kept getting shouted at by @valdosta.bonsai.li that our socials are using the wrong picture of Rhydian, so please feast your eyes on the correct one

I swear to god I don’t know what caused this bug, but I think we might have to make “Moffat Mode” an optional feature in our GOTY release?

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Finally, this is Caegan, the King's Rook. His magical abilities make him an outcast from society, and he's been sequestered in the castle his whole life.

#GameArt

This is Crawe, the Queens Rook. Her magic makes her a valuable asset to the kingdom, but she'd rather die than serve anyone.

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This is Rhydian, your King's Knight and sworn protector. His brutal reputation as a vicious fighter is known throughout the kingdom, but perhaps that's what you like? (He's also a romance option)

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This is Heikiko, the Queen's Knight. Raised from birth as a living weapon; she's taken a solemn vow to protect her charge, even with her life.

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This is Rastaban, the King's Bishop, and your closest advisor. He's served as the King's right hand man for many years, but will you trust him?

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This is Nervia, the Princess you were sent to marry. She's had a lonely and cloistered life, rarely leaving the castle she was born in. She's also one of our romancable NPCs

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This is Ash, the Player Character. A Prince with a vital task: marry a princess, ascend to Kingship, and establish an alliance between two nations. Whether you do or not, is up to you.

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So thrilled to show our first screenshot with all our main characters in it! Literally couldn't be happier with the work our artist's done. I'm gonna be posting some quick character bios over the next few days! #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #IndieDev

Another unconventional ScreenshotSaturday after another massive day of game design.

Every postit on the floor is an almost perfect plot idea we cut. Only the crème de la crème survived

Game Dev stuff:

Our chess AI currently has about 20 different evaluation functions, each with their own weighting. That's too much to tune by hand, so I'm running an automated AI chess tournament to evolve 100s of different AIs and find the optimal weightings.

It's working quite well so far :)

Porting over some #ScreenshotSaturday game dev stuff from mastodon:

We built a custom cutscene system, all driven from dialogue, with custom animations and transitions. Checkout the video in the link:

cdn.bonsai.li/tkid/2022-08...

#gameDev GIF from a while ago:

wrote our own keyobard navigation system that lets us plop down as many UI elements as we want, without linking them together in a graph and gaurenttee they're all reachable.

cdn.bonsai.li/tkid/2022-05-16-keyboard-navigation/keyboard-nav.webm

Another game dev screen #ScreenshotSaturday we built an internal editor to make it easier to author and preview chess puzzles. It's not the greatest interface, but better than getting our designer to write JSON by hand!

GIF here: cdn.bonsai.li/tkid/2023-07...