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Today I'm redoing the Flesh Scarab, one of the enemies in Deadwood Canyon. I'll post as I go.

Here's the current artwork, one of the first enemies made and intended as a placeholder:

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Some new references

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Sketches


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More sketches

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There we go

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Some wing action

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[gimymblert]

you are a mASCIIter

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Sleeping

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[standardcombo]

you are a mASCIIter

"The Three mASCIIteers" nice game name idea.

[neko.works]

Impressive ASCII art This game might even run on an old 286 using the MSDOS text mode

Though this was technically possible even in the early 80's, I don't recall a single game with a similar art design.

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Final render

[blekdar]

Oh my god the skin vibrations, that is masterful.

I've been meaning to comment on this for quite a while. I totally dig this, all of this. Keep doing this please.

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@neko There was plenty of ascii art with a similar style at that time, but not as much animation and games.

@blekdar That trick is reused from the collosal snail, but that's part of developing the language of a new style.

[JobLeonard]

Amazing stuff as always

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With the set of features for alpha laid down it's time to write a proper save file system. This is proving to be a large undertaking, but t will be useful for jumping to various points in the game. As the content has grown it's becoming ever more time consuming to skip ahead in the progress, even though there are cheat codes to do so. I'm setting up a system where in one click I can go to any point in the story.

Each save file will be organized into a human readable json string, which is also handy for manual editing to test stuff. Data that will be saved:

- Progress flags: a generic system used for all kinds of stuff
- Quests: available, played, completed and each quest's star rating
- Inventory resources
- Inventory items, their quantities and upgrade levels
- Inventory order
- Items equipped (left hand, right hand)
- UI scroll positions
- Last UI screen

This task will probably take me all through the weekend.

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The save file system is practically done. It was a lot of work but since it was broken into very small parts and those are organized in a methodic way, it was kinda of fun to implement.

Took a break from coding today and made the obligatory attack animation #2 for the Flesh Scarab:

[happymonster]

Looks great!

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I created a dev-only screen for managing the save files, using Unity's old GUI system:

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Looking back, I really like this head design

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Maybe I'll do something with that later.

[Devi Ever]

:D

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Small update: Development is going slowly but surely. I've fixed most of the outstanding bugs as well as some needed UX improvements. This week I'm focused on item rework which I should complete in a few days. The save file system really shined for saving and easily reproducing buggy situations.

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Item rework complete.

Doodling tentacle monster. Will probably not make it into the game, but I had to register the idea anyway.

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Looking back to an earlier doodle, I really like how this character turned out. It has the right scale, an interesting form and plenty of room for cool animations. Maybe I'll do something with it. The Copper Mine does need +1 enemy. Perhaps I can modify him to be a mini version of the Bronze Golem boss.

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