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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧

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Solo dev Founder of Pay Artists Studios Roid Chimp-A fastpaced metroidvania, collect coins and punch enemies. Level-up and combine elemental powerups to become unstoppable! Buy it today! http://store.steampowered.com/app/3271860/ https://rpanichart.com

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · May 10

Steam page has been approved!

Wishlist today!

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The Universe of Death on Steam

Hand-drawn isometric Diablo style rogue like with Elden Ring style controls, and it's also a tower defense. Level up in run to try new skills and builds, level up between runs to increase your stats t...

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 2h

Recorded unique sound effects for each items pick up, and drew some
unique skeleton spawning animations for the zombies and ghosts!

Made the minion skellys brighter than the enemy ones.

And general balancing and bugs.

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve finalised the inventory system and the roguelike system!

You unlock weapons and armour, and start with one each round, which you can also give to towers or (eventually) mercenaries.

Also balancing and squashing bugs

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

Oh that just displays the Controls for like 15 seconds when each round starts!

They’re also in the pause menu, but I found players won’t look, so I figured just putting it front and center at the start would help haha.

Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks :)

Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 3d

Yup! :)

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! They’re mostly hand done, and occasionally touching things up as particle effects or with code :)

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! :)

Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 4d

Added static enemies that exist in the world, plus the ones that spawn and attack your town.

The loop is tower defence > build a strong enough city > explore the world Diablo style > return with loot to upgrade towers.

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 5d

Testing and debugging. Everything is looking happy for now!

Checklist to Demo is about 70% through!

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 6d

Added a corpse explosion to the tier 3 poison skill! Also coded in a system to keep track of/ limit the max number of skeletons.

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 7d

Reworking/ debugging some of the skills:

The rock elements now also trigger some of the other elements (plants here)

Spark bombs buffed, but randomised.

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you! :)

Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 8d

Doing final pass of all the skill level ups: the fire swords tier 3 creates burning patches that grow as you level up the skill.

The fire damage still comes from the tier 1 skill, so all skills continue to have value.

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 10d

Finished up all the weapons and armour! Sorting out some UI inconsistencies today.

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 11d

Skelly variants!

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 11d

Alright! All the armour and this characters weapons in! I should probably just do the remaining weapons while I’m here.

I also put up archery and melee targets! And drew some logs!

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks! I’m really trying to scratch that nostalgia itch :)

Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you so much. Just keeping my nose to the grindstone haha

Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 13d

A bit tired of coding actually, doing some drawing today instead.

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 13d

All swords, common and uncommon armour and bows done! Going to try and power through the rest today

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 14d

Alright! I adding these little item previews when you pick them up.

I think building the anticipation is a big part of the appeal, so adding a small step before you can just equip the item really helps.

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 14d

Ok I’ve sorted out the items into separate levels, so I can control the pacing of the drops more precisely.

I want to try to add a little item portrait preview when you pick them up before I expand this system.

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 16d

Happy to hear! Thank you :)

Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 16d

Inventory descriptions for all the items added! Slightly reformatted the displayed info.

Need to fix some UI clipping/ formatting, but inventory nearly complete!

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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 17d

It’s actually designed for controller!