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Zoomacroom Meadow

@badpantssituation.bsky.social

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Video game designer / developer Making Hematic, a roguelite arpg drawn (almost) entirely in ASCII characters They / them

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · Dec 1

Making a video game is complicated

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 17h

HEMATIC: SERVANT OF THE BLOOD ORB DEMON
🩸👹🔨🩸
#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #gamedesign #indiegamedev #indiegame #roguelike

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 2d

A few people complained that our ASCII game's UI wasn't "ASCII Enough" so of *course* I've been busy writing an entire shader based DOS terminal simulation for the entire UI
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #programming #shaders #gamedesign #UI #UX

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 4d

I'll let you know!

Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 4d

Loading Torment... Assembling Bones... Brewing Blood... Producing Anguish... (What it's actually doing is generating procedural textures. Neato!)
#gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign #roguelike

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you. 🩸

Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 4d

A quick look a few of our subclasses and their special abilities! 👹🔥⚡🩸🩸🩸🩸
#indiedev #indiegame #roguelike #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegaming
BRING. 👏 ON. 👏 THE. 👏 BLOOD!

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 8d

Hang in there!

Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 9d

Intense sounds of squelching blood, viscera, gore, the crack of bones, the tearing of ligaments
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #roguelike #sounddesign

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 13d

Meet Orbus, your faithful friend and companion, a floating crystal orb filled with blood! Orbus teaches you how to play the game.
#gamedev #gamedesign #indiedev #rougelike #indiegame

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 13d

Death's Champion Approaches
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #rougelike

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 14d

Ooh, a creepy orb! Hope it's friendly!
#gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign #roguelike #indiegame

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 16d

Detail: UI: From bottom to top, your health, blood, and portal orbs.
#gamedesign #ui #ux #gamedev #indiedev

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 16d

Detail: Grass shader gently rippling the texture to simulate wind.
#shaders #programming #gamedev #indiedev

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 16d

Attention: I have upgraded to a Keychron Q6 Max in carbon black with side-printed keycaps and Kailh Box Navy switches.
#keyboards #typing #programming #gamedev

Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · Sep 13

Any #keyboard enjoyers around here? Rocking a Keychron Q full size because I can't live without home/end keys and a numpad for coding WITH kailh box jade switches for that absurdly chunky clicky switch feel
#programming #coding #keyboards

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 16d

Our game (& lighting shader) now support ultra wide monitors!
#gamedev #indiedev #programming #shaders

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 16d

I have altered the UI again, pray I don't alter it further
#gamedev #gamedesign #ui #ux #indiedev #indiegame

A screenshot of a roguelite video game showing a redesigned user interface

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 18d

Not too far off! Roguelite ARPG dungeon crawler with a few tricks up its sleeves.

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 18d

Done!

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 18d

The blood you absorb from monsters can be used to power blood magic like this new blood lightning attack 🩸⚡
#gamedesign #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #roguelike

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 18d

Our UI has been entirely reskinned to reflect the sheer volume of blood you encounter 🩸🩸🩸
#gamedesign #UI #gamedev #indiedev

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 19d

The machine requires blood.
#gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 20d

Little things - randomized "war paint" for your character
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedesign

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 20d

Blood Magic: Holding middle mouse transforms the blood drawn from enemies into a vortex of magical damage
#gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign #indiegame #programming #shaders

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 21d

Detail: Monsters leave a lot of blood behind. We use a compute shader to "suck up" the surrounding texture, counting every pixel as it gets absorbed so we know ~exactly how much blood you've consumed~
#gamedev #indiedev #programming #shaders #gamedesign

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Zoomacroom Meadow @badpantssituation.bsky.social · 21d

As monsters bleed, die, and bleed more the player can suck up the procedural blood layer around them like a vacuum powering special effects and events.
#gamedev #indiedev #programming #shaders #indiegame

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