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Maybe weekly? progress post #99: I’M BACK
Posted on 2018-06-15 05:05

Ok! After a couple months of almost total silence, I’m trying to get back to weekly updates & streams. Today I worked on Baba’s map art, seen above in its WIP state, as well as restructuring it to make more sense. I kind of dreaded streaming beforehand but it was good fun once I got going. I’ll be trying to stream ESA 2 a bit more in upcoming streams because I’ll need to work on Baba outside of streams as well.

In other news:
– I won the Excellence in Design & Best Student Game awards at IGF! I’m aware that this update is over 2 months after the fact, but looks like I didn’t post about it.
– Stumblehill, the penguin game, is pretty much done! It was quite exhausting to concentrate solely on it so I’m happy that I can soon leave it behind.
– I’ll be going to No More Sweden, the oddly-named game jam, in July!

Let’s see if I can get this to work, now!

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Tags: Games, Baba Is You, ESA 2, No More Sweden, GDC, Plans, Regular updates, Streaming, Happenings

Have some ESA 2 mockups
Posted on 2018-05-09 12:13

A lot has happened over the past couple months regarding my game development endeavours but I’ve been too distracted/tired to write about them here. I’ll try to get something written sometime soon! It’d be sweet to get the weekly updates going; I wouldn’t want to see this blog go silent.

Tags: Games, ESA 2, Other, Plans

A new Discord link
Posted on 2018-04-23 12:35

Here you go: https://discord.gg/wUaCQxb It closes after a bit.

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Tags: Discord

:(
Posted on 2018-04-18 20:56

Looks like I accidentally deleted all comments from 2009 (and probably some from 2010) while cleaning old SQL databases and mistaking the comments section of my blog for one. That sucks

Tags: Other

Progress post #98: PENGUIN
Posted on 2018-03-12 03:23

I had a massive 8+-hour stream yesterday and another of some 4-5 hours today; I spent most of those working on the penguin game (now titled “Stumblehill”). I’d like to get the game’s levels done before GDC but that’s looking somewhat unlikely. I finished the second level on Saturday and worked on the game’s map today. It seems that the biggest slowing factor is the need for extra assets, and hopefully the third level won’t be quite as demanding in that regard.

I’ll be leaving for the Game Developers Conference on the 18th of March! From there it’ll be a week of probably outrageous amounts of social interaction and receiving Baba compliments from various directions. I’m not *super* stressed about this but I’m sure it’s a force that affects my mood on the background. It’d be really cool to get a prize in the IGF! The beginning week will probably be mostly work on first Stumblehill, then making sure that Baba works at GDC.

What else… 7drl was last week and I started making some simple prototypes but (maybe luckily?) I couldn’t concentrate on them much due to all this vidyagame hubbub.

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Tags: Games, Baba Is You, Small games, Happenings, GDC, Other, Other jams, Plans, Regular updates, Streaming

Link to the discord
Posted on 2018-03-11 11:25

Hi! A bunch of people had requested a link to the new Discord; sorry about replying so slowly. Here’s a 10-person invite:

Link To Discord

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Tags: Discord

Slightly more weekly progress post #97: Discord >:O
Posted on 2018-02-16 01:30

Hey! I actually managed to stream on two consecutive weeks! Maybe this is a sign of a brighter future.

I set up a Discord yesterday, comment below if you want a link to it I guess.

Today’s stream was somewhat slow but I still got some handy stuff implemented. I worked on some more map stuff on Baba, and while the map’s low FPS annoys me a lot, the actual thing I set out to do seemed to work! I also started implementing two other things but hesitated because I realized I want to keep the secret.

I also worked on the penguin thing, although admittedly I made less progress than I originally intended. Walljumping was added along with some new assets, but there are some structures that I need to implement soon to get forward with the project.

I think a result of setting up the Discord was there being more people on the stream – there was some nice discussion! Thank you very much for that. :)

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Tags: Games, Small games, Regular updates, Streaming, Discord

“”Weekly”” progress post #96: Sideprojects
Posted on 2018-02-12 06:23

I’ve had a little sideproject going for a bit and it needs to be finished pretty soon so for the past couple weeks I’ve been concentrating on that instead of Baba; apart from some polish and bugginess most of what I want to have in Baba before GDC is there which is great! March will probably absolutely terrifyingly busy so getting any errant projects out of the way beforehand seems like a good plan.

Anyway! During today’s stream I drew some more art for the project shown above (more info coming soon) and added a new level to Baba. It feels funny and fun to do higher-resolution art for a change; apart from animation I’m enjoying it a lot! Very different.

Things are very exciting right now! Sadly a lot of the excitement will become more available to others at a later date, but at least I can post gamedev updates every now and then. Once things settle down a bit I’ll count how many weekly streams I’ve missed and do some kinda marathon, that might be fun. Sorry!!

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Tags: Games, Baba Is You, Small games, GDC, Happenings, Streaming, Regular updates, Other, Plans

“Weekly” progress post #95: Sorry about this!!
Posted on 2018-01-25 00:41

So yeah, my ability to stream weekly has been superbly bad for a while now. Unfortunately it’ll probably get worse before it gets betterm what with the upcoming GDC and so on! I’ll try to do better, believe me!

In any case, today’s stream was very active and productive! I finally divided the game’s map into sub-areas containing thematically similar levels (example above). This has been on the to-do list for a while now but because I’m sure there are several bugs with the sub-map system still & I’ve had to have a testable version available I haven’t dared to really get to it. A quick test already turned up several bugs, although nothing too serious. Once this map system is stable enough, I’ll start laying down the final theming of the levels, sculpting the “main” map and implementing missing features (for example locks that require a certain amount of completed levels to open). Also more music!

Here’s a teaser of an underwater-themed song I made:

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