#squishee

The sun is setting. I know I know! It’s just over here somewhere… I know it is. Popcorn… What.. where did you find this? Oh! I found it on a flowery patch just on the way bac- Are you certain that this is not another one of his tricks? It doesn’t smell like him… But look! It talks! It talks..? Hmph. Wait no! I haven’t finished the entire thing! Finish what? This is dangerous, Popcorn. It was telling me a whole lot of stuff! … Fine. I’ll listen to what it says.

Stuff in this Dev Log:

Why are there guns in my Gardening game? (ARG)

Absolute UI (Sugarbomb)

Nothing Burger

Can you feel it?

Absolute Removal of Gerble…

Hello Hi! Sorry for the delays! Wowa wawa! New dev log! So cool! Also i was thinking of separating the arg and sugarbomb dev logs but i was like noooo it doesnt need to because there wouldnt be alot of updates to show on the arg maybe (not really actually)

What do you think it’s saying? No idea, it’s kinda weird.. but somehow I’m drawn to learning about it more!

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Why are there guns in my Gardening game? (ARG)

I never really intended for the ARG to be so much bigger, while there was no playtest this week, I have been conceptualizing and preparing for the stuff within it.

There will be guns in the game… in the form of a water gun of sorts and I plan to make it interact with different stuff with the obstacles in the game as well as with the main mechanic of the game which is watering the plants. Different bullet types and trajectories? Maybe in like 2.0 or something, not going to be in the first version.

I made this viney guy as a concept because I had this idea of this enemy randomly having 2d and 3d limbs. I didn’t think the visual wouldn't work because I thought the 2d sprites wouldn’t move but it does look funny from different angles. The torso is static because I don’t want it to follow the camera and it would also look weird! I don’t think this guy would show much since the area already feels cluttered with all the bullets and stuff I planned.

If viney guy would be added then I would worry about pixel alignment because it doesn't really look good right now.

Eurgh... You okay? I'm fine. It just looks wrong.

Speaking of bullets, Yes, this would be a bullet hell game, (inspired by Survival of the Objects) But… How can I imagine trying to enjoy managing a garden with plants that try to kill me with undodgeable bullets!!! This is definitely not so casual!!!

Well, I do have to mention that the gameplay has no time limit even though it’s meant to be fast-paced. Since there is no time limit or pace in how the game should be played, you can definitely make the game easier by just planting trees one at a time. I do try to keep in mind the people that like the story aspect of the game.

This is definitely a game meant for solo play (?) but it also has public servers in mind (which would be chaotic and I definitely would see a lot of griefers in it)

Absolute UI (Sugarbomb)

I actually focused on the UI?!?! No way!!!! The thought process was kind of interesting because I initially started to make things simpler. I tried to make it somewhat cooler or unique and be interesting visually but it did not fit the way I want Sugarbomb to be. I tried making it more like Sugarbomb by making it softer, but it also looked weird. So I gave up and then told myself that I would just make it silly.

This is exactly what I want, although I do worry that it might look a bit too distracting? Slowing down the time it switches to the next frame should help.

The other UI I looked into and sketched is the menu for equipping gear, customizing moves and checking stats of your party members. There were initially two versions of it but I decided to go with the second version, it looks really great actually.

The above is the first version, lots of empty space and important information are shoved to the side/not big enough. The portrait should also be a bit bigger so that the player can see the stuff you’ve equipped to your squishee.

This is the second version, much better than the first. I wouldn’t say it's perfect yet but it is nice to look at and the space is used better now!

I would look into the “Almanac” next, we actually made concepts of it back then on the earlier days of Sugarbomb!

This thing is useless. A waste of our time. Come on Popcorn, we're going to run out of Flan's cooking by the time we get there. Wait let me go!!! I wanna eat some now!!! You're going to leave the pot with bones again.

Urururu... So that's what they're doing.

Thanks for reading!

HI HI HI!!! POPCORN HERE! Uhmmmm… I saw this little device thingy on the way back home and I decided to tinker with it and for some reason it led me here! Well, they’re saying that whoever recieves this should cover today's deal loaf? Is it like food or something or… I don’t know but apparently whatever this derp lol is I’m going to read it!!! Also, this Piano person doesn’t have a section for this week… because she lost her device. That’s okay! Maybe I can find that device next week! Me and Cinth are going to scout the river! Maybe it’s deep down there!

Stuff in this Desk Lint:

Updates to ARG game !!!

What are they doing to Cinth...

A little music sneak peak !!!

General development updates

Piano giving me more foil cards

Updates on Popcorn

Popcorn’s silly antics live on stage

Updates on Popcorn

More Updates (Possibly for Popcorn)

Apparently still removing Gerble…

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Updates to ARG game !!!

Okay so I have to read this thing… So many words! So boring… Whatever!

Here’s the sprite for Combi’s design, beside the average robloxian. I did not intend her to be… Tall and disproportionate compared but I like her like this anyways! I did not finish her tail wagging animation for this week but I will make it next week. I don’t intend to make a lot of Combi sprites since this should be a small game after all.

I did have difficulty with implementing her “petal” designs around her clothing but I think I transcribed it okay. The shotgun will be placed somewhere else since adding it to her back makes the sprite clunky.. It would be hard to see anyways!

Ooh I really like her she looks pretty.. Do I get to meet her someday? Well considering she’s in a game I doubt I ever would. She looks so friendly! I wanna be friends with her!!

The main system is still not yet done but it can definitely be playtested next week since I only need to make the assets and the gameplay. Below is a sneak peek on the “base” of the plants I’m going to use. I say “base” because I’m definitely just going to tint the assets with colors.

The gameplay loop might get a bit unfair sometimes from the looks of things, tedious mostly, but I’m trying to mitigate that! And hopefully feedback from the testers I have will make the game better to enjoy.. Casually?

The gameplay is simple and definitely done before but to add a twist, generally this is a bit more fast paced than your average game in the genre. I would describe it to be an incremental management game… Probably! But wait… Isn’t this squishee 1? OMG THIS IS SQUISHEE 1 GUYS NO WAY NO FAKE AND

About the puzzles… I hope they aren’t a bit too hard! I would probably make things a bit easy first but my Stanley mind says otherwise…

I do have more things to show, but that’s practically leaking everything! You can have this though!

Coward!!! If only I had Guppy to give me this sort of password or hack into it then I would leak EVERYTHING!!!

What are they doing to Cinth...

This person knows Cinth! What! What are they implying! I’m going to see… Hopefully it’s not something bad…

“This is just ramblings of a madman, don’t include this in the Derg clog Popcorn!”

I’m going to read it anyway! You can’t stop me!

I have been thinking of Cinth so much lately, moreso on his story and design. There is this version of Cinth that is definitely different from the Cinth that’s in the game. While everything is not too late just yet, I just can’t help and think if this is what I want this character to be like.

I guess I sort of feel less of a connection with the Cinth now but maybe that’s because his story feels a bit too bland and more of a plot device to spark unnecessary conflict. (which mind you, Sugarbomb already has a lot of it.) This version of Cinth focuses more on being selfish and yet still being selfless in a sort of way because of his struggles, mostly referring to freedom. (Of course I’m not gonna say anything yet!) You don’t feel a connection because you don’t know him! You don’t know the times… where… Uhm… Well… Well there’s something! I know there's something! I just can’t remember it yet because I’m so angry!

I sketched this design of Cinth for the story, but initially I just wanted to make Cinth have a more interesting shape to his design. The design now isn’t bad, don’t get me wrong, his design is intended for his story. He looks smooth and softer, his hair is not that messy or unkept compared to this version, and I think that is mainly how it separates him from this version. 

HE LOOKS FINE!!! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!! The old Cinth is so much more superior! I will make a petition to stop this madness…

Cinth loves and takes care of his hair so much though! Which is something I want to have for him that the other version doesn’t have! But if I decide to go with this then I would definitely make changes.

Does this mean the Cinth I know is changing! But how! I don’t believe it! I don’t… I don’t want that to happen…

I doubt it!!! I don’t believe something like that would happen anyways! Sounds silly!

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Do they know about me..?

A little music sneak peak !!!

I did make a track! it’s still WIP. This is probably for the ARG although I’m not too sure just yet!

I did experiment a little bit more on this one and it’s a different sound from the other tracks I made. Maybe it’s because I’ve been listening to and revisiting Halley Labs/Lapfox Trax lately!

General development updates

The next week is also me hopefully actually focusing on the UI for Sugarbomb! I have been stalling for so long because I hate the UI! I hate working on UI! It shouldn’t be so complicated! Why is it so complicated!

Other than that, there's nothing else to say! I’m super excited for the ARG to drop!

Thanks for reading!

Hey everyone! Stanley here, New dev log for this week! This one is going to be short, but we are announcing something that's coming on the way! Unfortunately, Piano doesn’t have a section for us for this week, hopefully she can join in the next dev log.

Stuff in this Dev Log:

ARG game coming soon…

New character!

General development updates

Removing Gerble…

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Bluesky: ( @ lampsicle.bsky.social )

Be sure to follow us there as well for updates and extra goodies!

ARG Game

Alongside with the development of the game we are going to make an ARG, hosted in Roblox. This is also a solo side project as Piano doesn’t code in Roblox.

I initiated this first because of the lack of any squishee content out there, as well as I think it could bring some more eyes on the project. I will try to make sure it doesn’t slow down development on Sugarbomb but from a past experience, I know this is not going to take that long if I put my mind to it.

The main system of the ARG is almost complete, after that I would start decorating/building and make some sprites for our new character below.

Meet Combi!

Combi is as lost as you are in these areas... She seems to be struggling a lot with planting new life in her yard as they have been hostile and a hassle to her lately! It is your job to help her grow the area into a beautiful garden! She needs all the help she can get!

Some extra stuff about her, she is a fox cat (OF COURSE IT'S A FOX) she also has homophobia in her eyes, the thing behind her is a shotgun (which is super cool) and she's very friendly and nice and sweet and caring!

THIS IS NOT HOW TALL SHE IS

Other Stuff

I did start on the UI for the dialogue, I was thinking it should be a bit more simpler from our older one. I also decided that we aren’t going headshots, but it will be replaced with more expressive sprites of the overworld when the characters do interact in most cutscenes.

There’s not much to say in my end but hopefully that’s plenty for today!

Thanks for reading!

Hello! Stanley Bobanley here! The dreaded weekly dev log… Oh no… Well, today there wouldn’t be much from me! It's been an extremely busy week for me and I haven't done a lot of stuff.. I had to settle and move into a new location and stuff… But it should be okay to work next week.

Stuff in this Dev Log:

Common Enemy Designs

Ask the Scavengers anything?!?!

General development updates

can i bake a cake in the microwave

how long should i bake a cake in the microwave

microwave smoking what do i do

microwave on fire what do i do

microwave smell funny

which type of plastic safe in microwave

how to clean melted plastic in microwave

second hand microwave cheap

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Common Enemy Designs

I was thinking about how I could distinguish enemy squishees with ally squishees and one way is prioritizing fur patterns.

They don’t have names but the first one is called Slashy because he slashes and the other is Bumper because he charges and headbutts.

I would say that the idea is final (maybe not the designs), I do think the design would show more on the sprites, I do worry that my fur patterns would be too boring, I never really had the best fur patterns in mind.

Ask the Scavengers Anything?!?!

In a later date, I would set up an Ask the Scavengers anything! I’m leaning towards hosting it on strawpage instead of tumblr as it’s way easier that way (you won't need an account which is cool). 

It woul⁖ be really c⁖ol to build the characters through the sill⁖ questions, however there’s s⁖rt of a question that’s going to be floating aro⁖nd and it’s how the questions would be canon or not

They wouldn’t act like they know the audience in the ⁖ull r⁖lease or the d⁖mo, of course not. I guess this could be lIke a separate plane of exis⁖ence where the characters are in a plain background answering questions in the ever expanding void that is their universe. Creepy and weird but yeah! ⁖

Other Stuff

Next week we will focus on UI and maybe making talking head sprites.

There’s not much to say for today, sorry about the lack of content!

Piano's Section !!!

Forms? What for …m? Anygays, its piano crawling out of her grave for you yet again, and them howdy do i have an idea for you guys! The idea is me doing work, which would be great, but because my computer runs on burning 5 dollar bills instead of electricity, development can get a bit expensive when i am between jobs.

But its not all bad news! Im planning ideas out in my head (where they belong) about how i want to handle dialogue and stuff. Im  not sure how much im gonna copy rpg maker but its probably gonna be a lot. In fact before i knew the plans for the combat system i wanted to make all of it in rpg maker! But i refuse to do something like port rpg maker into unity or port unity into rpg maker because why would i… ewwwwww

Im on a lot of sugar rn even tho i should be sleep but this cake is just too tasty and these waters are so good with sex rtra sugar i did that on accident but its funny ehehehehehehehehehee

Fun piano has been executed. 

Thanks for reading!

Hey everyone! Satan Here! Can’t believe that it's been a year already! SUPER EXCITED for today because of the stuff I’m going to show!!! I try not to reveal too much about anything but there is a lot of stuff in this log!!! (Also took too long to write and it shouldve been posted yesterday,,, sorey it took so long!) Happy 1st Squishee Anniversary!

Stuff in this Dev Log:

New Scavenger!

Customizable Squishees

Reveal of Essences and Trainers

Updated some music tracks!

General development updates

Follow us on our platforms! Twitter account: ( @ squishee_dev ) Bluesky: ( @ lampsicle.bsky.social ) [will move soon.] Be sure to follow us there as well for updates and extra goodies!

New Scavenger!

Meet Kevin! She would be with you throughout Sugarbomb along with Popcorn, Cinth and Ticket! He always seems to be ready to strut anywhere he goes claiming every land with his platform heels!!! He was a veteran before Sugarbomb happened! I would love to explore a lot of his habits and experiences to the present day. So yeah he is a furry femboy soldier, a very common trope… obviously,,,,,, He also has an Iron stomach, she has the title of being the first to eat anything that seems suspicious, even if it kills him! I think she also likes cheesy romcom movies,,, (very useful information) About the missing weapon, I have to admit something… I DONT KNOW HOW TO DRAW GUNS!!!! Or make guns!!!! But I wouldn’t worry so much about it, because my partner is going to help me with designing the gun for Kevin!as an american i know what guns look like

So the quality from the last scavenger’s design is very much noticeable (Ticket) but I do actually plan to look into Ticket’s design a little bit more, he does look a bit bland… But I do want to make his outfit more like a suit than it is something a jester would wear. ticket would look better MORE bland imo Ok no well Maybe  ok why do u care abt ticket,,, dont u hate him,,, growls,,, Enough about Ticket, I contemplated on if I would change his design to fit with the rest of the cast but then I realized that Kevin himself wants to do the unconventional and the weirdness that should be normal! So no, her design is fine.

His old design was made 5 months ago. I added the blade on the side of his weapon but I want to emphasize the stripes in the design. I also removed the camo imagery, because it kind of contradicts her story. But the weapon mockup is shown here, it would be attached to his fore arm, it honestly looks heavy but because of Spritz technology it’s light! I removed the collar and put it on his belt because I don’t want any collars on any of the characters because Popcorn already has one! I try to differentiate each one of them.

Customizable Squishees

These are some of the templates I made that I plan for enemies and the player’s customizable avatar. For the player’s avatar, these are not the final ones, these are just the stuff I made in the week! I do want to add more species, but adding so much will affect progress on the sprites. We will try to cover a wide variety of different squishee species! I’ll see on the next dev log to make templates of other animals like amphibians, avians, reptiles, little bugs and fish! fish mention!!! For enemies, I don’t know if I would make different sprites for one enemy. But for now there would be the same template for one enemy type. (It also probably fits with the story anyways!)

Tails being detachable and separate from the body/base makes it so tail accessories would be easier to implement by just replacing the tail sprite and the position of the attachment. In the third diagram I was expressing how I want the tail to sway or move around by using physics or some tween. Like, who wouldn’t want to see Popcorn wag his tail in cutscenes! That would be so cute! ok but i should bring up how the pixels not lining up might be noticeable, im not sure if thats the goal or not, i think it would look good but its not like i can imagine it amirite Oh thats fine i dont think it should be the intention, the tail pixels are gonna be diagonal anyways when it wags so,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Essences and Trainers

Essence is a way for your units to have a secondary moveset, usually they are obtained through npcs called TRAINERS.  Trainers can be offered items, currency, or even complete a quest or maybe a battle in order for you to get their essence. Essences give you a subclass in which they can give you passives.(for example, higher defense, more health, conditionals, etc.) Their main mechanic is to give units a secondary moveset which usually is 1 - 2 moves. Every playable unit in the game can get a subclass, this gives way to different builds and playstyles, and also replayability and gives way to making niche teams (I love niche teams i think they're so cool) But something special about the Trainers and I will reveal it early is that it can be one of you guys! Yes! (There’s already someone amongst you that already is one…) Your OC in the game might get teleported to the realm that is Sugarbomb… (Very bad) Although I will also have to say that most likely this would be an option for people who support the game financially (I would clarify in later dates about it) It does sound like more work for me but the solution is really cool and I’m not gonna reveal it yet!! Excited to implement it,,,,

Music !!!

I feel really proud of the music I made for Popcorn’s theme and I would say that I’m pretty confident now on making music although sometimes it is a struggle, since I am self taught. I try to make and envision the stuff I want in my works but if the game were to be successful, I would want to find a music person to translate my words and ideas into the music that I envisioned!! I added some other instruments to make this one track not sound repetitive,,, let me know what you think!

This one is a new track and ive shown it in a bsky post, it’s still in WIP but this is how it is so far!

Also heres a pirate theme for popcorn’s theme that i made for fun (starring the amazing vocals of Ritz)

Some Other Stuff…

I would be focusing on more spritework on the following week, and also helping with the,,, dreaded ui,,, (i hate the ui you would know why) but i think i didnt say this in a dev log but im like having trouble with making the headshots of the characters the squishees are too blobby that i cant make them look good in pixel form,,, But yah!!!! I think this is everything that I want to say for now!!!

Piano's Section

Wow guys, its been a whole year, and squishee is just a week away! Can you believe it guys? Squishee in just one week! If only piano’s dev drive didnt reformat itself for NO REASON while she was doing something important! Just to clarify, the project did not get damaged, and i dont NEED to make a new project and start over, but the truth of the matter is things were starting to resemble spaghetti code, and what i thought stanley wanted and what stanley thought i wanted ended up growing different from eachother and while i worked on one thing stanley was developing ideas for another,,, i would have to rip out a whole bunch anyways, and we had a whole lot of assets that we didnt quite need yet. I do not want to release something with spaghetti code, and i made the decision to start a new project. This is not us starting over from scratch. This is only a minor minor delay, and with a fresh project i realized some things that i needed to do differently anyways! WARG!!!! It makes me feel like ant simulator to do this, but i really didnt know if i could keep going with the jumbled mess we were working with. All my fault tho, and i will make sure when we bring you squishee it wont be spaghetti because spaghetti is not squishee and squishee is not spaghetti and

WAIT! Whats that? I said something about realizing something? Yes thats right people its time for me to steal stanley’s percents again!!! I am much more comfortable working with the canvas based ui instead of the document based ui. While the document works a lot like CSS, it lacked any sort of way to edit what buttons did in code, something we DESPERATLEY  need to do because thats what we need to doooooooooooooo. But why didnt we have that before? Because i, piano, didnt change a dropdown box that i missed setting up the canvas last time (DONT TELL STANLEY PLEASE PEOPLE)

no more percents im cutting your pay(piano art) in half

Please dont cut me in halb (we dont need percents PER SE but i think i can do something similar if i make the canvas a set size, make the boxes pixel size, figure out the distance, and make the anchors line up, which sounds like a lot but is probably just like 9 clicks please dont cut me in half please please i dont wanna be cut in half

Thanks for reading!

Happy new year! Slices of Ham here! I actually have something to talk and show now! WHAT?!?!!?! CRAZY?!?!?! SO CRAZY!!! Never happened in squishee history ever,,, anyways mostly the highlight of the log is that im going to talk about the gameplay and what it is like! Follow us on our platforms! Twitter account: ( @ squishee_dev ) Bluesky: ( @ lampsicle.bsky.social ) Be sure to follow us there as well for updates and extra goodies! I’ve been really slow and sluggish lately, maybe (and is) due to the fact that my sleep schedule is very bad,,,,, But it has been caught to my attention that in Jan 16th, we will have our first ever squishee anniversary.. Oh my god it has been a year!!! what!!!!!! Also it is our 10th dev log! wowowowow!!!!!!wwowowowowo!!!!! I, piano, have also been struggling with energy. More on that later We are planning something big for the anniversary! And I feel a little bit more confident on releasing whatever it is,,, Although it does need to have some tweaks and stuff to work out, But I assure you that it will be complete by the time the anniversary is out. I, piano, will also try to have something ready for the anniversary Also, progress on coding is hopefully going to be substantialley better than the weeks before! Expect more updates on Piano’s section by next week! I, piano, also have news about coding

Ok stanley what are you saying actually

Gameplay, mechanics, shenanigans have been dawning on me lately, until I had a huge epiphany or a urethra moment like piano likes to say and it did fix issues about the main things I was concerned about. We mentioned this on our live stream but to say it here, our game is based on Artillery games, but not entirely focused on just ranged units or how the gameplay is usually trial and error about landing your shots. We are definitely going farther and farther away from it, which isn’t a bad thing. It definitely doesn’t sound like Artillery game but RPG! Or Artillery game but you can attack closer now?!?! I looked at our first ideas for melee units and how they have very versatile usages, which don't get me wrong, is good but it's too good as just a single punt can avoid a lot of things that attacks provide as well as it can cover so much more distance from our intended way of movement. But what are punts really? And isn’t that the main thing that squishees love? To be punted? Is Stanley killing the game?!?! Punting, in gameplay, is how a squishee can fly or be thrown into any direction. I usually imagine them jumping. It doesn’t really make sense because who is the punter? The mythical Puntigonalisius of course!

My theory is that Puntigonalisius doesnt actually exist, and punting instead happens as a form of manifestation, where squishees temporarily form their own tulpa that punts them because they believe they are getting punted so hard it actually happens Actually he runs a shawarma truck i know because ive been there (stanley is in sugarbomb)

We aren’t entirely killing the idea of punting, but it should be used rarely in moves. I did had a thought of making punting to be slower by utilizing windups, but we would try to experiment more of it when there’s actual gameplay to tinker around with. Punting is a problem because of how the game can be cheesed by only doing punting most of the time, and punting is not a short hop, it can potentially cover a lot of distance and distance is the big enemy here! I hate distance!!! But I guess we shouldn’t be too sure just yet because we're still in the concept phase of making the gameplay. The first problem that we had was about projectiles, because our squishees are usually very fast and always moving. I imagine projectiles are somewhat small and harder to aim, as most of them are in arcs. We try to prioritize the players' experience, lessening unintentional mistakes and making aiming and hitting to be a little bit easier. How I see the game, it usually is a little bit more fast paced. While I don’t see it yet, I imagine the gameplay to be slow and it can drag out common encounters and Sugarbomb usually has high enemy counts and shenanigans. This makes the strategy for ranged squishees focusing more on trial and error be somewhat bad, but distance really is a big factor in this. There’s not a lot we could do to stop punting for ranged squishees until we had the idea!! The second problem is for how there’s so much more guesswork to be done when you try to hit directly with punting moves. I want melees to have good hit detection while also not making the hitbox big or have the move very easy movement. We thought of ‘Impacts’ which are like little explosions they make when they hit the terrain but, the problem is how they need to hit the enemy directly.

What's the Solution?

The solution that I came out is what I call ROLLING and CONTACT moves! Rolling in gameplay is how units roll along the line of the terrain, usually the goal being to hit an enemy. Terrain affects the speed of the squishee’s rolling dramatically, slowing down when rolling up a hill and going faster when going down. Contact moves are when a squishee hits another and usually they go into a thing called a ‘cutscene’ where they exchange hits to each other. This and Rolling should be the typical or the standard move type that will be used across all melee squishees. While in this cutscene, any damage can be applied to both parties, like a projectile can deal damage to them when they get hit. This solves how projectiles can now be more easily predicted but you still have to aim where they are going to land! Though I do think giving them indicators on where they would clash together will be a great thing to add. This is my concept on how contact moves in a cutscene should play out!

While ‘Steps’ are mentioned somewhat before in past devlogs, I don’t want to reveal them right now but imagine these as like frames for an animation. I actually don’t know if it should be this fast, but I do love this! (You can tell its very much heavily inspired by project moon, particularly limbus company (and i think library of ruina but i havent played it) Below is an explanation of the video: Step 1 is usually when the rolls do activate, they will try to find an enemy to make in contact with. In this case, both parties are using contact moves. Step 2 is the initiating of the cutscene when it gets in contact with, waiting for the Step to end. This can be initiated in any step because usually rolls can go to a certain distance by the step count. Step 3 is the windup, usually all contact moves will have windups applied to them. Depending on how fast a squishee will attack, they usually will use 1 - 5 steps. Step 4 shows the red guy’s attack since they used a move that used only 1 step. The blue guy is still winding up. It shows UNINTERRUPTED on top of the screen because theres also another version of red guy cancelling blue’s attack. (shown below.) Step 5 shows the blue guy finally attacking using 2 steps before hitting the red guy. Step 6 shows the end of the cutscene, as every status effect will be inflicted here usually (but it can change)  + some natural knockback. This is the version of what happens if the red guy interrupts the blue guy’s attack. (See Step 4)

That’s what I’m going to talk about for the gameplay section because the dev log is now too long and too revealing! (looking at you first squishee stream,,,,,) Anyways, I’ve mostly made progress on the writing as well. I think everyone would love the design of this main character… They focus a lot on their design with clothing! I also have been focusing on making groups in worldbuilding like The Paw, if you want a gist of what the group is: They can try and try again, but hope is all lost for those who seek a way to destroy the unstoppable." I don’t have much progress on spritework, but I am working on species templates and transposing full form character designs into ittee bittee squishies!

PIANO !!! SECTION !!!

Hello everyone! I wont get into too much personal detail here, because thats not what this is about, even though it kinda of is a little? My job sucked. A lot. Not my sugarbomb job, my pizza making job. It suckeddddddd. Ive worked a job i liked, a job i didnt like, and now a bad job. The hours were always longer than what i was scheduled for, the work always more than i could complete on my own, i was never given the help i needed, and my boss was emotionally manipulative. There have been countless days when I would wake up, ready for work, and ready to work on sugarbomb when I got home, but as the day wore on small disasters would end up sapping my motivation. I have quit that horrible job, and while i do need to find another one, i will spend the time inbetween getting my mental health on track and also working on sugarbomb! This is good news people, and i trust we will all be happy soon.

Programming the enemy ai is gonna be sooooo much fun IM SORRY THIS IS THE DESIGNERS CURSE Can we just have the honor system and let the player control both sides and tell them to try their best on both But whats the point of killing them,,,,,, (which is how the game is(more killing(and more killing) oh wait they can just i mean like well i guess its a bit more better because were actually avoiding the thing were based off on!!!!! (maybe) Can we have a difficulty called games journalist that uses this instead of ai and thats the difficulty the demo is locked to so that way i can delay the  ai coding until the actual game (this is a joke please) I think it gets unlocked when they fail the first encounter in the tutorial and there would be a popup saying “is the game too hard?? Lets try an easier difficulty! You can change it when you start a new playthrough!” No instead of failing first encounter its if the player accidentally rolls into something on the rolling tutorial like rolls into the wrong thing yknow Wouldnt that be more inconsistent? Like i imagine them failing the first encounter 5 times or something The only person who would fail the first encounter 5 times on the second easiest difficulty is a child and i dont think children should be playing this game No thats game journalists and i can see it happening already in the future Yeah good point. Too much water. Okay when they roll the first time with this difficulty they get a special cutscene that explodes sugarbomb and they win (we will definitely add this) Im being fr about wanting a game journalist difficulty that makes it incredibly easy. Also it might be the worst or the best difficulty for speedrunners depending on how fast the ai makes decisions I imagine if this is implemented there would be stupid challenges like “can you ever die in game journalist mode????” i would love to see it That is literally the exact reason why i want game journalist mode, that and to patronize game journalists What if they beat the game with this mode on We make it so you need a certain number of non games journalist battles won in order to do the final boss fight and you cant get games journalist for the final fight so you cant just cheese it yknow Can we just make the final boss in the mode the hardest ever like its almost impossible Yes. this discussion is kinda long rn so i think we should go back to writing devlog

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Hello, it’s Stanley. There are not a lot of things I could share right now since I haven’t been working that much on Sugarbomb this past week. I do still have thoughts that I want to share for today. Follow us on our platforms! Twitter account: ( @ squishee_dev ) Bluesky: ( @ lampsicle.bsky.social ) Be sure to follow us there as well for updates and extra goodies!

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About squishee streams, I don’t think I would often do livestreams because it is not something I see myself doing, especially for long periods of time. Although that is not to say I wouldn’t do it again.. It was fun, and something new that I tried and I think there would be more to come in the future. I’ve been thinking how large, and I can’t emphasize it enough, how large this project is. I expected Sugarbomb to be so expansive and I liked the challenge but, I never really thought about how big this actually is. There would be at least 7-8 chapters, or maybe even more down the line. The demo for the game, we haven’t really reached an agreement of where it would stop. I think everything hasn’t been concrete, with ideas, characters, writing.. It feels like I’m writing more about the moment or ambitions of how I want the story and characters to go and never actually something that makes sense. My characters came and were based mostly from my own experiences. But, it feels like I’m sort of trapped in this writing process of making them all the same? I feel as if they are so similar to each other, but I feel as if they are intentional in that way. I planned to write the main characters to be compatible with one another, as I see these people to be supporting each other through thick and thin. Compared to the home they once had, I wanted to make them feel like they belong to this newer home, even if it’s scary or dangerous or bad. I do admit that I procrastinate a whole lot and it doesn’t help that it has been so many months that there's just nothing I could say that feels like this is final, this is what I want or this is what I truly love to show to people. But amidst everything, I think that for all the thoughts and ideas I had scattered around in my mind or in my unorganized notes. I feel like at one point I will have something to show and something that I could put out and say that it's complete. Maybe take things slower or consider them more thoroughly. I’ve wanted to answer this question recently, and it has been on my mind for several days now. The question being, Is the art that I create for the people or for myself? In a lot of ways I feel as if I’m losing a sort of connection to what I create, that being Sugarbomb, but I also want to keep developing and continuing it as it might find people that's in need to be heard, seen and loved. That's a promise I made before, to make everyone happy by the art that I create. Even if I feel demotivated to work on Sugarbomb, it's not like I'm afraid it would fall into obscurity or it wouldn't be successful enough for a release. I just hope hope hope hope that a random soul would come across my work and feel and connect with Sugarbomb. Thank you.

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For the writing I looked a little into Ticket’s character, and decided that this story that I've conceptualized for him is mostly final. I won’t give you hints but what I do know is that it's hidden in plain sight already!

Okay, just this once I will talk a little bit about Finnegan, because he also has a group of foxes with him. You would possibly know which foxes I'm referring to! I’m excited to work on them!!! (Not because they are foxes or Im very biased towards them totally) I won’t say too much about the group although they are called ‘The Paw’ and they seem to be a bit lost currently.. But it's fine because they're a family run boutique! Speaking of groups, there is also another group that I'm going to show although I'm not gonna show much as well! You would be surprised that someone comes back… Although in a more different form.

This may be a bit different from what it was based off of, not that you know much of it though! So I wouldn't worry too much about it. And for the long awaited, POPCORN’S THEME!!!

I feel like a smidge of it is still subject to change, but not much! I know Ive been saying this so much in our dev logs but Im not going to show much of the process of how I made Popcorn's theme because it ties with his story.

If you were to ask my favorite part, its the middle section of the third part where its all loud or something! I also keep making my music feel like they're battle themes! I cant help it! This track is inspired by 'dancing around in circles until my little feet fall off' by spellcasting! I tried to make it sound very silly, but too silly! Or something,,, idk ask popcorn!!! I'm very proud of this one, felt like I've improved from my past songs that I've shared here.

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Piano is not here today, although I will be speaking in behalf of her progress! Piano has told me about her development process. She said that she is working on battle checks, planning it to check every frame to see if the squishee that's currently their turn had chosen their move. If successful, it will change to the next squishee in the order.  She thinks that it shouldn't take too long, taking a couple of tries to make it work.

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