A Story About Forever: Transience

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No matter how far I stray, my projects always bring me back to this... I am thankful that I managed to convince myself not to make an actual full conlang for every race. #scripts #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

No matter how far I stray, my projects always bring me back to this... I am thankful that I managed to convince myself not to make an actual full conlang for every race. #scripts #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

@aukimi_ Thank you! Before this, I feel like they looked very mismatched, but the pixel crush is really pulling them into a unified vision!

@TransienceGame Nice progress on the shaders, the glass and water effects blend well with the retro dialogue style.

Aaaaand the pixel look is integrated into the conversation scene and the glass shaders, background effect shader, and planet water shaders! Also, still working on getting all the voice sounds right! #shaders #indiedev #indiegame #synth

@PlayGameGen Ahh, thank you for noticing! Also, it's based on a hierarchical node system, with the conversation nodes themselves having a tag based scripting system and can have system actions attached. If you ever played NOMAD (1993), that is the system which has inspired this one!

@TransienceGame the glass shader over a pixel base is a fun contradiction, you get the crunch of the sprites but the scene still feels wet and reflective. that Ask / Give Fact / Trade menu also hints at a real conversation system, not just dialogue trees. how many verbs are in there?

Aaaaand the pixel look is integrated into the conversation scene and the glass shaders, background effect shader, and planet water shaders! Also, still working on getting all the voice sounds right! #shaders #indiedev #indiegame #synth

Spent this weekend bonking my head against getting music to seamlessly loop (which it mostly does now!). Unfortunately this doesn't make for a good post here, so instead... a sketch of Chudley from Anne! #indiegame #conceptart #indiedev

Spent this weekend bonking my head against getting music to seamlessly loop (which it mostly does now!). Unfortunately this doesn't make for a good post here, so instead... a sketch of Chudley from Anne! #indiegame #conceptart #indiedev

Free from the wretchedness of high resolution! Of modernity! Of meshes with too many triangles! Made a pixelization shader. Way more complex than I thought, given my setup. But I think it unifies the look of the game! More soon. #shaders #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixel

Free from the wretchedness of high resolution! Of modernity! Of meshes with too many triangles! Made a pixelization shader. Way more complex than I thought, given my setup. But I think it unifies the look of the game! More soon. #shaders #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixel

Getting floating juuuust right, while also maintaining that pixel-ey look, rather than having a sprite just slide smoothly across pixels when that is easier to animate. #animation #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Getting floating juuuust right, while also maintaining that pixel-ey look, rather than having a sprite just slide smoothly across pixels when that is easier to animate. #animation #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

A number of folks have suggested that I make the faces and characters bigger on screen in interactions, so I've done so! ComsTalk is much larger than it originally was, and a bit more polished now. #possum #indiegame #indiedev #UI #UX

It's wild how sometimes a completely unrelated tidbit can lead down a rabbit hole that helps you with something completely unrelated! I completely misunderstood how masking worked in Unity. Things like this can look much cleaner now. #graphics #masking #indiedev #gamedev

It's wild how sometimes a completely unrelated tidbit can lead down a rabbit hole that helps you with something completely unrelated! I completely misunderstood how masking worked in Unity. Things like this can look much cleaner now. #graphics #masking #indiedev #gamedev

Work on the scanning menu, which desperately needed attention... also wrote a new system for keeping track of controller button glyphs. Needed to be done to make it possible to translate the game later... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Work on the scanning menu, which desperately needed attention... also wrote a new system for keeping track of controller button glyphs. Needed to be done to make it possible to translate the game later... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

@qqurock I've shown some of their graphics, but I do think I'll need to introduce a bit more about the races themselves, that's a good suggestion!

@TransienceGame Please introduce the various worlds and alien races within the universe, step by step.

I have a question for folks! Code dev is starting to wind down on Demo stuff now and writing lines/character behaviors is beginning. There will be less to show here in terms of technical progress... so what do folks want to see? What're you curious about? #interaction #indiegame

I have a question for folks! Code dev is starting to wind down on Demo stuff now and writing lines/character behaviors is beginning. There will be less to show here in terms of technical progress... so what do folks want to see? What're you curious about? #interaction #indiegame