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Work-in progress crystal cave environment!
Here's some work on the underground area that'll be near the beginning of the game. Right now this is just 1 block type and 1 decoration, and it already looks cool! We'll keep you posted as we add more.
Water! Technical breakdown and cool gifs.
I spent the past few days making water! It came out way better than I expected and I'm not sure if I've seen the same graphic technique anywhere, so I thought it'd be fun to write about the technical stuff behind it.---The first trick is a shader that applies a gradient to every object, ...
Squirpent mega-post! (2 gifs, 5 pictures)
Gifs:Pictures:---Here's a new friend(?), the Squirpent! It throws acorns at you to mess up your jumps, and it doesn't care about strawberries. Cleru needs to be pretty strict to get it to behave!We've been working on this for quite a few days but it's (mostly) done now. This should h...
Powerups
Hello again! Part 1 is here, where I talked about action game boss design. This time I'll be talking about powerups in exploration-focused games, why I think the usual approach isn't perfect, and why I'm going in a slightly different direction for Sunfluffs.First, when I say "explora...
Magic, part 2
Previously: Part 1Every once in a while, a mysterious object falls from the sky... a Shooting Star! These always land in places that are hard to get to.Cleru and most of the other Sunfluffs live in a floating city, but they often travel down to the surface each day just to hunt these rare items down...
Magic, part 1
If you've played Copy Kitty or seen any of our other works in Zoincailla, you're probably familiar with how magic works there... but here it's completely different!Every Sunfluff has a single magic Trick they can do! Here's some examples: Can turn shirts into pants Can read minds, bu...
Cleru meets up with a friend!
Meet Moofle the Moonfloof! Cleru always stops to say hi when walking through the sheep village. Just like Sunfluff magic only works during the day, a Moonfloof's magic wool only takes effect at night... but it still looks pretty no matter what!And speaking of which, our next post will be about m...
Ferret bloopers
Here's a few ways that the Furlong messed up during development. The flat-face one actually took 6 hours to fix and was unbelievably frustrating! (But in hindsight, that's one of the funniest things to get stuck on...)
Cleru meets a Furlong! (IMPORTANT FERRET VIDEO)
(No sound, about 1 minute long)This is basically the best critter I've ever made! This started at a much smaller scale but I decided to go all-out with it, which is why it took so long. Make sure to leave a comment!
Bedheads
This is a Bedhead! It sleeps in inconvenient locations and you need to figure out how to get it to move... usually by just pelting it with strawberries until it picks somewhere else to sleep.I wanted to get this posted by the end of the year so I didn't get everything done that I wanted to, but ...
Nhimor's Blob Adventures! Page 47: Shiny Pipe Tower
Full comic link: http://entanma.com/nhimor-patronsonly/day47.htmlThe current plot arc started here, about 5 pages ago. The index page is here.If it's not obvious from the URL, don't share this anywhere! The public version will be posted on December 23rd, at the main site.
Gear berry
You can put a strawberry on the gear and it delivers it to the other side as it rotates! I've done a bunch of placeholder/layout work for this environment but this is the only screenshottable thing so far.
New area! (Extremely WIP)
The top picture is Raibys's concept art, and the bottom picture is my (Azure's) EXTREMELY early progress on it. Most of my time so far was spent on the tiling code - that screenshot is made from literally 1 block type placed on a grid, but it automatically connects them all together and adds...
Nhimor's Blob Adventures, pg46: Reunion
Full comic link: http://entanma.com/nhimor-patronsonly/day46.htmlThe current plot arc started here, about 5 pages ago. The index page is here.If it's not obvious from the URL, don't share this anywhere! The public version will be posted on December 8th, at the main site.
Nhimor's Blob Adventures, pg45: Into the Calcified Forest
Full comic link: http://entanma.com/nhimor-patronsonly/day45.htmlIt's been so long since the last post, so if you need a refresher, the current plot arc started here, about 5 pages ago. The index page is here.If it's not obvious from the URL, don't share this anywhere! The public version...
Copy Kitty update plans
It's been about a year since the last Copy Kitty update. This one won't be huge, but there's been things that have been bugging me and I want to take a week or so to fix them. It's aimed mostly at "replayable content" like speedruns and the level editor, without any new bosse...
Difficult choices...
After befriending a critter, you can pick what to do with it! Each critter has its own set of actions. Give fruit to lots of things so you can see what they all do!Eventually, friendly NPCs will have a similar system where you can hug them, give them food, or show them different items to see what th...
Sad Cleru
The two of us have been going through some REALLY rough times lately, and we've felt very unsafe, so we haven't had time or energy to work on anything. If you follow us on twitter or discord you probably know at least some of what's happened, but I don't want to get into details beca...
Cleru's new outfits!
Hello! Me and Raibys have been in a slump lately so I wanted to do something easy and fun. I modelled a basic shirt for Cleru (and NPCs) where I can swap out the textures really easily, and it can even be any body/sleeve length since it supports transparent pixels! Over on twitter I asked people to ...
Cleru's umbrella!
It's a new powerup! It doesn't actually do very much but it would be mean if Cleru had to walk around in the rain without an umbrella.I don't know what to call it though, does anyone have any suggestions?
Screenshot dump!
Here's a bunch of screenshots for some minor stuff that doesn't need its own full post. We've both been busy so there haven't been any real updates lately. Hopefully relatively soon we'll have more than one environment to show off!
Woof woof!
This cutie boofer is named Rus. She somehow got a hold of the Storm Collar and can woof tornados now! How will Cleru ever tame such a ferocious creature?!
Dog preview
The model and animations aren't entirely done yet, but it's been so long since the last post that I figured you'd appreciate a little preview! More dog content soon!
Boss Fundamentals
Here's something different! I usually go on game design ramblings in the Discord room, but that's easy to miss and I figured it'd be cool to have a more permanent place to put them. Some of these will be about stuff I did in Copy Kitty and other ones will be random musings about unrelate...
