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Blackblooms (indiegamedev)

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A small game dev with big ideas #indiegamedev #solodev #irredeamable #blood&flames #thelegallydistinct Play my latest game right now for free on Gamejolt: https://gamejolt.com/games/irredeamable/879931 Or itch: https://blackblooms.itch.io/irredeamable

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Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · May 27

#indiegamedev #gamedev #solodev #metroidvania #pixelart #oc #fantasy #irredeamable #steampunk #indiedev #indiegame #trailer

Go play irredeamable, it's Free!

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Play it on Gamejolt: gamejolt.com/games/irrede...

Or on itch:
blackblooms.itch.io/irredeamable

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Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 1h

I do wonder how you can design a romance system that encourage players to be honest and not just treat it as a game to win to see relationships develop organically but i wouldn't know how to make that happen myself.

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 1h

I appreciated how mass effect would lock certain relationships behind being renegate/paragon as well as give certain characters a specific sexuality, but that also resulted in players having way less options to chose from.

Yet the reverse of that is being able to lie your way into any relationship.

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 6h

Money is one major factor but there also the element that games are a cultural product and can therefore be used to promote Saudi Arabia as a brand worldwide.

This is the kind of value that can't be calculated in money.

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 6h

I didnt realise the scribbles were simply meant to be censors at first so i thought the post was saying "i am fat and this is a game for fats"

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🎃Muerte_Gamer03 🟦🎧 @muertegamer03.bsky.social · 3d

I love designing creatures (god today I feel like shit ugh)
#art #digitalart #sketch #doodle #photoshop #oc #WIP #Spooky #ToxicTerrorGamejam

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Taylor Mitchell @abstroxisintruth.bsky.social · 1d

Movement animation test
#ToxicTerrorGamejam

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Silent Smile @thesilentsmile.bsky.social · 1d

A Toothless Tooth #ToxicTerrorGameJam #GameDev #IndieDev

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🎃Muerte_Gamer03 🟦🎧 @muertegamer03.bsky.social · 1d

Fella
#art #digitalart #sketch #doodle #photoshop #oc #WIP #Spooky #ToxicTerrorGamejam

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Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 22h

Tecnically, but cannibalism kind of get used for any situation where sapien eat sapien since we dont really have a word for that one.

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 22h

I mean, do we really need to debate which half is which when humans also like carrots?

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 22h

I feel like we need a word for situations where sapiens beings eat other sapien beings, as cannibalism technically only applies to eating a member of your own species.

I feel that outside a few exeptions, most sapien species would agree that eating people is a no no.

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 1d

One of my plans would at least to have their forms partly obscured by the monochrome palette so they aren't quite recognizable as humans.

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 1d

#toxicterrorgamejam

Early attempt at designing the base soldier. Nothing over the top, but i am still aiming to make them look fairly creepy.

Ill try to have my brother help me brainstorm ideas to get more interesting designs for them and the plants.

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Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 1d

That and a whole lot of the sexual situations being based on rape of some kind (especially those that come with defeat)

Games have a pretty hard time making sex an organic part of the experience, through some are trying harder than others.

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 1d

I guess i can see the intent, but i felt the endings were too contrived to properly deliver their tragedy. Its either one selfish person screwing over everyone else for their own bennefit or....the same thing but with someone else.

Either way you get blindsided and betrayed.

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 1d

probably because pixel art tends to use a lot of abstractions and implications to communicate, which wouldnt mesh with a program that rely on identifying stuff to copy.

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 1d

The main concern i have is that players might be able to win by just making their monsters camp right outside the room, so im trying to make that impossible by giving several entry point to cover.

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 1d

Main idea is that at the start of the game, the enemies only have access to the longer routes like 1 and 4, but gain access to more with each stage.

The top left one in particular is supposed to be enemy repelling down from a sunroof right next to your door.

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Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 1d

#ToxicTerrorGamejam

Went through a lot of sketches but i think i managed to come up with a room/enemy route layout that should work well. Just gotta set up the cameras swapping and have enemy go through these routes to see if its balanced.

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Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 2d

Beware what may lurks in the corner of this deadly dungeon

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 2d

The smexyren lair is similar to that of her sister features a more grimy green theme, some dino minions and her own servants, the smexy loveless

The smexyren herself lurks in the deepest room of the dungeon, within the broken body of an old ship.

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Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 2d

No new information here, i just feel like this area makes for some really cool shots

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 2d

Dinormaid Coast is another area, located to the edge of the continent and featuring some gloomy swampland occupied by both siren and dinos.

Crossing through the seaside swamp will lead to the smexyren lair, the exiled sister of the dreadful siren.

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Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 2d

This region serves as the proper introduction of the smexy dino factions, featuring the warioress, the great smexy rex, and the dreaded "beau monsieur" mighty flying sorcerers of the smexy order.

...uh i wonder why i included this second T-rex, seem identical to the first to me...

Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 2d

and here comes the area you missed out on the first time. Smexy jungle was mostly completed but it still needed a few additions before being truly ready.

This great land is characterised by the deep forests and massive monuments of the dino people who rule over it with a smexy fist.