Wow, I have a headache, but at least the rain will help me go to sleep.
Cool, waited a comically long time for a new devlog as promised*
Development has been going pretty well! The last few months have been a combination of tightening up design decision (that'll be an ongoing thing), some new systems and breaking old ones, as well as making a ton of tools to make life easier. We've also been doing a lot of SPOILER so, hard to show and...
(Also meant to upload these here with a small blog post but the Unity stuff happened as well, maybe Ill talk about that later lol)
((Also I'm writing it a second time because Patreon's autosave feature apparently gave up on this post 30 minutes in so I'm rewriting it as two posts))
Firstly, wanted to talk about the new-ish cutscene system that the game's using. It's a custom framework of sorts that uses Yarn Spinner (from the devs behind Night in the Woods).
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2023-10-05 02:28:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Carlos Eiene (Insaneintherain) recorded himself using Shadow Clone Jutsu.
"The Wind is Howling" is one of the battle themes in the game, and you will hear it in the Wind Domain
I went to Burbank a couple of months ago and did an interview with Justin Woodward to talk about Breeze and stuff, along with showing off our publisher announcement! Watch me survive an interview!
2023-05-21 00:47:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Well! You've probably seen this by now if you've followed other channels, but we've dropped a publisher announcement trailer a couple of days ago!
My notifications and mentions have been destroyed over the last couple of days for sure, but the reception and congrats have been wonderful! I've been holding on to the news for quite some time now (sorry for the slow down of posts!) but that's now out of the way!
2023-05-21 00:26:06 +0000 UTC
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We're still alive! (Nice)
Been mostly posting small updates via Twitter (which is still alive for now), while contemplating what is post-able as we're charting the lands of the Spoiler Realm lately
You might have noticed: New Logo unlocked!
2022-11-21 05:55:04 +0000 UTC
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(Obligatory mention of how it's hot like, everywhere on earth right now.)
Anyway, I thought I wrote a devlog about how we changed up Burney's design for a second time, but apparently not, so free real estate here!
Burney's original design was really cool, but it also become one of the first designs to get an overhaul when we looked at how we could simplify our animation pipeline.
2022-08-12 04:08:10 +0000 UTC
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Yet another animation showcase! Featuring Frost, Weston, Biggy, B.B., Cumuli, Easton and Lanky ~
These animations are mostly either tiedown or cleaned! We've done a LOT of animation work in the last couple months, so decided to showcase a few!
Figured I could probably try something out here!
Consider these types of posts as stocking stuffers between Devlogs (and because I didn't want to make the last devlog any longer than it already was).
Demonstrated above are various animations in various stages:
It’s been a while since I did one of these larger devlogs.
As of writing this, I actually had to go back and check the last one to really process what all has gone on since then!
*checks*
Yeah... so the last one was back in October!
Might be best if I bullet some highlights for myself (and as a preemptive TL;DR summary for this blog post):
"READY FOR A LIGHTSHOW?!"
Meet Shock, the Storm Supervisor for Thunderstorms.
Shifting from strict to nonsensical in the flip of a switch, she somewhat unpredictable, and there’s never a dull moment when she’s around.
2022-04-16 22:10:28 +0000 UTC
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Wow I'm dumb, I missed Feb...
(let's try not to do that again)
Anyway, it's Green Day, so here's a fun present!
Rain 2.0. He's greener (i think) and maybe howdy-er (not sure how to measure that) but yeah! We're still working on updating model sheets for a lot of character sprites, and decided to give him an upgrade, which took a while, but pretty happy with how he turned out!
Ok...
It's been quite the month, to say the least!
After the holidays, I got pretty sick (as well as a lot of other friends and teammates), so I feel like nearly everyone I know was not having the best start of the year health wise :P. I was done for at least a week :(
I also just left the hospital, having been there for my mother this week (she's doing MUCH better now) and I'll play nurse over the weekend ~
I hope no one got coal!
(Unless you want coal, which is... umm... you do you)
We've been excited to show this off! Check out our new teaser!
Remember when I mentioned in the last blog post about it being hard to show stuff last month? Yeah, this was the reason! We were a part of the MIX livestream today, which showcased over 80+ games over 3 hours!
We we're the second to last to be shown, so the hype was real (even for us!)
We're really proud of the progress made the last few months, and as you can see, the game is really shaping up!
Thank you ...
2021-11-13 23:21:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Updated model sheets for you and your friends!
For animation purposes, we've updated Breeze's model sheets to include 120% more cuteness. Also, Pile showed up to the photoshoot, so we took updated pictures of him as well.
2021-11-08 18:59:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah... so everything we worked on this month has been [spoiler after spoiler], so this next update was bound to be tricky ~
Fortunately, I have a few things I can show.
Starting off, we're finishing up a deadline [today], and have a Build worth showing to Humble ~ (for context, see Devlog #8). It's been a hectic few months, especially after needi...
2021-10-31 22:45:35 +0000 UTC View Post
T.O said, “Pollution Powers, Make up!”, and spun a few times in his room while changing his clothes, and now he looks different.
Oh, also, he was listening to this song on his cassette pla...
2021-10-01 00:34:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Look, a Cat. Theme is by Alan Gee!
Hey all! I meant to update about this a couple of days ago, but yeah, moving destroyed me!
As you might have seen in the last update (as well as some one off tweets and scattered messages on Discord), I've been moving into my new home over the last couple weeks (and tidying up the last place to get my inflated deposit back).
I'm now fully moved in and unboxing stuff, as well as all the other post move activities. I have a semblance of an office setup in the meantime, and a t...
2021-08-03 16:16:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Are you ready to FIGHT?!
This is Condense - the battle theme for Cloud Domain. I am ALWAYS down to write danceable battle themes, and this one is the real sauce. inspired by 90s garage and house. enjoy!!
- Tudd
Well, since you still can't upload multiple videos on Patreon, I'm doing this ;)
I posted it on twitter a week ago and forgot to do so here, so here you go for those who didn't see it!
I also wanted to mention that due to feedback from both my dev peers (as well as the team themselves), we'll be taking things slow this coming month in order to recharge for a bit!
I'll also be moving (hopefully for sure this time) in the middle/end of next month, along with some other ob...
2021-06-27 23:11:51 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a very busy few months as the team worked hard to meet some internal deadlines!
Because of all this extra work, we've managed to really tighten up in a lot of areas, especially on the animation clean front, as well as making some game design changes as we started to look at how to balance certain parts of the game's combat and AI.
Balancing
(Not even gonna lie, I almost forgot to get a post done in time, but trust there's a really good reason that you'll find out in the future...)
I have no clue what the above image is for...
Whose room is this?
2021-06-01 04:59:23 +0000 UTC
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Maybe one day, Patreon will allow me to embed multiple video clips into a single post, but until that day, I will be able to cheat and make multiple devlogs in one day ~
Anywho, another new background? A train? Who let a raggoon on a train? (it's not illegal or anything, it's just, why would you let one on? Did they pay fare? [is there a fare?])
Also, new Breeze animations too.
Yeah... so this was an animation heavy month for us, though we did manage to get some AI stuff done as well. Not showing all that off cause it's like, boring State Machine and behavior tree related things....
I lied, I did a video this time (lol). The video in this post mostly demonstrates some basic AI and mob movement behaviors, simple "Seeking" logic with some movement variation, as well as backing off occasionally from the player.
The AI also knows when another AI ...
2021-05-01 02:49:39 +0000 UTC View Post
So! For those who missed out on it via Twitter and Discord, we had a pretty fun April Fools joke this year (that went on for like most of the morning/afternoon)!
Haven't quite seen anyone (at least in the indie space) do a gacha theme, so jumped at it!
I came up with the idea late Feb and passed it along to the team, and for the most part, we just kept expanding silly ideas on it until choose this one: superheroes and villains!
2021-04-03 18:50:38 +0000 UTC
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It's Lid Kid! The Kid with a Lid!
Despite the lid on their head, they don't kid!
The kid's got little paws, but with gloves, they'll stay hid!
You wanna see them? No Way! We forbid!
2021-04-01 01:09:31 +0000 UTC
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Oh, yeah, forgot Feb ends on the 28th~
Quite the month it's been! It went by VERY quickly, but nonetheless, a very productive month, outside of some craziness.
The tricky part of this devlog this time around is that almost everything that's been worked on is... kinda of a spoiler again :I.
Pre-emptive apologies for the the short length of this post. I'll make up for it in the future ~
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2021-03-01 04:56:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hmm, if the short Raggoon is called “Shorty”, then the big Raggoon must be called… “Biggy”?
(Designed by Clipey!)
Biggy is a large concentration of particulate matter, (more than a Shorty), and they’re also a little more docile and reserved; they're not seemingly aggressive (...
2021-01-29 17:51:02 +0000 UTC View Post