One of the things I have learned is that pixel art is time-consuming, animating pixel art even more so, and iterating on your animated designs is soul-crushingly time-consuming. As I experiment with different movement and gameplay mechanics for my player, the need for continuously revised and expanded movement sets keeps

These two tricks are great examples of where a game can be fair and yet not feel fair. By being more generous with the player’s inputs, you can make your game feel far more responsive. I recently added both of these behaviours to my game, and it instantly felt

So these monsters were inspired by some pencil drawings my wife did while messing about with my iPad. She just scribbled some nonsense she thought could be a monster for about 20 seconds. She would be the first to admit she is not an artist, and in truth she was

The game’s Slimes were getting pretty lonely, so I created this friendly fellow. He was inspired by a clay monster I made once in primary school. I do not remember what happened to it, but for some reason I always remembered the shape, so I thought: why not add

After working on this switch quite a bit, I have now managed to wire it up to a statue that glows when you flick the switch. It might not seem like much, but this is super exciting for me, as it represents the very early signs of puzzles in the

I created a bridge in Aseprite, and so then I had to add bridge dropping so that you can be a bridge-dropping bad-ass like Batman.

Using my newfound Particles2D skills, I added a little strawberry jam effect when you die.

This has been making me smile more than it should. The camera will now crash-zooms when you die. Sam Raimi would be proud.

Got my particles working thanks to the excellent Particles2D node in Godot and the excellent tutorial from KidsCanCode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awBfTnmgn7k

I woke up this morning and immediately realised what was wrong with my spike. It so often happens that I go to sleep with a problem I cannot solve and wake up the next day with the solution.

Created some new spikes, but for some reason they are not killing the player on contact. … It is getting late, so I think this is a problem for tomorrow.

I created a nicer tile set using Aseprite and TileSetter; things are looking a lot more fancy.

Early days here, and my little Godot prototype platformer is going great… no bugs here. Move along now—nothing to see. Thanks to the excellent YouTube channel HeartBeast for the game assets. They are part of his tutorial video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0713nlQxU7I. Sadly, his video

My first time messing about the GameMaker Studio 2. I learned a lot and created a random little platform shooting game.