Robert Panichpakdee 🦧

I’ve also been working on this oil painting to be my logo for Pay Artists Studios. Because I can and why not, right?

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Thank you! :)

Common rings done! Added in stat bonuses, and debugged the numbers changing when swapping items in the stats menu, which I always enjoyed seeing happen.

Light and dark rings have weak damage, but pretty OP effects.

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The Universe of Death on Steam Hand-drawn isometric Diablo style rogue like with Elden Ring style controls, and it's also a tower defense. Level up in run to try new skills and builds, level up between runs to increase your stats t...

Diablo-like ARPG tower defence!

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Last two “uncommon” rings left, then the stronger ones should be far easier to go through.

I added a shield break to the smoke effect, and the rock effect now “carries” all the other effects for added synergy.

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What’re we all watching?

6 of the rings working! Had to debug the inventory/ unequip system, but back on track!

Also adding more rewards to finishing those quests to balance the tower building aspect a bit better.

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System for the jewellery is set up, and the fire ring is tested and works! Rings add elementals effects to both melee and ranged attacks.

Also apparently an opportunity to debug each elemental skill one at a time.

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Thanks! Yeah, it’s a never ending battle haha

Made items automatically equip if the inventory slot is empty; With the added tower defence, it’ll help new players in the beginning.

And fixed up some bugs that of course appear whenever you let someone new try the game.

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They remember how good 1994 was!

Thanksgiving is a great chance to finally play test the game. They all seem to get it!

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It’s “solve the problem” vs “solve the problem the way the creators wanted you to” mentality; and I imagine the only reason the latter would be angry would be the same reason uncreative people seem to get mad at people for doing creative things that don’t affect them?

He’s in! Super basic, essentially just a reskinned skeleton (but buggier) for now. I’ll fix him up and try to get the system set up properly.

Summons follow you around the map, mercenaries protect the town with the towers.

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Thanks! That’s the generation I’m aiming for! :)

Walk animations! Need to clean up and do the cape and shield.

Might start coding it in for now, my hand is starting to hurt from drawing all these frames.

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Just chopping things up to bits before putting them back together and cleaning it up.

Halfway through all the walk animations, and sorting out the mercenary system ui/ system in general!

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Finished all the light and heavy attacks! About 40 frames for each direction.

About half way; a little less, but that’ll be enough to get back into the code once it’s done.

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Ok I think I got my hear around it and fixed those proportion issues!

Getting the rough keyframes for the light/ heavy attacks in place! Those, and the run/ walks are the hardest to figure out.

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Oh of course, games are so complicated, you can “put” so much into them.

I think the “mechanics” of the game are important for the moment to moment engagement, but I find the “story” elements are what tend to stay with me after I finish the game.

Both very useful tools!

Games are such a broad medium that I feel like it really depends on the genre:

Is the narrative that important in Pacman or Minecraft? Not so much, I’d agree with you there

But take it out of a telltale game or the last of us?

I suppose it’s a matter of where the devs are focusing their attention

Ceci n’est pas une mossy rock.

All works of fiction are by definition “not real”, but that’s never stopped me from empathising with any figure in a painting or character from a novel, tv show, or film.

Oh I can see it! I think I might make some separate animations later for some mimics :)

:)

A bandaid when what we need is surgery.

I really should be working on something more important, but procrastinating with animating some vegetation!

It’s not like I’m NOT going to end up using this, right? It’s all productivity.

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Working on a few things at once, here’s how I poorly organise my sprite files!

Focusing on character animations, but working on rocks when I want a break from that.

Also working on in game quest UI and enemy designs as well.

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That’s the time period I’m trying to hit! :)

Thank you! appreciate it! :)

All directions!

I know it’s a weee bit wonky, but it’s more precise than the Ranger is, and that looks fine to my eyes in movement. Animation is a lot more forgiving than you’d think.

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