Ferret Tufts | Patreon Weekly #308

Hey Patrons! In this weekly I’m going to show off a new trinket coming in v3.1!

This weekly also includes an audio Q&A! You can find audio timestamps at the end of this weekly.

A New Trinket

While new items didn’t do spectacularly in the most recent polls, I have had this one in my head for a little while, and so dedicated a little time to adding it in v3.1. It’s a new trinket with more of a cute aesthetic this time. It’s a little reference to a favourite ferret.

Gameplay-wise this trinket is another combat modifier, a little bit like the clover, but affecting accuracy instead of damage ranges. The player gets a sort of discount ring of evasion effect, but in exchange enemies get some more evasion too! I expect experienced players are going to really like this trinket, as it nicely ties into ignoring enemy evasion via positioning, abilities, or magic.

I’m still toying with the exact numbers on the effect, I suspect 25/15% per level might be a bit much, but previously it was 10/5% and the trinket barely felt like it was doing anything. There’s a fine balance here between making the trinket not generally bad, impactful feeling, but also not so pronounced that builds which ignore acc (e.g. wands) benefit hugely from it.

I’m pretty happy with how the sprite turned out, but as usual it took a little while to get there. It’s been a little while since I showed off an art process, so I made sure to capture it with this one. Here’s the major steps I took to make a ferret tuft sprite that didn’t look like garbage:

• looks like a rolled up scroll, scrapped

• reminds me of a cheese string, scrapped

• tried shading using smaller shapes put together, reminds me of a bushel of wheat, that's closer at least

• fattened the bottom, trimmed the tips, and shuffled around pixels using RNG, starting to look like fur!

• had the idea for a cute bow instead of just a band

• cleaned up bow's shading, ditched the bow tails (not enough space to convey them clearly)

• made the pixel noise a lot more purposeful, better conveyance of shape

• final color pass, increased the fur contrast a bit and made the bow look more limey. done!

Audio Timestamps

This month there were 23 questions from 8 different Patrons.

• 0:08 "How is you? Also, Hah! Beat radiant!" - Octavia

• 1:15 "I will capture your remaining rook with my bishop! will you deal a returning blow with your own?" - radiantchaos

  

• 1:40 "If you had to rock paper scissors your favourite discord members, how many games do you think it take for you to lose?" - Chewyou

• 2:54 "Ultra-futuristic question, but when Shattered Pixel dungeon is "complete", what do you want to do? Apply for a dev-role at a game-dev company? Make a new game in a new Genre?" - Raynuva

• 4:20 "Adding to this, what is your "final" idea for Shattered, as in an endgame goal" - Octavia

• 5:37 "who is your favorite character in enter the gungeon?" - radiantchaos

• 7:07 "What's your favourite Pokemon?" - Chewyou

• 8:08 "How's the weather for you right now? For me it's been super nice. Sunny, but not too hot, and a nice breeze." - Terry

• 8:31 "Thoughts on the trap mechanism allowing enemies to step on hidden traps? " - #1 ring of force stan

• 9:42 "Expansion on a previous question I had; what item from shattered would be the most practical for you to own irl? (If a ring or artifact, imagine it's +2-5). While a ring of might may make you very strong how useful is that in our world in our era? Would a wealth ring make you find money on the ground or do I still have to kill things for it to work?" - #1 ring of force stan

• 11:12 "What do you think of this completely sweet and innocent man (that looks oddly like john waters) who's definitely not a sadistic fish demon who shows people their past trauma" - Octavia

  

• 13:00 "Are you planning to vote in our current federal election? Not who you're voting for, I know people get particular about that part." - Chewyou

• 13:38 "Who do you think is the hardest champion enemy to deal with? I have a real problem with the fire flies." - Chewyou

• 14:33 "Could you find potions or strength/scrolls of upgrade outside of the dungeon? if so how much of a commodity/rarity would they be?" - vivination

• 15:44 "What your favorite place you've visited? Could be anywhere. (Local, out of state/country) Also, where would you want to visit in the future?" - Terry

• 17:15 "Is the main religion in the SHPD universe polytheistic?" - Octavia

• 18:53 "Are most effects in the game (for example, evasion) additive or multiplicative? Case dependent?" - Veek

• 20:01 "As Shattered Pixel Dungeon is the... great-grandchild?... of the original Rogue, what Rogue-Likes have you enjoyed playing (given they are cousins and all that)?" - Raynuva

• 21:25 "As a follow-up, how many nods to these games would you consider adding to Shattered?" - Raynuva

• 22:31 "What is the average floor to ceiling height of each reigon? Asking because I want to build it in minecraft" - Octavia

• 23:27 "As a (former, possibly returning) Warframe player, what Warframe (did) do you enjoy playing the most?" - Raynuva

• 25:09 "What do you think of my halloween costume from last year?" - Octavia

  

• 25:57 "What's your favorite planet?" - Octavia