PinPigeon

Hello, and welcome to the PinPigeon official Tumblr page for announcements, updates and information!

What is PinPigeon?

PinPigeon is my developer name, which I use for the games and projects that I release to the public.

What will be here?

This blog will be used for general announcements, asks, discussions, updates, support and requests relating to PinPigeon content. That will hopefully be more orientated around the games I make, but do also expect music or other pieces by me to be posted here.

Who are you?

I am an amateur game developer who is trying to follow my aspirations of creating my own variety of indie games. I go under the name Juno on Tumblr and would prefer to be referred to as such.

What do you do?

I like to spend my time trying to improve my coding and programming with Python and Gamemaker Studio 2, however I am open to explore more engines or languages. I also make a lot of art and my own music, which you will likely find posted here.

Where can I find the storepage for PinPigeon?

Here, on itch.io!

Hello! I'm working on the PEAK video at this moment (surprisingly), but I wanted to share some fanart that one of my friends made for one of my songs!

I was going to make the next update with a release of a video, but, uhm. It has been 25+°C for the last week and if I tried working at my computer, I'd have more in common with the paste on my CPU than with a real human being.

But, I did want to say that some things are coming! Maybe. Eh, hm. Maybe.

The video on the game jam hasn't really been, even,,, begun. I've been thinking of making it later on, once I'm slightly more experience with game jams, especially since I'll be joining one in June. (Planning to make a video on why my game sucked less than a month after it released would've probably been strange, too...)

In the meantime, I'm working on my first gameplay video! I played PEAK with a couple of friends, which I recorded and am trying to make a video out of. I haven't made much of a start of it, but I'm hoping to get a good 10 minutes out of 2 hours from it.

Working on my Egg game, noticed a fun issue with one of the temporary rewards I have :)

Unfortunately, work on a new video has been ranging from pretty slow to non-existent. This mainly due to the fact that I wanted to a get a new sona design out before I start working on the the video, one that isn't pixel art. But, unfortunately (and I was SHOCKED at this), going straight into one design when it's your third time trying to make digital art usually ends up with it not looking too great. Which is fine. Fine.

I am learning!! I haven't had a lot of time to practice, but I've already made some improvements between my pencil work and my digital art by changing how I draw. It'll still probably be unlikely that I get the sona design knocked down before the next video, but I really would like it for it to be that way! The video's probably going to be a good one, though (or at least better than my last ones, I hope :))!!!

Anyway, as I never really want to leave the few people wandering this cave empty handed, I wanted to show off some pixel art from when I really started. The first is from a platformer I tried making and gave up on because I entered Tutorial Hell.

The second image was some fanart I did of fourleafisland back when I used to be able to catch their streams. The rest are from a puzzle game that I. uhm. also got into Tutorial Hell with. and gave up on. hm.

Eggs! I'm making eggs!

I've started development on my new Gamemaker project, and whilst I don't want to spoil anything, eggs are the focus. I actually started a week ago, but from this point I'll be devoting a bit more time to it. For it, I made these egg variants! There'll be more, but these are the base versions.

Here's some more music while I'm trying to figure out the new video, :)

Now that my Playtime SUCKS!!! has released at arguable quality, I wanted to share what my process of how I think/make games. Flashcards!!

At the start of each school day, I grab two flashcards and take them with me during the day to mark ideas down during lessons. These are pretty rough, but I use them during most of development, and I have a little holder that I keep beside my computer and on my desk. I'm going to put a read more here, since it's quite a lot of images for a dev update.

It's finished!

Playtime SUCKS!!! is now submitted and published for the gamejam, available at the link below!

Now, while it is finished and I am absolutely proud of that, I do want to make clear that this a majorly shortened version of my original vision. Whilst I wanted to originally make 10 or so levels, the game's ended up with only three due to development issues and time restraints. Because of this, this version of Playtime SUCKS!!! is more of a proof of concept where the quality doesn't matter so much as the premise. And the quality?Sheesh, it does fall off after the second level. Hopefully I'll pick it back up once I get some free time to spend on it, like when I'm more experienced or even if I ever begin working in a team.

Anyway, Playtime SUCKS!!! is a short three-level with each level being a different genre of game based on old toys. It's not much, but it's the most effort I've ever put into a project like this yet! Taking part in a gamejam was amazing, but I've learned that I do need to focus on time-management and abstraction in future. If you end up playing it, consider giving me some feedback! It's not winning any awards, but any sort of criticism would be nice.

Before I finish, I made a short about it! Not much from there isn't covered here, but it may be worth watching. Also, be on the lookout in near future for a video analysing and criticising this game. ;)