Sorbet ✿ Livi

Sorbet ✿ Livi

@sorbet.games

Building Tartlets, a bakery management game inspired by Cake Mania 🍰 Illustrator, Poodle Mom, Queer & AuDHD 🤍 sorbet.games

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Haven’t had the time/energy to make progress on Tartlets the past few days - but I did make progress on my Sorbet Games tapestry! Gonna hang it up in my office so I don’t forget about my dreams (it happens, I have adhd) 🍒🧶

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As someone who started using Notion for their game dev project management before they added all the AI nonsense, I am pleased to report that if you simply email Notion, they will remove AI from your workspace ✨💕😌💖💫

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Welcome to the Tartlets Bakery! We seem to be missing some ovens...... but you know what they say, you can't edit a blank page! (Don't worry, ovens are up next! 🍰) #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #cozygame

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We're movin and groovin!!!!!!!!! Starting over from scratch (which isn't a lot lol) and working once again on getting a playable demo out! Also - this project now has a name - Tartlets! 🍰💕 #gamedev #indiedev #cozygame

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I did stay up until 2am to watch a cursed speed run of one of my all time favorite games (pokemon emerald!) and soak in the last bits of good vibes from agdq. It would be a dream come true to have a game I made at gdq… but I gotta make one first! back to work next week 💪🏻

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yesterday i finished up making some sprite sheets, including our first customer! she's based on my poodle, Lace 💕🍰🐩 taking a break today to take care of myself, my family, and write to my representatives. my timeline for this project did not account for world events happening in my city 👿

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More art progress today!! I think it's starting to look pretty cute 🍰🥺 #cozygame #indiedev #gamedev

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first workday of the year! my goal is to get a little demo of my bakery game out by February 🍰 Today I reworked the layout of the bakery (more food truck-esque) and it’s no longer floating in a void! Working on getting the v1 assets done this week 💕 #gamedev #indiegamedev #cozygame

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made tweaks to our little baker and started mocking up ideas for the new bakery layout! 🍰 also made some decisions about the gameplay that gave me a bit of a headache 😵‍💫 #gamedev #cozygame #indiegamedev

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game update! 🍰 i've decided on the more handrawn/illustration style - mostly because it's closer to my own art style (which seems obvious now lol) so today i did some character sketches, polished one of them up, and made this little breathing/idle animation! #gamedev #indiegamedev #cozygame

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also attempting to make my own tile sheet, which is a little bit off at the moment. mostly just trying to get the ~vibe~ right now!

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Today's focus is art direction and planning ahead! I want to do some irl baking for new year's so I'm keeping things light(er). I'm torn between pixel art and a more hand-drawn vibe... so I'm going to try both! I'm going to try out making little cakes in both styles and see what makes more sense.

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My end goal for this game is for it to be like a less stressful Cake Mania. I've been playing Tiny Book Shop and Sticky Business lately and I really love the idea of setting up a shop and then customers browsing on their own - much more like an actual bakery.

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Current plan is to get the core baking mechanics and general art direction nailed down enough to release a vertical slice demo by February and get feedback! Then, I'd love to turn this into a full release with tons of different cakes and decorations.

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here's how far we got today! the ui is Not Cute but i'm still trying to focus on figuring out godot. now that i've got the bones, i am bursting with ideas to make it actually fun! i'm pretty proud of it so far for my first non-tutorial game! 🍰 #gamedev #indiegamedev #cozygame #madewithgodot

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🥧 progress today: CUSTOMERS!!!! they walk in, find a pie, take a pie, and leave! (or walk in and wander around for a bit if there are no pies available) #indiegamedev #gamedev #madewithgodot

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I wanted to try getting as far as I had previously in Gamemaker with making a simple bakery game in Godot - and I actually got a little further! Oven bakes pie, player can pick up pie, and player can set pie on a display for customers to pick up! (Art is placeholder from asset packs)

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I've figured out how to change the color of the character sprite to make customers (I didn't want to find another sprite and it was a learning opportunity!) and have customers spawning in!! Next, I need customers to walk towards the displays and buy the pies!

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I wasn't lying when I said I was back in my game dev era - I am going to be doing a visual novel game jam in January! But until then, I'm making this tiny tiny game to learn the ropes of Ren'Py. I've been playing with the UI today ☺️ (I have NOT made the art for this)

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in the year 2025 i realize i must clarify further: art is composite graphics from Canva and the characters are from a picrew - this is strictly to learn the ropes and not something I'm releasing

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Today I added the ability to pick up a frosted cake, added a functioning compost bin, cleaned up some code… and found a new issue where the right-most oven is triggered when using the frosting station 🤪 Once that’s fixed - time to add customers!!! 🎉🍰 #gamedev #cozygame #indiedev