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July's progress on "Don't Talk To Me." #indiegame #gamedev #2d #art #renpy #dnd #turnbased

Encounter NPCs like Bernard in "Don't Talk To Me," a Dungeons And Dragons-style turn-based combat game where you play as Janice, a rat lady who just wants to grocery shop without talking to anyone. #indiegame #gamedev #2d #art #dnd #turnbased #renpy

WIP game menu for "Don't Talk To Me," a Dungeons And Dragons-style turn-based combat game where you play as Janice, a rat lady who just wants to grocery shop without talking to anyone. #indiegame #gamedev #2d #art #dnd #turnbased

And if she takes mental damage, she can always eat a snack like the mysterious grandma lint mint that is somehow always in her pocket.

I'm making a Dungeons And Dragons-style turn-based combat game where you play as Janice, a rat lady who just wants to grocery shop without talking to anyone. #indiegame #gamedev #2d #renpy #dnd #turnbased

Janice will have to navigate the grocery store to actually shop for items while facing off against strangers who all want to start a conversation with her. Janice has moves like "bonk," "ignore," and "glare," and will need to navigate conversations using DnD-style skill checks.

Check in at the Rat Hotel. #indiegame #gamedev #horrorgame #godot

WIP. She's watching. #indiedev #gamedev #horrorgame #godot

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A glimpse at the true Rat Boy. #indiegamedev #horrorgame #godot

Some more art assets I finished this weekend. Still need to pick a font before I can make the text-based letters or text for the polaroids players find. #indiegamedev #horrorgame #godot

Finished background with color palette up 🤣. My favorite part is the rat king graffiti. #indiegamedev #horrorgame #godot

WIP background. My friend group does a weekly art doodle, so I added gears for this week's steampunk theme. #indiegamedev #horrorgame

WIP of a minigame smashing rats. #indiegamedev #horrorgame

WIP of Rat City continues. I needed to get into the game's mindset so I've been watching movies like Pink Flamingos and playing Silent Hill Shattered Memories.💀I wrote the story outline. A friend told me she has no words after reading it. S U C C E S S. #indiegame #indiedev

Your goirl’s back at it again getting lectures and shenanigans as Emerl in this comic dub! Check out Chapter 3 at Webtoons ;D ⚡️💙💛✨

👏The next issue of the decolFutures Newsletter is out! I talk about Yale’s new metadata guidelines, taxonomy bootcamps to sign up for, and take you behind the scenes of my new video game development. Read the news: decolfutures.beehiiv.com/p/250422

I'm thinking through how Rat Boy can walk directionally if I keep it a side scroller. I'm thinking I add frames as a parallax layer that players move through and put a "door" where you reappear on the next level up facing the opposite direction. #prototype #gamedev #indiegame

Rat Boy standing in front of oily pools in the sewer, Rat city behind him in the distance. The game colors will change based on how deep Rat Boy goes in the sewer and within his fractured psyche. #indiegame #indiedev #horrorgame #parallax #godot

Prototype of a mini-game I have planned where my character Rat Boy (you see his gross feet!) rummages around a trash can to collect objects throughout the game. #indiegame #indiedev #minigame