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Dreambrush is a pixel art platformer set in a fantasy image editor. Your art helper avatar helps you along your journey to fix your corrupted art project. The game can be played with gamepad, mouse + keyboard, and even a drawing tablet!
Update 1: When the player uses different paint color abilities in Dreambrush, their outfit changes too!
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super creative idea 👍
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Thanks! Here's a stress test I did of the paint recently
https://twitter.com/codestarcreates/status/1601962295264825345?s=46&t=XeBrSa2aEXlPsG_7AhK2Mw
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Update 2:
All colors are implemented!
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are other weapons planned as well? like a color grenade ... that splatter effect for sure would look nice
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Yeah, I've got a few things planned. Many color or drawing tool themed.
Update 3: I've got around to adding some placeholder sprites to illustrate the player character's range of movement.
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Update 4: Been working towards getting the movement to feel good in the character controller.
Dreambrush (Platformer in an imaginary image editor)
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The great thing about having stick figure enemies in your game is that they are really easy to animate quickly for testing
👉 😏 👉
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Not a gameplay update, but I'm stupidly happy that I was able to use decorators in TS on my entities to generate tiled object definitions in json.
What this means is I'll be able to annotate my entities properties that I use in tiled and auto generate an object-types.json file with all of them each time I build.
So now my entities in TS will just get auto populated into tiled! 
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Best part is that the decorators don't modify the bundled code, the esbuild plugin just strips them out at runtime. This is the library I used
https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/decky
As a gameplay update, I got some of my old enemy ai logic added back in. Fights are starting to feel like fights now!
worthy acorn
i simply love that radial menu. that fits the game style so well. whats the purpose of the chosen color?
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Changes your characters abilities. Kind of like MegaMan abilities
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Update: Moving paintable platforms!
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Update: Been messing around with platforms, effects, and the mouse/tablet controls.
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Update: You want doors and switches? CAUSE WE GOT EM! (and destructible blocks 💥 )
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Dreambrush Update! Paint shots can flip switches to doors/other things and now there are paint bumpers that will shoot paint in whatever direction they are pointing when you shoot paint at them.
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I found a neat little emergent gameplay behavior last night. Seems the loose paint splatters from your ground pound trigger switches too! Gonna try to build some level features around this.
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Update: With the eye dropper tool, you're able to steal color drops from enemies and use them for your color transform abilities!
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Update: Empty paint blocks can be filled with paint from your brush and acquire the properties of that color! Here's an example of using the construction abilities of orange to create solid platforms for enemies to land on! 👷
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I've been working on the spawn system. Now I have a system set up that will spawn waves of enemies sequentially when you defeat each group and then will unlock a door when you've beaten all of the enemy groups.
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Using the red paint color on paint blocks makes them ignite anything they touch, including enemies!
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Dreambrush Update! Painting color blocks green gives them wind properties, making them blow any character or object on top of them upward.
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Last night I had some fun playing around with how color blocks could be used with different color combinations for dealing with level obstacles or enemies.
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Dreambrush Update: I've got the Dreambrush window system working and now I've got the first pass of the level select dialog implemented!
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https://twitter.com/CodestarCreates/status/1665360813127761922?s=20
Been working on enemies lately
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https://twitter.com/CodestarCreates/status/1665997996054691841
More turkey shenanigans
