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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · 4d

we're taking a fresh look at the fundamentals of jumping in pondlife: discone (a videogame). every jump, even on flat ground, and every interaction with a wall should be dynamic. we want the act of movement itself to be joyful, to be its own end.

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · 10d

it pulls back, we had to put a bunch of work into that as well, maybe we should make a post about how that finally enabled us to have indoor spaces

pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · 11d

here's a bit about how we've been adding grass to our game, pondlife: discone (a videogame)! given our logo, perhaps we should have focused on this sooner. but we got there.

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · 17d

if you pause at like, 0:09s, you can see what all the vectors represent by color in the top-left! it's probably too much to describe in a bsky post, but broadly, each cluster of lines is one frame showing the character's current tangent along the wall, the speed being added along that tangent, &c.

pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · 18d

hehe us too :p the first one where everything is enabled is a bit of a joke for the video. it's a tagged system, so we can toggle subsets of drawings for the character's core physics, how it interacts with surfaces, how the hips / feet move during the walk cycle, and so on.

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · 18d

a peek into our dev setup! we built this visualization tool to help get our wall riding, procedural walk cycle, custom camera, &c feeling right (inspired by the tooling we saw in @doublefine.com's psychodyssey).

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · Aug 23

somebody on tiktok asked us to make the hair bigger, and also to make the hair smaller, and also we love a certain plumber so...

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · Aug 2

even after years working on this game, sometimes we just open it and run around the mountain together

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · Jul 27

i saw this window the other day and tried finding a smooth path up to it

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #parkour

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · Jul 19

we were playing our online 3d climbing platformer, "pondlife: discone (a videogame)", with some friends recently. they struggled a lot on this ramp, but it's possible!

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · Jun 22

here’s how to wall ride in our game, “pondlife: discone (a videogame)”. let us know if you have any questions =)

#screenshotsaturday (oops) #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · Jun 14

how it started vs. how it's going. (yeah the second half is the game audio).

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · Jun 7

pondlife: discone (a videogame) is a skateboarding game with no skateboard.

it's also a golfing game. where you are the ball.

#skate #climbing #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · May 31

in "pondlife: discone (a videogame)", you really can (try to) climb anything. we mean it. if you fall, there's another way up that's just as exciting.

#discone #walk #climbing #cute #folk #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · May 24

icecream is very deliberate about placing her feet on the ground (we spent a lot of time walking around our apartment in real life trying to make this happen).

#discone #walk #climbing #cute #folk #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · May 22

haha, i can't imagine that! we've made some quality-of-life changes recently to make things a bit more consistent, excited for you to try again =)

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · May 22

yes! we showed an old version of this game at syzygy in 2023, and also a more recent version this year.

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · May 17

in pondlife: discone (a videogame), you can jump & surf on anything. there's no hard distinction between wall or ground. there's also no combo meter or trick button, you move your character (her name is icecream) and make it all up.

#discone #jump #climbing #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · May 16

congrats to our amazing friends @goodbyegames.bsky.social @joeyschutz.bsky.social @haoliao.bsky.social !!!!

A MAZE. @amazefest.bsky.social · May 16

🏆 The Digital Moment Award goes to:
Some Goodbyes We Made
by Safe Flight Games, Joey Schutz
@goodbyegames.bsky.social

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · May 10

was feeling this one, but sometimes it's the easy jumps that get you.

#discone #jump #platformer #climbing #cute #folk #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · May 6

this route is henceforth known as: "tiki taka". thanks @frannny.bsky.social!

(also the sound is missing in this video, oops!)

bsky.app/profile/fran...

pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · May 3

bringing back #routeoftheday, what should we #namethisroute? (this clip took us about 20 minutes to hit...)

#discone #rotd #jump #platformer #climbing #cute #folk #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · May 3

bringing back #routeoftheday, what should we #namethisroute? (this clip took us about 20 minutes to hit...)

#discone #rotd #jump #platformer #climbing #cute #folk #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · Apr 19

icecream got some accessories recently for a birthday party. now she can play tag, or "who has the glasses", with her selves.

#jump #platformer #screenshotsaturday #videogame #cute

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · Mar 17

store.steampowered.com/app/2888670/...

pondlife: discone (a videogame) on Steam

jump around a giant, imponderable world with affecting characters, at first alone. discone is a climbing game, a 3d platformer, a massively-multiplayer online experience to share with friends. discone...

store.steampowered.com

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pondlife @withpondlife.bsky.social · Mar 17

the best 3d platformer (since at least a year ago), getting better every day.

wishlist on steam

#videogame #jumping #philosophy #platformer #cozy #mario64 #parkour

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