PingZing
@pingzing.xyz
Writer, programmer, occasional baker. Any/all pronouns.
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Banner art by NSilver.
Avatar by @illusionofmana.bsky.social.
Banner art by NSilver.
This was what my testing area looked like once I'd finished getting everything working again. Look at her go!
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October 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This was what my testing area looked like once I'd finished getting everything working again. Look at her go!
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
Had to fix up some of my reflection math. That meant reworking all the player character's secondary sprites' reflection offsets. Accidentally left animation interpolation on for the tail.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Had to fix up some of my reflection math. That meant reworking all the player character's secondary sprites' reflection offsets. Accidentally left animation interpolation on for the tail.
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
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Been quiet about the game, but I've been making some progress on cutscenes. But mostly, I've been waiting for...
player character sprites!
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player character sprites!
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October 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Been quiet about the game, but I've been making some progress on cutscenes. But mostly, I've been waiting for...
player character sprites!
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
player character sprites!
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
The second is more exciting for me personally: a dialogue previewer! No more booting up the game just to see if my dialogue actually fits, or if it feels right! I reused my existing DialogueBox control with *almost* no changes.
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August 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The second is more exciting for me personally: a dialogue previewer! No more booting up the game just to see if my dialogue actually fits, or if it feels right! I reused my existing DialogueBox control with *almost* no changes.
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
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Two things tonight! The first is short and sweet. The inventory has a blinky cursor now! Also planning on adding a little panel to the top with item names.
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August 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Two things tonight! The first is short and sweet. The inventory has a blinky cursor now! Also planning on adding a little panel to the top with item names.
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
Because my Player is made up of multiple sprites, I had to attach a Reflector component to each sprite. This had some interesting side effects at first...
(Reflectors can now specify an offset to deal with this.)
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(Reflectors can now specify an offset to deal with this.)
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
August 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Because my Player is made up of multiple sprites, I had to attach a Reflector component to each sprite. This had some interesting side effects at first...
(Reflectors can now specify an offset to deal with this.)
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
(Reflectors can now specify an offset to deal with this.)
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
Working on an interior scene, as it's part of the first major cutscene. Part of it calls for the player character to look into a mirror, which meant I had to figure out How To 2D Mirror. Very happy with the result though!
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August 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Working on an interior scene, as it's part of the first major cutscene. Part of it calls for the player character to look into a mirror, which meant I had to figure out How To 2D Mirror. Very happy with the result though!
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
Oh, almost forgot! Before this, I got my cutscene system built! I still need to teach it a few more commands, but it can move entities around, and that's a big part of what I needed!
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August 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Oh, almost forgot! Before this, I got my cutscene system built! I still need to teach it a few more commands, but it can move entities around, and that's a big part of what I needed!
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
Started working on Y-Sorting (i.e. allowing things to go behind other things). Realized I'd have to move *every* entity's relative position up one tile. Did so. Broke the *hell* out of pathfinding. Was forced to invent some better debugging visualizations.
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August 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Started working on Y-Sorting (i.e. allowing things to go behind other things). Realized I'd have to move *every* entity's relative position up one tile. Did so. Broke the *hell* out of pathfinding. Was forced to invent some better debugging visualizations.
#indiegames
#indiegames
Slowly chipping away at the stuff I need to start doing cutscenes. It's not interesting to show, because it's re-treading old ground re: pathfinding, etc, just with more stuff under the hood. So, instead...
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July 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Slowly chipping away at the stuff I need to start doing cutscenes. It's not interesting to show, because it's re-treading old ground re: pathfinding, etc, just with more stuff under the hood. So, instead...
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
Starting to add some interactions. Getting some ideas for puzzles and like... Actual Gameplay(tm).
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July 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Starting to add some interactions. Getting some ideas for puzzles and like... Actual Gameplay(tm).
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
Two new enemies! With that, I think I have all the enemies I need for this region.
(fun fact: the plants are called "Birds of Perdition")
(even more fun fact: lookit that angry eyebrow on the boar. I love it.)
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(fun fact: the plants are called "Birds of Perdition")
(even more fun fact: lookit that angry eyebrow on the boar. I love it.)
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
July 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Two new enemies! With that, I think I have all the enemies I need for this region.
(fun fact: the plants are called "Birds of Perdition")
(even more fun fact: lookit that angry eyebrow on the boar. I love it.)
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
(fun fact: the plants are called "Birds of Perdition")
(even more fun fact: lookit that angry eyebrow on the boar. I love it.)
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
Added a "PeacefulSleep" component that makes enemies invincible and solid. It also puts these little crab guys to sleep!
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July 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Added a "PeacefulSleep" component that makes enemies invincible and solid. It also puts these little crab guys to sleep!
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Upscaling should help a bit.
July 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Upscaling should help a bit.
July 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Mostly work in less visually-cool infrastructure stuff. Except:
Shaders are cool.
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Shaders are cool.
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July 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Mostly work in less visually-cool infrastructure stuff. Except:
Shaders are cool.
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
Shaders are cool.
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
We got a player inventory! We got an item acquisition cutscene! We got animations moving stuff from the world into the UI with only a minimum of jank!
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
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July 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We got a player inventory! We got an item acquisition cutscene! We got animations moving stuff from the world into the UI with only a minimum of jank!
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
Been doing a bunch of work under the hood for the past week or so. A major milestone: things can take damage and be defeated now!
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July 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Been doing a bunch of work under the hood for the past week or so. A major milestone: things can take damage and be defeated now!
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
Starting to get interaction into the game. We now have an Interactable component, and I'm starting to hook up the dialogue box. Still need to freeze the world when dialogue is on display, but we're halfway there.
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
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July 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Starting to get interaction into the game. We now have an Interactable component, and I'm starting to hook up the dialogue box. Still need to freeze the world when dialogue is on display, but we're halfway there.
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
Haha! BBCode formatting that gets preserved across automatic page breaks! I had to do some intense shenanigans, and I am definitely not using RichTextLabel the way you're supposed to. But it works!
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July 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Haha! BBCode formatting that gets preserved across automatic page breaks! I had to do some intense shenanigans, and I am definitely not using RichTextLabel the way you're supposed to. But it works!
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames