't find a pixelated font to replace my placeholders, so i guess i'm drawing one myself :D
had to play with the export and #godot import first, now onto lettering!

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i also now completely understand how some of those inventory glitches / cheats came to be, haha

omg they are!
I still need to refactor the spaghetti i created just because i wanted to have newly picked up items stack, and if that stack is full, stack in the next available slot after, not just *any* free slot.
sounds easy enough, but i *struggled* lol

programmer art but in pretty, haha.
currently finishing up the inventory functionality. there's already various options for drag n drop (split in half, move one, move all, etc) buut, click and drop still needs some work.

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"in-game view" or something like that haha
currently updating the actual player sprite to fit the style and then i'll have to get back to do some menus

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oh wow, thank you, that is some great consolation! :D

oh, haha, i can't unsee it now :D
and thank you!

still not fully satisfied with the current idle, but i'll fix it in the next iteration, too much other work to do :)

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i did not anticipate how much i'd struggle with the idle animation, lol.
this is the third version and it's kinda getting somewhere. i wanted it to be dynamic (not just a simple breathing) but instead it's coming out really wobbly.
gotta smooth things out some more

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and we have a base!
haven't decided on a staff design, so i'll keep it as is for now.
now onto adding idle, hurt & death animations :)
then i'll need to actually implement the fight mechanics, haha

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progress on my animation,
currently at 11 frames :)
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been sketching some attack animations :)

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They truly are!

hi, i'm using aseprite

i added a normal map to the stone tiles and i am OBSESSED, it looks so much better.

gotta add normals to aaaall the sprites now, haha

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spent the day working on some dungeon tiles to properly present the new halloween assets :)

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pixel art sprite sheet of various Halloween / autumn themed items

more halloween / autumn themed items!
I'm in love with the foliage and kinda obsessed with drawing pumpkins haha

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something's cooking!

working some more on my halloween asset set :)
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pixel art sprite sheet displaying various items associated with halloween.

Spooky season is upon us! Been drawing some seasonal items :)

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worked some more on the animation and i think it's starting to look like a wobbly walk now. gotta focus on something else for a while though to reset my eyes, lol

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why did i decide to give them 6 legs, ugh.. spent the whole day fighting with the leg animation... i think i'm finally getting somewhere, though

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i really like this concept sketch i made, but i'm questioning my life choices animating those legs...
i hate spiders, so i can't really look up references, haha...

hi bluesky, long time no post, lol.
i scrapped my platformer idea and been working on something new. it's actually the game i always wanted to make! nothing fancy, just another farming sim with rpg elements, but that's the kind of game i love :D

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I would also recommend godot instead of rpgmaker. Might be a little trickier to get into first, but it's completely free (bc open source) and there's tons of great tutorials and resources out there

Every game has to have a ghost house level, right? This one even has a spooky basement.

Wishlist Flora & Fang on Steam this #WishlistWednesday if you like old school single screen arcade adventures like Bubble Bobble and Rod Land.

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I made a staircase in my game with a blue light effect for more mystery about what lies further deeper AND I LOVE IT :3 #indiegame #actionrpg #godot

adding knockback functionality has been coming along great, lol

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This is how it's currently looking :) Skipped the tilemap and love it, though it's more time intensive. And now... I can't procrastinate working on the UI any further. wish me luck!

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Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone This is the first time the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks have been calculated.

Here's a good article from December 2023 for a start:
www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1...

From that article: "Generating images was by far the most energy- and carbon-intensive AI-based task."

Honestly, in my personal opinion that would still be a "yes" just because of the fact how much energy all those prompts use up (not even mentioning the copyright problematic).
But i guess that's something every dev has to decide for themselves