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if gamemaker 2 has no haters then i am dead

but oh my god... the workflow is so much w!se... i !!!ruly wish you could still have a workspace like this with everything just stacking as windows on one screen... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if gamemaker 2 has no haters then i am dead

Its crazy how The Invisible Man from the 30s accounts for all the random applications of logic that a smart-alecky viewer would think of. Really awesome

I watched him smoke and thought “oh, I bet this was too early for them to consider that food is visible inside him” but no he mentions it! He can’t even be in fog!

Weirdly I think I enjoyed the ReVamped fan game more because the gameplay was difficult/engaging. But it still devolved into this by the end and you don’t even use logic. “Fire whip destroys fire blocks” makes NO SENSE!!!!!!!

(ReVamped is a reimagining of CV1 as a metroidvania with new music but a similar graphical style)

Played through Symphony of the Night and honestly It Kind Of Sucks

It reminded me of that one Final Fantasy MMO everyone plays. Maybe that’s who would really love SotN. Not me though!

Played through Symphony of the Night and honestly It Kind Of Sucks

I didn’t enjoy the combat at first because I’m used to much more skill based combat systems but it clicked a bit when I realized it’s an RPG and it’s a lot more about using your arsenal of items and abilities. Even then higher HP enemies just became “can you spam the same 3 moves consistently?”

Played through Symphony of the Night and honestly It Kind Of Sucks

I never understood the criticism of metroidvanias that “oh i forgot my car keys but to get the car keys i need to open the garage door but to do that…” etc until I played a classic metroidvania/search action

It's still very rough but this project is a big experiment for me in non-linear design. Really trying to touch on different possibilities for solving puzzles. The overworld is full of different one-way or two-way doors depending on what items you have

Like in this scenario: you have a "ladder block" which sends a *technically infinitely long* ladder out in whatever direction you punched it, but it stops as soon as it covers one full gap. Depending on what items you have, there are like 4 and a half different ways to cross this gap

canadian politicians when asked about if food is a human right: "heres the deal with food! its tasty, it's nutritious, and it's certainly been expensive lately. we all need it, and we at [insert party] care about getting it from the farm, to your belly."

a glimpse into my life: i am trying a new antidepressant today. things have been quite bad.

A Bucket Of Blood 1959 is good. A guy goes to any lengths possible to impress the local beatniks, and starts coating dead bodies in clay and the stuck up beatniks love it so much they all start literally applauding him 😭😭😭

Spoke to me on a deep level. He’s desperate for everyone to listen to him! He daydreams of being interviewed about his work

Mario Eclipse felt great with this because instead of using the hover nozzle I pretty exclusively used the hover burst, because you can conserve your momentum but you need to use all the space available to you to build up some great speed beforehand, and you need to consider your angle/trajectory

Idk if its possible to make it feel Not Terrible but i daydream of a 3d platformer with no air control. Tons of control over your momentum but the decisionmaking lies entirely on the ground before a jump. Its kind of the Mario Eclipse experience.

Castlevania is what made me think of this. At first you think a platformer with no air control is a terrible idea but then you have a game like Bloodlines where you can attack in either direction midair so it starts to feel kind of awesome