#nonbinary coder

Just... what kind of gt thing? What story, what goals?

Borrowers, perhaps? Borrowers would certainly fit right in with the Weird Solutions vibe of most p&c games

Gullivered? the various goals could be doing random convoluted favors for Lilliputians. And it already comes with a pre-existing Smaller Starting Puzzle: get them to let you wander loose. Maybe you play as a Lilliputian sometimes?

- nonbinary-coder

HI!

Most of the time I use an app called Pixel Studio.

It's neat because I can use it on pc and android. I really like the workflow in this one, but when I plan to animate something I use libresprite (which is basically aseprite but free?). You can animate in Pixel Studio, but I use a paperdoll system for my character sprites. I have extra layers for hair, arms, faces, clothing, legs etc. And libresprite gives you better control over layers and frames.

Pixel Studio, however, has a cool export feature that lets you directly upscale the image. I usually post my sprites here in 4x.

I use good old GIMP for a few simple touchups or some mirroring and stuff. But that's basically because the other two programs are still opened with some projects I don't want to close. I'm lazy.

When I do animations I just mirror the frames, but you have to do it frame by frame. In GIMP my selection tool is capped to 32x48 (the size of my sprites) and snaps to the grid (which is also 32x48). To be fair, I could just mirror the frame in godot, but that scares me somehow?

so here is my promise, as an indie game developer:

I wonder if I can find some guides for doing that

like. both in the "how do I code this in godot" way and the "how does one go about planning this kind of game anyway" way

Tada, a fully functional game! :D

Now all that remains is to make it look cooler and add the bonus features and customization options I wanted

showed my partner what I've made. They enjoyed filling the screen with bubbles in the unfinished Bubble Drop game, and then have been happily playing Dodge the Creeps for a while

It is a very very nice feeling to have someone I love absolutely enjoying a thing I made. Even if it was via a tutorial, I made that, and they're playing it and having fun! :D

welcome to my blog

I like to play mobile games, but a lot of them are user-unfriendly in one way or another (often including the oversaturation of advertisment), so I want to make my own games.

Figured out how to put a scrolling menu in. Currently the bubble sets are just the same six sets repeated a couple times, cause I didn't have enough to fill out the scrolling menu otherwise, but eventually I will have a bunch more.