Grinding out full test playthroughs of the Demo 🥰 Apparently with proper prep the Wendigo can be beaten even without Holy attacks 😅 Post Mortem-screen sure needs more structure 🫠 Endless scrolling and genuinely painful to the eyes 🤣 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

If a Demo needs an ending, it must be better with multiple endings! 🤣 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

Adding yet more capabilities to the events! Now they can add/remove Afflictions to the NPCs. Could be useful to make your opponent "Scared" and "Annoyed" before the battle 🥰 Could be dangerous to get them "Raging" 🥲 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

Been a while, had some real life stuff to work on 🫠 Currently making little something to add a bit of punch to the ending of the Demo instead of it simply petering out as you close the final available investigations. The start of the River's Revenge! 😱🥰 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

Oh, fuck me.. Took on an errand to design some corporate stickers. Been too long since I drew anything with this many pixels. Can't even draw a straight line anymore🤣 Don't ask how long I spent on this until I decided that this humiliation must be filmed😅 I wonder if pixel art would do...🫠

Lot of dynamic text additions this week: Many NPCs react to at least some global events 🥰 World now changes based on what you actually chose to put in your reports. Reported hard against someone? Don't be surprised if you'll never see them again 🫠 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

In-Game Journal tagging added to the LoreBible 🎉 Now the unlockable in-game journal is populated directly from the wiki in the HTML-tool instead of a separate Lore.csv 🥰 Just the fact that now my spellchecker and search can reach them is a massive plus! 😀 #gamedev #indiedev #programming

Had way too many problems keeping track of my lore in the dozens upon dozens of Docs and Excel sheets. Added a wiki style Lore Bible into the HTML-tool 🥰 #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

Had to make enemy loot actually check the inventory of the enemy since some enemies can gain items during the game 🥰 As a bonus, healing items drop from enemies only if you managed to defeat them before they used them up. CharacterData.cs is getting out of hand...🫠 #gamedev #indiedev #programming

Yet another issue before the Demo 🫠 Money was almost meaningless 🤣 Too many sources of income, too few things to buy. Until I come up with fun and interesting money sinks, I'll just have to recalibrate the income. Obviously, I made a tool for that! 🥰 #gamedev #indiedev #programming

Yet another diagnostic tool 🥰 Evidence Checker! Had issues with it being possible to end the investigation early by failing all checks and ending up with no evidence. Shortcuts are fine, you'd just end up with less XP, but no evidence actually breaks the report 🫠 #gamedev #indiedev #programming

The enemy AI can finally be properly smart! 🥰 Lucien's healing item usage is weighted towards not being wasted. He tracks the debuffs on player. And only rarely takes himself out with selfdamage 🤣 High INT/WIS = perfect play. Low = perfectly terrible. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #ドット絵

Another massive addition to the UI. Full enemy inspection! 🥰 Now, it you can see exactly what you're screwed over by and plan accordingly! But even the best plans can seemingly be ruined by an enemy crit 🥲 Most of that info will be unlocked over time. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

The kick animation for new Rebecca and the Physical attack animation for Lucien 🥰 Just having them fight each other in the corridor of the "Home" to test the animations 🤣 Now, if only I wouldn't be terrible at animating... 🫠 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

#redraw of the playable character combat sprites! Rebecca looks a bit more prepared for battle, and Lucien no longer looks like a child 🤣 Probably still a bit #wip 🫠 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

Doing some flag renaming and broke bunch of stuff 🥲 Another Diagnostic tool to the rescue! 🥰 The Dead-End Checker! 🤣 The script goes systematically through every branch of the choice three with every character state and flags any issues ❤️ #gamedev #indiedev #programming

2000 followers!? Thanks! ❤️‍🔥 Absolutely love all of you! 🥰 This "Thank you"-scene is very Vampire heavy, mirroring the recent additions to the game 😅 Rebecca is watching along with suspicion, perhaps slowly getting a bit annoyed at the attention hogging newcomer 🤣 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

Having grown way too reliant on spellcheckers, I just had to build it into my editor🤣 Was sinking in the silly mistakes💀 Also thought to change it to proper British English to fit better with Windermere🥰 Still loads of false positives🫠 #gamedev #indiedev #programming

Drafting out some initial "Exiled Lordling" specific events 🥰 Little something to help you manage your finances, reputations, and hunger 😅 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

#redraw day today🥰 This original image wasn't too badly rated. But it had started to really stand out by it's amount of random noise. 🫠 Especially because almost all of the other garden images were already redrawn 😅 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

Lucien!? Now you're fighting Clerics in the Cathedral, forcing me to draw the background for that too!? 🤣 still very much #wip. Using the same PS rough painting to #aseprite workflow, as with the other BGs to get the blurry feel, but it needs so much clean up 🫠 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

Spent today mostly testing and polishing so not too much new to show 🫠 Have some random screenshots for #ScreenshotSaturday instead 🥰 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #ドット絵

Most events now have some conditionality whether you're Human or Vampire, or your alignment or all sorts of other things🥰 Also Lucien's "Dominate" can be used on almost every NPC! Some of the "Dominate" options are a lot smarter than others...😅 #gamedev #indiedev #programming

Some important adjustments to my custom Flow Map generator. The layout now finds a balance between: -keeping the arrows as short as possible -minimizing the number of backward arrows The cases now look much more how they feel like🥰 #gamedev #indiedev #programming

Lucien, you little shit! What are you doing trying and failing to poach Thralls from other Vampires! 🤣 Then you take it out on a helpless Zombie, and almost lose 😅 All Lucien related art and text is still #wip... and I do see that way too long log entry 🫠 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

Giving a custom Reason to Lucien. Had to give the smug bastard a suitable background. Special events spawned by Noble Blood to come 🥰 You might not have ever looked back but your Uncle sure is still keeping an eye on your misadventures 💀 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵

Made a Combat AI tester! 🥰 Can finally diagnose the mess that is "Bless". The AI is based on stats, but Bless gives a bonus to stats, so enemies could fall into a bless-loops🫠 Also found a bug where eval flips at absurd values. Would've never found it in-game 🥲 #gamedev #indiedev #programming

I can finally SEE my whole game!👀 Added a Stats tab to my tool! Every investigation at a glance, with tiny flowcharts and bar charts comparing them all😍 It's all just a single HTML file + a tiny Python stdlib server reading my actual #Unity CSVs live. #gamedev #indiedev #programming

Event Editor, Flow Map, and now also an Investigation Tester! 🥰 This is so much quicker when compared to testing the events in #Unity 🙃 Why, oh why did I not create this tool months ago? 🫠 I think I've reduced the devtime of new investigations by like 90% 🤣 #indiedev #gamedev #programming

Finding unreachable events suddenly became incredibly easy 🥰 Seeing issues with the flow, comparing the investigations at a glance, everything just became incredibly easy😊 My little event previewer is quite rapidly turning into a narrative creation engine 🤣 #gamedev #indiedev #programming