Rod | making ExJanitor: Data Cleanup 🪠

the easy way to do 2D shadows looked terrible. so i built a 3D mesh system instead... in a 2D game. now every shadow adjusts dynamically based on light direction. because of course i did. #indiedev #gamedev

@flarn2006 that's a fair point. thank you for the feedback!

@RodGameDev It looks cool, but I'd want a way to turn it off; I find menu animations annoying when they add delays to the UI flow. This is the reason why I refunded FUZE4 on the Switch eShop, because the animations made menu interaction feel laggy and take longer than necessary.

dressed up as a janitor just to make a pause menu. filmed it in real life, then animated frame by frame in pixel art on top. it's called rotoscoping. looks like one of those hyperrealistic SpongeBob scenes. i love it. #indiegame #gamedev

seeing people from all over the world react to Exjanitor for the first time is something i wasn't expecting to feel this good 😃

@LutZ_Composer Fala mano! Acertou na mosca! É um roguelite sobre o último zelador (o Zildão) humano, que é demitido e fica doido das ideias, resolvendo destruir todos eles. A mecânica principal é que você constrói suas armas com powerups e powerdowns (você escolhe os efeitos ruins também)

@RodGameDev Eu ja tinha amado mas agora que fiquei sabendo que é brasileiro ficou melhor ainda, parabens ficou muito bom. Uma pergunta o jogo que estilo ele é? me lembra bastante binding of isaac

@Mr241256290 Comecei a usar 😂

@RodGameDev Olha o rod tem twitter

@GodzillaCheeze It's called rotoscoping; you can do it with anything, really! Just record whatever you want, export the videos as images, and then draw on top of the PNGs!

@RodGameDev Dope af. What is this? Can you teach me? What software did you use? '3'

@CrB_Games Yes, I did! Right now, the only part that doesn't look drawn is the font. Should I change that as well? 🤔

@RodGameDev Do you intend on drawing the UI for the pause menu? Would be cool if you made it match the book!

@kurorosage Thank you! Right now, I only have the pause menu as a manually filmed feature, but someone here commented on using rotoscoping for a giant hand boss, this is likely going to happen now😭

@RodGameDev love this, any other features that you manually filmed?

@Beef_Backup Zildo always has his backup notebook 👀

@RodGameDev If you throw the pause menu away, how do you pause again? 🤔

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! Here is how the pause menu is currently looking. I will definitely speed it up, tho 😂

@Bo__oW I may speed it up! Thanks for the feedback!

@RodGameDev Dude it's cool but slow as hell, not a good idea to take 2 seconds just to open a pause menu

@AadzeNomad Yo! A hyper-realistic hand as a boss would be insane 👀

@RodGameDev Ah! The player (behind the camera) is also a janitor all along!!! :O Wouldn't be surprised if the boss fight is a hyper-realistic hand, but who knows?

@Madam_Sombra Thank you so much! The game has been in development for two years (even though the video is kind of old), so yeah, a lot of love!

@RodGameDev Wishlisted. I have to say I love touches like this. I love menus that have fun life to them, and I wish it was done more. This looks great. It shows love is put in the games.

@riajuunibyou Thanks bro! the game is still in development and English support is coming before launch.

@RodGameDev Wishlisted, but also: what

@theJIRSCH English is definitely on the way! the game will have full English support at launch

@RodGameDev Hope you add English as a language 🤞

@prehis_mosasaur the game is still in development and English support is coming before launch. appreciate you flagging this 🙏

@RodGameDev Looks awesome but why does it say this on the store page?

@nikmlnkr Zildo is going to frame this comment 😭 thank you!

@RodGameDev Rotoscoping a pause menu is gloriously unreasonable, and it's exactly the kind of detail players feel even when they can't name it. That janitor already has more character than most protagonists.

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