Scapia We are working on a puzzle adventure game called Scapia. It takes place in a magical-medieval world with many areas for the player to explore. What started as a text-based choose-your-own-adventure game for my girlfriend is now a few months into production as a fully graphical Playdate game. …

Nice job, a dialogue-data parser is always a fun topic! Do the variables in the dialogue become standard Lua variables that you could read/write from non-dialogue scripts? It seems cool either way - I guess the has_reflected value looks like something which would get set to true outside of dialogue…

Thank you, yeah dialogue has been a fun undertaking. So yes, the variables such as conditions and outcomes do become standard Lua variables. I then have a file of "states" which I save/load needed. That file looks like this: { "is_curious_about_inn":true, "knows_about_vase":true, "test_outco…

[image] Distortion Issue w Overlapping Sounds SDK Get Help Overview I have music playing - sounds fine. I play a little sound effect, also sounds fine. After playing the little sound several times, the music is ruined with distortion. I have no idea what could…

I'm learning how to make art! In an effort to aid my singular artist with this massive task, my co-programmer @trotopype and I are learning Aseprite. It's really fun. I think we'll make a lot of cool art. I'm having issues. To be expected as a noob. [image] Column of Pixels Disappearin…

Reddit this thread will influence my puzzle design decisions. i think no loner push and pull. only push. i’m also working on clouds

[image] Aseprite / Animation Not Rendering As Expected SDK Get Help Uhm... Guys? I must be missing something. This will be a sort of cross-post from Aseprite forums and this forum because I have no idea where the issue lies. I draw an animated thing in Aseprit…

I'm kind of tired this morning so as a way to get back into development let me talk about recent updates to the game. Player Movement Rework The player walks around via the D-Pad. This used to consist of fairly simple moveWithCollisions(x,y) calls. This resulted in continuous motion. As we develope…

Custom Level Editor We needed an editor. I had a process that I'd developed years ago for generating JSON from Google Sheets, and that is how we've been building out levels. There are approximately 80 rooms so far and maybe 30 of them have puzzles. That's about as much as I can take of inputting eve…

Feels I was so down and tired yesterday that I felt apocalyptic about this game and the unwieldy task set out for @trotopype and I. Today I feel a lot better. I know this isn't a diary, but like, isn't it? Menu Updates I have been working on placing doors in the level editor. It's kind of working,…

Tiled Walls vs Simple Collisions Old way: Player moves and collides with walls to stop. Can be left between tiles. Relies on SDK collisions. New way: Player requests to move to an adjacent tile, the tile is checked for properties such as "occupied" and if not then the player is granted permission t…

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DJ_irl (Avery) June 12, 2024, 11:46pm 23

My drawings were not displaying correctly - it was color mode in Aseprite. I still don't exactly know what it does, but it causes the images to look correct so I'll never forget it.