Salt & Pixel

It's that time again! Well... almost the time. Our local game dev group is hosting another showcase. If you're in the RVA or NOVA area, mark your Wednesday, OCT. 28th as booked. fxbggamedev.com #gamedev #indiedev

The fundraising campaign for Corporate Rot, a new action game for the Game Boy Color, is now live on @kickstarter.com! 🧟😱 www.kickstarter.com/projects/met...

Sketching stuff for a thing. if you know you know. Find out by joining my newsletter: zc.vg/hrVkA #gamedev

Idk. I just think an annoyed John Cena holding signs is funny. $12 find.

Fixed the structure of the character, rotates better. It's possible for me to start another crowdfunded/preorder for a 16 bit ANNIHILATOR. NEO GEO, Mega Drive, SNES, GBA. As ya'll know, I don't use kickstarter or anything like it. I do have a newsletter for this purpose: zc.vg/hrVkA

The polaroid is a nice touch. I should hunt down Darius Peirce for a signature. The movie is by @infernalmachine.bsky.social - I can't even imagine the amount of work it took to put everything together. I made the game for this pre-pandemic. Good Job Levi! Thank you!

You jokesters! You bamboozled me!

I'm just curious, so I made a survey. forms.gle/3EJCnemC3y3Q... What consoles would you want ANNIHILATOR to come too? #gamedev #homebrew #indiegame

A proper rework for ANNIHILATOR for a 16 bit system. I would have more room to work out the bio-horror and sci-fi world of Eden Try. #gamedev #homebrew #indiedev

This is just a really, really bad teaser... but a Master System/Genesis version is closer than I originally thought.

ANNIHILATOR is available on Afterplay.io afterplay.io/play/store/a...

More games ready to be shipped. Is it one of yours?

ANNIHILATOR Update: I guess I may do another, very quick, pre-order. But I need at least 25 people to jump into getting a physical game. I only need PCBs. The problem is - I have to increase my prices, so I need to figure that out. Also, I just submitted the game to Afterplay.io.

Should I do another preorder of ANNIHILATOR games? I have extra boxes and such. Just need to order PCBs.

ANNIHILATOR Update: First batch off to the post office.

This was a fun sketch I could explore more.

1. Give me a backstory to this creature. 2. How do I fix that back leg?

G-NOME. That's where my brain went to this morning. lol

Some sketches from this past week:

Still working on Moonstone in my free hours, but it's been so long since I posted something for #ScreenshotSaturday that I thought I'd at least throw out some WIP Environmental stuff I've been up to. Thinking of doing some #gamedev focused blog posts about our processes and efforts.

Latest run of ANNIHILATOR ready to be shipped to their new homes. I wish I could do this more often. Designing the boxes and manuals is a part of game dev, I enjoy the most. #gamedev #indiedev #gameboy

ANNIHILATOR UPDATE PCBs arrived and I just updated the previous PCBs. I'm going to be preparing game for shipping. I do need to send out emails to verify addresses. I'll try to do that today.

MDEngine Released today! twoblackcatsgames.com/products/md-... #gamedev #homebrew #indiedev

Star Racer AMA: www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSw... Come ask us questions. #gamedev

Last night, spent an hour my graphcis, textures and redesigns. I'm getting a steady 80fps too.

I probably get most hyped with makig mock ups.

Boxes have arrived.

ANNIHILATOR Update: Boxes, Manuals, and labels will be arriving today.

Dev recap. Funny, how the gun changed the most, even though all I did was change the POS and Angle. Gun is getting a redesign soon. #gamedev #indiedev

So I went down an optimization rabbit hole. New maze generation, arrays, ray cast shooting. It kind of became addicting, trying to get every frame. Seeing what worked and what didn't. #gamedev #indiegame #mazes

Remade the maze generation and optimized the shit out it.

ANNIHILATOR UPDATE. All materials and PCBs are in transit to me. Some items have already passed through customs.

I programmed these things to climb down and come at you from all directions and they also climb over low walls when chasing you. #gamedev

Best $5 TV ever.

They swarm, the climb, there's lots of them.

I like Color Cycle, as an animation method. this is a bg for @molluscdeflation.itch.io - Here is the Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/4931080/... #pixelart #gamedev

I'm excited and curious. Because the game is extremely HARD. Almost impossible for the average Joe. You have to be some kind of suck f*** to beat it.

I'm gonna stream for 2 hours, starting in like 10 min. - Background art - color cycling water. www.twitch.tv/saltandpixel

I love how cheap DVDs are. I just picked up the LOTR Trilogy and 3 other movies for $2.

Lighting does a lot of heavy lifting. I think I have a decent idea for this game.

The main combat mechanic of Even Goblins Fall In Love, our indie NES JRPG, is applying doses of status effects on enemies. The final dose type, BLAST, explodes all applied doses for direct damage. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

I need to do some work, but it's classified, so can't so it. But come hang out anyways! www.twitch.tv/saltandpixel

Some action!

Someone give me money to make this. #gamedev #lowpoly

A screen shot from last night. I'm borrowing the code for the maze game I was working on, and using it here. I think I can create some weird sci fi shooter, with dimensional weirdness?

This week, I'm streaming artwork for Gossamer Divorce by @molluscdeflation.itch.io - Working on backgrounds. Will be starting soon. Stream: www.twitch.tv/saltandpixel itch: molluscdeflation.itch.io/gossamerdivo... #pixelart #visualnovel #stream #gamdev

Guess I'm going through a 2000s game dev phase for the rest of the year. #gamedev #lowpoly