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"The Indefinitely Unfinished Soundtrack of a Game in Development Limbo" is up on my bandcamp.. basically its just a proper release of my old music from Zephyr Star... have fun

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zephyr star's not dead, i promist 🙂‍↕️

i've hit a bit of a big creative block for this game though, so for now i've shifted to working on 'til countdown's end... i'll come back to ZS when i feel like im ready to continue u-u

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Playing the zephyr star demo and I literally can't get past the first battle because my timing is that bad 😭😭😭

it's okay i won't judge you 🙂‍↕️ the rhythm game bit takes some getting used to

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Hi hi! :D

I'm curious-- what software/site do you use to program your games? (and do you recommend the software—does it work well for you?)

for this game, i'm using unreal engine 4, but that's mostly because it's what i've BEEN using >w>

i mean, it's nice, and i have my workflow there all figured out, but the thing about unreal is that it's typically built for beefy, high quality stuff, and not necessarily a dinky little indie game... if i didn't already have a few years of progress, i'd be using unity, or godot... i particularly recommend godot, it's what i've been using for a side project called "til countdown's end" and i think it works well for my purposes :)

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that is a prosthetic leg by the way

i think its a fun subtle way to honor her original design, which had no legs and instead hovered over the ground...

One day I'll create a main character who has both hands AND legs, and when I do it's over for you

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I think it would be really fun to do a rage angel rangers group cosplay (although gimmick would probably have to be a plushie or somethign)

i wanna see how someone would pull off a fifty-fifty cosplay...

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now that ive worked out flec's design, ive started experimenting with alpha's design too...... lets just say its over for you

One day I'll create a main character who has both hands AND legs, and when I do it's over for you

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One day I'll create a main character who has both hands AND legs, and when I do it's over for you

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i was going to add a silly little effect like bat's WHACK for flec's gun in battles, but i thought it'd be more fun if i made it flash a white square, like as a little reference to what the NES zapper games did to detect if you were aiming the gun controller in the right place... this also makes it more consistent with how it looks in the overworld >w>

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working on flec's battle mechanics :)

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okay, i'll ask...

in the demo, did anyone ever figure out that you can sneak past enemies by playing as zee and gooping around them? specifically, the radius where enemies start chasing you gets smaller while you're in goop mode

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okay that didnt look good, here's the animation in a little square >w>

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oh bye then

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i'm experimenting with making the game run at half resolution on purpose, to get a sort of crusty effect >w> i'm not entirely sure if i'll keep it but right now i can tell you it definitely looks crusty

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WHACK!

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making some of these things... i wanna eat these words

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the thing with Galaxy Guardian's speaking font being based on 7 segment displays is that, some letters just don't look right-- namely, K, M, W, and X...

but what if, instead of changing the font, i specifically wrote around it so that they never say any words with those letters?