in our game you parkour up mountains with your friends: you might think we have metrics.
but we never graybox. it's just more fun to download models and prototype in real places, like blood gulch.
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wishlist pondlife: discone (a videogame) here!
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sometimes we just wanna climb up things to see if we can do it, maybe to get a nice view, or to learn a new hiding spot. it's frustrating if every nook has "rewards"
in discone, most paths are uncharted, and you will climb and parkour them with your friends
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and wishlist our game! where you parkour up uncharted mountains with your friends
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today we're recommending one of our favorite games ever zk maps for stranger, by Marek Kapolka, you will understand why we believe that the best platforming levels are "undesigned" ones.
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in our game you parkour up uncharted mountains with your friends.
but it began as a game where you jump idly around peach's castle grounds. i think that had to be fun first for parkour of any sort to be possible!
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i want harder games with longer death runs made by people who respect my need to put the game down and i'm not kidding.
you can place a checkpoint by taking a deep breath (in real life) in our game. that you can then float back to as you spacewalk in a bubble.
(you can also parkour up uncharted mountains with your friends, of course)
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we finally added our first item: rocks! even a simple item like this opens a wealth of new ways to play and enjoy moving around in our game.
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i'll be taking my own advice and wishlisting a lot of your games today =)
this is our game where you parkour up mountains with your friends, and it's also a little video about how powerful your personal steam wishlist is. wishlist every game you like! we'd love if you wishlisted ours too (but only if like it).
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it's so worth it, imagine the pain icecream must have felt getting stuck on doorframes
this is what they call "the door problem", in game design
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thank you! we recently handmade a font for the title (in a sort of sneaky way), glad it was worth it :p
new trailer of our online multiplayer climbing game, pondlife: discone (a videogame)! we have some new stuff to show off soon that we're excited for you to see.
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we're taking a fresh look at the fundamentals of jumping in pondlife: discone (a videogame). every jump, even on flat ground, and every interaction with a wall should be dynamic. we want the act of movement itself to be joyful, to be its own end.
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it pulls back, we had to put a bunch of work into that as well, maybe we should make a post about how that finally enabled us to have indoor spaces
here's a bit about how we've been adding grass to our game, pondlife: discone (a videogame)! given our logo, perhaps we should have focused on this sooner. but we got there.
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if you pause at like, 0:09s, you can see what all the vectors represent by color in the top-left! it's probably too much to describe in a bsky post, but broadly, each cluster of lines is one frame showing the character's current tangent along the wall, the speed being added along that tangent, &c.
hehe us too :p the first one where everything is enabled is a bit of a joke for the video. it's a tagged system, so we can toggle subsets of drawings for the character's core physics, how it interacts with surfaces, how the hips / feet move during the walk cycle, and so on.
a peek into our dev setup! we built this visualization tool to help get our wall riding, procedural walk cycle, custom camera, &c feeling right (inspired by the tooling we saw in @doublefine.com's psychodyssey).
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somebody on tiktok asked us to make the hair bigger, and also to make the hair smaller, and also we love a certain plumber so...
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even after years working on this game, sometimes we just open it and run around the mountain together
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i saw this window the other day and tried finding a smooth path up to it
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we were playing our online 3d climbing platformer, "pondlife: discone (a videogame)", with some friends recently. they struggled a lot on this ramp, but it's possible!
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here’s how to wall ride in our game, “pondlife: discone (a videogame)”. let us know if you have any questions =)
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how it started vs. how it's going. (yeah the second half is the game audio).
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pondlife: discone (a videogame) is a skateboarding game with no skateboard.
it's also a golfing game. where you are the ball.
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in "pondlife: discone (a videogame)", you really can (try to) climb anything. we mean it. if you fall, there's another way up that's just as exciting.
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