it sounds like a food delivery app but it's shorter and less confusing than x-formerly-twitter-jam, so that's good

sorry but my doctor said i'm not allowed to refer to a bluesky post as "a skeet"

adding a long trail behind the player to highlight your path through the level

social media has reencoded my gif, broken the framerate, and made it look choppy, but uh the game runs at 50fps

this is the best name for this genre and it's not even remotely close

i've seen somebody in the discord server working on something like that...not sure if they're on bsky but i'll ping them

if you're curious about how this game was made, from (pretty much) start to end, then boy-howdy do i have a giant mastodon thread for you

mastodon.gamedev.place/@2DArray/112...

sounds for a swarm-o-roaches

working more on spider-behavior and finally adding some sound effects. the sound isn't particularly _good_ yet, but it exists, at least!

pathfinding for large agents: the spider patrols by default and chases you when you're in a place that it can reach (it can't fit through smaller doorways)

eventually this will have some stealthy line-of-sight stuff, but for now the spider just has magic awareness

they really missed an opportunity to make it $18.47

reached a fun milestone in scenario-authoring today!

I don't know anything about display specs, so I'm just gonna assume yes, something like that

went down a rabbit-hole thinking about how to get the ambient light level to change as you moved long distances, ended up with a baked lightmap

usually i'd agree - and i tried it, but unfortunately flickering a pixel on and off looks bad on the playdate. in this case with the blue noise, it seemed to artificially alter the contrast of the image whenever you were moving...so, can't do it!