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Week 25 - Cat scratches

This week in RPG land, Lulu has learned to scratch the heck out of our bouncy slime foes.

Mreow!<...

Week 24 - Slimes & States

We've got some slime critters bouncing around the Action RPG now.

It took me longer than it shoul...

NGF Build for $20 supporters

All currently paid-up $20 folk should now have received a link to the PokeyPoke build demo'd at NGF. Let me know if you have any problems, and feel free to use this thread to discuss the build or g...

[Progress] Slimes

Is any serious action RPG complete without them? I figure we might do something mechanically similar to Zelda ChuChus, in that different colour slimes 'drop' different item types.

Week 23 - PokeyPoke, NGF, etc

Hello everybody! Last week was... quite a week!

Norwich Games Festival + PokeyPoke

I spent most of last week and the weekend down in Norwich for NGF. I was there for tw...

Week 21 - ARPG Updates (Video!)

Decided to wrap together some updates on where I'm at with the ARPG and some decisions I'm making on it...

Week 19 - Too Many .yyps

So my secret work on Another Perspective is largely done for the time being, but NGF is rapidly approaching and I need to g...

Week 18 - The long haul continues.

Ludum Dare 2019-05-02 16:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Patron Twitch overlay connection!

Hellooo! I spent most of today pulling my hair out trying to make something work that I've wanted for ages and finally stumbled upon a half-baked but workable solution.

If you access the link...

LD44 this weekend!

Yeah that snuck up on me in a big way! It's been Too Long since I did one of these so this weekend it's stream time!

For the uninformed I'll be making a game solo in 48 hours for ldjam.com al...

Week 17 - Carrying Things

Is tougher than it sounds.

There's not many "Clean" ways to handle to carrying of objects. Not th...

Week 16 - Precision with object IDs

Last Friday we were streaming a bit of work on the action RPG series. In doing so I decided to see how quickly I could throw together a tutorial on something that was asked about in the chat. Ended...

Heart "Fractions" - Live Mini-tutorial

I recorded this while streaming today cos someone asked about it and I figured I could do it quickly. Something thrown together while grinding away on the RPG stuff. Only put together lightning fas...

Week 15 - Grinds and distractions

So towards the end of last week you'll notice I got a bit 2019-04-10 16:55:53 +0000 UTC View Post

GML Updates, deep dive with Lazyeye

I put probably more time into this than I needed to and it took way too long to encode. But I think it came out pretty well! Topic timestamps are in the pinned comment on YT.

-S

Mini Update - GML Changes in 2019

Some of you might have already seen this blog post by YoYo Games on some new changes coming to Game Ma...

Week 14 - Work In, Work Out

So I've recently cleared up a bit of the ever growing to do list. The BenQ review is done (and I think it came out pretty well!). Me and Emma have signed a whole bunch of solicitor paperwork for ou...

It's that Monitor I was talking about!

This ticks one thing off my mad march/april to do list. Going to be livestreaming on twitch in a little bit and we'll do a proper weekly update on Monday. 

Week 12 - An announcement!

First of all, I'm sorry  this update comes late in the week. I try always to write these on Mondays and that hasn't changed. 

What has changed though, is that after an emotional whi...

Action RPG YouTube "Announcement"

This is all just stuff you guys already know, nothing too exciting here sorry! It's mostly for the YouTube audience to keep them up to date but I figured I should still post most if not alll videos...

Week 11 - RPG Update: Text boxes

Text boxes have been a bit of looming elephant in the room of the action RPG series. It's a topic that's very necessary to cover for the genre, it's one that takes up a lot of time even at a basic ...

Week 10 - Sub pixels, Corners, Source Code

The Action RPG & Sub pixel positions.

In RPG land I've finally settled on a collision system I'm happy with. This time moving away from my usual strategy of only moving i...

Week 9 - RPG Progress & New goals

Moving arooound

The RPG stuff is off to a solid start. Things are progressing slowly but I've been taking my time to write & rewrite code that's Good™.

2019-02-27 17:34:35 +0000 UTC View Post

New Patreon Goals (Input requested!)

Heyo!

I've been thinking recently about making a change to my Patreon milestone goals. Currently my only out of reach goal is removing ads from my videos and all of my goals have always cente...

Week 8 - Humble beginnings of a Zelda Like Thing

So I've begun putting together the art assets for our RPG series. There's a whole lot to make, but here's a sneaky peek:

2019-02-18 18:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Viewer game highlights

Here's some highlights from viewer games played on stream the last couple of weeks! We'll be streaming live shortly after this goes public in a few moments. <3

twitch.tv/shaunjs

Week 7 - Best laid plans

So here's a look at the high level Plan™ for the Action RPG tutorial. Or what's going into it. For the uninitiated this might seem very simple, but there's a huge amount here that easily out scop...

Lighting System 2d Tutorial

(If you're here super early the video might still be processing. Hot out the oven! Let it cool <3)

I suppose I didn't really need to let you know this was coming because here it is now! 2019-02-06 20:53:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Lighting Engine Tutorial incoming!

No not making your own, much better than that, using someone elses!

Jobo has created a super cool open source, free to use ...

Week 6 - Top down Action RPG it is.

Guess that's that.

Technically the poll is still running but I think I'm gonna call it there. The...