you and the whole crew deserve this!!!

Exactly!! The more a game does to respect player intent when reasonably possible, the more clear it is when a mistake was made, which can help avoid players feeling cheated by the game, even when in reality it's the game cheating in favor of the player

I mean listen if you can secure the rights...

thank you!!! I've learned the thing I value most in game development is the tactile moment-to-moment gamefeel. I believe just the act of picking up the controller and messing around should be as fun as possible

Thank you all for the incredible support on this post! This is a project I've been wanting to make for a decade now, so seeing all the loving responses has truly been incredible. ^^

With that said, the sneak peek's now on YouTube too, if you wanna see it in 60fps!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Yw...

irl footage of me this past month

LFGGGGGG

I'm gonna be there this year!!! hope to catch you there at some point :D

yeah. it's to the point where when students ask me the best path to get into games I tell them "Don't" - moreso emphasizing acquiring a degree and skills that could work both in and out of games

the industry doesn't want to hire extremely experienced seniors, much less juniors with dinky portfolios

I think it looks neat :D

but I'm a fellow indie platformer developer so maybe not indicative of a broader target audience.

I'd suggest you consider what you're in this hobby for, how much experience you have, and whether working on this or any project is an exercise in learning, fun, or profit

I really appreciate a little pop/bubble sound with some pitch variation. Very quiet, only play when a non-space/punctuation character is displayed, etc. While you don't have to do full unique sounds per character, bonus points for using a lower or higher version for big/small characters

LOOOOL

as someone who really liked Toree Saturn and thinks the Toree games have always been great examples of well-scoped, fun games, absolutely

getting properly diagnosed for ADHD this year has been a huge game changer tbh

but generally a combination of a life philosophy of "follow the dopamine" and "lie to myself and say I only need to get one very tiny thing done so that I open the program to get started but then end up keeping going"

mfw the gif preview was a cropped square what IS THAT