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Pilot Sprite + Random Question

It occurred to me that I never posted the finished sprite sheet for the Pilot character. So, here it is.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/577880321048182814/970513543101308938/Project_File_Fix.png

Colors and markings subject to change if needed. Might play around with it. Anyway, to get anyone confused up to speed, th...

Swiping Right on Breedr PT1

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DmUNPMfewn5h1GF7f9-lEO0UNwDBdgPwRI2KcAx-GXg/edit?usp=sharing

I might upload this soon, or wait until I have more pieces to upload together.

Slime Dungeon Updates 5/19/22

Attack anims are reset each time they play. What that means is the full anim always plays correctly, from the beginning, instead of occasionally playing starting from halfway into the animation. This also means the enemy's hurt-flash should play at the right frame of the party member's attack.

Beth's sprite now slashes twice if she attacks twice, and thrice if she attacks more than twice (to clarify, when it says "ENEMY took X damage Y times.")

Diana now shoots/slashes extra times...

Some Story Content

I recently finished this comm.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1L9Yuym0e1mGvMVswgEUf3eba0Xa5BvYeDJZlbIyleRw/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=111076935054469358119

I'm working on this 'personal'/patrons-first story

2022-05-19 15:56:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Candy Land Concept

I had this idea for a game, it'd be a RPG and whatnot of course, different from Sonderweg/Slime Dungeon since the main char would be more of a blank slate. Since the enemy sprites would be forward-facing and take up the whole screen.

You'd be a master chef in a generic fantasy-medieval-setting, yeah. The nobility extort you into going into this poorly understood parallel world of whimsy, that's full of candy and sweets and whatnot. You're told to go in, get ingredients for so...

May Poll 2

For the higher tiers that wanna vote twice.

May Story Poll

Without further delay, here's the poll for May's story-content-thingy. Short story or bad ending? It shall be a surprise!

Seekers (Tabletop Concept)

Humor this very rough idea.

You're a Seeker. You're not really any harder, better, faster, or stronger than a baseline human, even if you're furry. You don't have any special abilities. Think of yourself as a really plucky treasure hunter.

Body - Think STR, DEX, or CON.

Mind - Think INT or WIS. Most magic.

Soul - Think CHA. Some magic. Also, HP!

HP = 3 + Soul

All values typically range from -1 to +2

The abso...

Story Progress

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L9Yuym0e1mGvMVswgEUf3eba0Xa5BvYeDJZlbIyleRw/edit?usp=sharing

Gonna chip away at this story once some details are sorted out, then post & try some new slime dungeon bad ends.

Pilot Stuff

WIP Sci-fi party member

Life Updates (Billing Unpaused)

I shall try to be brief! I may have mentioned before, but late February, my car broke down and with that came a spiral of events. Essentially, I had to do 10, sometimes 15 hours of overtime each week at my already full-time job just to break even on Uber costs and attempts to repair. As a result, I was in a poor headspace and lacking time, so I wasn't able to accomplish much game or writing-wise.

Two days ago, a very generous coworker sold me their car, so now I have transpor...

Sonderweg Character Designs

Well, I already had a lot of monster sprites by another artist, but I wanted to give special attention to party member sprites and designs. So I commissioned this from Swayzie! He's a great dude and helped cheer me on from the beginning. I love the sci-fi themed stuff he does, even if it's a little scarce @.@

Of course I'm not gonna promise being able to have him draw all sprites since party members have like 6 sprites minimum in Sonderweg and that's a lotta $, another artist...

3 (wo)man party test

Playing around with some sprites. I have yet to decide on hoss's name. Open to suggestions!

Adding Shadows

I was thinking, sprites looked out of place against the background, and realized lighting was the issue. Of course I'l probably have someone add proper cel shading to the scientist, now I have used some CSS magic to automatically create shadows for sprites. It will take a little more work to make the shadows change to match attack animations, but totally feasible. Yay!

Frontal Sprite

Not much to say!

Assorted Art Updates

Heyo, sorry for the quiet. Here are sprites for the upcoming tank character. Moreover here's a background for the sci-fi game's swamp setting. (Different artists, I already have free backgrounds for Slime Dungeon so I didn't see any need to commission BGs for it. But I might commission an icon artist at some point, to draw item and status icons.)

As far as how my IRL situation's going... While I was never able to fix my original car, soon I'm going to sign on to lease a new o...

Scraps of Tabletop Ideas

Excuse the presentation as this is more of a stream-of-thoughts thing as opposed to a revised thingy.

Here shall be collected thoughts and ideas for a potential tabletop setting. First, let's talk HP. After some thought, while I like HP... I figure if I would make a tf-focused tabletop, I'd probably use City of Mist's 'health' system. Wherein instead of HP, there's status effects and similar status effects stack onto each other. And once a status effect reaches a certain amou...

New Sprite Test

I'll need to take some time to figure out her moveset, but the idle pose is done. Will need to work with MG on the attack poses.

Third Party Member Sprite

Work in progress...

Small Hiatus

Due to some life stuff, I shall be taking a breather to catch up on obligations. It's just a comm and a freebie request, but I feel like I'm not being responsible if I don't fulfill those soon. In the meantime, I shall pause billing here until I can post a significant Slime Dungeon (or other game) update.

Don't worry, this doesn't mean I'm melting down or going away or anything like that. I'm still working with the artists that create game assets, commissioning new things in ...

Sprite/BG Update

Here's the base Blackbird sprite, in-game it will be tinted black (to match the description). I will see if I can get a version with more highlights/shadows, feels a little flat compared to the other sprites, but I'm pretty satisfied. Anyway, I also have the finished BG for the sci-fi game, this is not the full rez but you get the idea. There are a few alternate palette versions as well, for when a more exotic/alien planet vibe is needed.

The sprite is not live yet, and you only see it ...

General Updates

Rough base for Blackbird sprite https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/580588200918253578/945786072573567017/Screenshot_20220222-160927.png

Jungle Planet Background Update https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachm...

Planet Verdana's Jungle (Sonderweg BG)

WIP by Gahi

I have not forgotten about my scifi project and intend to begin work in earnest by Summer! In the meantime, I'm commissioning a few artists on the side, so I'll have a lot of assets to work with by then.

This BG will be rather common to see on Verdana, as it's a jungle planet. It's actually large enough, and the in-game viewport is small enough, that I could probably get away with cutting it up into a few pieces and using those as separate BGs. The foreground will be r...

New Fight + Loss

Story

You can now 'destroy' the nature room, and will need to do so in order to weaken Part 1's boss. (That is, the process involved to weaken its connection to nature is more involved than just 'visit nature room' now). This will also unlock a new area.

Mimic can now be encountered in Part 1.

New Content
New enemy (Tentaworm) and loss. First you must destroy the nature room in order to encounter it. Pretty hard fight.

These will changes will b...

Added some sound effects (Other changes and poll included)

Playable here

https://flagcatcher.itch.io/slime-proto

Sprites should 'flash' hit correctly now, and self-targets by enemies no longer register as 'hits' on allied sprites (purely cosmetic change).

AOE now makes all allied targets flash correctly. Slight change to damage system. Wipes clean last damage dealt, etc. when an attack's over. This will facilitate a sound-effect system that wi...

Sprites + Changes

Now I've made totally sure Diana cannot equip shields.

Chipping away at opening for part 2

Fully added stink salt, which cures charm/confuse/sleep/berserk

Created a shop for part 2

Regen now hurts zombies

Added 3 new endings 

Infested Diana (Ovi + a little mind control)

Rubber Goo (Turned into rubbery drone)

White Goo (Beth and Diana get melted and sculpted into, well, dicks!)

I can't give too many details about ...

General Updates

Bugs

Resist now properly breaks/reduces Enthrall

Enthrall now wears off on its own.

Fixed glitch that tried to give 'molecules' instead of nucleus

Fixed oversight that causes 'Resist'ing the Outsider to display the wrong text.

Fixed zombie interactions in battle. Now shows proper 'reversed healing' text and can proc reverse healing even if target is max HP (say in battle).

Balance

Stone Collar can only be gained by crafting Iron Collar with...

New fight + Diana rework

Fixes
Fixed paralyze, should properly count down and display, now.

Stopped bimbo from granting negative mp.

Diana

Acid Bolt now deals Water damage instead of Nature, adds Melting instead of Def Down. It was formerly redundant with the Nature dmg provided by Toxic Strike.

Cold Killer now adds a debuff (sometimes), bleeding! Felt unfun to have no debuff attached.

This overall gives Diana access to Nature dmg, Water dmg, Shock dmg, and Ice dmg. Still r...

Sprite Poll Deluxe

Premium version for Voter/Decider tiers. Still vote in the other one, of course.

Sprite Poll for February

This is instead of regular writing poll. I will continue working on the new endings and stuff.