EngineerKappa

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

DoricDream music

happy #bandcampfriday! i don't have a whole lot of stuff on my bandcamp but there's some good stuff such as:

-a small RPG ost
-an OST for an extremely fucked up VN

...as well as a very large project that I hope to complete soon.

Please take a look!
doricdream.bandcamp.com/music

FUCK HOW COULD I FORGET DOOM

I can't stop thinking about it!!

I think some honorable mentions go to SM64, the Sonic Adventure games, Final Fantasy 1 and 7, Mega Man 2 and 9, the MOTHER games, Yume Nikki, the Monster World games, and Phantasy Star Online

But I could only fit 9 on here 😔

From top left to bottom right: NiGHTS into Dreams, Super Mario Bros, Cave Story, Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom, Metroid 1, Skullgirls, Phantasy Star, Super Hydlide, ZeroRanger

Made one of these my9games things!

Thinking about it, I feel like these that made me want to make a game like it at some point in my life, something that's latched onto me at the right time and burrowed its way deep into my creative output

...This is such a standard feature, but the way our map system was set up before was SUPER HACKY, and now we're piling a layer of hacks onto that to make this work ;v;

Screenshot of the map screen in BUDD. Certain areas that haven't been visited yet are darker

Another little change a long time coming, now you can actually see which areas you haven't been to in rooms you've visited prior

#gamedev #BUDD

Aaaa I really need to update both the Steam and Itch pages sometime....

A screenshot of BUDD from the hydro plant in Mizuli. The room is pretty small.

While we've been overhauling a lot of the display backend code, we're also toying around with having rooms that don't have to fit the entire entire screen

For tiny little connecting rooms like this, it always felt a bit silly having to stretch them all the way out to 16:9

It's just weird feeling that someone's frustrated on our behalf when we're not at all!

It's a little funny when someone's watching us play a game, we encounter the smallest inconvenience, and then they act like it's some massive flaw in the design

Meanwhile we're just vibin', taking things in stride

ALSO ALSO I updated my hack AGAIN cause apparently I messed something up that caused Lakitu to become invisible

udomyon.com/thsmw

Here, look at these as a peace offering. This is the art I used to make the pixel portraits out of - wait what do you mean some of these characters aren't in the demo

a drawing of my mouse fursona mika, standing on a pathway made of light in the middle of the night sky. she has her hand up and is looking at some floating stars with a smile. she's wearing a pink shirt and burgundy pants, and is covered with gray fur that doesn't cover her toes or the tip of her tail. the moon is in the background, and there's a shooting star. make a wish!

🐭mouse in the stars ✨💫🌟

this was streamed on twitch! www.twitch.tv/cyansorcery
here's the VOD if you want proof hehe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r37w...

#art #furryart #furry

how are we JUST learning about stencil buffers this is awesome....

(These are zoomed in just a bit because scanlines tend to look like butt when rescaled for social media)

Screenshot of Eris' portrait from the pause menu with both a color bleed and a scanline filter on

Screenshot of Eris in Mizuli with both a color bleed and a scanline filter on

Tried upgrading the color bleed filter to have a bit more of a glow to it

Now that there's an integer scale setting, I can also add a scanlines setting without it looking awful in fullscreen 'v'

#gamedev #BUDD

Both of these address a little insecurity we've had with the level design where vertical movement often feels so much more constrained.

This isn't a magic bullet, but it's nice having that extra breathing room.

Another screenshot in BUDD, showing the 16:10 aspect ratio. The status bar is opaque here, to account for the difference in screen size.

We've also been experimenting on a 16:10 mode made with Steam Deck in mind!

The status bar was just tall enough to get away with this, and many of the cutscenes were already letterboxed, so it works pretty well!

A screenshot of BUDD showing a translucent blue status bar. Behind it, you can see a spore enemy falling from the sky.

Experimenting with a different status bar style.

All the rooms in the game already had a 32 pixel buffer for the old one to sit over, so I figured it'd be nice having this new one let you see what's behind it now.

#BUDD #gamedev

(she's messing with aspect ratio and integer scaling settings again)

There comes a point where you're so serious about image quality in your pixel art game that you eventually just design an emulator frontend to display your game.

draw_self() laughing at my desire to rotate or scale a sprite without messing with its bounding box

i wonder just how many times in my life I've typed out some variation of draw_sprite_ext(sprite_index,image_index,image_xscale,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha)

My only real gripe is that I kinda miss lives? It's a very arcadey game otherwise, but it can feel tiring grinding away at a single checkpoint without that break in the pacing.

I guess that and the few bosses I fought can be kind of drawn out, waiting for cycles to end. Not too bad, tho.

I like it! I love that it still has the fixed jump arc, and I love how the levels feel so unstable that you're constantly on the edge of your seat as enemies fly all over the place and the environment shifts around you.

Insane that a large company greenlit this in the current decade (positive)

Ghosts n Goblins Resurrection being only $3 right now is genuinely insane

It's not the nostalgia itself that annoys me, it's treating static HTML as a thing from a long bygone era, when it's really just the fundamentals that most sites that are built off of.

But since everyone's stuck on the same 5 sites now, it's treated as a retro internet thing when it never went away

That's the thing though, I don't think making something simple that's within your means makes it outdated or obsolete, the way I've seen a lot of people act about it

Side note: I want people to stop treating barebones static HTML as a "nostalgic old web" thing, just because every other site you use is maintained by a fleet of designers and engineers