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lily valeen
@itsmelilyv.bsky.social
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~ game dev, pixel artist, lesbian devil ~ i made BOSSGAME: The Final Boss is My Heart ~ she & they ~ https://itsmelilyv.com ~ #gamedev #pixelart
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · Oct 18
heyo! i'm Lily, and i make pixelly video games about boss fights and lesbians getting into trouble.

my recent games are "BOSSGAME",
"Touhou: Lonely Lovely Bonfire",
and
"don't sing me the blues, please, sing me a Bright Red Song of Love"

i hope you'll enjoy my work!

itsmelilyv.com/games
Promo image for BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart, showing Sophie and Anna holding hands and ready to fight some devils title screen of TOUHOU LONELY LOVELY BONFIRE, showing Marisa Kirisame standing scared and lost in a bamboo forest, with a shadow of Mokou in the background pixel gif in purples, shows two women holding hands in front of a small fire while surrounded by shadow. They're leaning on each other, quietly resting. The title says "BRIGHT RED SONG OF LOVE"
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 3h
the number of times i've sprinted headlong into a fallen enemy and gone "wait, no,"
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 8h
ahahah i was just thinking that, like... hm. sure didn't LOOK like a hit to me, i'd like to see the replay
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 8h
i love this. like you press the button and the refs have to deliberate and watch the replay to show whether or not you got hit. maybe it replays the moment w/ hurtboxes visible so you can confirm, yea, that's a hit
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 8h
gained the habit of saying "hmm i don't know about that" whenever i take a hit in silksong
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 13h
YES ooooh that rules...... that makes me extremely curious about it eheh
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 14h
ah, yea!! i forgot about this one, it looked kinda fascinating
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
oh that rules... yea i think there's something about creating the presence of doom even if it's somewhat fake...
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
oooo i hadn't heard of Pandora's Tower, i'll have to look it up...

yea Unsighted feels like the big example of "scary timer" one in indie games... i'm surprised i haven't seen it more often, but i know it scares people off, haha
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
yea!!! it really creates a *tone* for the game
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
yea, i believe it... it feels like early on in video games people were just making whatever with no rules... then we had a long period of standardization... and now access to indie dev means that someone SOMEWHERE is always making weird stuff (tho i do wish Big Games would still take risks...)
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
honestly!! like i hear people get excited about dragon quarter a lot, it's such a unique system to add to a game... weird and risky but super memorable
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
ahaha oh that is extremely good, i dig that a lot
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
yea it turns out the countdown is just until date night or something and then you stop what you're doing and get a cute cutscene
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
oh it's extremely niche, just seeing a timer slowly ticking down is too much for some players
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
i reaaalllly gotta play the lucah games
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
"yes, i think you've played enough" lol
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
having it be absolutely random after various actions is extremely funny
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
ooooo i didn't know this, i have to check it out
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
yea, absolutely ahaha

i did a questionnaire about time limits a while back and 100 people said "i will NEVER play any game with a time limit" and 100 people said "i adore time limits and i wish there were more"... it's ludicrously polarizing, tho i think that's where indie dev shines!!
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
alternately it can be a percentage bar labeled "annihilation" that starts at 0% but ticks up at unexplained intervals
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
one easy trick to entirely recontextualize any video game
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d
free game design:

when the game first starts, begin ticking down a timer. give it like 20 hours and label it "judgement" or something. leave it as a small part of the UI at all times. it doesn't even have to do anything
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 2d
god i hope ghosts like old-school pixel art
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 2d
J-JUST WAIT.... EVEN IF IT TAKES YEARS... IT'LL STILL BE COOL...
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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 2d
every day i think of something extremely funny and cool for this next game and i just have to sit here and hold my breath instead of immediately posting it online. i am a balloon full to bursting
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