Trinket Tom | Battle Suit Aces OUT NOW
@tom.trinketstudios.com
Battle Suit Aces coming Oct 7!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/Battle_Suit_Aces/
President/Programmer of Trinket Studios. Battle Chef Brigade,
Battle Suit Aces; Previously Wideload/Disney; Tall; He/him; tom@trinketstudios.com
President/Programmer of Trinket Studios. Battle Chef Brigade,
Battle Suit Aces; Previously Wideload/Disney; Tall; He/him; tom@trinketstudios.com
The post-launch hustle is so real. For a brief period, every ounce of my attention was on a very small number of release-related details, but now it's on a zillion things again.
Go play and review Battle Suit Aces so I can just focus on making it better 🤖💖
store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...
Go play and review Battle Suit Aces so I can just focus on making it better 🤖💖
store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The post-launch hustle is so real. For a brief period, every ounce of my attention was on a very small number of release-related details, but now it's on a zillion things again.
Go play and review Battle Suit Aces so I can just focus on making it better 🤖💖
store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...
Go play and review Battle Suit Aces so I can just focus on making it better 🤖💖
store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...
I'm working on a little post-campaign polish so you can look at your deck after completing the game. You can do any puzzles you missed and keep playing bounties forever. And then I got carried away and added some space fireworks.
October 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I'm working on a little post-campaign polish so you can look at your deck after completing the game. You can do any puzzles you missed and keep playing bounties forever. And then I got carried away and added some space fireworks.
In one of the zillion Battle Suit Aces prototypes, the cards spawned little chibi mecha to do the actual fighting. All the projectiles were fired in chibi world and it was very confusing. And illustrating everything in two styles was not one of our best ideas.
October 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
In one of the zillion Battle Suit Aces prototypes, the cards spawned little chibi mecha to do the actual fighting. All the projectiles were fired in chibi world and it was very confusing. And illustrating everything in two styles was not one of our best ideas.
For me, launching a game always feels like a crash. Even when it's going reasonably well. The productivity and clarity of the final pre-launch phase ends so abruptly. My brain wants to overreact to every bit of feedback.
October 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
For me, launching a game always feels like a crash. Even when it's going reasonably well. The productivity and clarity of the final pre-launch phase ends so abruptly. My brain wants to overreact to every bit of feedback.
When the players get it 😭
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
When the players get it 😭
And we're off to the races!
www.siliconera.com/review-battl...
www.siliconera.com/review-battl...
October 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
And we're off to the races!
www.siliconera.com/review-battl...
www.siliconera.com/review-battl...
We verified our release build commit hash for Steam by going around saying "confirmed on foof commit"
October 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We verified our release build commit hash for Steam by going around saying "confirmed on foof commit"
When the final Battle Suit Aces build for Steam is lookin' HOT 🪭
October 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
When the final Battle Suit Aces build for Steam is lookin' HOT 🪭
Our designer now has 160 hours in the Steam build and is still finding new voice lines. There are probably too many :D
October 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Our designer now has 160 hours in the Steam build and is still finding new voice lines. There are probably too many :D
It CLIMBS 🪜
(purely based on release time)
(purely based on release time)
October 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It CLIMBS 🪜
(purely based on release time)
(purely based on release time)
I found a bug in the difficulty system but don't worry. I fixed it and no one will know how egregious it was or how long it took to find it.
September 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I found a bug in the difficulty system but don't worry. I fixed it and no one will know how egregious it was or how long it took to find it.
I don't know how we shipped Battle Chef Brigade without something like this. Playing all of Battle Suit Aces' branches to make sure you didn't miss anything wasn't feasible, so tools saved us.
September 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I don't know how we shipped Battle Chef Brigade without something like this. Playing all of Battle Suit Aces' branches to make sure you didn't miss anything wasn't feasible, so tools saved us.
Another really nice feature is automatically providing item descriptions and abilities for artists. This way, they don't have to hunt down or ask what something does or what the lore is. This was critical as we finalized everything for localization.
September 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Another really nice feature is automatically providing item descriptions and abilities for artists. This way, they don't have to hunt down or ask what something does or what the lore is. This was critical as we finalized everything for localization.
One of the most useful tools we built to manage the massive number of illustrations in Battle Suit Aces was the art production sheet.
We update it from the editor so we have in-game usage info and it pulls thumbnails from git. And then direction notes and progress tracking happens here.
We update it from the editor so we have in-game usage info and it pulls thumbnails from git. And then direction notes and progress tracking happens here.
September 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
One of the most useful tools we built to manage the massive number of illustrations in Battle Suit Aces was the art production sheet.
We update it from the editor so we have in-game usage info and it pulls thumbnails from git. And then direction notes and progress tracking happens here.
We update it from the editor so we have in-game usage info and it pulls thumbnails from git. And then direction notes and progress tracking happens here.
We're into the final bugs in Battle Suit Aces (AHH LAUNCHING OCT 7) and this stumped me. The card should be able to fire!
The card was consuming its own energy instead of the shared team energy. That's a cool feature we support (arbitrary value lookup expressions) but this one was just confusing.
The card was consuming its own energy instead of the shared team energy. That's a cool feature we support (arbitrary value lookup expressions) but this one was just confusing.
September 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We're into the final bugs in Battle Suit Aces (AHH LAUNCHING OCT 7) and this stumped me. The card should be able to fire!
The card was consuming its own energy instead of the shared team energy. That's a cool feature we support (arbitrary value lookup expressions) but this one was just confusing.
The card was consuming its own energy instead of the shared team energy. That's a cool feature we support (arbitrary value lookup expressions) but this one was just confusing.
Good news: I just solved all of our Easy and Hard Difficulty Mode bug reports!
The difficulty selector wasn't working so everyone was always on Normal -_-
The difficulty selector wasn't working so everyone was always on Normal -_-
September 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Good news: I just solved all of our Easy and Hard Difficulty Mode bug reports!
The difficulty selector wasn't working so everyone was always on Normal -_-
The difficulty selector wasn't working so everyone was always on Normal -_-
Our Chinese localization specialist just finished LQA and wrote the kindest note about Battle Suit Aces.
Preparing to launch is so stressful and overwhelming that it's hard to actually experience or evaluate what we've built, but there are signs that it's special and meaningful.
Preparing to launch is so stressful and overwhelming that it's hard to actually experience or evaluate what we've built, but there are signs that it's special and meaningful.
September 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Our Chinese localization specialist just finished LQA and wrote the kindest note about Battle Suit Aces.
Preparing to launch is so stressful and overwhelming that it's hard to actually experience or evaluate what we've built, but there are signs that it's special and meaningful.
Preparing to launch is so stressful and overwhelming that it's hard to actually experience or evaluate what we've built, but there are signs that it's special and meaningful.
Definitely making a card game
August 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Definitely making a card game
Damn it, Tim!
Cards have the same problem as episodes except there are way more of them. I try to just use codenames for things but have to check the localization spreadsheet sometimes to figure out bugs.
In code, this is BanditSlicer...but to players its Ripsaw from the Carrion Riders faction 😅
Cards have the same problem as episodes except there are way more of them. I try to just use codenames for things but have to check the localization spreadsheet sometimes to figure out bugs.
In code, this is BanditSlicer...but to players its Ripsaw from the Carrion Riders faction 😅
August 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Damn it, Tim!
Cards have the same problem as episodes except there are way more of them. I try to just use codenames for things but have to check the localization spreadsheet sometimes to figure out bugs.
In code, this is BanditSlicer...but to players its Ripsaw from the Carrion Riders faction 😅
Cards have the same problem as episodes except there are way more of them. I try to just use codenames for things but have to check the localization spreadsheet sometimes to figure out bugs.
In code, this is BanditSlicer...but to players its Ripsaw from the Carrion Riders faction 😅
Now that the writers have named all the episodes in Battle Suit Aces, we get bug reports referring to those.
Remembering 45 episodes' codenames was already difficult and now they have a bonus name. And don't get me started on cards!
Remembering 45 episodes' codenames was already difficult and now they have a bonus name. And don't get me started on cards!
August 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Now that the writers have named all the episodes in Battle Suit Aces, we get bug reports referring to those.
Remembering 45 episodes' codenames was already difficult and now they have a bonus name. And don't get me started on cards!
Remembering 45 episodes' codenames was already difficult and now they have a bonus name. And don't get me started on cards!
Starball now works with Deflector Shields.
August 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Starball now works with Deflector Shields.
Such a curse that some of the most productive and fun parts of game dev come at the end.
It's like finally getting to dessert except the restaurant is closing and all the chairs are already on the tables around you.
Anyway, I'm implementing starball and it's a fun twist on normal gameplay.
It's like finally getting to dessert except the restaurant is closing and all the chairs are already on the tables around you.
Anyway, I'm implementing starball and it's a fun twist on normal gameplay.
August 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Such a curse that some of the most productive and fun parts of game dev come at the end.
It's like finally getting to dessert except the restaurant is closing and all the chairs are already on the tables around you.
Anyway, I'm implementing starball and it's a fun twist on normal gameplay.
It's like finally getting to dessert except the restaurant is closing and all the chairs are already on the tables around you.
Anyway, I'm implementing starball and it's a fun twist on normal gameplay.
Steam made wishlists update more than once a day, so now I can check it compulsively instead of fixing an unrevealed Faction leader's ability.
August 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Steam made wishlists update more than once a day, so now I can check it compulsively instead of fixing an unrevealed Faction leader's ability.
20,000 lines of voiced dialogue for the most lovable, silly, and charming characters ever!
Please Wishlist or Ayana will be disappointed in you. Or utterly indifferent, probably.
Please Wishlist or Ayana will be disappointed in you. Or utterly indifferent, probably.
July 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
20,000 lines of voiced dialogue for the most lovable, silly, and charming characters ever!
Please Wishlist or Ayana will be disappointed in you. Or utterly indifferent, probably.
Please Wishlist or Ayana will be disappointed in you. Or utterly indifferent, probably.
Don't believe us? Believe those who have gotten into the Battle Suits and lived to tell their tales!
June 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Don't believe us? Believe those who have gotten into the Battle Suits and lived to tell their tales!