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[Crabby]

I love how his name just flashes up onto the screen really dramatically, and then he just starts talking!
Totally sets the mood.
This is so one of my favorite tigsource projects, just for the atmosphere.

[Pixel Noise]

Holy wow, this looks awesome! I've seen a  lot of references here - my first thought when I saw this was Maniac Mansion.

Definitely following this

[ProgramGamer]

So much cool stuff in this thread, and meanwhile I'm just trying to figure out word warping for my own project...

[Andrew Brophy]

Totally sets the mood.
This is so one of my favorite tigsource projects, just for the atmosphere.

You're a babe.

Holy wow, this looks awesome! I've seen a  lot of references here - my first thought when I saw this was Maniac Mansion.

Thankyou -  I don't think I've ever actually played Maniac Mansion! Maybe I should?

So much cool stuff in this thread, and meanwhile I'm just trying to figure out word warping for my own project...

If you ever want to know how I do anything I show in the GIFs, just shoot me a message!


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Who's this? Oh, it's Guac from Burrito Galaxy. Are they appearing in game? idk

[jctwood]

Woah slaptacular!

[Crabby]

the crossover to best all gaming generations

[Andrew Brophy]

It truly is!




Also, KS has been featured on a few websites --


Boing Boing wrote "The art is wonderful, familiar and refreshing simultaneously, and the music, from artists like Sun Stains, Mushbuh and others, really stands out.".

I did a brief interview at The Creator's Project.

And there's a super lovely writeup over at Indie Root.


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I'll be taking requests for today's GIF. Lemme know what you'd like to see! 

[jctwood]

I want to see some knuckle sandwiches!

[ProgramGamer]

Heh, I'm guessing that providing a basic explanation for your word warping algorithm couldn't hurt, right?

[Raku]

This looks incredible! I need to follow the progress of this game!
I'm also really digging the video drugs in those battle scenes, oof.

[Andrew Brophy]

Heh, I'm guessing that providing a basic explanation for your word warping algorithm couldn't hurt, right?

As in, what's going on in this GIF? All I'm doing is drawing the text twice (one in white, and one with additive blending below). I use Gamemaker, so the code looks like this:

Code:

//align the text
draw_set_halign(fa_center);
draw_set_valign(fa_middle);

//drawing the text
var str = "text";

draw_set_blend_mode(bm_add);
draw_set_color(make_color_hsv(random(255),255,255));
draw_text_transformed(x,y,string(str),scale,1,0);
draw_set_blend_mode(bm_normal);

draw_set_color(c_white);
draw_text_transformed(x,y,string(str),1,scale,0);

//doing the warping business
scale  += (scale2 - scale) * .1;
scale2 += (1 - scale2) * .1;

And this is the result:


The important thing to note is the variables scale and scale2. The first one, scale is what we use to draw the text. It eases towards the other variable, scale2 (which is easing to 1). This creates the bouncy effect! I'm not a great programmer, so there's totally gotta be more elegant ways to do this, but hey - if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.

This looks incredible! I need to follow the progress of this game!
I'm also really digging the video drugs in those battle scenes, oof.

Thanks a lot! I have a newsletter that emails you infrequent updates if you'd like to follow it without manually checking this devblog. You can find it here: http://knucklesandwich.biz/digest

I want to see some knuckle sandwiches!

Is a Big Punch close enough?

[Andrew Brophy]

I've been posting these character GIFs over on the game's Tumblr and Twitter, but I figured I'd share them here too (I'm quite fond of them).

 

[bsp]

surreal cult exploration is good... everything is good........

[Andrew Brophy]

Yessss.


On a completely unrelated note, I'm working on a post about the map maker tool that I created to make the areas in the game. Here's a preview GIF.

[ProgramGamer]

Ooo automatic object depth! I like!

[Garlicguy]

Looks very much like Earthbound! on of my Faves! but unlike Earthbound the combat actually looks fun! Mad Props!

[Andrew Brophy]

Ooo automatic object depth! I like!

Fun fact: it's actually built into the game, so the objects behave exactly as they're meant to.

Looks very much like Earthbound! on of my Faves! but unlike Earthbound the combat actually looks fun! Mad Props!

Thankyou. I'm not super into games that require grinding and random encounters (even the overworld ones are pretty so-so to me), so I'm aiming to make a battles super rad.



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I showed this guy in the last battle GIF. He's very strong, as you may be able to tell!

[Vitor Campioni]

beautifull graphs. Nice work!

[ProgramGamer]

You should totally have a character that is literally a sentient photo camera on a tripod who keeps running away from you. It's a nightmare from my childhood and I thought it would fit the theme of this game quite well.

[Andrew Brophy]

beautifull graphs. Nice work!

Thanks! :~)

You should totally have a character that is literally a sentient photo camera on a tripod who keeps running away from you. It's a nightmare from my childhood and I thought it would fit the theme of this game quite well.

That sounds terrifying. I like it... It might be a possibility.



... Maybe.