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gavinmit.bsky.social
will stop spamming this now but i always liked the 16-bit style theme tune on the title page (not by me)
gavinmit.bsky.social
textbook what not to do for gamedev but those were the bits i enjoyed so i was right to do it
gavinmit.bsky.social
got this half working again and remembering all the pointless polish i put on it despite there not really being a game. the dust particles floating in the light and the fact he will tap his foot, scratch his arse or pick his nose if nothing is happening

total mystery how i never finished this
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meemalee.bsky.social
A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them.

And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.
billybragg.bsky.social
Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧
gavinmit.bsky.social
after reading this thread i will be getting a half-and-half 'billy bragg/people who eviscerate him on bluesky' shirt
gavinmit.bsky.social
i also couldn't get the perspective right for some things so i used a 3d modelling tool for the shapes of things like the stasis booths and then drew over the top
gavinmit.bsky.social
i basically traced the woman. took me ages to do the art because i can't draw. lots of iterations of things trying to get it a bit better each time

i did a post somewhere showing about 6 different versions of the lister sprite trying to get it less shit each time
gavinmit.bsky.social
loool, i got put on one called something like transphobic putin loving nazi rapists for having a fairly mild argument with some ukraine shaggers
gavinmit.bsky.social
found an old recording of part of the xpress lifts animation
gavinmit.bsky.social
you can import to the new versions but it would need a lot of fixing probably. and i don't really want to buy the new version to allow mobile exports. not like i can release it anyway
gavinmit.bsky.social
i guess i did also spend quite a bit of time on things like the inventory and dialogue systems ready for the rest of the game, so it wasn't all polish. just mostly
gavinmit.bsky.social
i would probably leave gonac exactly as-is and hyper polish the environment haha
gavinmit.bsky.social
yeah i think if you're just doing what you want then that's the main thing. i enjoyed messing around with it even if i didn't make a finished game
gavinmit.bsky.social
yeah, i just wanted something quite long so i stuck that in there haha
gavinmit.bsky.social
but yeah, i did a whole turn-based ship battle with simulants without even having a proper plot lol
gavinmit.bsky.social
the teleporter was just to make life easier for myself rather than walking around the whole ship
gavinmit.bsky.social
just whatever i fancied doing really
gavinmit.bsky.social
thanks, i started focusing on polish target rather than getting the actual game done. classic mistake!

here's a bit more of it. you can see i've done animations for things like fans, drips from pipes, scrolling displays, lighting/shadows and parallax on things like the ceiling pipes
gavinmit.bsky.social
found an out of date version of my old phone. here's a bit of it
gavinmit.bsky.social
i think 8.1 is maybe older than 1.4? it's confusing
gavinmit.bsky.social
what version of gamemaker are you using? i was on 1.4, which doesn't seem to even be available anymore so i can't even open the thing lol
gavinmit.bsky.social
i wanted to do it as a mobile game but android changed their requirements so it became not really possible on that version. the windows version worked alright but on new phones you can't even install your own apks
gavinmit.bsky.social
i'd quite like to - got sidetracked for ages to the point where the version of gamemaker i had became defunct so wondered about sticking it in unity or something. lot of work i guess