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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Jun 20

I’d be careful standing too close to a wall with that about to cast 💥

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Jun 5

I have stuff like that :D

Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Jun 4

I like the way the pipes run into the frame for the whole screen and how gnarly they look. It made me think of this game I enjoyed recently: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=109...

Loop

www.lexaloffle.com

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · May 28

Your dedication to ecological use of rain water is admirable.
My gf helped me install a receptacle attached to our guttering at the weekend and we have consistently been referring to this activity as “doing butt stuff” since 😄

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · May 27

Looks great already - find the exits through the maze, get all the treasure chests for more points and upgrades(?). How many tokens have you got left?

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · May 27

Killing a prisoner you're trying to rescue used to stick until you reentered the asteroid, but now they are beamed back to their prison.
I think the old way was too punishing tho more "realistic" and maybe "No escape; even in death!" fits the scifi dystopian feel quite well anyway. Maybe?

#pico8

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · May 15

Test levels are always a bit daft, but you get the idea; there will be more polish in future (and more challenge). The next thing is to make these actions update the player save and persist at which point it's almost a game 😮.

And becomes more of a pain to debug too, of course.

#love2d #indiedev

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · May 14

Inevitably I found a bug after yesterday's change. Fortunately it only cost a couple of minutes and tokens to fix.
After a tiny tweak to the level data it's now also within 1 byte of going over limit so we're all full up for the moment for Oust 1.2.0 RC5.

#pico8

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Apr 24

And not “Super Switch” either.

Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Apr 20

Hoppy Easter from me and Pac Bun, still spreading the free love in their own special way 4 years on🐰

drake-blue.itch.io/p8c-bun

As far as I know, no-one's ever unlocked the easter egg for completing all 16 levels without dying - esp me with a laptop up arrow not working reliably at all...
#pico8

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Apr 20

Those are really cute kitties 😸

Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Apr 17

The death sprite for the prisoners has been redrawn, also known as The Saddest Four Pixels Ever. Behold my pixel art genius:

(I think I might take a break for a bit)

Shot of Aseprite where a sprite 4 pixels wide by 1 high has been drawn, entirely yellow except for a blue pixel to the far left.

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Apr 17

I'd be lying if I claimed that messing about like this wasn't a big reason why I still make these things.

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Apr 17

12 pixels and 3 colours should be enough for any human character 😉

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Apr 17

"We warn you agent, the Regime's scientists are rumoured to have been conducting experiments to splice flea DNA with the prisoners..."

That's not quite how they're supposed to behave 😆 Definitely better than the previous, "refuse to move at all" bug.

#indieDev #bugsAreFunnySometimes 🐜

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Apr 11

Seemed a bit unfair that the wee prisoners can get stuck, even on the very early levels of Oust so I thought I'd get them behind some fences. For their own good.
It means you're only likely to see what my gf calls "the saddest four pixels ever" later on when things get nastier in general.

#pico8

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Apr 7

The return of the wallhuggers (I never thought of a better name). There's nowt like re-implementing to notice the scary bugs in the old implementation that have been live for a year (but don't seem to actually break anything).

And, of course, to add a whole load of new bugs 🐛🐜🐝

#solodev #indiedev

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Apr 4

They’ve also got to be about the least obvious buttons on a controller- there’s a lot of folk (who perhaps don’t play a lot of games, e.g. my elderly parents) who don’t even know they’re there. Not a great accessibility thing in another way.

Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Mar 27

I had to close the app. Restarting the game brought me back to the last checkpoint and I didn't hit the bug again for the next few minutes. I'll try again later if I get time.

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Mar 27

This is amazing - and the PICO-8 version was great already 😀
I did hit a bug though (on a macbook, if that helps). I noticed the top row of pixels didn't seem to be getting cleared once I reached the red section then shortly after all input failed at the rising air elevator thing beneath the start 😔

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Mar 26

The orbs in Oust have some code I'd optimised so it wasn't very readable so I left it alone when everything else got tweaked to save tokens.
Making the new version I looked at it again: it's so bad it has a bug.
Fixed it now & wondering what to do with 27 spare tokens 😀

#indiedev #pico8 #gamedev

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Mar 24

"That wasn't too difficult". Of course, despite drawing the graphics for the flashing light for these obstacles, adding them to the resources for the game and even loading them when the object kind is initialised, I didn't actually alter the drawing code to, you know, show them at all 😆 Fixed now.

Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Mar 24

There’s only me here. (I may only be awesomely optimistic rather than awesome)

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Mar 23

One of the simpler things in the game becuase sometimes it's nice to be able to add something straightforward to the game and think to myself "that wasn't too difficult". And it needed to be done some time.

#gamedev #indiedev

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Drake Blue Games @drakeblue.bsky.social · Mar 20

Keys and gates working which a means basic inventory and more work on the save game system.
The keys aren't all going to be quite so easy to find.

#indiedev #gamedev

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