I plan on animating him. 

Please do. For some reason it reminds me of the James and the Giant Peach movie 

Game in the works!

@Mono that's awesome looking. It reminds me of these old forest cabin paintings around my aunt's house as a kid.

From my new project Blitz Meet. The ball is spinning so that's why the pixels are a bit distorted.

Oh man tamagotchis were so good! Looking forward to this. It would be really cool if you could lay out the midi in the sequencer then watch your little guys perform it huddled up like a choir.

The new weapon art and mini-map look sweeet. Great trailer 

You are a mystery sir, and your game even more so 

I know you asked for things to watch but you should check out the foundation book series by Isaac Asimov or C.S. Lewis' Ransom Trilogy. Awesome readz.

but even if you do all of that there's a system underneath it that can be abused to "win" (whatever that means in the context of your game) and once the player finds out how the system works, any semblance of immersion disappears.

I was thinking about this the other day actually. I was wondering why I don't have the same feeling of awe and wonder about some of the snes games I played as a kid. I was neither capable of or concerned about finding the stitches that held the thing together, so I was completely immersed.

@ lasttea999 & Geeze - that worked perfectly thank you! I'm more of an art-er. Math is not my strong suit...

Edit:

@Veracity - Thanks for giving me the actual math behind it. I need to dedicate some time to studying.

Haha I guess the land masses do look like cells or something. Thanks 

@Gauss Jordan - Doode yeah

An early mockup for a project from a few weeks ago

I'm trying to change the ball object's direction to the same angle as the player's origin to the point of collision between the bat and the ball. I'm using the grandma engine's hspd and vspd variables and I'm not sure how to determine the correct angle while adding a bit of speed to it.

Here's what I have so far:

Ball's collision event with the player's bat

Code:

var pdist;
pdist=sign(point_distance(x,y,obj_player.x,obj_player.y))+max(hspd,vspd);

hspd=lengthdir_x(pdist,point_direction(obj_player.x,obj_player.y,x,y));
vspd=lengthdir_y(pdist,point_direction(obj_player.x,obj_player.y,x,y));

//adds speed to the ball each hit
hspd+=sign(hspd)*1.5
vspd+=sign(vspd)*1.5;

//So the ball is always hit to the left
if sign(hspd)!=-1
hspd*=-1;

I'm getting some strange results from this code. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

@mooosh - Nice man! I imagine this as a cutscene in a seedy point & click adventure.

Some ideas I was throwing around for a collab I'm doing with Zack Bell.

@sublinimal-I like the parallax but the foreground grass makes me feel like I'm in a jeep or something following this guy. I'd suggest having the player and what ground he is standing on be the front most layer(besides the gui elements).

underwater; immolated; in the sky

I made a way slower song than I ever have successfully and it ended up pretty damn long, too.
Then I compressed it to mp3 and now it has funny artifacts so I should re-upload it at some point.

Man, this is so chill... That static in the background sounds like waves.

Seeing a whole page of devlog threads updated today 

I love all the clean lines and white particles.

Say "beer can" in an english accent and it sounds like "bacon" in a jamaican accent.

wow. so nice, and warm

Seconded.