microhorses!

World shading is also go. C64 on your grandma's BW TV microhorses

Night looks so much more nightly now!

Done with the fullscreen! There's some messed up maths under the hood that might bite me later, but for now it works and is not complex, so rewriting it will be easy if needs be. Apparently, game maker GUI surface is not clipping mask'd to the game surface size - that's why in a recent video there's stuff protruding "outside of the game". That's all GUI. The only solution was to buff out the frame before displaying the whole game by drawing 4 big rectangles hiding all the garbage. As a bonus, those rectangles can be decorated, so behold: pink! This is definitely something i want to expose to the player for changing.

trying out adjustable integer scaling of the entire game. all the screenshots and videos so far have been of the game scaled x4, but now i implemented autodetection of best integer scale and user-selectable scale setting. for funsies, this one is x1 scale, aka the game's actual 1:1 size. So cute! It's almost like a DS screen

i am trying to make fullscreen work. life is full of adventure. you can see a bit of a behind the scenes! it's so cool. not all stuff stops being drawn while being outside the viewport, it turns out

(their need meters are low for debug reasons, don't worry)

you can now pat the micro horse

UPD: i did iiiiit here we go! This whole ordeal was.. to make the emotion sprites go behind the horizon precisely along with the horse, while NOT being a child object of real world stuff like trees to be excepted from shading etc, while having a fixed rendered depth that's synced to the horse, and such and such. Harder than i thought it would be. But now everything works as intended. Small detail each day has to equate to a big picture at some point, right. right?

Also: posting this from my new old mac that was lent to me for some time, which is a big deal - microhorses comfortably developed from my actual worktable and not from a laptop given to me by my employer, connected ad-hoc without a proper mouse or keyboard!

Funnily, the very last upper parts of those glitch pillars are stock horse sprites themselves. They seem like a bunch of coloured stripes over white - but that's cause they're chomped into 8x8 squares and the stock horse sprite is, indeed, white with colorful zones on top to dynamically colour later.

now to fix a bunch of subsystems that i broke with my amazing gui and zoom update. ha ha ha!

what the HECK. i accidentally produced a supremely weird effect by sort-of-misusing draw surfaces. The hills sprite cannot be drawn at subpixel level if i'm using a surface.. so it crushes itself down dynamically! This is sort of amazing because there's no weird feeling that the world along with the horses are 2x pixel size but the hills are still 1x. Might dig around and find a way to keep it. But not before i figure out how to keep the geometry of this whole ordeal intact - it's getting kinda stupid how the sun can't stay in one place during zoom!!

Bad news: the stable Facking Ecsplodes

Or do you think i should've kept the enlarging horizon line to immitate a drastic lens change? :D

(the cursor is where the physical mouse is, the red cross is where the game THINKS the mouse is, so i'm pointing at the calendar without pointing at the calendar. Ha ha ha)