Jade Black

Back from holiday after exam prepping and doing :) (crushed it btw)

Had a really good, really silly game idea while I was away 👀

I’ll be keeping on devving Are You Awake Yet? until that’s done, but I now know what’s next :)

Anybody keen on Epic Shower Anthemzz? 👀🤣

Yeah sound design is wild 😅

Are You Awake Yet? Dev Update:
- Made concept death screens
- Made concept gameplay UI sprites
- Concepted VFX
- I have existing assets I can use!

Next steps:
- Sound design
- Might be time to start putting things together in engine, to see if designs and concepts work

VFX always end up being really simple or really complicated, there’s no in between 😅

Are You Awake Yet? Dev Update:
- I figured out how time works!
- Each “level” is split in two, so it can be really precise
- Happy accident :)
- Also put numbers to variables and their influences
- These graphs are part of that too

Next steps:
- Sprite design
- VFX design
- Sound design

Thank you 💚🖤
Everyone uses devving like it’s word, it might as well be 🤣

Been a hot minute…

I finally have time to dev again today 🥹

Going to get deeper into gameplay sections - it’s the most unrefined part so far and will dictate a lot

This isn’t something I’ve had to do before 👀

I have a feeling it’s going to be really hard 😅

Are You Awake Yet? Dev Update:
- Visual templating is done!
- From that I’ve realised I need a couple more sprites
- And also that the way I’ve been writing the text is fine, if not ideal
- Huge relief!

Next steps:
- Sprite design
- Gameplay section length concept

Are You Awake Yet? Dev Update:
- First concept art in for player character

Next steps:
- Visual Templating
- Sprite Design
- Gameplay section length concept

💚🖤

Makes me laugh every time 🤣

Me too!

Thank you so much 💚🖤 I’ll be posting more concept art etc when I have it, but this time round I haven’t done that first. Right now most of what I have is stick figures lowkey drawn with a trackpad 🤣🤣

Are You Awake Yet? Dev Update:
- Decided on fonts and how they’ll be used
- I can do cool stylised dialogue now :)
- Key progression title card test worked

Next Steps:
- Visual templating
- Sprite design & concept art
- Concepting gameplay section lengths

Are You Awake Yet? Dev Update:
- Test music piece worked!
- Soundfont patches are done
- Daytime concept test worked
- Needs finesse but hey early days

Next steps:
- Concept art for other MC
- Sprite design
- Visual templating

🥹💚🖤

Are You Awake Yet? Dev Update:
- Music ref point analysis complete
- Solid composing convention ideas now
- Very cool idea for music progression between nights
- Hint: it’s sort of chromatic 👀

Next Steps:
- Test all this theoretical music stuff
- Daytime concept test

Thank you! 💚🖤

Also it’s great to see you again :)

Are You Awake Yet? Dev Update:
- Main gameplay screen hard concepted
- Background drawing in progress
- Indicators have first official designs
- Found a really neat way to put them in the scene naturalistically
- Radio stations have thumbnail art

Next steps:
- Music concept test
- Day concept test

That’s me!! 💚🖤

Are You Awake Yet? dev update:

- Charaters have names!
- Visuals are concepted
- First piece of concept art is done!

Have a speedpaint treat :)

Are You Awake Yet? Dev Update:

- Story is done
- Soundfonts are pretty much done
- Visual style is decidedish
- Happy with UI icons (3rd version)
- Radio station playlists are done
- Having fun with naming things :)
- Snuck in a few references too

Dev Update:

We have a working title!
Are You Awake?

The bulk of the story is done,
Daytime things are nearly done (needs detail),
Found the perfect soundtrack reference point,

The main thing to work out at this point is visuals.

This is a goer folks! 💚🖤

It has a shape guys.

I actually really don’t think this would be too bad to solo dev.

Much of the narrative is written (rough but still), the mechanics are hard concepted, management indicators are hard concepted, basic visuals and difficulty settings are concepted…

I think this one is a goer!🖤

👀👀

So I had a couple of random game dev ideas last night 👀👀

And it’s a bank holiday here in the UK, so I’m going to workshop the one today :)

It’s a horror game with sleep disorders, hard to distinguish nightmares, and a benevolent ghost 🖤🖤

Sleep deprivation will make you a million, anyone? 😅

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You get 50 goat points if you pre-order by the way :)

Just doing that thing where I pop in once a month with an annoucement :)

This time it’s a BIG one though 👀

🖤 My debut novel, Mister Nakagami, is on pre-order! 🖤

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After all, it’s less than a fiver 😁😁

Legend 💚🖤

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