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Demo still available on #Steam!

i don't like using this site but here's a devlog update: youtu.be/er_5KB97seM

@dabmaster67 aha it's been going well. I'm just very slow at development sorry. I'll try to post a dev log at some point.

@ShweepGames Hi good sir, i hope you are doing well. Im sorry to bother you but hows the game devolepment going? I love seeing this sneak peek and i miss this game vibe so much and i wish i could play the full game before i die :(

dealing with cursed logic

alternatively

will try to post more gamedev on here soon

will also dual post here while people get sick of this birdsite

uhhh you can now reroute switches to lock doors for some reason

@shawnporterz1 thanks for the heads up! should be fixed now

@ShweepGames When I try to sign up for your newsletter it prompts me to pay for a mailchimp subscription. Might want to fix it. Game looks great.

themachinethatbreathes.com is back up since i forgot to renew a payment, though idk what use it has other than a general way to make the game look more legit on google but i also don't know what other content to put on such a site? any ideas/examples?

Pistol training, the program will simulate the bullets so you don't need to waste precious ammo learning how guns feel.

@dabmaster67 mayhaps!

@ShweepGames Can i get absolute geeked up from injecting too much stimpak in the same time? Does it make us percieve the world slower and makes the clock go slower?

Adding a "clock" mechanic. Whenever you do something significant, time will pass. Purely turn based and abstracted (It doesn't literally take you 10 minutes to pick up an item but it's a simulacrum of you exploring and rummaging through stuff)

Watched a video on RELICs, a game I've not heard of until someone mentioned it as being similar to Machine. Very eerie visuals for something that came out before Metroid. youtube.com/watch?v=-h_9XD…

@Caneda617 haha yeah i don't want to create a situation where people have to replay a perfect sequence of events just for annoying filler completion sake. i'm above that... i hope!

@ShweepGames I feel like this will affect the endings and now I'm scared

Still figuring it out but I find it adds another dimension. It's not going to 100% dictate the game or anything but it will hopefully permutate into interest dilemmas!

eventually it comes down to predicting what the player actually wants to do bolted on a mostly size fits all solution. but yeah gamedev things

Some issues with this still, it's possible for both lines to hit a single tile object in a way it feels too precise. tiles are 16x16 and the pistol is abouuuut 14 pixels from the player's feet. easy to fix though

so aiming in top down 2d games is a pain. For awhile I've just been doing: fire a line from players feet to the destination. Then draw the actual laser/shot with an offset as if it was coming from the pistol. This makes sense... right?