Been working on a new player sprite and a bunch of new fx. Here's some new materials with sounds! and footprints! #zeldalike #gamedev #indiedev

I will try to post more (I get bummed out easily, sorry 😑) I'm also working up to revealing the actual name of this thing lol. Let me know what you think?

This floor feels weird. #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

Here's what it looks like specifically with the bow, since this is how I ended up here. I think the bow either needs some kind of hold to strafe, and release to fire, or a dedicated strafe button. Requiring two buttons for an item to be fun has me uneasy.

I'm thinking of adding a dedicated strafing button to keep the player locked-on in a particular direction. Maybe I'll just build this into the items that require it? Previously only the sword does this when you hold it out, and the bow is basically a pain to aim consistently. #gamedev #indiegame

Q: How many items can the boomerang hold??
A: At least this many items! 😎 Is it too many...? lol
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Here's a closer look at just the boomerang picking up some items! How many gems do you think it can hold?? #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #zeldalike

I've been tinkering on this for like forever, I better start showing it off! Here's some basic combat with the boomerang in my game!

What do you think, do you like it? It might one of my favourites. I need to add lots of powerups and enchantments for it. 😏

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I love that the more that I work on my game, the more little snippets and effects I accumulate. These are really satisfying elements to see in games for me. They make pillaging, looting and breaking stuff 👌! Are you the same? #gamedev

(Thanks to @chase-hunter.bsky.social for prompting a video!)

So I did a buuuncha more text stuff today. Maybe boring but... necessary. I prettied up the breaking too! There's lots of new opcodes like [fast] or [slow] and a few short escape codes for managing colours like &R; for red etc. What else do I need?... Back to real gameplay soon??? Maybe! 😆 #gamedev

Testing out a new text/dialogue system that's easier to work with. I'm missing a few text opcodes still but I wanted to see what it looked like anyway with some effects and ridiculous portraits.

Do you guys like rough gifs like this? or do you just like polished stuff?

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

These levels are old/unfinished, but, I am *very* fond of the contrast in the lighting and shadows. Do you think it suits? or is it too much? I might be breaking some aesthetic rules but I have plans. 👀 #gamedev #godot

Raining? In the fire dungeon? At this time of day? Localized entirely within this room? Would you like to see...? #gamedev #indiedev #zelda #godotengine #pixelart

Almost done cleaning up the messy code I made throughout the week! And it's still #screenshotsaturday so here's more; watch out for the spinny bois! I'm really starting to enjoy the tileset after a few iterations on the colours. #gamedev

Ok, I got distracted, I'm not done tidying up the codebase yet but I wanted to try out a little bit of UX improvement. Do you think I should show the items that are being picked up above the players head? #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

These crystal switches and barriers were really fun to make! I'm still procrastinating on some new monster logic but I love interactive mechanics so I took a break for this (and more sound design!). This puzzle checks you know how to trigger the switch remotely. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #zelda

Second draft of the health bar since moving to Godot 4 and settling on a Gameboy aesthetic. I'm always scared to share UI stuff because it keeps changing and is never complete. It is workable for now. Much more other work to do! #gamedev