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Official communication place, stopped using X | Indie #GameDev that made #Suddenfell | Proudly #SouthAfrican 🇿🇦

Currently working on #SATTERM, a space base management game for the #GameBoy.
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Been working on the mind map for SATTERM's unit mission logic. Also units can get stuck in the mud of there's a storm.

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November 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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After fixing the Repair Bay I went back to the Mission View and tweaked it a little. I wasn't really happy with the fact that you couldn't see if the mission was moving, fighting or idling.

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October 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The Mission View window is pretty much done! I made some low level changes to unit missions where I'll be tracking them on "units lost" versus "current HP" over "max HP" which will undoubtedly break the Repair Bay.

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October 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Took a bit of a detour today. I've been unhappy with saturation on the IPS/OLED modded #gameboy Color, and manually tweaking or figuring out a good desaturation algo just hasn't paid off, so I built an in-game colour palette tester.

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October 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Making progress! The Active Missions window will display a summary of each mission with the mission's remaining unit count, experienced weather, current position and destination. You can then drill down each mission summary.

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October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Quick WIP screenshot of the Logistics building’s main window. In short it functions like a drone controller; lose power or the building gets destroyed, and your units will stop moving.

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October 17, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Been spending some time implementing the fission reactor into SATTERM. Fuel cells, while provided for free, are limited by USC. Also there's a warm-up/cool-down time for the reactor, so aim not to get attacked.

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October 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Been busy with power management systems for SATTERM. The latest inclusion is the humble solar array! Solar effectivity will be affected by the position of the sun relative to your base, and the weather effects currently there.

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October 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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It's not quite done yet (for example palettes not being set correctly), but I kind of like the ✨vibe✨ of the window drawing animations.

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October 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Got the boys out to test SATTERM.

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September 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I've added loan defaulting. You'll now be able to experience debt in a game made for the #GameBoy.

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September 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Super happy with the USC Portal's progress!

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September 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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More of the User Management Portal in #SATTERM!

Originally “user mgmnt” would’ve been part of the Comms Radar building, felt there needed to be separation between user and base management so I built out a chunky terminal UI.

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September 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Been putting in some work for the employee portal.

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September 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Made a small change to the homescreen background feature that I think makes it look just a bit better. The palette also gets randomised.

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September 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Finished some low level rewrites to take care of bugs with the map query feature, and then also had some time to squeeze in a new background for the homescreen! Rebooting your #GameBoy will change the layout of the background's stars every time.

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September 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Been hard at work with the map query function in SATTERM. There's still some bugs to iron out, but super happy with the feature!

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September 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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So while it's intended for SATTERM to have a physical manual explaining ✨things✨, I ended up building and finishing the dictionary feature and super happy with it!

The dictionary can be accessed by pressing Select on windows with abbreviations.

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August 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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WIP of the map searching functionality that the Comms. Radar building will have. Initially thought of just showing an actual map, but "searching" a "database" for information just felt perfectly low-tech.

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August 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Finally finished up the Repair Bay! The UI automatically updates as units get repaired and their batteries recharged. Once fully repaired all the units move back to the player's inventory allowing them to redeploy them on missions.

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August 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Finished the front end of the repair bay!
Units returning from transfers or defending the main base will be put into the repair bay to be repaired before they can be used again.

Now onto the back end...

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July 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Righto, so life has finally let up a bit so I can focus on SATTERM. I had to rewrite the entire cursor handling logic to be more versatile, which has now allowed me to create more complex UIs. Video below shows the unit transfer preparation screen.

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July 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Sums up my experience/feelings with the shitstorm that AI and LLMs have become. They fired 9000 people to give us better slop troughs.
July 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Life's been getting in the way, however I've added CGB support which initially I was a bit against doing.
Different UI elements get loaded into VRAM based on if a DMG or CGB is running the game.

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June 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Ok, resized the image because I forgot that the original resolution of the GameBoy makes things look extra crunchy when social media gets a hold of it.

Work has officially begun on the Mine management window for SATTERM!

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March 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM