Digital Odyssey: Clean Shift | GB Studio | Page 2

pulsar pollen Jun 12, 2025, 6:41 PM

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Awoga?

haughty garnet Jun 13, 2025, 8:58 AM

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Since people here have projects they've been working on for many years (or a decade, in the case of Eternal Memory), having a sixteen month long development cycle for my game (currently ten months) doesn't feel so bad for me

I'm working on Chapter Five but I feel like I need rework Chapter One a bit to make this one better

I'm not gonna reorder Chapters Five to Seven out of sheer laziness, but there will be dialogue and gameplay changes if you play them out of order (your chapter choice could make the other two chapters easier)

haughty garnet Jun 13, 2025, 9:13 AM

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I haven't made the galactic map yet but if it isn't clear by now, this game works a bit like the OG Star Ocean: interconnected maps with no minimap
Thankfully there's a lot less backtracking

haughty garnet Jun 16, 2025, 1:31 PM

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Not dead but I've been away from home the whole weekend and friday
Gonna lock in to finish Chapter Five, needs a few more enemies

haughty garnet Jun 19, 2025, 12:58 PM

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Gotta speed up development so I'm gonna have to make some cuts and changes

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For example, vending machines will no longer be interactable objects since they effectively replace inns and were always designed as background decorations

pulsar pollen Jun 20, 2025, 5:13 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/waaa-gif-9106407282540049296

Tenor

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No vending machine

rain thorn Jun 20, 2025, 5:18 PM

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I understand why you did the same in this situation, but the one thing I didn't really like about chrono trigger was the lack of interactable objects.

haughty garnet Jun 21, 2025, 4:15 PM

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I like to do these, this time a bit more realistic

Development Completion:
CH1 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🏁
CH2 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🏁
CH3 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🏁
CH4 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH5 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH6 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH7 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
CH8 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH9 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
CH10 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
CH11 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
CH12 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛

haughty garnet Jun 21, 2025, 4:58 PM

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Added a new enemy for Chapter Five and slowly the rest of Terranova and its cutscenes
It'll probably be the first chapter I get to finish in a long time
Not super confident on what the quality of the dialogue will be

Pics and vids will come later

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To be frank, Chapter Three (the one where you escape the Pynzers) is currently my favorite chapter of the game
Chapter One is more of a tutorial and Chapter Two still needs a lot of TLC, I'm kind of ashamed of how I shipped it in the Demo

pulsar pollen Jun 23, 2025, 12:02 AM

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haughty garnet I like to do these, this time a bit more realistic Development Completion: CH1 ...

You made a F

haughty garnet Jun 23, 2025, 1:31 AM

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rat mafia castle test

haughty garnet Jun 23, 2025, 2:43 AM

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pulsar pollen Jun 23, 2025, 8:34 AM

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mannyi1Eye oh wow.....

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Hold up is he nak-

haughty garnet Jun 23, 2025, 11:24 AM

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That is a mystery I cannot reveal yet.

pulsar pollen Jun 23, 2025, 4:06 PM

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haughty garnet *That is a mystery I cannot reveal yet.*

Mystery more like I don't want to break TOS

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mansterzsLMAO

haughty garnet Jun 23, 2025, 4:07 PM

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pulsar pollen Mystery more like I don't want to break TOS

Souls do not have gender but can possess human-like forms.

haughty garnet Jun 23, 2025, 4:30 PM

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WIP Galaxy Map
The purple parts will be the asteroid belts and there are two planets that aren't accessible in the game (story reasons)

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Some of these letters correspond to space stations, like Terranova

haughty garnet Jun 28, 2025, 12:25 AM

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me when uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

haughty garnet Jun 29, 2025, 10:59 PM

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It's funny how with the power of Furnace Tracker in my hands the rest of the tracks sound a little less impressive (because there were made with the built-in tracker, which isn't as good)
That's mainly because of the weak percussion, I'm gonna put the new bass drums and kicks from Reign of Hatred into the rest of the soundtrack

Also Pearl Coast is getting more fleshed out

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...completely forgot about this minigame, dang it

haughty garnet Jul 1, 2025, 10:02 AM

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As I'm writing the dialogue, it's clear that Chapter Four will be the comedic chapter

haughty garnet Jul 1, 2025, 11:30 AM

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I'm tempted to redraw most (if not all) locations to optimize tile usage and make the game look better in some parts

haughty garnet Jul 1, 2025, 12:18 PM

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For example, the alien palm trees in Yangamaya look a bit awkward to look at, specially in Color due to the color bleed (the tiles use all four colors per tile)
In contrast, the pines of Ganood have a nice contrast between the lighter leaves and the darker stump

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To be fair, that palm tree design is a really old one

haughty garnet Jul 2, 2025, 5:05 PM

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Yangamaya rework done

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It's not perfect but it's leagues above the original

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I redrew nearly every single scene in Yangamaya, mainly to reduce the amount of unique tiles in them
The tileset is still huge (253 tiles), so this is more of a "eh, why not" thing than an optimization or storage thing

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I could condense all of the single screen scenes into one big scene, for the same reason:
Because I can (and it looks more tidy)

haughty garnet Jul 4, 2025, 7:33 PM

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No exams left now, but the heat is making me very slooooow
I haven't picked up the PC since yesterday

weary seal Jul 4, 2025, 8:33 PM

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it's suuuper hot where I am too, I completely get you; our work computers are upstairs and neither me or my wife want to go lol

pulsar pollen Jul 5, 2025, 11:36 AM

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And even your computer doesn't want to be on because he will be screaming in pain

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Neither the fan is enough to cool him

haughty garnet Jul 5, 2025, 12:57 PM

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At last, fresh air

pulsar pollen Jul 5, 2025, 6:47 PM

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haughty garnet At last, fresh air

Nah it's just hot air XD

haughty garnet Jul 6, 2025, 1:58 PM

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I don't know what Field Ability Ralphina will have
The first one was breaking walls with bombs, but it wasn't much in her character so I gave that ability to Rexford (he uses his fists instead)
The other was repairing objects, which while it does fit with her being a mechanic, it's a boring ability that screams "throwaway idea"

Instead, she could throw and push blocks of ice (like Kickle Cubicle), I wonder how I could pull that off in GBS

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For context:
Scrappy mops hurting tiles (like broken glass).
Maroon stuns (most) enemies.
Yaejani cuts down plants and cables.
Rexford breaks things with his fists.

They're all meant to spice up dungeons

haughty garnet Jul 6, 2025, 3:02 PM

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I feel a bit overwhelmed with Chapter Four, maybe because of the size of it:
Santarina is a huge city, you take the metro to a huge baseball stadium, then you get marooned (bah-dum-tss) in a huge desert and you return to the city through currently undecided means to fly to the Rangers' outer space base

haughty garnet Jul 6, 2025, 3:17 PM

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Also I'm tempted to redo the entire soundtrack in Furnace Tracker

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And maybe a new demo because the original one just isn't as good

pulsar pollen Jul 7, 2025, 9:23 PM

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haughty garnet Also I'm tempted to *redo the entire soundtrack* in Furnace Tracker

Are you sure....

haughty garnet Jul 7, 2025, 9:34 PM

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nah, just the percussion

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although any new songs will be made with Furnace
I can't stand using the built-in tracker

short marsh Jul 7, 2025, 9:55 PM

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You gonna be using fur2uge?

haughty garnet Jul 7, 2025, 9:57 PM

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Uh huh

short marsh Jul 7, 2025, 9:59 PM

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I see

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Do you just prefer working in Furnace or is it something else?

haughty garnet Jul 7, 2025, 10:15 PM

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Preference, it's much more capable

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I started making music with Famitracker and then I jumped to Furnace
The built-in one and hUGEtracker feel very janky

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I'm planning on replacing the main battle theme, Duel, because it pretty much is a placeholder track
Even with flourishes it wasn't meant to stick around for that long

short marsh Jul 7, 2025, 10:24 PM

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haughty garnet Preference, it's much more capable

But wouldn't it be boiled down to hUGE standards at the end of the day anyway? Or does it genuinely sound better ingame?

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hUGE is easy enough for me to use but it's been getting annoying with all the clicking when I change volume

haughty garnet Jul 7, 2025, 10:25 PM

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short marsh But wouldn't it be boiled down to hUGE standards at the end of the day anyway? O...

The issue isn't how it sounds, but the process of making the songs
I make the songs with the sound driver limitations in mind, including the 64Hz tempo increase (which actually makes them sound more energetic)

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Both Furnace and hUGEtracker sound the same, but I'd much prefer Furnace's extra tools and flexibility

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Although since most of these songs need better percussion, I can use the GBS tracker

short marsh Jul 7, 2025, 10:40 PM

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Subpatterns are the key to making that percussion work

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7 bit noise is also very underrated

haughty garnet Jul 7, 2025, 10:46 PM

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This is my secret sauce for good percussion:
I use B5 for Bass Drums and B4 for Kick Drums
Because of the way the subpattern works, higher notes sustain the hissing part of the drum less, while lower notes sound crunchier

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I found a way to make good, single-channel Game Boy percs
My other game, Millennium Gun, has more of a Sunsoft flair (although I was inspired to make it sound like that from the Xerd no Densetsu OST), so it sacrifices the Wave channel for the punchier part of the drums

short marsh Jul 7, 2025, 10:50 PM

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Should give that a spin

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This is my secret sauce #audio-help message

haughty garnet Jul 7, 2025, 11:00 PM

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Here's what the Amen Break sounds like, with only the Noise channel
(the cymbals are simple short decay instruments)

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In Furnace the drums are E3 and E2, but in GBS it's B5 and B4

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Due to the way the two trackers handle noise note inputs

haughty garnet Jul 8, 2025, 2:47 AM

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WIP galaxy map

haughty garnet Jul 9, 2025, 2:10 PM

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making the caves

haughty garnet Jul 9, 2025, 10:55 PM

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Soundtrack tweak finished, time to make some new songs
I've still got to redo an exam gb_skull but that won't impact development

haughty garnet Jul 10, 2025, 1:25 AM

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Better looking asteroid belt and a portion of the near-finalized cave

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Tomorrow I'll start making the town tileset for Ganood

haughty garnet Jul 10, 2025, 4:03 PM

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Template for Ganood house interiors

pulsar pollen Jul 10, 2025, 7:14 PM

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This guy is a machine

haughty garnet Jul 12, 2025, 5:27 PM

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When the weather turns you into a popsicle, your best shot at surviving is underground

haughty garnet Jul 19, 2025, 11:58 AM

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No updates, been out of town

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I wonder why some of y'all have compared this game to Undertale
Like, I get the comparisons and I've played it too (up until halfway through Snowdin, I haven't beaten it yet) but I dunno if there's anything extra that got into this one subconsciously
Because I'm making this game more with Mystic Quest and MegaTen as inspirations
The player's actions don't really change the narrative, I didn't plan the game with that in mind, and if I did it would've looked way, way different

haughty garnet Jul 20, 2025, 5:04 PM

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Crazy idea: join all of the single screen scenes into one

woven sorrel Jul 20, 2025, 5:30 PM

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haughty garnet I wonder why some of y'all have compared this game to Undertale Like, I get the ...

To be honest, I don't quite see it either, but I think it's just because of the general vibe. Maybe it's because the art style is kinda similar~ish to what you'd find in UT I guess ? I, personally, see FF/MQ way more that Undertale but ehh ¯_(ツ)_/¯

weary seal Jul 20, 2025, 6:03 PM

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I think it seems """quirky""" to an extent, and I feel like there's a subsect of the gaming community who have only experienced UT as a """quirky""" title. I don't personally think UT first thing when looking at your game.

pulsar pollen Jul 21, 2025, 3:50 PM

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haughty garnet Crazy idea: join all of the single screen scenes into one

Crazy perhaps clinically insane

haughty garnet Jul 21, 2025, 7:57 PM

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haughty garnet Crazy idea: join all of the single screen scenes into one

Worked out well, finished the house interiors for Yangamaya (except the Mall because it's a dungeon)
Now I'm gonna do the same to Terranova and Pacifica

haughty garnet Jul 22, 2025, 3:02 AM

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Making the rest of the Terranova station (for Chapter 5)
Medical and Trading sectors

haughty garnet Jul 24, 2025, 12:56 AM

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I just finished a major cutscene but it is HEAVY spoiler material
So I'm not going to show it...

Let's just say that there was darkness the half-blind wolf couldn't see.

haughty garnet Jul 24, 2025, 2:20 AM

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Development Completion:
CH1 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🏁 ⭐
CH2 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🏁 ⭐
CH3 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🏁 ⭐
CH4 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH5 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
CH6 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH7 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH8 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH9 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
CH10 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
CH11 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
CH12 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛

Game Completion: Around 60%

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While not very accurate, the blocks give a feel for what's left to add
The stars means that the chapter is completely done, no more changes will be made in it

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The middle has a lot of reused scenery from the first three chapters, CH8 is rather short and only the shmup level and wild west towns are left to add there

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CH4 and CH9 are going to be longer than the others, which is why they haven't advanced much in development

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Once CH2 gets the ⭐, I'll make a new demo to replace the old, not very good demos

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Sounds strange, but there's only around four months left until the end of the year, and I'm confident I can finish this game before Christmas
(not sure about releasing on Halloween, that's a bit of a stretch)

haughty garnet Jul 24, 2025, 1:46 PM

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Gonna experiment with GBVM to see if I can improve the battle system flow on Monochromes
Because it stutters a lot

haughty garnet Jul 25, 2025, 2:20 AM

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Well I learned a different way to do tileswapping, but the improvements are very slight
I have to look deeper into my Battle System code, it can't be just the tileswapping
(although tomorrow I'll try to disable all of the tileswap events to see if that's the root of the stuttering)

haughty garnet Jul 25, 2025, 2:14 PM

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Saving this for later...

VM_SET_CONST VAR_TEMPCOUNT, 0
draw_loop = .
VM_GET_TILE_XY VAR_TEMPTILE, VAR_TEMPX, VAR_TEMPY
VM_REPLACE_TILE VAR_TEMPTILE, ___bank_tileset_font, _tileset_font, VAR_TEMPTILESET, 1
; BG Tile Index, Tileset Bank, Tileset,
; Tileset Tile Index (start), 
; Tileset Tile Index (end), 
VM_RPN ; Notation Polish Reverse
; Increment TEMPX
  .R_REF VAR_TEMPX
  .R_INT8 1
  .R_OPERATOR .ADD
  .R_REF_SET VAR_TEMPX
; Increment TEMPCOUNT
  .R_REF VAR_TEMPCOUNT
  .R_INT8 1
  .R_OPERATOR .ADD
  .R_REF_SET VAR_TEMPCOUNT
  .R_STOP
VM_IF_CONST .NE, VAR_TEMPCOUNT, 8, draw_loop, 0
; If it's not 8, GO TO the label```

haughty garnet Jul 25, 2025, 5:16 PM

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The game's entire movelist, gonna experiment with this tileset

short marsh Jul 25, 2025, 6:10 PM

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Oh that's really cool

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I love how the icon is part of the name, might have to nab that

haughty garnet Jul 25, 2025, 6:31 PM

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Holy cow the GBVM method is REALLY FAST

haughty garnet Jul 25, 2025, 6:32 PM

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haughty garnet The game's entire movelist, gonna experiment with this tileset

Even better, I can use the tileset as a text field
No more copy-pasted tileswap events, just one that handles them all

haughty garnet Jul 25, 2025, 11:57 PM

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I've already saved like 10k from my game from just changing two of the custom scripts to GBVM equivalents

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Awesome

haughty garnet Jul 26, 2025, 12:55 AM

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The damage and health display scripts still need the new method, but combat is no longer sluggish in Monochrome!

Overworld encounters are still laggy though (OnUpdate shenanigans) but thanks to Script Locking they don't move during the battle transition animation

EDIT: All display scripts have been updated

haughty garnet Jul 26, 2025, 12:59 AM

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short marsh I love how the icon is part of the name, might have to nab that

I nabbed that from Final Fantasy Legend, really handy technique for short strings

haughty garnet Jul 28, 2025, 10:59 PM

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venting

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makai toushi saga lookin-ahh dungeon

haughty garnet Jul 29, 2025, 2:15 AM

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Chapter Five is kind of close to completion, nice
I've got the enemies ready, I just need to draw the rest of the station and stage the cutscenes

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I need to think well about the writing because it's gonna be a mild tonal shift
And also add more janitorial stuff to the game

dreamy igloo Jul 29, 2025, 4:57 AM

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This looks pretty cool ngl

haughty garnet Jul 29, 2025, 8:38 PM

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Gave Ralphina what she needed the most - a grappling hook!

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Now all characters have a Field Ability

short marsh Jul 29, 2025, 8:47 PM

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What waveform are you using for the bass? I really like it

haughty garnet Jul 29, 2025, 9:02 PM

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short marsh What waveform are you using for the bass? I really like it

short marsh Jul 29, 2025, 9:02 PM

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Hella

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So it's like a doubled sine wave?

haughty garnet Jul 29, 2025, 9:04 PM

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Sort of, it's an unique sound
You tend to see this waveform in Konami's MSX games, whenever they use the SCC sound chip, hence the name

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Although it's also a waveform used in PC Engine games

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https://youtu.be/6bRSbulIC7o

YouTube

72WaysToBlastAChip

TG-16/PC Engine: Bomberman - Soundtrack (HuC6280) - Oscilloscope View

OMG IS BOMBERMAN
Who is Bomberman?

European Version Title: Dyna Blaster
Released Date: December 7th, 1990
Released by: Hudson Soft
Soundtrack Composers: Jun Chikuma
Sound Programmer: Keita Hoshi
Sound chips used in this game:
HuC6280 (6-channel wavetable sound chip, supports stereo panning)

Timestamp:
00:00 01. Title
00:20 02. End Story
00:...

▶ Play video

haughty garnet Jul 30, 2025, 12:24 AM

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Other than the Casino (which is for a later chapter), all of Terranova's scenes have been made

Tomorrow I'll handle the NPCs, enemies and cutscenes - and after that CH5 will be finished

haughty garnet Jul 30, 2025, 1:01 AM

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It took this long to get here because of college and getting burnt out from exams and studying
The next uni year will have a lot more classes so I don't know how much of the game I will be able to work on, gonna try to have most of the important things done during August

But I think after finishing this game, I'll never make another game under a deadline (unless it's a game jam)

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No deadlines gives me a lot more breathing room
Surprisingly I don't think a lot of ideas will be left on the cutting room floor with this game, it's looking better than I've imagined

Making your first game your passion project RPG is doable, but a pain in the neck if you've got a (self-imposed) deadline to meet

haughty garnet Jul 30, 2025, 2:14 PM

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Man, the baseball stuff is giving me such a headache...

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Not just making the minigame, but also the graphics for the stadium itself
I need to pull off an isometric angle, but my tileset and the rest of the game weren't designed with that in mind

haughty garnet Jul 30, 2025, 7:37 PM

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Going back and forward between working on CH4 and CH6's backgrounds, with some tweaks to the other ones

haughty garnet Aug 1, 2025, 3:59 PM

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I gotta manage my ambition again, the kind of thing that happens when you plan a story as you write it...

This project is nearly a year old but that was to be expected

frosty knoll Aug 1, 2025, 4:20 PM

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Game Development is time consuming, especially when you put passion into it!

haughty garnet Aug 4, 2025, 11:25 PM

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Oddly enough, GBS is not working as intended now
Troubleshooting...

haughty garnet Aug 4, 2025, 11:40 PM

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For some inexplicable reason, the Set Position event isn't working as intended
Is there a limit to that event that I don't know...?

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I've restarted my PC, reinstalled GBS, edited project files...
It really seems to be a GBS bug

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Well, I found out one of the bugs: Tiled has an Opacity option that was messing with the color interpreter

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And apparently I'm not the first to discover that Set Position just... doesn't work sometimes when calling Actors from off-screen

haughty garnet Aug 5, 2025, 1:18 AM

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Problem fixed, I'll finish the NPC dialogue for Yangamaya tomorrow
Chapter Six is mainly just a dungeon and some cutscenes, so after that I won't have to touch Yangamaya again

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And with it I can make a new demo to replace the old one

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The same can be said about Terranova: except for the Casino (CH9), all of its scenes are finished

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Hopefully to make the crunch a little smoother

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I know in my mind how the baseball stadium will look like on the inside, I'll probably shrink the scope of the baseball minigame - I'm not going to try to make a fully-fleshed game, maybe just that "bat the bombs, dodge the bombs" concept I had originally
I mean, I already have most of the assets for it, and it's just a segue into the boss battle

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The minigame doesn't follow regular baseball rules, but neither does Bang:
Bang and the Pynzer goons throw either baseballs or bombs
You have to hit the balls, missing them will give you strikes - and if the party's out, she blows up the stadium and you lose
But you have to intentionally miss the bombs they throw, so that the catcher gets knocked out and replaced with the next one - this doesn't count as a strike
If Bang's team is out of catchers (and she won't be one because she doesn't like losing), she gets mad and the boss battle begins

haughty garnet Aug 7, 2025, 1:41 AM

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the new demo is out, close to the final version
https://flightbun.itch.io/digital-odyssey-clean-shift

itch.io

[NEW DEMO] Digital Odyssey: Clean Shift by Finny (@flightbun)

The Strange Escapades of a Robot Janitor...

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Now the game is (hopefully) Monochrome compatible and with that burden gone, the rest will be quicker to make

haughty garnet Aug 8, 2025, 11:02 AM

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I'm feeling like demaking Mystic Quest

haughty garnet Aug 8, 2025, 11:59 PM

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cooking once more

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It'll be funny to add all of the spectators as background elements

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Coloring them on the other hand... gb_skull

haughty garnet Aug 9, 2025, 1:31 AM

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added the crowds

haughty garnet Aug 9, 2025, 1:59 AM

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And added the colo(u)r

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Placeholder sprites for the players, and the other characters (pictured here Rexford, Maroon and Ralphina) need "seated" sprites to look less out of place

Also no Bang and her hooligan league yet

frosty knoll Aug 9, 2025, 3:10 PM

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Oh I love it so much honestly, it feels like an alive stadium with the spectators honestly

haughty garnet Aug 10, 2025, 6:48 PM

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making the league (ft. Gnarpy)

weary seal Aug 10, 2025, 7:30 PM

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Your sprite work is impeccable

haughty garnet Aug 11, 2025, 12:06 AM

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Update to the Pearl Coast Shrine

Did you know that the Jamano (Yaejani's species) lay eggs?

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This is part of a larger scene, where most single-screen scenes were joined into one

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And now all of the players are on the field
Unfortunately, I'll have to duplicate this scene for the cutscenes since VRAM fills up quickly

But it's nothing a jump cut can't fix!

haughty garnet Aug 15, 2025, 12:53 PM

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Pausing development a bit to finish the game jam project

haughty garnet Aug 15, 2025, 6:56 PM

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Future me, remind me to not put a deadline on my next project

haughty garnet Aug 16, 2025, 7:44 PM

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Working on the final boss battle, especially on the second phase
The battle AI needs some work, it's not hard enough

short marsh Aug 16, 2025, 8:48 PM

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I'm struggling to get my head around how you pull off convincing battle AI in GBS

haughty garnet Aug 16, 2025, 9:32 PM

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RNG, Conditions and Switch Cases

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The final boss does work slightly differently

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Basically you generate a number from 1 to (number of moves the enemy uses), and then you use a Switch case to select the moves
You can also add health checks to use different moves if the enemy has low health, for example

haughty garnet Aug 17, 2025, 12:46 AM

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Hmm... I wonder how could make ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ more terrifying...

How about a bit of survival horror?

haughty garnet Aug 22, 2025, 12:30 AM

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I've been working on confidential parts of the project, mainly related to the final chapter

haughty garnet Aug 26, 2025, 11:20 AM

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Thinking about delaying the release date or removing the deadline all together
Sucks that I've already wrote in the itch page that I was gonna release the game this year...
But I doubt I'll be able to finish this in four months, we'll see

haughty garnet Aug 26, 2025, 12:12 PM

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University will start in a few weeks, that's why I'm worried

haughty garnet Aug 29, 2025, 1:08 AM

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Tomorrow I'll resume development, and I'm wondering ways to speed up my workflow

haughty garnet Aug 30, 2025, 2:29 AM

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I have returned from the crunch dungeon

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https://tenor.com/view/sleep-sleepy-head-ikea-bed-bedtime-gif-16576805

Tenor

haughty garnet Aug 31, 2025, 12:27 AM

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Alright... where was I?
Oh yeah, Chapters Four and Five

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Going from the simple code of Millennium Gun to this one, I can't tell if the code here is optimized or somewhat bloated
Then again, it's 1h40am over here, brain might not be braining

haughty garnet Aug 31, 2025, 1:47 AM

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nvm

thorn wyvern Aug 31, 2025, 6:36 AM

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BASEBALL STADIUM!

haughty garnet Aug 31, 2025, 1:55 PM

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Pre-snooze dungeon sketches

haughty garnet Sep 1, 2025, 12:59 PM

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lil' repair shop (for a sidequest)

haughty garnet Sep 3, 2025, 12:30 AM

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Forgot to show this earlier, these are all of the items from the game
The question marks are for scrapped item ideas, and a few from the first section don't quite work yet
Try to guess which ones do what!

dreamy igloo Sep 3, 2025, 12:30 PM

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You're doing great so far

haughty garnet Sep 5, 2025, 7:39 PM

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that moment when you open GBS to finish one part of the game

and then you do something else entirely in it

weary seal Sep 5, 2025, 8:03 PM

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I just got caught in that trap

haughty garnet Sep 6, 2025, 2:06 AM

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sloooooowly filling Terranova with enemies for CH5
Final boss finished but not fully tested, I could start making the end cutscene and credits too to have them already done

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Also, I'm getting rid of the non-linear progression with Chapters Five, Six and Seven, it was an idea that stuck around since the pre-alpha when I had no clue how big the game would get
If the whole game had a non-linear focus I would have done that already

haughty garnet Sep 6, 2025, 11:00 PM

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peak unproductivity

haughty garnet Sep 10, 2025, 3:59 PM

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no updates 'cus i've entered the two week minecraft phase with my mates

haughty garnet Sep 13, 2025, 9:59 PM

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Two weeks after returning to this project and not much has been added...
It be like that

haughty garnet Sep 16, 2025, 11:43 AM

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came back with a BWOOOOOOOOOONG

haughty garnet Sep 17, 2025, 11:28 PM

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My (assuming I pass everything) last year of uni is starting off well, but I'm gonna have a lot more work to do and not much free time (although its better than having only two/three classes in a whole semester)

So I might have to delay this game again, but I don't care anymore about deadlines - I've met my "have at least one game made by the end of the year" criteria
Still gonna try to make as much as possible this year, but I won't crunch it for Christmas
I also don't feel the need to post something literally every single day on these forums, y'all are still gonna check the devlog regardless if it's daily or weekly

Should probably make an itch post later

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As for actual updates:
I've changed some of the high-detail cutscenes to have a letterbox frame (saves tiles and in turn lets them be more expressive)
Chapter Four is finally getting worked on, only a few parts of Santarina are left to finish
Fixed a bug with Yaejani's Field Ability where it wouldn't cut bushes unless you held 🅱️ - that was actually a bodge because I didn't get the Projectile collisions right, but now they're fixed

haughty garnet Sep 21, 2025, 5:04 PM

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by some miracle getting a cold gave me energy to write dialogue again

about damn time for it

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also Rex needs a new avatar, it looks nothing like what the art shows

haughty garnet Sep 21, 2025, 8:34 PM

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waves slick enough to surf on

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perfect

haughty garnet Sep 22, 2025, 6:58 PM

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All of Santarina's interiors have been made, just need to add NPCs and their dialogue

Slowly but surely we get back in business

haughty garnet Sep 28, 2025, 1:59 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/pvz-plants-vs-zombies-plants-zombies-content-farm-content-gif-1240439142521757616

Tenor

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been hooked on PvZ lately, my bad

haughty garnet Sep 30, 2025, 2:04 PM

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needed a testing background for the big ahh shmup fight

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maxwell ❤️

weary seal Sep 30, 2025, 5:19 PM

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So cute!

lunar plank Sep 30, 2025, 8:28 PM

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do you think in digital version? i will buy one

haughty garnet Sep 30, 2025, 8:50 PM

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?
The game is free, and I'm not planning a physical release at the moment

haughty garnet Oct 2, 2025, 12:54 PM

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Dunno when the next update's gonna come, but I'm gonna go through another round of tileset optimizations

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And another thing, I think the soundtrack needs the drums and flair that Millennium Gun's OST had
Time to head into Furnace to rearrange them all

haughty garnet Oct 4, 2025, 10:58 AM

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Been thinking about the state of this game's development, and I think some changes need to be made:

The story will now be told in ten chapters instead of twelve for pacing reasons (some parts I had little to go off of)
The intro to Chapter Two still bugs me because of how many people couldn't get/find to the cutscene trigger (the last beach towel to the left), so I'm making it a scripted cutscene and Scrappy will move by himself

Again, no self-imposed deadline this time

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Development Completion:
CH1 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🏁 ⭐
CH2 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🏁 ⭐
CH3 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🏁 ⭐
CH4 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH5 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
CH6 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH7 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH8 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
CH9 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
CH10 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛

marsh goblet Oct 5, 2025, 10:31 PM

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10 chapters is insane

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please finish this

haughty garnet Oct 6, 2025, 1:00 PM

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Gonna take a while but I surely will

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The chapters are just for organizing plot points, they're like 5~15min each

haughty garnet Oct 9, 2025, 4:49 PM

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Working hard or hardly working
Just working on a few things at a time, my uni schedule is killing me from 10am to 8pm

haughty garnet Oct 9, 2025, 7:11 PM

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What I have worked on lately:
The end credits
First cutscenes from CH4
A new mid-game outfit for Scrappy
A cutscene from CH8
Trying to prevent enemies from casting defensive spells on the same target twice

haughty garnet Oct 10, 2025, 5:32 PM

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The mid-game outfit

haughty garnet Oct 13, 2025, 4:20 PM

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I'm thinking about changing this menu a bit, since it's not clear how it works and the code behind it is a mess

Selecting a Trinket normally just lets you swap its moves but to equip a Trinket (to change a character's elemental resistances and weaknesses) you select the orange icons
(Also you can't get your original moves back, which is a big oversight)

It feels strange to not need to equip a Trinket to use its moves, so I also thought of changing the system so that the player's moves evolve over time, and two slots are reserved from Trinkets

haughty garnet Oct 14, 2025, 6:10 PM

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omw to redesign the menus for the third time

haughty garnet Oct 17, 2025, 11:11 PM

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"Something is wrong in this galaxy."

haughty garnet Oct 18, 2025, 8:47 AM

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I told y'all university was gonna make these things slow, lately I just get home and go to sleep
My schedule is wack

haughty garnet Oct 19, 2025, 11:27 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/cat-asleep-asleep-on-keyboard-keyboard-computer-gif-15396270

Tenor

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I guess this month's a break month... absolutely nothing new has been made so far

bruh.

haughty garnet Oct 19, 2025, 11:59 PM

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haughty garnet Oct 23, 2025, 4:41 PM

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The Trinket system is currently being redesigned, might post a vid later
Basically now you have two empty move slots that are filled when you equip a Trinket

I'm also gonna add a bit of code to upgrade the party's moves once they reach specific level goals:
Aggressive Magic (Fire, Ice, Thunder and Earth) upgrade at Lv. 30 (Burn -> Pyro) and Lv. 60 (Pyro -> Pyrodan)
Physical Attacks upgrade at Lv. 20 (Bash -> Punch), Lv. 40 (Punch -> Ryuuken) and Lv. 60 (Ryuuken -> Berserk)
Level goals might change since I have yet to find out when the player reaches those levels
The level cap is 100 but judging how the game goes, you'll reach the end before getting to Lv. 60

haughty garnet Oct 24, 2025, 5:18 PM

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New Trinket system, now with 80% less spaghetti code
Just pick a Trinket and you'll be equipped with its moves and affinities

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Currently fixing a major annoyance for a lot of players - the cutscene trigger in the start of Chapter Two (the tower without a parasol) will be removed and the cutscene will now be fully automatic

In hindsight, the old method really wasn't a good idea

haughty garnet Oct 24, 2025, 8:51 PM

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Auto cutscene done

haughty garnet Oct 27, 2025, 1:12 AM

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I am definitely seeing this project taking two years - and we're more than halfway there timewise
Good grief

haughty garnet Oct 27, 2025, 6:58 PM

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New idea: Scrappy can disarm landmines with his mop.
He's a minesweeper. 🥁

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Also started working on the Knuckleheads' floating castle
and the final boss needs to be harder
3000 HP in both phases isn't enough

haughty garnet Oct 28, 2025, 11:57 PM

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colour
now I gotta figure out how to animate a charging beam

haughty garnet Nov 1, 2025, 9:34 PM

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makin' yeehawland

haughty garnet Nov 1, 2025, 11:10 PM

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"Gee, I wonder who lives here...?"

haughty garnet Nov 5, 2025, 1:27 AM

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Watching this highlight reel to see how to choreograph the baseball game cutscene
I think I've got a rough idea of what it'll be like, but I need to watch more
https://youtu.be/DBqp0q8Jn2Q?si=UlxjzyJnHZHj8AXD

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I should probably change the baseball players to be of different species, if I have the VRAM for it
All humans (or demielves, supposedly) won't cut it

haughty garnet Nov 6, 2025, 11:25 PM

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New Enemy added: Doonworms
Might have to nerf them a little...

haughty garnet Nov 9, 2025, 6:02 PM

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Final dungeon theme done - "Abandoned Meat Factory"

haughty garnet Nov 11, 2025, 6:06 PM

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Another banger for the final chapter

haughty garnet Nov 17, 2025, 9:17 PM

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that feeling when you have cool things to share but they're spoilers gb_skull

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Gonna write this like an SCP or something

I need to tweak [REDACTED]'s combat behavior because they're not hard enough, the second phase needs its animated segment
Finished two cutscenes for Chapter Eight, one where Ralphina finds [MEGA REDACTED] and another where [NOT THAT REDACTED] but she turns her back on him, leaving him alone, [REDACTED]
Chapter Five needs its Actors and the cutscenes where Scrappy gets [REDACTED] by [CAN WE STOP WITH THE REDACTED] and he meets [TETRAGRAMMATON] in the [UNKNOWN PLACE], gets [REINCARNATED] to kick Mr. Pawlter's furry butt

hey that last past was a spoile-

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Also maybe I should make a Christmas demo, with the new Trinket system and everyone's wearing Santa hats and the lands have holiday decorations

haughty garnet Nov 19, 2025, 10:43 AM

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I should probably make a Bandcamp account to post my soundtracks (and other assorted songs)
I'll figure out the pricing later

haughty garnet Nov 19, 2025, 7:36 PM

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working on them impact frames

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The final boss is finished, both its behavior and animations

Yes, I'm still working on the game backwards.
(Chapter 4 is a mental roadblock, especially because it sets up things for later chapters)

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Might need a baseball expert to help me choreograph the cutscene, even though it's less than a minute long

haughty garnet Nov 24, 2025, 8:29 PM

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I kind of wish I had someone else helping me out on this project, but I'm too afraid of spilling the beans to do it

It is my precious 💍

haughty garnet Nov 25, 2025, 4:35 PM

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Finally started making the baseball cutscene

haughty garnet Nov 25, 2025, 5:46 PM

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On my merry way to make a cover of The Entertainer for this

This game takes place in the 2480s btw 🤭

haughty garnet Nov 25, 2025, 11:54 PM

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On a second thought, maybe Maple Leaf Rag is better, it's more energetic

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I'll be arranging this:
(source: Wikipedia, arrangement by the user Apatterno)

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Using a (in-universe) 581-year old song for a baseball match feels really funny ngl

(currently 126 years old)

haughty garnet Dec 2, 2025, 1:02 PM

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ragtime completed

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It is literally just a single instrument because piano

haughty garnet Dec 9, 2025, 2:39 PM

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Before I jolly this up I should finish the baseball minigame

haughty garnet Dec 9, 2025, 4:36 PM

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I think my game is haunted
(cheekily swapping my game's spoilers with Deltarune spoilers)

haughty garnet Dec 10, 2025, 1:09 AM

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Development Completion:
CH1 🏁
CH2 🏁
CH3 🏁
CH4 🙋 📽️ (5/6) ⭐
CH5 🙋 📽️ (0/4)
CH6 🙋 🏰 📽️ (?)
CH7 🙋 🏰 (?) 📽️ (?)
CH8 🙋 🏰 (1/3) 📽️ (1/4) 🕹️
CH9 🙋 🏰 📽️ (?)
CH10 🙋 🏰 (0/2) 📽️ (?/8) ⭐
OST: 27/36

Description:
🙋 (NPCs/Shops/Inns)
🏰 (Dungeons/Towns)
📽️ (Cutscenes)
🕹️ (Minigames)
⭐ (Current Priority)

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[edit] Gave Scrappy a stutter that lasts from CH2 to CH5
He got his Vocal Interpreter damaged when he fell down the chute in Terranova (CH1)
Gives a bit more to his shyness

haughty garnet Dec 10, 2025, 11:34 PM

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Part 1/3 finished

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There's like, one or two rough edges, but it's done

haughty garnet Dec 11, 2025, 3:18 AM

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Scripting this was weird, it's a web of Actors activating their On Update or On Hit scripts in a way so more than a single actor would move at once, while also moving the camera at the same time

I have not tested this on DMG but hopefully that shouldn't have any issues there, other than running slower

haughty garnet Dec 14, 2025, 8:15 PM

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returned from the party and oh crap there's 11 days left until christmas

haughty garnet Dec 21, 2025, 9:46 PM

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Finally in holiday break, working on other projects and generally not doing much

The beta for 4.2.0 came out but I'm gonna hold off using it for a while so no new bugs creep in
The tileset optimization feature will take time to fully implement in my project

I think I'm gonna fork the current build to make the Christmas Demo

haughty garnet Dec 23, 2025, 3:16 AM

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same mood

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skill issue

haughty garnet Dec 23, 2025, 4:32 PM

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Tested the cutscene on DMG, the scripting runs fine if a bit slow (as usual)

haughty garnet Dec 24, 2025, 12:11 AM

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Recently added:
2nd baseball cutscene from CH4 (video will be posted in a bit)
Scrappy now stutters from CH2 to CH5
A "what should I do?" option in the pause screen
Minor DMG-related bugfixes

haughty garnet Dec 24, 2025, 12:39 AM

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haughty garnet Dec 24, 2025, 2:16 AM

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Holiday Demo code done, I've decorated the UI but not the world yet

haughty garnet Dec 24, 2025, 6:24 PM

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New icon for the itch page and forum

haughty garnet Dec 24, 2025, 6:55 PM

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https://flightbun.itch.io/digital-odyssey-clean-shift
Holiday demo released

itch.io

[HOLIDAY DEMO] Digital Odyssey: Clean Shift by Finny (@flightbun)

The Strange Escapades of a Robot Janitor...

haughty garnet Dec 25, 2025, 3:17 AM

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Conlang script test, this is part of the worldbuilding

dire cradle Dec 30, 2025, 7:44 AM

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How did you make your blitter?

haughty garnet Dec 30, 2025, 12:43 PM

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Blitter?

woven sorrel Dec 31, 2025, 7:23 PM

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haughty garnet Conlang script test, this is part of the worldbuilding

That's actually awesome ! How does your conlang works exactly ? I'm really interested

haughty garnet Dec 31, 2025, 7:54 PM

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I call it the Mazhran language, which is one of the languages spoken in Gaburduregh (aka, The Red Planet).
Lorewise, it's related to a major war whose aftermath is tied to the story of the game. (spoilers!)

It's an agglutinative language (like Finnish or Turkish), where parts of speech are glued onto others to convey meaning.
The phrase itself is structured like this:

English:
"The sands of the Red Planet shed the tears of the fallen."

Mazhran, grammar analysis:
Red Planet-genitive sand-plural fallen-people-plural-genitive tear-plural release-present-continous
(Genitive refers to possession.)
(There are no articles, and word order dictates subject, object and verb.)

Morphemes:
gabur-duregh-gha ashga-ni rah-nam-i-gha menish-i bil-a-m

Final result:
Gaburduregha ashgani rahnamigha menishi bilam.

Literal translation, no regards to correct grammar:
Red Planet of sands fallen of tears released.

With correct word order and grammar:
(The) sands of Red Planet release (the) tears of (the) fallen.

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The writing system is an abugida, created by the Tughrenians as a common script between languages of the same family, which includes Mazhran.

In an abugida, each character contains a consonant sound and a vowel sound, and the embedded vowel can be altered with extra symbols or removed with a virama.

In this case, the 7 character represents the syllable "gha" (like ch [x] in loch, but more aggressive if needed [χ])

To suppress the vowel sound, a ' symbol is added next to a character, so the sequence W' just represents the sound [r].

In Mazhran, only two marks exist for the 3 other vowels, being the single slash (either [e] or [i]) or the double slash ([u]), both added at the top.

The [e] and [i] vowels are written the same in Mazhran due to sound changes between Old Mazhran (which only had [i]) and Modern Mazhran. (where the [e] sound is an unstressed allophone of [i])

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The phrase sounds like this:
Latin:
Gaburduregha ashgani rahnamigha menishi bilam.

IPA:
[Gɑburɖu'reχɑ ͡ɑʂ'Gɑni rɑħ.nɑ'miχa me'niʂi bi'lɑm]

English approximation:
gah-boor-doo-REH-ghash-GAH-nee rah-nah-MEE-gha meh-NEE-shee bee-LAHM

woven sorrel Dec 31, 2025, 8:12 PM

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Wow that's really interesting. It's impressive how you've managed to create such a complex conlang. I guess it's not the first one you've made. I have my own history with conlang and I must say this one's really cool, especially how you made the alphabet to work well on gb !

haughty garnet Dec 31, 2025, 8:17 PM

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I have many more conlangs, most of them for projects like this
I focus more on the feel of a language, mainly what sounds it has and the words used (which tend to be unrelated to existing languages, and old related to other languages if the lore says so)
Grammar takes second place, but still important

haughty garnet Jan 3, 2026, 6:30 PM

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January is gonna be hellish with all the exams I have to make

haughty garnet Jan 10, 2026, 10:40 AM

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Still busy with exams, haven't touched the game in a while
Gonna figure out what the Rangers HQ is gonna look like

haughty garnet Jan 13, 2026, 10:34 AM

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Testing a tileset for the Rangers HQ

haughty garnet Jan 13, 2026, 1:50 PM

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Man I gotta be real, I don't like Santarina's current layout - it's way too big!
(with great size comes great emptiness)

I'm gonna change it to something more... ✨ Venetian. ✨

haughty garnet Jan 13, 2026, 6:08 PM

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WIP, but I like it more

nova vine Jan 13, 2026, 6:44 PM

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Oh yeah that looks nice, reminds me almost of a town in pokemon colosseum

haughty garnet Jan 14, 2026, 3:24 PM

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bellissimo

haughty garnet Jan 19, 2026, 9:50 AM

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Slight break as usual, the exam gauntlet has commenced

nova vine Jan 19, 2026, 10:28 AM

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Good luck with exams!

haughty garnet Jan 25, 2026, 9:41 PM

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(fixed version, the ear didn't look right)

haughty garnet Jan 31, 2026, 6:32 PM

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Two more weeks of academic tedium left

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https://klipy.com/gifs/smoking-smoking-anime

Klipy

Sad Anime Girl Smoking

▶ Play video

nova vine Jan 31, 2026, 7:24 PM

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haughty garnet Feb 1, 2026, 1:30 AM

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Slightly reworked, added better drum bars and touches to the lead guitar

Let's see how the converter will react to this

haughty garnet Feb 3, 2026, 12:13 AM

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Corporate getting desperate...

nova vine Feb 3, 2026, 12:15 AM

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"reply to your emails, I'm not asking this time"

haughty garnet Feb 8, 2026, 4:25 AM

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Renovated Bang's bunker to look less like a water bottle

haughty garnet Feb 9, 2026, 4:49 PM

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No more exams (for now)
Scheduled programming will resume shortly

haughty garnet Feb 16, 2026, 3:41 PM

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Spent a full week slumbering post-exams, time to update to 4.2

haughty garnet Feb 17, 2026, 7:18 PM

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Nevermind, time to return to 4.1.3
I think I'll stay on this version for all of my current projects (which are plenty)

The few cool things 4.2 has aren't that important for most of them (mainly the Platformer and Adventure reworks, whereas I tend to stick to Top Down 2D for my projects - with some exceptions)
Also there's a few bugs that interfere with how Clean Shift works, like screen shakes that wipe projectiles (Rhythm Game) and collision zipping (Shmup Game, which uses Adventure mode)

Until there's big changes in later versions, I won't be updating any time soon

haughty garnet Feb 21, 2026, 2:33 PM

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haughty garnet Feb 22, 2026, 6:54 PM

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haughty garnet

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How should I release my game's spoilers?

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Don't post the really important bits

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LinkPain

haughty garnet Feb 23, 2026, 10:19 AM

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Important analogue odyssey news:

The second semester started today and I'm wrapping up the last preparations for my internship (at a videocall software developer, no less!)
Obviously I won't be working on this during the job (they probably won't let me be on Discord to not get distracted) but I got a smaller workload at my university now

I'm making the last cutscenes for Chapter Four atm

haughty garnet Feb 24, 2026, 11:49 PM

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Also currently making the big pre-Final Fight™ cutscene

😄 sdrawkcab semag ym on gnikrow ekil I

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Only if I could show you... but I must keep the presents secret

haughty garnet Mar 3, 2026, 6:53 PM

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cutscene coming soon

haughty garnet Mar 4, 2026, 6:37 PM

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Baseball cutscenes done

haughty garnet Mar 5, 2026, 1:03 AM

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At least half of Chapter Four is done now, the other half is a desert dungeon that'll also be a location for Chapter Eight

I like to think I have limited cart space when I know for a fact this won't surpass 2 megs, it's easier for planning

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Also I was about to finish the baseball minigame but I'm gonna have to do that when the sun comes up
(Needs lose/win conditions and more field animations)
'Twas a long internship day

sour sluice Mar 5, 2026, 9:29 AM

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Damn, this game looks like something that could be made by Nintendo, really nice
Looking forward for it

haughty garnet Mar 5, 2026, 6:36 PM

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Reworking my desert tileset and I fell in love with the cacti

haughty garnet Mar 6, 2026, 12:28 AM

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Started making The Thorny Desert
(The main location for CH8 and half of CH4)

nova vine Mar 6, 2026, 12:30 AM

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Wonderful palette and sand tiles.

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and the shading is really the cherry on top.

warm magnet Mar 6, 2026, 1:58 PM

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Agreed. The shadows make it look like it’s popping off the screen.

haughty garnet Mar 10, 2026, 11:04 PM

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lil' doonworms

haughty garnet Mar 16, 2026, 12:09 AM

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wip cave

haughty garnet Mar 23, 2026, 12:47 AM

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Didn't post any updates for the whole week, damn, my bad
The internship got hands and I got distracted with other things (namely C programming)

Started working on CH8's minigame (shmup boss against Krabmeat) and I want to finish CH4 ASAP
Also need to spice up NPC dialogue and add more lore stuff

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Like, embarrassingly, the game's dialogue hasn't explained yet why Magic uses your own Energy instead of something like MP 🤦‍♂️

The short explanation is that Magic comes from Amayo (traditionally Divine Energy, scientifically as atomic flow), and Amayo circulates throughout all living beings (including Robots), so your body acts as a fuel tank for Magic
That's why you ~~die~~ faint when you cast too many spells

Not a spoiler because... uhh...
...it'll be more important in these future chapters, trust me

nova vine Mar 23, 2026, 12:55 AM

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Oo I like that spells have that extra risk factor, mechanical and diegetic/part of the world

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and the existence of Amayo implies the existence of Aketchup

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Grin

haughty garnet Mar 24, 2026, 6:20 PM

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Actually had a bit of dialogue that mentioned Amayo (the fisherman's first lines before the shopkeeper) but didn't go into detail about it, so I expanded it

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A lot of NPCs mention plot-relevant things, via things they've seen or heard, gossip, rumors or even folklore and religion
I'm won't add anything like a library where the books just spill the beans on the lore, since I want players to piece together how the world works
(j-just pretend I didn't explain what Amayo was earlier 😅 )

haughty garnet Mar 25, 2026, 5:10 PM

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Dark Cave layout done, time for the enemies, chests and gimmicks
It's so big that it doesn't fit in the Image Viewer

silver stag Mar 26, 2026, 7:47 PM

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This game looks really cool so far

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I wanted to ask, how did you make the battle transition? I saw it in one of your earlier posts and I can't help but be curious

haughty garnet Mar 26, 2026, 8:56 PM

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silver stag I wanted to ask, how did you make the battle transition? I saw it in one of your...

Funnily enough, that's like the only part of the game I didn't code myself, I used the code from @nova vine's Pokémon demake (with permission, of course)
#tutorials-and-resources message

The code itself is split into two parts, the "renderer" (which uses submapping and it needs to have a black tile at (0, 0) to replace a meta tile plugin that it used) and the transition animation (which is a zipping pattern that I made, while the original had a spiral pattern)

The GBVM renderer in question:

;Battle Transition Code
;Credits to: 
;  2bitcrook
;  Bryan Rollins
;  Proximity Sound
;  pautomas
;  gud_graphics

VM_RPN               ; Copies background to overlay
  .R_INT8 0          ; Overlay X
  .R_INT8 0          ; Overlay Y
  .R_INT8 20         ; Region Width
  .R_INT8 18         ; Region Height
  .R_INT8 0
  .R_REF_MEM .MEM_I16, _scroll_x
  .R_INT16 8
  .R_OPERATOR .DIV   ; ScrollX / 8
  .R_OPERATOR .MAX
  .R_INT8 0
  .R_REF_MEM .MEM_I16, _scroll_y
  .R_INT16 8
  .R_OPERATOR .DIV   ; ScrollY / 8
  .R_OPERATOR .MAX
  .R_STOP            ; End of RPN
VM_OVERLAY_SET_SUBMAP_EX .ARG5
VM_POP  6
VM_SET_CONST_UINT8 _show_actors_on_overlay, 1
VM_OVERLAY_SETPOS 0, 0```

📎 Zipping-GBVM.txt

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I now understand how the code works but not when I started this project (nearly) two years ago

silver stag Mar 26, 2026, 9:19 PM

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oooooh interesting, thank you!

haughty garnet Mar 31, 2026, 10:22 PM

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I like the vibe of this place

haughty garnet Apr 1, 2026, 2:44 PM

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Relocated Bang's home to be right next to the crash site and cave entrance
Where'd you think she got the dynamite from?

nova vine Apr 1, 2026, 2:45 PM

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Etsy

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Artisan dynamite from Big Boom Billies discount dynamite store

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you get more BANG! for your buck

haughty garnet Apr 7, 2026, 12:29 AM

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Came stuffed from Easter, working on the next cutscene
I'll have think of ways to speed up the workload:
For maps, Terranova and Neema are mostly finished, Pacifica isn't far behind, yet Ganood and the last four locations (Rangers HQ, Knuckleheads base, Prison Colony and [secret]) need to be made still
New enemies are made as they're needed, like the Motomoles as shown in the video (dungeon gimmick in the works)
I'll add some victory animations since I've figured they're easy to do (just by swapping sprite sheets like the rest)
The soundtrack is mostly finished too, some tracks do need general reworking and I'll play around with the MIllennium Gun instruments to see if I can make the OST sound less... dated?
(Really it's just the percussion that's a bit flat)

haughty garnet Apr 10, 2026, 11:40 PM

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Animation tests, first time dealing with scanline limitations 😑
Gotta think about how to plan this cutscene

nova vine Apr 10, 2026, 11:51 PM

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With each passing year I work with Game Boy limitations, the 10 on a line limit really does seem the most severe to wrestle with.

haughty garnet Apr 13, 2026, 12:53 AM

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Fixed the sprites, forgot about Scrappy's parachute
I hope he doesn't mind 😁

haughty garnet Apr 13, 2026, 1:31 AM

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haughty garnet Apr 14, 2026, 1:32 PM

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Added Victory animations for all party members

haughty garnet Apr 14, 2026, 2:23 PM

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What all of the victory loops look like:

haughty garnet Apr 14, 2026, 2:54 PM

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Working on the next town, Tingrave

nova vine Apr 14, 2026, 2:56 PM

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love the corrugated metal rooves, and the water tower.

haughty garnet Apr 14, 2026, 9:27 PM

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Tingrave done, time to populate it

haughty garnet Apr 17, 2026, 10:39 AM

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what a mess

nova vine Apr 17, 2026, 11:02 AM

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Looks like someone dropped a bomb in there gb_think

haughty garnet Apr 19, 2026, 12:32 AM

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Tingrave's interiors are done

haughty garnet Apr 24, 2026, 6:44 PM

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weekend has risen once more

Yesterday I completed another cutscene (interrogation music missing tho) and I only have like two left to make (crash landing 2: eletric boogaloo and the intro to the Rangers HQ) in Chapter Four
Other than that, more of the same like NPCs and placing enemies
I'm gonna redraw the town and cave in Ganood because the rock walls look off, the forest will stay the same though

haughty garnet Apr 27, 2026, 1:19 AM

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Another cutscene done (crash landing aftermath), I'll show it after I make the first part since that needs bespoke graphics for the ships
Only 2 left for this chapter

haughty garnet Apr 28, 2026, 5:12 PM

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While I'm working on that cutscene, I've also redesigned the Shmup fight against Krabmeat (Chapter Eight) to a side view (took up less tiles)
Felt gradiulicious

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I'm not sure what to do about the background though, maybe a cloud corridor but scrolling will be an interesting problem to solve

nova vine Apr 28, 2026, 5:22 PM

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The ships are looking excellent

frosty knoll Apr 28, 2026, 7:04 PM

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It reminds me of fantasy zone with opa opa ship!

haughty garnet May 4, 2026, 11:04 PM

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Working on a new song for Chapter uhh... Nine!
It's a preview since I started it today I don't know how the final version will sound like

Also that CH4 cutscene is almost done

raven yoke May 5, 2026, 12:14 AM

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This game is looking so cool and the music is AWESOME

haughty garnet May 5, 2026, 8:44 AM

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I think I'll make a Castlevania song for the Knuckleheads' base
This vid got me inspired
https://youtu.be/rpwiq8dKEco?si=VIdnPPrecJ1nWYzB

YouTube

8-bit Music Theory

How to Write Badass Chiptune

The playfully named Konami Kukeiha Club, or Konami Square Wave Club, is the group of composers responsible for some of the most iconic video game music of the 90s. And some of the most 90s music in video games. Let's dig in.

Get tickets to my show with the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra! Use code 8bit10 at checkout for 10% off: https://www.wecc.ca/eve...

▶ Play video

haughty garnet May 10, 2026, 12:15 AM

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Made sprites for the Knuckleheads, the (mostly) furry Mafia
Need to come up with a few more goon designs but most of the gang is here

haughty garnet May 10, 2026, 1:24 AM

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haughty garnet Working on a new song for Chapter *uhh...* Nine! It's a preview since I started ...

entered some kind of flow state and finished this song

raven yoke May 10, 2026, 3:37 AM

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haughty garnet entered some kind of flow state and finished this song

This is so juiiicy ChefsKiss

haughty garnet May 11, 2026, 12:25 AM

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Made the first screen for the Rangers HQ, but everyone's out of duty at the moment
(need to draw NPCs)

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Also finished the baseball minigame, I'll polish it and record the vid for it when the sun comes up

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https://tenor.com/view/sleep-sleepy-head-ikea-bed-bedtime-gif-16576805

Tenor

haughty garnet May 15, 2026, 9:03 AM

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Spent the entire work week tired from internship troubleshooting and sneezing from the spring sickness

haughty garnet May 15, 2026, 1:18 PM

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Redrew the Ganood town

haughty garnet May 17, 2026, 11:07 PM

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Redesigned the Diamond Stadium's surroundings to fit with the newer look for Santarina

haughty garnet May 18, 2026, 12:07 AM

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On a side note, I'm at the tail end of beating Lagrange Point, and playing it showed me how I should've planned my RPG better back when I started

Of course both games demand different things (Lagrange Point has random encounters which are more suited for open worlds, while my game has visible encounters that prefer a smaller world, kind of like Chrono Trigger), but man does this project show a lack of focus towards map design

I'm currently combing through the maps to see which can be optimized or removed entirely (like how the metro stations are just shortcuts to the galaxy map) and I'm also having second doubts towards the minigames
I really want to finish making this game, since I've got more projects down the line and I made the mistake of giving this one a deadline for some reason

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haughty garnet May 18, 2026, 3:04 PM

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haughty garnet

*did you like the most

haughty garnet May 18, 2026, 5:57 PM

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New very plot important town added: Kizganaat (keez-gah-naht), what once was Ralphina's hometown

frosty knoll May 19, 2026, 5:08 PM

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I am so excited for your release - seeing it evolve over time has been a treat GBSpin

haughty garnet May 19, 2026, 10:38 PM

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"What a fantastic night to have an earworm."

haughty garnet May 23, 2026, 6:18 PM

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Internship crunch has begun LinkPain but I've been working on Chapter Seven (in Ganood) and tying the loose ends of Chapter Four
(Chapter Five is halfway done and Chapter Six needs just a few things)

I want to do something cool with the Crabmaton (the mech you pilot in the Rhythm minigame) but I don't know what BombermanWAT

haughty garnet May 24, 2026, 2:55 PM

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Been thinking about coming up with a different look for the title screen but I want y'all to voice your opinions first

haughty garnet May 25, 2026, 12:15 AM

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haughty garnet

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To who played the demo, what minigames did you like?

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1

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Rhythm Minigame

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🥁

haughty garnet May 27, 2026, 2:55 PM

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haughty garnet

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What do y'all think about how the title screen looks?

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Pretty good

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944300591742586951

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yea

haughty garnet May 28, 2026, 5:43 PM

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The council has spoken and I shall resume my mission

haughty garnet May 29, 2026, 10:08 AM

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For the penultimate cutscene where the trio head back to Santarina

haughty garnet May 29, 2026, 11:21 AM

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Added the Post Office for the occasion, with a Trinket chest

haughty garnet May 31, 2026, 2:52 AM

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Yapping with the courier is always a good time
(He's the Flightbun mascot as well)

haughty garnet Jun 1, 2026, 11:34 AM

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Giving off "taking the kids to school, urgh" vibes

nova vine Jun 1, 2026, 11:42 AM

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Great window sheen, and love the palette you chose to colour in the peeps back there.

#Digital Odyssey: Clean Shift