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Yal
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Software engineer | Game Maker user for >20 years | Maker of Burgertale, Hotline Sanzu, and like 50 other games | Computers peaked in the 8-bit days | Put "perfect is the enemy of good" on my tombstone
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#drawcember day 4 - Relic

* Ember became stronk

#oc #art #sketch
(if it wasn't clear from EEE's ending, the Diamond Posse aren't the heroes of the prophecy but just kinda got thrown in there as a contingency plan when the second player unexpectedly connected to The Voice)
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Putting some final touches on level design... I'm trying to get the big update done before the end of december, most of the remaining work is scripting cutscenes and writing dialogue. Actually test playing it all is going to be a giant undetaking, too... #gamedev #indiedev #Burgertale
If you think it looks like a confusing mess NOW, just wait until you try playing it
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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#drawcember day 2 ~ color

"Someone that can create her own light..."

I don't really like coloring things since there's no undo function on paper, but it's pretty neat how otherworldly a single colored thing on an otherwise monochrome sketch looks. #oc #sketch #furryart
The RainbowShard actually exists in the Epsilon Engraving codebase, you just can't obtain it since I ran out of time and couldn't add the secret superboss you were meant to fight to get it. And yes, Ember can equip it.
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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#drawcember day 1 ~ Light It Up

"Watch what happens when I cast a spell I don't know!"

This might've been THE optimal prompt to start the month off with, considering I didn't even need an excuse to draw Ember this time...
#OC #art #sketch
(The ThornAnkh is a rose in the light world. If you're going for the No Mercy route, you'll need to take some precautions to make sure nobody eats it while Levi is back in control...)
December 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The criminal underworld level just wouldn't feel right without gambling so I added slot machines. Internally they just roll a dice and the reel animation is just visual fluff to slowly reveal the outcome. (The odds are set such that you'll always lose in the long run) #gamedev #indiedev #Burgertale
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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The bottom one has some major kerning issues (spacing between letters LOOKS different sized) so I'd also say the middle looks the best. But IMO, it could be even better. Right now it's clearly just regular text, moving the letters around a bit to be less uniform makes the logo look more memorable:
November 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I don't trust documentation, period. "The code is the documentation", and getting good at searching is key.

This incantation will grant you knowledge beyond your wildest nightmares...
(Runs in the Bash shell. Easiest way to get it on Windows is to install Git, it comes with the option to bundle Bash and a whole bunch of common command line tools into your install, it's checked by default so just don't turn it off)
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Since some people still haven't accepted that videogames are art, I'm gonna use an uno reverse card and take the battle to them instead...
#gamedev #indiedev #Burgertale
Bet nobody was expecting THIS debate, huh?
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I always felt kinda bad for the shortcut blocks being alive and the player being forced to actually kill something if they wanted shortcuts, so now I've replaced them with a magical construct you don't have to feel bad about breaking open. #gamedev #indiedev #Burgertale
(Does not open from this side.)
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Made some decorative murals for a lore hallway. Instead of carefully (and SLOWLY!) placing tiles to build the images, they're made from two layers: a lowrez pixel art image scaled up 8 times, and a mostly-transparent "tile edges" texture repeated over the entire room. #gamedev #indiedev #Burgertale
The only thing that's missing now is me learning proper art skills, huh?
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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(and the dark zone where the signal(?) seems to be covers frequencies 10,0 kHz to... 12,25 kHz. I would be VERY surprised if this is a coincidence)
(The borders again are a bit blurry, but that horizontal indentation at the top left is at exactly 12,250 Hz so it might be there to mark it?)
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Did some more experiments with different sampling windows, scales etc and this is as clear as I could get it (not very). Apart from being 0.666 seconds long the "signal" zone with visibly different intensity starts at 10 kHz and ends at... 12,25 kHz.
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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They are not making it up. I'm not gonna vouch for the third decimal because I can't see the edges that clearly in the spectrogram, but cutting out just the noise as precisely as I could it's ~0.66 seconds long.
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Just looking at the spectrogram of the noise, it's got a very interesting shape (abrupt cuts leading to a fully rectangular blob of uniform white noise)... except a line in the middle which is visibly darker and has some shapes inside it. Might be hiding a message...? Too blurry to tell for sure.
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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One of my weaknesses is that I can't just make a throwaway joke and be done with it. I obsessively MUST make any place, people or event mentioned in the joke show up in the game later, which usually means making a bunch of new assets, implementing items and so on... #gamedev #indiedev #Burgertale
This is the source, a joke I made all the way back in the FIRST DEMO RELEASE like 2 years ago. And this is the payoff, a store I added to the game for this upcoming update. (There's no pride drink since I don't consider it a deadly sin 🌈, instead you get betrayal - which was made up by Dante and isn't canon.)
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Distros is more like "flavors". Ubuntu is user-friendly with a small taste of bloat kinda like a starbucks coffee, Mint gets you fresh updates immediately, Arch focuses on broad hardware support and so on. Each one has tons of individual versions (e.g. Ubuntu has 12 supported versions at the moment)
(From Wikipedia. LTS is short for "Long-Term Support")
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I kinda regret saving all of the movie world staff-only areas for last... they're sandwiched between the regular level bits and super hard to find so I keep losing track of them. Finally figured out a way to mark them with debug objects so I can FIND them lol #gamedev #indiedev #Burgertale
The oldschool sepia filter makes the debug objects (which are on a higher layer that isn't affected by the filter) stand out a lot better, too!
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Slowly grinding through drawing the actual graphics for the batch of new bosses, after that it's a giant pile of cutscenes to script out... Florence was THE most work so far, since all her attacks have unique costumes AND backgrounds. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #Burgertale
What is a movie critic? A miserable little pile of opinions! 1-on-1 fights are overrated, anyway Luckily, the smell of this attack isn't simulated. [Insert Metal Gear joke here]
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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and with just one small change, it becomes

[[BIG FISH]]
this [[DENTAL PLAN]] will make you [[SCREAM]]!!!
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Quality of life thing: there's gonna be a warp in the Fruitian Village now so backtracking between upper and lower Nugget Mines gets easier. #gamedev #indiedev #Burgertale
The road less travelled (because it literally didn't exist before today)
November 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Added a second spell and melee equip slot. Your main gear isn't working in the current fight? You can have something situational-and-too-costly-for-general-use on standby, no pausing required! #gamedev #indiedev #Burgertale
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Taking a break from crunching out boss code by planning some puzzles. I just can't make good puzzles when staring into the screen, I NEED to be distraction-free on physical paper for that. #gamedev #indiedev #Burgertale
Astute fans of Racing Lagoon might recognize one of the terms used here.
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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(Relatedly, I've realized that a level that shows as having no crystal burgers on the map will be IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS as having something sus going on, so I've started work on adding hidden "red herring" ones to levels you'd normally only do plot stuff without collectibles) #gamedesign #Burgertale
This level has 2 crystal burgers and the player has already gotten one of them. This level has no crystal burgers so if the player pays attention to the HUD they will immediately realize something weird is going to happen
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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(1/2) Game design thing for #Burgertale: I'm adding in an absolutely HUGE secret area in a level the player gets kicked out of due to plot reasons. To make sure players realize they missed a LOT of stuff there, I've placed a stack of FIVE collectibles in this area. #gamedev #indiedev
This is a very big reward for a small jump, but to be fair you needed to do some pretty hardcore exploration to get this far.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Either I had a bit of an epiphany and figured something completely overlooked out, or I'm going insane and I'm seeing patterns that aren't there.

(I feel like the big issue with this theory is that it doesn't really EXPLAIN any of the mysteries)
#Deltarune #Gametheory #gaming
A wall of text explaining the Flower Theory. It's colored yellow and pink.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM